Greg Dragonetti

Greg Dragonetti

Greg (he/him) is the founder and editor of CruiseInd. He has been writing about the cruise industry since 2009 and studying it since 1998. His first ship was the Norwegian Majesty.

What-I-Found-on-Shipspotting Wednesday VIII

A Weekly Series featuring one photo that stand out to me on the social Photography site Shipspotting. This weeks is of the COSTA MAGICA and LOFOTEN. Photographer:    roar jensen Captured:    July 21, 2010   Location:    Honningsvag, Norway

NCL’s Alaska Gamble

Well we all knew that the bubble just burst this past summer for cruises in the Med. I mean Barcelona alone had what like 11 ships homeported there. Who didn’t see this coming. Royal Caribbean was the first to pull…

Introducing to CruiseInd………

Last holiday season I introduced you all to our Mobile Webcam Viewer. The past few months, we’ve been working our butts off modifying and streamlining the code for it. It is with great accomplishment that we launch CruiseInd Mobile Webcams…

Lets talk about Duck Tails

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Editors Note: A more recent version of this article is now availabe. A recent maritime certification compliance with SOLAS is an increase in stability requirements. As vessels superstructures get taller they need a stable base (hull). A popular enhancement done…

Cunard & Boardwalk Empire

Check out these two Gems from Sunday’s Boardwalk Empire. Now obviously these are really bad CGI, but do you think these were modeled after real ships? The pictures below are of supposed to be Belfast in 1921.  

Starbucks @ Sea

Everyone’s freaking out in the media right now about Royal Caribbean adding a second Starbucks @ Sea to their fleet. Now maybe I just don’t get it since I am ethically against Starbucks to begin with, but is it really…

What-I-Found-on-Shipspotting Wednesday VI

A Weekly Series featuring one photo that stand out to me on the social Photography site Shipspotting. This weeks is from Civitavecchia, Italy. Its of Carnival’s newest ship the Carnival Magic. Photographer: Boato Giuseppe Captured: September 07, 2011 Location: Civitavecchia,…