What's better - new mega boats or the smaller, older ships like the Carnival Ecstasy? While I can't answer the first part, I can say that the Ecstasy is an extremely fine ship and was as clean and polished as the Carnival Victory that ...
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Officials called off both the start of fuel removal and the search for missing people after determining the ship had moved four centimeters.
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The ice cave I stood on the deck of the Wilderness Discoverer and watched fellow guests on the Alaska cruise return from their hike to the Baird glacier. I went on a similar hike earlier that day and I was completely blown away by the surreal landscapes. As they...
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As the death toll mounts, the Costa Concordia tragedy horrifies us more and more, especially since it has become apparent the ship never should have hit the rock which tore a 300 foot hole in its hull, and that more timely and decisive action by the captain and crew
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he tragic sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship last week is leaving a line of worried passengers in its wake. Betty Westbrook is among them. The retiree from Allen, Tex., called me hours after the ship sank off the Italian coast, hoping that I could help her. “What are my chances for a
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(Courtesy Kabacchi/Flickr ) The Costa Concordia catastrophe of course raises a whole host of questions. Did the captain purposely go too close to shore? Why did the ship list so quickly? Was the crew not properly trained to deal with an accident? The chaos described by passengers...
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By now you’ve seen it on the news: Costa Cruises Costa Concordia lying on her side in the water off the coast of Giglio, Italy. At this writing, the death toll stands at six, with another 29 people still listed as missing. ...
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Francesco Schettino has lost the respect awarded the captain as a noble figure of authority and the moral heart of his sea world From a 1769 shipmaster's handbook on my bookshelf: "To be loaden on board the good ship Betsy whereof Captain Jordan is...
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Francesco Schettino has lost the respect awarded the captain as a noble figure of authority and the moral heart of his sea world From a 1769 shipmaster's handbook on my bookshelf: "To be loaden on board the good ship Betsy whereof Captain Jordan is Master under God for this present voyage...
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Francesco Schettino has lost the respect awarded the captain as a noble figure of authority and the moral heart of his sea world From a 1769 shipmaster's handbook on my bookshelf: "To be loaden on board the good ship Betsy whereof Captain Jordan is Master ...
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