Cruise Ship News

Marty Markowitz, President of the borough of Brooklyn, is bursting with pride!  As reported in  The New York Times,
On Thursday, Mr. Markowitz’s own ship came in. He arrived in Brooklyn on the Queen Mary 2 after a free six-day cruise from Southampton, England. Mr. Markowitz was quick to point out that he sailed not just as […]

In November of 2005 Michael Groves was a hero.  According to a story in the Daily Mail, pirates (no, not Johnny Depp) attacked the Seabourn Spirit as it cruised the Indian Ocean.  Thanks to the quick thinking of security officer Michael Groves, the pirates fled the scene after 30 minutes.
According to the article:
Mr Groves, from the […]

Another cruise cancellation has occured, this time on Princess’s Sea Princess. As reported in the BBC news, the Sea Princess, with over 2000 passengers on board cancelled the cruise because of a “technical fault”.  Evidently one of the luxury ship’s propulsion motors is to blame according to the Hampshire News.  What would have been a memorable 14-day Mediterranean […]

Cruise blogger John Heald, cruise director on the Carnival Freedom, had a great idea: a cruise for bloggers. (The Freedom will sail from Miami on January 19, 2008, stop at Ocho Rios, Jamaica; George Town, Grand Cayman; and Cozumel,Mexico, returning to Miami on January 26.) We wonder if Heald knows what he’s in […]

Straight from the Cayman Net News Online
Royal Caribbean International has announced there will be 60 fewer calls by its ships to the Cayman Islands starting from January 2008. It said this was due to re-deployment of the vessels.
…The Explorer of the Seas will be re-deployed to New Jersey and will run a mix of Eastern/Southern […]