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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments is a 1997 collection of nonfiction writing by David Foster Wallace.. In the title essay, originally published in Harper's as "Shipping Out", Wallace describes the excesses of his one-week trip in the Caribbean aboard the cruise ship MV Zenith, which he rechristens the Nadir.
M.G.B. 1087, motor gunboat in The Ship That Died of Shame, a short story by Nicholas Monsarrat in The Ship That Died of Shame and Other Stories, 1959; Milka – Jingo by Terry Pratchett, 1997 (name parodies the Pinta) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851 Pequod – American whaling ship searching for Moby-Dick; Bouton de Rose – French whaler ...
This way, the ship will have to stop and turn around to rescue him. Seeking out potential eyewitnesses, Botibol ventures to the rear of the ship where he encounters an elderly woman. After striking up a casual conversation to ensure that she notices him and will raise the alarm when he falls into the water, he then surreptitiously leaps off the ...
Norwegian Cruise Line's new ship Viva features a variety of activities, including a 10-story, free-fall dry slide.
When a Norwegian Cruise Line ship, Escape, ran aground in the Dominican Republic four days into the cruise, guests were hopeful the ship would find its way again. Instead, over 2,000 people were ...
Kathie Lee Gifford beat out some legendary people for her iconic Carnival Cruise Lines gig back in 1984. The former "Today" show co-host became the face of the cruise company in the 1980s when it ...
Smith's disappearance has led to wider interest in passenger rights on cruise ships. In 2013, the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) introduced a bill of rights [7] that CEO and President Christine Duffy said "codifies many long-standing practices of CLIA members and goes beyond those to further inform cruise guests of the industry's ...
The first story is a parody of the voyage of the Pilgrims to North America. [1] The second story is a parody of the Mutiny on the Bounty. [2] The title of "The Whine-Bar Sea" references a Homeric epithet "wine-dark sea", which has also been used by nautical adventure authors such as Patrick O'Brian's The Wine-Dark Sea.