Thursday evening a woman went overboard during the first night of the Mad Decent Boat Party, a cruise-based dance party headlined by Skrillex and Diplo. Cruise Norwegian, which is hosting the four-day event, says the woman jumped from the ship just after 7 pm when the boat was about 22 miles off the coast of Cuba.

On Thursday, a small aircraft carrying eight cruise ship passengers and their pilot was discovered crashed on a cliffside in Southeast Alaska, KTUU reports. All nine were reportedly killed in the crash.

The Costa Concordia cruise ship, which crashed off the coast of Italy's Giglio Island in January of 2012, killing 32, has been slowly breaking down in the water for over two years. Authorities announced that they will begin to clear away the wreckage as early as Monday.

An Indonesian employee on a Holland America cruise ship was arrested over the weekend for allegedly raping a shipboard guest in her stateroom, then attempting to kill her by tossing her over the side and into the briny deep.

A Royal Caribbean cruise ship docked in the U.S. Virgin Islands when 281 of the 3,050 people on board fell ill with "vomiting and diarrhea." The CDC will board the ship soon to investigate Poop Cruise 2: Cruise of the Poop.

This is something you don't see everyday: Country star Trace Adkins reportedly fought his own celebrity impersonator on a cruise ship on Monday.

Just 20 months after it capsized off the Italian coast, the Costa Concordia cruise ship was finally pulled completely upright early Tuesday morning. The “daring and unprecedented” operation took 19-hours, but you can watch the whole parbuckling in the one-minute video above.

Things aren't sounding so great for the 4,200 passengers stranded aboard the disabled Carnival Triumph cruise ship, which is currently being towed by two boats through the Gulf of Mexico to Mobile, Alabama, one day after a fire disabled the ship's engines. ABC News is now reporting the ship has limited access to running water and power, and there are also reports of passengers using buckets as makeshift toilets.

It's only February, and 2012 is already shaping up to be a bad year for Carnival cruise ships: the Costa Concordia disaster, random passenger death, and now an outbreak of norovirus on two Princess Cruise Lines ships in Florida.

The cruise ship Costa Concordia capsized over the weekend, just off the coast of the Italian island of Giglio, killing at least six and terrifying the ship's 4,200 passengers. (All but 15 have been accounted for.) It sounds unbelievably horrifying. But also sort of funny.

[Fireworks explode over New York Harbor tonight in honor three cruise ships, the Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth, which met at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. Image via AP]

The Carnival Splendor, a cruise ship bound for the Mexican Riviera, has been drifting off the coast of Mexico since a fire disabled engine operating systems. But it's not the first time the ship's run into trouble.

Security cameras inside the Pacific Sun Cruise liner captured this scary footage of a ship caught in what appears to be the perfect storm. Pay close attention and you can see a total face plant—or three!

Canada rescued passengers from a cruise ship stranded on a rock in the Arctic Sea. How nice of them! The U.S. probably would have just released greenhouse gases into the atmosphere until sea levels rose and the ship was free.