The Sapphire Princess is a Grand-class cruise ship, launched in 2004 and operated by Princess Cruises. During her construction at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard in Japan, she was initially intended to be named Diamond Princess. However, due to a…
UPDATE 11:46: So it turns out that when I go to find a quote from Princess, their news site is down! 96 passengers became ill with the norovirus on Princess Cruises, Sapphire Princess. She was on the return leg of…
When the Sapphire Princess docked in Vancouver yesterday for its scheduled turnaround, it arrived with one extra guest. A whale. While sailing through the inside passage, comprising of Canada and Alaska, the ships bulbous bow struck a fin whale and…