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I'm a seasoned traveler, but I got left behind by a cruise ship with my sister and 18 others.. We were on an excursion booked through the cruise line but the ship hadn't known to wait for us. One ...
MS Costa Concordia in Palma, Majorca, in 2011. Costa Concordia (call sign: IBHD, IMO number: 9320544, MMSI number: 247158500), with 3,206 passengers and 1,023 crew members on board, [1] was sailing off Isola del Giglio on the night of 13 January 2012, having begun a planned seven-day cruise from Civitavecchia, Lazio, Italy, to Savona and five other ports. [2]
As the ship revised its itinerary, the 2,781 passengers had to stay onboard “on this crummy cruise to nowhere,” one passenger wrote on a Facebook page for the cruise.
Cruise ships are on tight schedules while in port, said Joanna Kuther, a New York City-based travel agent and owner of Port Side Travel Consultants. “So if they have to leave at a certain time ...
Nassau offers beaches, shops, bars, restaurants, and a redone cruise port, all within walking distance of the ship. Many passengers, however, don't even bother to get off when their ship calls on ...
When the 114,137-ton Costa Concordia and her sister ships entered service, they were among the largest ships built in Italy until the construction of the 130,000 GT Dream-class cruise ships. On 13 January 2012 at 21:45, Costa Concordia struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio.
The restaurant ship foundered in a storm while at anchor at Svestad, Norway. The ship's aft section was submerged, while the bow remained above water. [202] In April 2014, Innvik, which had been found to be damaged beyond economic repair, was sent to Fredrikshavn in Denmark for scrapping. [203] The breaking of the vessel commenced in July 2014 ...
Nearly 30 passengers sailing on board a luxury cruise ship were struck down by illness during a voyage this month. Silver Nova, operated by Silversea Cruises, departed Peru on 31 March with 633 ...