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World 01/21/22, 19:47

A 10-night trip to the Caribbean was canceled mid-journey on Thursday, Jan. 20, owing to "COVID-related circumstances," Norwegian Cruise Line's Gem ship will return to New York. Following the announcement, the ship docked overnight at Philipsburg, St. Maarten, according to a Norwegian spokesman, and will be back in New York "soon." ...

Trending 12/31/21, 07:19

On Thursday, Dec. 30, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised people to avoid cruise ship traveling "regardless of vaccination status". The CDC issued a warning after a recent spike in the number of positive Covid cases onboard ships as the highly contagious Omicron variant swept the globe. CDC ...

Texas 08/14/21, 02:03

A cruise ship departing from Texas detected a handful of COVID-19 positive people on Wednesday, August 11, and most of them were crew members.  The Carnival Vista, which was about to make a stop in Belize City, had to return to Galveston, Texas, where it sailed off after it found 26 ...

China 02/10/20, 08:24

A total of 130 people on the quarantined cruise ship the Diamond Princess, docked off the coast of Yokohama, south of Tokyo, have tested positive for the coronavirus, as Japan's Health Ministry announced 60 more cases on Monday, Feb. 10. The Japan Times reported that the government is now preparing to ...

World 02/07/20, 08:28

The health ministry announced on Friday, Feb. 7, that a total of 61 people tested positive for the coronavirus on a quarantined cruise ship off Yokohama, Japan, a steep increase from the 20 confirmed cases on the previous day. The 41 new patients, who have tested positive, were to be taken ...

U.S. 10/29/19, 04:15

Authorities have arrested the grandfather of the 18-month-old toddler who fell out a Royal Caribbean cruise ship window during July's visit to the Indiana community. Puerto Rico's Department of Justice ordered Salvatore Anello's arrest on Monday, Oct. 28, and according to NBC New York, he faces a charge of negligent manslaughter ...

U.S. 07/08/19, 21:05

An eighteen-month-old girl from Indiana fell to her death while playing with her grandfather on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that was docked in Puerto Rico on Sunday, July 7. The child is reported to have accidentally slipped from the arms of her grandfather from a window in the dining hall ...

Europe 06/12/19, 14:09

A team of Hungarian and South Korean rescue workers labored round the clock to lift a sunken tour boat involved in a deadly collision with a river Viking cruise ship on May 29 evening. At sunrise on Tuesday, rescuer workers started the operation to lift the sunken vessel—the Hableany (or the ...

U.S. 12/15/18, 18:46

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a cruise line passenger who fell overboard Friday near the Florida Gulf Coast. The missing man fell overboard roughly 35 miles south of the Florida Keys, CNN reported. The man, whose name has not been released, is reported to be 26 years old. The man fell off ...

U.S. 11/28/18, 13:52

The storied Delta Queen riverboat appears headed for a return to cruising after a decade of forced retirement. The U.S. House late Tuesday approved the Coast Guard Authorization Bill, which includes language reinstating an exemption allowing the Delta Queen to return to service for the first time since 2008. The last ...

New York 09/08/18, 22:21

The U.S. Coast Guard says a cruise ship that became disabled off the Massachusetts coast is docking in Rhode Island and must be inspected before it can continue on its way to New York. The Star Pride carrying 351 people became stranded at about 3.15pm Friday in Massachusetts' Buzzards Bay between ...