NCL ships will play a major part in Lifetime’s newest show, Love for Sail. Debuting April 10th at 10pm, the show sends 4 men and 4 women on a cruise, their challenge: find love. (yuck) Ships said to be featured throughout the series, if it lasts long enough to be called a series that [...]
Does anybody think Royal Caribbean should be considerate of the video frame that YouTube chooses to render its thumbnail of the video. I mean I understand that Jenny McCarthy is an absolute mess of a person, and the thumbnail is probably accurate, but still, up your tech game Royal Caribbean. Full Video
Costa and local Italian officials announced today that they have finally pumped all bunkers (fuel) out of the ship. The operation began on February 12th and workers have been removing the fuel oil around the clock ever since. Total cost of the operation is said to be in the couple of million euros. Costa President [...]
UPDATE: This morning brought the news that there are now 5 bodies found and not the original 3. They are said to all have been found lying on the seabed, underneath the submerged superstructure. Italian officials have just found three more bodies inside the wreck of the Costa Concordia. No word yet on their identities [...]
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 side of it, in thick fog The other ship was severely damaged, and crew hurt, [...]
Check out this fascinating concept. In what is a joint partnership between Mauiva and Travel Holdings, guests will essentially sail the skies hopping from one destination to another. The service is described as follows: By destination-hopping via private plane through private airports, guests will have more time to see more and do more — all at [...]
News broke today that apparently the ships bell has been stolen. The all brass fixture with “COSTA CONCORDIA” written on it, was taken somewhere around 2 weeks ago. Police say they don’t have any suspects, but do have some leads. The wreck is being guarded by police and coastguard 24/7. Imagine how much this would [...]
Click for larger Quite a stubby little bow. Does it look a lot like a Solstice class to anyone else?
News broke this morning at seatrade the MSC has officially acquired the firmer Libyan ship. The deal is worth $550 million Euros ($718 Million USD). What started in September, then visually confirmed in February, is finally officially confirmed in March.
In 2011 CLIA ships carried 16 million pax world wide Howard Frank, COO Carnival Corp. spoke about the Concordia disaster and praised the Costa management team and crew as heroes. “I couldn’t be more proud of the Costa organization” He also mentioned that every day at work, he wears a Costa pin on his lapel. [...]
