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Many cruise lines suspended their operations to mitigate the spread of the pandemic. By June 2020, over 40 cruise ships had had confirmed positive cases of coronavirus on board. The last cruise ship with passengers aboard during the first wave of the pandemic, Artania, docked at its home port with its last eight passengers on 8 June 2020.
The Diamond Princess is a British-registered luxury cruise ship that is operated by Princess Cruises, a holiday company based in the United States and Bermuda. In February 2020, during a cruise of the Western Pacific, cases of COVID-19 were detected on board. The vessel was quarantined off Japan for two weeks, after which all remaining ...
On 14 April 2020, a lawsuit was filed against Princess Cruise Lines by the widow of a retired Dallas firefighter who was a passenger that died of the virus. [34] The lawsuit alleged that Princess Cruise Lines did not warn the couple that an outbreak on board the ship had sickened passengers during its previous voyage.
In 2020 and 2012, 5.8 and 4.8 million took cruises, respectively. RELATED STORY | Carnival cruise ship rescues 2 men stranded in the Gulf of Mexico "With the pandemic hitting, the cruise industry ...
The coronavirus pandemic completely shut down the global cruise sector for over a year starting in March 2020 due to COVID-19 outbreaks on ships. That hit South Florida’s economy particularly ...
As the cruise industry struggles to resuscitate itself in the wake of the initial coronavirus onslaught, its efforts to right that ship are falling prey to a second wave as cases surge across the U.S.
The cruise ship MS Zaandam encountered the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 off the west coast of Mexico. In spite of weather challenges, the skill and expertise of Captain Ane Smit, his officers, and crew ensured that the discoverer of this minor planet and the other passengers onboard successfully observed the eclipse.
The Ruby Princess ocean liner left Sydney on March 8, 2020, with 2,671 passengers aboard for a 13-day cruise to New Zealand but returned in 11 days as Australia’s borders were closing.