Here’s some raw footage from a Russian news source showing the early parts of the fire. Notice the passengers still onboard and how quickly turing the vessel so that the the smoke blows away. Pretty scary stuff.
Shes listing due to the amount of water sprayed into her. Making her unstable. from Svein Ove Ekornesvag
UPDATE:NRK has more photos. I say explosion in quotes since that’s what is being reported, but I highly doubt that’s what happened. A fire in the engine room killed two crew members and sent nine other crew to the…
After receiving a supposed 250,000 entries into their Name the Ship Contest, NCL has decided to name their two new ships: Norwegian Breakaway and Norwegian Getaway I honestly cant believe that’s the best contestants came up with. THEY NAMED IT…
Hate to think this was just a PR ploy but pretty spectacular shots of Miracle leaving NYC September 11, 2011. Carnival-News.com
Study: Pollution from Ships Plummets when Vessels Shift to Low-Sulfur Fuels (Photo Credit: Flickr user turgidson via Creative Commons license)
So far here are the changes. RCI Oasis of the Seas will sail a modified itinerary. The ship will now call on Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, on Tuesday, Philipsburg, St. Maarten, on Wednesday and Nassau, Bahamas, on Friday. The ship…
In what is my most memorable photo from that timeframe, the SS Norway sails on what was her supposed last transatlantic from New York. The photo above was taken in the afternoon on September 5, 2001. Many say that she…
“Anti-cruise” pundit Jim Walker over at Cruise Law has reports that yet another group has filed a suite against RCI for fraud stemming from RCI’s admission of an accounting error. While this certainly wont turn into a scandal or anything…
The beginning looks like a video game but it’s the infrared camera the RAF are using. Pretty damn cool!
Only they really didn’t…. Cruise Log has the details. Nothing really big was announced in this latest reveal (if you could call it that). All we learnt about was more cabins and inside cabins. This makes two in a row…
Norwegian Bliss, Norwegian Breakaway, Norwegian Escape, Norwegian Getaway, or Norwegian Journey. And those names sound just awful. Really? That’s the best the contestants could come up with? Remember NCL decided to name their two new ships the same way RCI…
The highly isolated country of North Korea is having their first go at the Cruise industry. The 9,000 grt former cargo ship, Mangyongbong took 130 passengers from the northern port of Rajin to the southern port of Mount Kumgang near…
From RCI Blog: Port Canaveral, Florida is celebrating the start of construction of a new cruise terminal with a scheduled completion date of July 2012. The new terminal should be large enough to handle any cruise ship in the world,…
…only it wont involve Star finally getting the ship off their hands. Not very much was know about the deal where Louis Cruises was going to buy the Norwegian Majesty and Norwegian Dream from NCL’s parent company Star Cruises. The…
While everyone is batten-down in preparation for the Hurricane, I will be taking this time to update my servers. If anything crazy happens I’ll tweet it. Make sure to follow me: twitter.com/cruiseind -Greg
As Hurricane Irene leaves the very flooded Bahamas and sets her sights on the Atlantic coastline, here are the latest updates; Carnival CARNIVAL GLORY has reversed the order of our ports of call. We will now visit Halifax on Monday…
(Photo Credit: Flickr user GoboNdc via Creative Commons license) From FAIRPLAY24 ROYAL Caribbean’s two largest owners – Norway’s Wilhelmsen family and America’s Pritzker family – have dissolved their shareholders agreement, the cruise giant confirmed. The Wilhelmsen family, through A…
THURSDAY: No new alterations today. It looks like weekend turnarounds in New York may be in jeopardy. __________________________________________________________________________ Carnival Carnival Pride, will sail Port Canaveral, Tuesday; Freeport, Wednesday. Carnival Triumph, will sail a western instead of Eastern with stops in…
Props to Carnival for hitting up Facebook BIG TIME! Social media has always seems to be overlooked in terms of a marketing strategy so its nice to see them utilizing all the tools Facebook offers. Visit www.facebook.com/carnival to view their…
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Dominican Republic Tourism has announced the construction of a new $65 million cruise terminal in Maimon. Carnival Corporation will be an investor, according to media reports. Plans call for the terminal to berth two vessels and accommodate around 4,000 passengers…
Louis Cruises have announced they will part with the Med and send one ship over to the Caribbean this winter. Not only that, but she will sail to the embargoed Cuba. One would think that it would be the recently…
See if you can make her out in the above photo. Great American Steamboat Company has agreed to purchased the American Queen steamboat. Plans are to have her sailing again starting April of 2012. Voyages will leave out…
The Worlds Largest Cruise Line posted photos of their newest newbuild.