Cruise

  • Passenger Rejects Explanation

    Princess Cruises, the operator of the Star Princess, blamed a “breakdown in communications” for the tragedy, saying passenger reports that they had seen a boat in distress never made it […]

  • Castaways Ignored

    Princess Cruises said that although passengers had spotted the castaways and alerted staff, the captain had not received the message. Princess Cruises sorry for ignoring Panama castaways An American cruise […]

  • Powerful Images

    The iceberg that sank the Titanic. One a series of images published by the Boston Globe in an online photo gallery. Before putting the Titanic back to bed after weeks […]

  • Crew Location Device

    Voyage Manager and Omnisense have teamed up to develop what they call the world’s most advanced system for locating passengers and crew in real time, aimed at improving response times […]

  • 100 anni dal Titanic

    In seguito all’incaglio della Costa Concordia,l’European Cruise Council (ECC), organismo europeo che rappresenta le maggiori società europee di crociere, insieme alla Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA),hanno avanzato una proposta di […]

  • From Titanic to Concordia

    One hundred years after the sinking of the Titanic, specialist marine insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty has released a report entitled Safety and Shipping 1912-2012: from Titanic to Costa […]

  • Wakeup Call

    More than 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank in 1912. A century later, 32 were killed when a luxury cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, was shipwrecked off the Tuscan […]

  • How the Titanic Sank

    In an excerpt from National Geographic’s program Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron, the director recreates the shipwreck with 3D animation. Cameron was recently the first person to dive […]

  • Unseen Titanic

    The April 2012 edition of National Geographic magazine features the first ever complete views of the wreck of the Titanic, made from thousands of high-resolution images, in its current state […]

  • Annus Horribilis Continues

    The cruise industry’s annus horribilis continues, CNN has reported that the Silversea Cruises ship Silver Shadow collided last Friday with a cargo ship in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay in heavy […]