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Today noted maritime historian, mariner, and host of the popular maritime YouTube page “What’s Going On With Shipping?” Sal Mercogliano  posted a reference to the Crystal Symphony sailing the Red Sea:

Crystal Symphony Sails Through High-Risk Red Sea Shipping Zone

Yes, the Crystal Cruises ship actually transited the dangerous Strait of Bab

A Canadian cruise ship entertainer is back home after an ordeal aboard a cruise ship which faced a fire which it could not control.

As reported by CBA, a fire broke out on the Le Boreal

"We were all concentrated on the top deck in the front, to get away from the smoke, which

Le Boreal The engine room fire which erupted aboard Ponant’s luxury cruise ship, Le LeBoréal, near the Falkland Islands on Wednesday night was far more serious than initially reported by the cruise line. 

U.K. newspapers report that the crew was unable to extinguish the major fire forcing the passengers and crew to evacuate the cruise ship into

A number of news sources are reporting that a fire broke last night on Ponant’s luxury cruise ship, Le Boréal, as the ship was sailing north of the Falkland Islands. The vessel was heading from Grave Cove to South Georgia when the alarm sounded shortly after 2:00 A.M. last night.

347 passengers and crew were