All posts tagged "Watertransport"

Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas will take the title for world’s largest cruise ship when it begins sailing from Miami in January, and will hold the title at least until 2025 when its sister ship comes into service. The cruise line announced that ship’s name Thursday going with Star of the Seas, which will begin sailing in summer 2025, although details about the ship and where it will be home ported were not revealed. It’s the second in the line’s new Icon class, which the line said would include class-specific features “from the beach retreat to the resort escape and the theme park adventur......

The FBI has opened an investigation into the “suspicious death” of a passenger traveling from South Carolina to the Bahamas aboard a Carnival Sunshine cruise ship. The 44-year-old woman, who was not identified, was found unresponsive by crewmembers not long after the ship departed from Charleston on Feb. 27, according to a statement from the FBI Columbia field office. Despite their best efforts to revive her, she was pronounced dead on the scene. Her death likely occurred in the early morning hours of Feb. 28, Kevin Wheeler, public affairs specialist for the FBI’s Columbia field office, told N......

A Carnival Cruise passenger who was last seen at an onboard bar was pulled from the Gulf of Mexico alive and responsive after a massive overnight search, U.S. Coast Guard officials said Friday. The 28-year-old missing man was rescued Thursday afternoon by the Coast Guard, a spokesman told CNN. He was and transferred to the New Orleans Lakefront Airport to receive treatment from emergency medical personnel and was in stable condition, the Coast Guard said Friday. His sister had reported him missing to the crew of the Carnival Valor, saying she last saw him at a bar Wednesday night but lost trac......

SEATTLE — Ferry line cutting is getting out of control, and drivers are raging. "It makes people's blood boil," said Ian Sterling, a spokesperson for Washington State Ferries. While waiting in line for an Edmonds-Kingston boat the other day, Sterling was cut off by someone who, he said, knew what they were doing. There was little Sterling could do but stew, take a picture of the license plate and contemplate social media shaming. "It's at a peak," he said, "as bad as we've seen it." Ferry line cutting is a legitimate grievance to drivers who sit for hours in mileslong, single-file, roadside la......

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......

MIAMI — The Crystal Cruise ship on the lam in the Bahamas from a U.S. federal court arrest warrant, the Crystal Symphony, and a sister ship, the Crystal Serenity, have been taken into custody by local authorities, according to reports. The Symphony, which was supposed to dock in Miami Jan. 22, has been in the Bahamas, avoiding an arrest warrant issued after Peninsula Petroleum Far East filed a civil lawsuit in federal court. Peninsula Petroleum claimed that of the $3.4 million fuel bill owed it by Genting Hong Kong-owned Crystal Cruises and Star Cruises, $1.2 million was for Crystal Symphony’s......