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The U. S. Coast Guard reports via its Twitter page @uscoastguard that the Coast Guard Air Station Miami helped rescue a 62-year-old man who went overboard from the Silver Shadow cruise ship this morning.

Passenger Ronald Shulman went overboard about 20 miles east of Miami and was located by crew aboard the cruise ship Silver Shadow. The Coast Guard's aircrew relocated the Passenger and lowered a rescue swimmer who helped him into one of the cruise ship's rescue boats.

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It is only a story you could imagine. The horror of falling off once cruise ship to be rescued by the friendly Disney Wonder. But it happened just this morning

Coast Guard says a man fell from the Carnival Sensation late Wednesday night off the coast of South Florida near Port St. Lucie. Both cruise ships leave Port St. Lucie for short excursions in the area. The man wasn't on a Disney Cruise ship when he left the port but he was sure glad to see the cruise ship when... Read More

CHARLOTTE AMALIE (AP) -- An amphibious tour bus veered off a road Wednesday, injuring about 30 cruise ship passengers who were taking a shore excursion in the US Virgin Islands, police said.

The Duckaneer, which has a boat-like hull for traveling in water and wheels for moving on land, was carrying 47 passengers from the liner Freedom of the Seas when it went off the road in St. Thomas and crashed into bushes, police spokeswoman Melody Rames said.

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SYDNEY (AFP) — More than 2,000 cruise ship passengers have been asked to quarantine themselves for a week after eight passengers and a crew member tested positive for swine flu.

"We are all requesting that all people onboard this ship remain in quarantine for seven days," New South Wales chief health officer Kerry Chant told reporters after the Pacific Dawn ended its South Pacific cruise in Sydney.

Two five-year-old boys who arrived in Sydney onboard the ship on Monday tes... Read More

AN DIEGO—A Holland American cruise ship returned to San Diego from Mexico after more than 100 passengers contracted the norovirus and became sick.

Broadcast reports said about 2,600 passengers were on the MS Oosterdam when the crew declared a "code red" after the first night of the cruise. Events were canceled and the boat returned to San Diego on Saturday after some passengers and several crew members got the norovirus, a stomach flu that made them sick with diarrhea,... Read More