Cruise Ship Quick*Lists

The use of "Cruise Ship Quick*Lists" is an easy way for readers to access information relating to cruise ships that participate, or have participated, in the Centers for Disease Control Vessel Sanitation Program. The links provide Cumulative Cruise Ship Data, Cruise Ship Voyage Alerts, Cruise Ship Annual Reports as well as detailed information relating to the overall health of cruise ships.

While Cumulative Cruise Ship information is a excellent baseline for judging competing cruise ships over an 8-year period, Voyage Alerts by Cruise Ship can be accessed using a color-coded scheme consisting of Yellow, Orange, Red, and Black representing Tier I through IV levels of GI Illness. Within this context, Tier IV, the forth voyage category, is considered a "Voyage Black Alert", which means the GI Illness Incidence on a particular voyage meets the Vessel Sanitation Program's definition of outbreak.

Cruise Ship Annual Reports use the same color-coded scheme as Cruise Ship Voyage Reports minus one color, "Black", to represent a outbreak as defined by the Vessel Sanitation Program. Respectively, Yellow, Orange and Red represent ranges of increasing GI Illness.

Of course, cruise ships can also be searched by name or year. Please be aware that GI Illness is a managed risk situation, that is, GI Illness can strike any ship or cruise line at any time, and it's up to the cruise ship (and cruise line) as to how health risks are managed on a proactive basis. Of course, it's always possible for a ship on the "Cruising Healthy Green Reports" to have a GI Illness Outbreak in either its crew or passenger populations at any time.