Celebrity Cruises announced with great fanfare today that it appointed Kate McCue as the master of the Celebrity Summit cruise ship. She reportedly will be the first U.S. woman to captain a large cruise ship when she joins the Summit next month.
McCue has been with sister brand Royal Caribbean for 15 years.
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The U.S. Coast Guard Sector in San Diego sent a helicopter to a cruise ship approximately 150 miles west of San Diego yesterday (January 23rd).
The Defense Video and Imaging Distribution Services reports that a 69-year-old woman fell down a stairwell and suffered head injuries and internal bleeding.
The video was taken by U.S. Coast
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Its been two years since the deadly Costa Concordia disaster. It’s much safer now the cruise lines assure us.
The cruise line trade organization, CLIA, reminds us of all of the new protocols which the cruise industry implemented shortly after the Concordia capsized.
One of the new rules prohibits family, guests or other persons not
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WSVN – Miami Channel 7 reports that a cruise ship passenger went overboard from the Carnival Destiny Saturday night after the ship left the port of Miami.
The news station states that the 29 year old female apparently jumped from the cruise ship but was rescued by the ship’s crew who used a rescue boat to
Multiple news sources are reporting that a passenger went overboard from a cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday. Little information is being released except that the passenger is described as a "British woman" and is apparently in her seventies.
The incident occurred on the Aurora cruise ship as it sailed from the Oporto, Portugal
Last night a young woman from Bartlett, Tennessee disappeared from the world’s largest cruise ship, the Allure of the Seas.
According to experts who track cruise ship disappearances, she was the 186th person to go overboard from a cruise ship in the last ten years.
At the time of the overboard last night, the