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A Carnival Cruise Line ship that sails out of Port Canaveral became a spectacle Thursday morning with its iconic smokestack funnel engulfed in flames while docked in Grand Turk. Carnival Cruise Line officials said in a statement the ship’s “emergency response team quickly activated and extinguished a fire inside the ship’s funnel while the ship was in Grand Turk. All guests and crew are safe, and the ship’s guests were cleared by local authorities to go ashore.” Photos posted by Twitter user @AirborneJM showed black smoke and orange flames billowing out of the starboard side of the red-white-a......

ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a passenger Saturday who Carnival Cruise Line said jumped off its Mardi Gras cruise ship on the way back to Port Canaveral. The cruise line said it searched for the adult male until the Coast Guard arrived on scene and released the ship to return to port. “The Carnival Care Team is supporting the guest’s family,” the cruise line said in a statement. “Mardi Gras has arrived to Port Canaveral and will be sailing its next itinerary.” Mardi Gras is the line’s newest ship that debuted out of the Orlando-area port last summer. The passenger was a......

ORLANDO, Florida — A 15-year-old passenger died Wednesday after falling from a balcony on an MSC Seashore cruise ship returning to Miami, according to news reports. The boy fell onto a promenade eight decks below at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Crew-Center.com reported. “A young man traveling with his family on board MSC Seashore appears to have died of suicide Wednesday evening,” MSC said in a statement. “Our team immediately notified authorities and our care team is assisting the young man’s family on board. All of us at MSC Cruises are heartbroken. The family remains in our thoughts and praye......

Royal Caribbean reported that two children tested positive on this week’s sailing of Adventure of the Seas. The ship sails out of the Bahamas, and was the first by the cruise line to return to business in North America, requiring vaccines for those eligible. Both positive results, which came after the required routine testing ahead of disembarkation, were for unvaccinated guests under the age of 16. The two were immediately quarantined with one showing mild symptoms and the other asymptomatic, according to a press release. Members of their travel party, who are all vaccinated, tested negative,......

Gwyneth Paltrow wants you to feel good sailing, even in a pandemic. The actress and Goop founder announced on Instagram that she's partnering with Celebrity Cruises on a wellness program. "I am always happiest by, in or on the sea! In 2022 my @goop team and I are going to join @celebritycruises on their new ship, Celebrity Beyond. I'll be behind the scenes, working on some special projects, as Celebrity's new Well-being Advisor," Paltrow wrote with a pic of her staring at the ocean. "My team @goop is curating programming and fitness kits to add to Celebrity's wellness experience." The Oscar wi......