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. In the picture above, it appears the top part of the gash, broke the skin [...]
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 as another way to smear the industry by a bunch of ‘experts’ that never sailed [...]
Saturday morning, while maneuvering into dock at New York’s Manhattan Cruise Terminal, the Norwegian Star “gently” scrapped the pier. Video NSFW-L
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, [...]
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 vicinity of Yakutat Bay Wednesday, May 11. The Westerdam was reportedly maneuvering through ice near [...]
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 with a cargo ship carrying corn on the Danube River. No one was hurt, but [...]
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 anchor off of Detaille Island in the Antarctic Peninsula. All passengers were safe and accounted [...]
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 hull watertight, checked for breaches in structural integrity, etc. The cabins have not been fully [...]
UK news site, Daily Mail, have posted pictures detailing the damage the Costa Classica sustained from the Cargo vessel yesterday.
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 from Korea to Shanghai when the cargo vessel broadsided her in the early morning hours. [...]
