Yahoo News needs to Double check their facts
Yahoo News, the always innovative and current, has come out with a list of new ships sailing in 2012. Topping their list is Costa’s neoRomantica. Pretty sure this isn’t a new ship….

Yahoo News, the always innovative and current, has come out with a list of new ships sailing in 2012. Topping their list is Costa’s neoRomantica. Pretty sure this isn’t a new ship….
Believe it or not, Carnival Captain Giovanni Cutugno of the Carnival Magic, wants Jamaica to change their port for his ship. "It would be very nice to have something done to make the port [Montego Bay] a little cleaner in…
Adam Goldstein hits the nail on the head about why he blogs.
Never thought I’d see these two team up. I always thought Ballard didn’t like Cameron. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Geographic Society and National Geographic Channel today announced a major cross-platform initiative to commemorate the 100th anniversary…
AP is reporting that a 26 year old woman “fell” off the Queen Mary. Not the currently in service QM2, the original Queen Mary. As in the former Cunard-er that has been moored in Long Beach since 1967. Apparently they…
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
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…
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…
Probably the most controversial drydocking in quite some time is the Costa neoRomantica. Here’s a pretty neat panorama from her Forecastle (bow) deck. Work is progressing along quite nicely in order to convert her into the most controversial ship since…
A Weekly Series featuring one photo that stand out to me on the social Photography site Shipspotting. This weeks is of the Balmoral moored at Eidjford, Norway Photographer: hmfcooper Captured: June 30, 2009
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.
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…
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,…
In July we reported about the sinking of a Russian river ship. Well yesterday, fire broke out on the Sergey Abramov. A crew member is still missing as of this post and two people were taken to the hospital. She…
Here is the latest on the hijacked ferry in Turkey. Turkish Transportation Minister Binali Yıldırım stated that the assailants are supposedly members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. Turkey has a large Kurdish population in the south who have recently attacked…
Two weeks ago, we reported on Royal Caribbean’s Q3 earnings. The results were kind of melancholy. Not good, not bad, just ‘eh.’ Afterwards, UBS analyst Robin Farley interpreted the situation as ‘not terrible, not great, but perhaps a situation that…
This is a devolving story….. via BBC Details are sparse but it appears between 1-5 Hijackers have taken hostage 24 people on the ferry Kartepe travelling in the Gulf of Izmit. file photo:
And I think I’m in love! The second photo sells it for me. Just looks so peaceful! View the slide show below. I don’t say this a lot, but Good Job CC! (scroll right to see their commentary)
A Weekly Series featuring one photo that stand out to me on the social Photography site Shipspotting. This weeks is of the Sea Dream II. She is seen here leaving the Tejo River near Lisbon, Portugal heading into the Atlantic.…
Rumor circulating around the internets has it that MSC has completed a deal to acquire the partially built Phoenicia. The ship was originally ordered for the state run National Company for Maritime Transport of Libya. But given recent civil war…
Governor Rick Scott Serves as Guest DJ on Carnival Imagination
Some Highlights with the full results below: Income for the quarter improved 18.3% to $162.7 million Net Revenue grew 4.6% to $491.6 million Expenses from the 2010 launch of Norwegian Epic increase Q3 2010 17.9% increase in the price of…
The transformation from a unique looking ship to a ugly looking ship is taking place in Italy’s T. Mariotti shipyard. For those that don’t recall Costa is taking this: and turning it into this: Well I am defiantly looking forward…
A Weekly Series featuring one photo that stand out to me on the social Photography site Shipspotting. This weeks is from Gaspé Bay, Canada. This new addition to Canada & New England Cruises saw its final ship for the season.…
Some Highlights with the full results below: Net Income grew 14% to $399 million. Net Yields increased 5.3% Revenues improved to $2.3 billion strong demand for its Caribbean and Alaska products increases in excess of 15% in ticket yields…