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.

Splendor Fire Update[Wednesday AM]

With restrooms and a/c restored, passengers can sort of get back to normal. The cruise will still finish in Mexico as origionally planned. Also, check this out! The US Navy ha diverted the USS Ronald Reagan to assist the crippled…

Carnival Splendor Fire Update

Here is an update about yesterday’s fire onboard the Splendor. The crew were unable to get the power back up during the night and she will now be met by tugs and be towed back. They are planing on bringing…

BREAKING: Carnival Splendor Suffers Fire

Jim Walker of CruiseLaw.com is reporting that industry giant Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Splendor suffered an engine room fire this morning. The passengers that had boarded the 113,000grt vessel over the weekend were all told to go to the lido…

New NCL Ship Recap

NCL announced last week that they will build 2 new ships in German’ys Meyer Werft Shipyard. Here is what we know so far: Each ship will be about $750 million. Pretty much average although compared to the Epic’s over 1…

STX Gets the Order it Needed

STX Finland just got a very important order for a ferry for Viking Lines. I normally don’t cover ferry travel but this is important news. No one is building ships anymore. Its just the way things are now. After Allure…

Another Owl…Another Ship

On the heels of Oasis’ rare guest, here is another post that should be on AboutThoseBirds.com but yet it finds its way here. Alastair Greener, of the great wearecunard.com blog, has the story. One story I heard about, but only…