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How Did Medics Drop British Grandmother Into Icy North Sea?

Police are investigating a bizarre incident at sea involving a 73-year-old British grandmother who took ill on a cruise ship and was accidentally dropped into the sub-zero North Sea by medics trying to transfer her to a rescue boat. Janet Richardson, a diabetic from Cumbria in the U.K., was on the Ocean Princess off...

30 Hurt as Storm Buffets Mediterranean Cruise Ship

(Dec. 13) -- More than 2,100 passengers hoping for a tranquil Mediterranean cruise were tossed from their bunks, some slashing their feet on broken glass, as huge waves rocked their Royal Caribbean cruise liner in what one passenger said felt like "the end of the world for us." About 30 passengers were injured, many from...

New Law Targets Dangers Aboard Cruise Ships

LOS ANGELES (Nov. 28) -- Missing persons. Assault. Child molestation. Rape. Death. Those are some of the extras the cruise ship lines don't tell you about. The industry suffered a black eye for the recent nightmare cruise aboard the Mexico-bound Carnival Splendor, but that's just a small sampling of the safety issues...

Footage Gives Peek Into Cruise Ship Ordeal [VIDEOS]

(Nov. 12) -- As the Carnival Splendor horror stories surface, so do the YouTube videos. Passengers aboard the Carnival cruise ship, which was pulled by Navy tugboats back to San Diego after an engine fire forced the vessel to shut down its electricity and other utilities, are immortalizing their vacation-gone-adrift with...

Powerless Cruise Ship Nears San Diego Harbor

SAN DIEGO (Nov.11) -- The cruise vacation aboard a stricken ship is mercifully coming to an end, and an official aboard the boat said Thursday that both passengers and crew were coping well with the "obvious challenges." Two tugboats were pulling the Carnival Splendor at a pace to reach San Diego Bay sometime around dawn...

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Nicole Glass: Cruise Ships Financially Exploit Onshore Stores

A flock of three thousand tourists spill out of a cruise ship, dispersing into Belize City, following a map given to them by the industry that owns the port, the shops, and the economy.

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Anne Campbell: New Mega NCL Cruise Ship Will 'Home Port' In New York City

In New York you find the biggest buildings and most advanced technology so it makes sense that one of the world's biggest ships will sail year-round from the big apple.

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Anne Campbell: Small Ship Cruises: No Ties, No Bingo

Whenever I encounter someone who proclaims, "I love to travel but I wouldn't be caught dead on a cruise ship!!" my response is, "I have a ship for you!"

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Ten cool new cruise things you might see on a ship soon

Flasq brand wines packaged like Bud Light in aluminum bottles may be around on deck in a "What took so long to think of that?" idea.

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Port of Los Angeles plugs in cruise ships to help environment

The Port's AMPâ¢ system installed at the World Cruise Center in Los Angeles plugs in two cruise ships at a time and is capable of delivering up to 40 megawatts of power, with 20 megawatts of power delivery capacity to each of the two different ships.

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10/27/11 Cruise ships bypassing Green Bay Source: FOX - WLUK FOX 11 - Green Bay WI Green Bay city leaders are hoping to attract cruise ships in the Great Lakes to the port of Green Bay. They even used the promise of cruise ships to get $335,000 in federal funding to improve its downtown waterfront park.
01/13/11 $2m jetty is justified Source: Cook Island News The Ports Authority would like to respond to Richie Rich's letter to the editor published in your paper of December 30.

Background on cruise ship

A cruise ship or cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are part of the experience, as well as the different destinations along the way.

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