What were industry giant Carnival’s early ships like? USAToday is running a cruise ship tour detailing what three of the early Carnival cruise ships looked like:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/cruiselog/2014/09/17/cruise-ship-tours-carnival-classics/15623267/
South Florida’s peak cruise season nears kickoff
The Sun Sentinel discusses now cruise ships coming to Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, first time ports of call, and a new terminal .
The Regal Princess, Princess’ Cruises’ newest ship – has its naming ceremony November 5, 2014.
Surprise Cruise Tax in Texas
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission will start collecting liquor and cigarette tax from cruise passengers at the Port of Houston by mid-October. Even “duty free” liquor will pay the tax.
High Net #Bandwidth for Royal Caribbean’s #Oasis and #Allure @RoyalCaribbean
Using O3b‘s network of mid-orbit satellites, Royal Caribbean will be providing broadband-level bandwidth for the Oasis and Allure . Instead of near-dialup speeds, the O3b network will be a game changer for cruise passengers wanting to have broadband, low-latency access to the internet. Oasis and Allure signal the beginning of the race for other cruise lines to upgrade their internet capabilities.
In part Royal Caribbean said:
By pairing a new generation of medium-Earth-orbit satellites (originally designed to bring the Internet to emerging markets like sub Saharan Africa) with sophisticated antenna arrays aboard its newest ships, the popular ships are vaulting competitors and delivering guests the kind of technology they expect in a connected world.
“Vacations aren’t just about getting away from it all for modern families anymore,” said Adam Goldstein, President & CEO, Royal Caribbean International. “A great vacation today also means keeping friends updated over social media, and enjoying downtime with streaming content played on tablets and phones, not just movies on TV in your stateroom.
“But matching or exceeding the best on-land service was a tough challenge when the nearest cell tower or cable hook-up was 1,000 miles away. That meant we needed some real breakthroughs, not just incremental increases,” Goldstein said. “But real breakthroughs are what we do. And once we cracked the download code, we also got to dream up some pretty interesting new uses for all that connectivity. Our ships go to incredible places – and this makes getting there even more incredible.”
A set of new, custom-built antennae were shipped from Israel to Florida last month, and installed on Oasis of the Seas. Testing confirmed the ships’ ability to match the fastest broadband connections on shore. “O3b, our satellite communications partner, calls it ‘fiber speed with satellite reach,’ and this is exactly the result we are seeing in our tests,” said Bill Martin, Chief Information Officer, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
Shower heads on Disney Cruise Line – Disney Dream
When the Disney Dream had the maiden voyage in January 2011 one of the somewhat minor upgrades over the “classic” ships was the addition of rain shower heads. Some have wanted to know the brand of the shower heads and where to buy them. Well, the brand is Hansgrohe and after trying them in 2011 on the Dream, and trying the shower heads again in 2012 on the Fantasy, we did upgrade from a regular shower head to large Hansgrohe. It is quite nice. Not as nice as using one on a ship, because, of course you are cruising too then, but very, very nice. We’ve seen these in various rooms on the Dream and Fantasy.
You can Search for Hansgrohe shower heads
Check out the Rain Shower Head – large
Check out the Rain Shower Heads – small size
Or check out the Hansgrohe Store
Documents reveal al Qaeda’s plans for seizing cruise ships, carnage in Europe
Future plots include the idea of seizing cruise ships and carrying out attacks in Europe…
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/30/world/al-qaeda-documents-future/index.html
Titanic II to sail in 2016
One of Australia’s richest men, Clive Palmer, has unveiled plans for a 21st century version of the Titanic to be built in China, with its first voyage from England to New York set for 2016. Read more here: http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/CNG—900372705590b12088fe792d15f2c61c—c1
Costa Concordia leads to new cruise ship regulations
Three new cruise ship regulations have been adopted:
1) Passage Planning – although cruise lines have followed IMO guidance on passage planning for many years our policy now deems this to be a mandatory minimum requirement and enhanced by endorsement of the best practices contained in the International Chamber of Shipping’s Bridge Procedures Guide. Furthermore, under this policy each passage plan is to be thoroughly briefed to all bridge team members well in advance of its implementation and it is to be drafted by a designated officer and approved by the master.
2) Personnel Access To The Bridge – to minimize unnecessary disruptions and distractions on the bridge we have adopted a policy that bridge access is to be limited to those with operational functions during any period of restricted manoeuvring or when increased vigilance is required.
3) Lifejackets – In addition to the statutory requirement of carriage of lifejackets for each person onboard, we have adopted a policy of carrying additional adult lifejackets onboard each cruise ship in excess of these legal requirements so that the number of additional adult lifejackets to be provided must not be less than the total number of persons berthed within the ship’s most populated main vertical fire zone. This ensures that the number of lifejackets carried are far in excess of the number of persons actually onboard the ship.
For the full information release see: http://www.europeancruisecouncil.com/content/ECC%2024%20April%202012_Cruise%20Industry%20Announces%20Three%20New%20Safety%20Policies.pdf
Cruise ship set to retrace route of Titanic for 100th anniversary
The British liner Balmoral set sail along the route of the RMS Titanic. The ship left from the same dock where the Titanic ship had sailed 100 years ago. She sailed on Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012 while the Titanic sailed on April 10, 1912.
Costa Concordia, 5 more bodies found
“5 more bodies have been found. It brings the number of bodies recovered to 30 with 2 still missing and presumed to have drowned.”
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/321724#ixzz1tcmj8VYk
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