If you want to get banned from flying in the United States, there’s a federal system for that. The TSA maintains the No Fly List, which is used by the Transportation Security Administration’s Secure Flight program and airlines to decide who can board commercial aircraft. It’s comprehensive, it’s shared across all airlines, and once you’re on it, you’re stuck dealing with the consequences every time you try to fly. The system isn’t perfect, but it exists.
Now look at what happened in Nassau on June 8, 2026 – and what’s happening in the comments of our Facebook post about it.
The Nassau Brawl: A Lesson in How Not to Behave
Six American cruise passengers from Colorado got into a violent altercation at the Nassau Cruise Port that escalated dramatically at the police station. Here’s who was arrested and what they’re facing:
- Daniella Duran, 22: $16,600 fine or 1 year in prison. Restitution for shoulder dislocation ($2,500) and Apple Watch damage ($125). Total: $19,225.
- Gabriella Aguilar, 27: $11,600 fine or 6 months in prison. Restitution for Apple Watch damage ($125). Total: $11,725.
- Jaeyln Duran, 19: $11,600 fine or 6 months in prison. Restitution for Apple Watch damage ($125). Total: $11,725.
- Irvin Castro, 26: $2,800 fine or 6 months in prison. Restitution for shoulder dislocation ($2,500). Total: $5,300.
- Andrew Tapia, 21: $4,600 fine or 1 year in prison.
- Jose Duran, 50: $150 fine or 1 month in prison. (Charged with obstruction.)
Combined fines totaled $47,350. All six pleaded guilty and chose to pay immediately rather serve prison time. Charges included assaulting police officers (five counts), disorderly behavior in a police station, resisting arrest, malicious damage, escape from lawful custody, causing dangerous harm, and obstruction.
Four police officers were injured in the process, including one who suffered a serious shoulder injury requiring hospitalization. The passengers allegedly threw a chair through a glass door at the police station and even attempted to escape through the broken frame.
What the Cruise Community is Saying
The comments on our Facebook post tell the story: cruise passengers are furious, and they’re united on one point. They want these people and others like them permanently banned – not just from one cruise line, but from all of them.
“Ban them from all cruise ships for life,” one commenter wrote. Another: “Banning them from all cruise lines would send a strong message.”
The frustration is understandable. Most cruise passengers are normal, reasonable people. They follow the rules, respect crew members, and don’t throw chairs at police officers. They don’t want to share a ship with people who do.
The problem? That shared list doesn’t exist.
How Airlines Handle It – and Why Cruise Lines Won’t
The No Fly List is maintained by the United States federal government’s Threat Screening Center and is used by the Transportation Security Administration’s Secure Flight program and airlines to decide who can board airline flights. Additionally, major airlines like Delta, United, Frontier, and American maintain their own no-fly lists and share data across the industry.
The system works because there’s federal oversight and industry-wide coordination. All airlines operating in the U.S. must check passengers against these lists. If you get banned from one airline for violent behavior, other airlines will know about it.
Cruise lines? Not so much.
The Cruise Industry’s Do-Not-Sail Problem
Here’s what actually exists: individual cruise lines have their own “Do Not Sail” or “Do Not Board” lists. Each line can and does ban passengers for various reasons – assaults on crew members, violence against other guests, violation of ship policies, you name it.
But as of now, the cruise lines do not share data about banned passengers amongst themselves – at least not publicly.
That means if Carnival Cruise Line bans someone for assaulting a crew member, that person can turn around and book a sailing with Royal Caribbean. Disney bans them? No problem – they’ll sail with Norwegian. Norwegian won’t have them? There’s always MSC.
It’s not because these people are secretly being let back onboard by naive shoreside personnel. It’s because there’s no industry-wide system to flag them in the first place. Each cruise line operates independently. Without a shared database, there’s no way for them to know what happened on a competitor’s ship.
The six Colorado passengers (and based on their names, three appear to be part of the same family) are a perfect example. Whichever cruise line they were sailing on will likely ban them. But if that ban is only from one company, they’re free to cruise with another.
Why the Cruise Industry Hasn’t Created a Shared List
Several practical and legal complications make this harder than it sounds:
- Competition: Cruise lines are competitors. Sharing information about banned passengers would require unprecedented industry coordination that traditionally just doesn’t happen in the cruise space.
- Legal liability: If a shared list exists and someone on it is incorrectly identified, the cruise industry could face lawsuits from banned passengers claiming damage to their reputation or wrongful exclusion. With airlines, the federal government bears that legal risk. In the cruise world, each line would be exposed.
- Inconsistent standards: Airlines are regulated by the federal government and TSA. Cruise lines? They’re largely self-regulated with varying policies. One line might ban someone for a single violent incident; another might give them a second chance after the first offense.
- Privacy concerns: What constitutes bannable behavior? How do you prevent innocent mistakes when names are similar? Who maintains the list? Who determines who gets added? These questions have no easy answers without federal oversight.
So What’s the Real Solution?
The honest answer is there may not be one – at least not a voluntary one. The cruise industry would need to agree to share data, establish uniform standards, and coordinate in ways they haven’t historically done. Without federal oversight like the TSA provides for airlines, there’s little incentive for them to cooperate.
Could CLIA (Cruise Lines International Association) establish an industry standard? Maybe – but only if the lines agree, and so far, they haven’t.
In the meantime, your best protection isn’t a shared do-not-sail list. It’s choosing to sail with a cruise line known for strong security, crew training, and swift action against troublemakers. Read reviews. Look at what happened to people who violated policy. And if you see behavior escalating onboard, report it to crew immediately rather than assuming someone else will.
Because the six people from Colorado learned one thing the hard way: consequences for bad behavior are real. They just might not follow them when they book their next cruise – because the system doesn’t require them to.