collision

Celestyal Crystal Collides With STI Pimlico

The Celestyal Crystal (ex-Louis Cristal, Silja Opera, SuparStar Taurus, Leeward, Sally Albatross) collided with the product tanker STI Pimlico in the Dardanelles strait in Turkey early Saturday morning. Fortunately there are no injuries to any passengers or crew on the Celestyal…

DFDS Ferry Strikes Pier in Harwich

While sailing into her berth in Harwich, England, the m/v Sirena Seaways hit the quay she was attempting to dock at. Water then began rushing into the hull of the DFDS ferry, however crew were able to ballast the ship…

Costa Pacifica Hits Pier in France

Heres some news that Costa did not want to wake up to. More bad luck for them as the Costa Pacifica had an allision with the pier in Marseille, France. It left a 8 meters long gash above the waterline.…

Obligatory Liberty of the Seas Comment

If you been checking out the other cruise sites lately, I’m sure you read about the Liberty of the Seas ‘near collision’ (as CruiseCritic puts it) with a small Italian fishing boat. It gained pretty quick attention and was used…

Silver Shadow Collides with Container Vessel in Vietnam

UPDATE TUESDAY: Here’s the damage to the Silver Shadow   CNN iReports has the following:   We’re on Silversea silver shadow cruise ship and we just collided with a Vietnamese container ship near Halong bay, Vietnam.  We slammed into the…

Holland American Vessel Allides with Ice in Alaska

Westerdam in 2008 The USCG just issued a statement that they are investigation and incident that recently took place in Alaska. The United States Coast Guard is investigating an allision between the 935-foot cruise ship Westerdam and ice in the…

River Cruise Ship Collides with Cargo[Possible photo]

Update:Click here for full size image I preface by saying that this may or may not be a pic of the actual incident. Now that having been said, a 127m long river cruise ship carrying mostly Elderly German pax, collided…

Another Ship Runs Aground in Antarctica

In what seems to be a yearly occurrence, the 5,000 ton Polar Star, operated by Polar Star Expeditions, hit a rock and while not sinking, did have its outer hull breached. The 80-pax vessel hit this rock while attempting to…

Costa Classica Repaired in 96 Hours

The Costa Classica, that has involved in the collision in china, has been “repaired” in Changxing, China. It took just 96 hours. I say repaired in quotes because, my understanding, she was just made seaworthy. That means they made the…

Costa Classica Collision

Quite the story I came home to. The Costa Classica of Costa Cruises collided this morning with a cargo vessel in China. The incident occured in a deep water channel near the Yangtze River. The 1,300 pax ship was traveling…

River Ship Collides with Barge on Russian River

Sergei Kirov / Image via sealetter.com 100 passengers on the chartered ship, Sergei Kirov, got the scare of a life time when their cruise ship collided with a barge on the Volga River. Fortunately there were no deaths or injuries.…

More Video of Cozumel Collision

UPDATE: Ok listening to the first video with audio, the people are pretty funny! What do you think? Remember last week when the Legend hit the Enchantment in Cozumel? Well I found another video of it. This one also from…

Saga Ruby Hits Pier

Saga Cruises ship, the Saga Ruby, hit the pier while docking in New York Saturday Morning. While making a 90 degree turn into Pier 88 on Manhattan’s upper west side, the bow gently grazed up against a bollard. The hole…