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Multiple federal agencies started investigating a death on board the 'Carnival Dream'. An unidentified person died on the Galveston-based Dream on July 23, 2025. the FBI Houston office confirmed. The incident is being investigated by an FBI Maritime Liaison Agent based out of the Texas City Resident Agency, the US Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection. Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, no additional details were provided by the FBI’s Houston office Passengers aboard the ship, which travels to Costa Maya, Belize, and Cozumel, woke up to sirens around 3 a.m., and there was an announcement requesting medical attention on the Serenity Deck.

A U.S. Coast Guard aircrew medevaced a man from the 'Tantrum No. 1' approximately 180 miles off Astoria, Oregon, on July 24, 2025. A Royal Canadian Air Force CC-295 Kingfisher crew from 19 Wing Comox in British Columbia, provided assistance overhead with weather reporting and communications. Watchstanders at the JRCC in Victoria, British Columbia, received a call shortly after 1 a.m. from the fishing vessel about a Canadian crew member experiencing a medical emergency. At the time, the vessel was approximately 300 miles west of Astoria. The watch officers in Victoria then notified personnel at the U.S. Coast Guard Northwest District Command Center in Seattle of the emergency. U.S. Coast Guard crews conferred with the duty flight surgeon, who recommended a medevac. The watchstanders established regular communications with the vessel’s crew to monitor the patient's status as the vessel proceeded east to get closer to shore. Once the vessel was in a safer area for a medevac, a helicopter crew from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Astoria was dispatched aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk. The Jayhawk and Kingfisher crew arrived on scene around 2 p.m. The man was safely hoisted by the helicopter crew and brought to Air Station Astoria at 4 p.m. where he was transferred to EMS to receive a higher level of care. Report with video: https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/4256269/us-coast-guard-royal-canadian-air-force-medevac-man-180-miles-west-of-astoria/

Five Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists were arrested on the early morning of July 27, 2025, while protesting against the 'Celebritsy Eclipse' in Amsterdam. Around 4:30 a.m., protesters blocked the vessel at the Amsterdam Passenger Terminal (PTA). Around 35 Extinction Rebellion activists were protesting, using boats, canoes, and inflatable animals to protest against the docking of the cruise ship. About 30 protesters tried to prevent the ship from docking. The protest lasted about two hours. Police arrested five people for assault, spraying the cruise ship, and refusing to show identification. Two people have been released. XR was considering filing a police report because they claimed that harbour boats ran over their (inflatable) boats. The police were not yet aware of any reports as of the morning of July 27 and still investigating what exactly happened. The cruise ship was connected to shore power provided by PTA and otherwise running on biofuel. Report with photo: https://www.schuttevaer.nl/nieuws/actueel/2025/07/27/vijf-aanhoudingen-bij-nachtelijk-protest-tegen-cruiseschip-in-amsterdam/

According to the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF), the unidentified male crew member who died after going overnoard, allegedly stabbed a female co-worker during a dispute. “Shortly before 7:30 p.m., a 28-year-old South African female crew member was allegedly stabbed multiple times by another crew member, a 35-year-old South African male. Following the incident, the male reportedly fled from the scene and jumped into the water. He was retrieved unresponsive and pronounced dead by onboard medical staff. Despite immediately launching a search and rescue mission and finding the crew member in less than an hour, he could not be saved. His alleged victim, despite receiving multiple stab wounds to her upper body, was in stable condition after being attended to by the onboard medical team. An investigation into the attack was underway, and an autopsy will be conducted to determine the deceased crew member’s exact cause of death. Despite the circumstances, the up to 5,610 passengers onboard the world’s largest cruise ship were not in any danger. This was not a random attack, but rather the assault appears to be the result of a disagreement between two crew members. As the 'Icon of the Seas' only had to briefly backtrack to recover the crew member’s body, there was no significant impact to the itinerary.

The U.S. Coast Guard detected and responded to the 'Xue Long 2' on the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) in the U.S. Arctic, approximately 290 NM north of Utqiagvik, Alaska, on July 25, 2025. A Coast Guard C-130J Hercules fixed wing aircraft from Air Station Kodiak responded to the Xue Long 2, an icebreaker operated by the Polar Research Institute of China and 130 NM inside the ECS boundary. The U.S. has exclusive rights to conserve and manage the living and non-living resources of its ECS. The C-130J aircraft was operating under Coast Guard Arctic District’s Operation Frontier Sentinel, which is designed to meet presence with presence in response to adversary activity in or near Alaskan waters.