Toast or tsk? The unlimited alcohol packages currently offered on the Britain-based Independence of the Seas won't be available during the ship's new seasonal deployment in Florida.
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In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, but when he returned from 'cross the seas, did he bring with him a new disease? [More]
Read More »Royal Caribbean cruise ship fails CDC inspection
Soiled plates in the clean buffet stack, missing safety signage and more than 30 fruit flies, dead and alive, were recently discovered on Monarch of the Seas by inspectors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Read More »Cruise ship rocked by rough seas
It was far from smooth sailing for passengers aboard Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas on Sunday night.
Read More »Researchers create bizarre optical phenomena, defying the laws of reflection and refraction
Exploiting a novel technique called phase discontinuity, researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have induced light rays to behave in a way that defies the centuries-old laws of reflection and refraction.
Read More »New England – NY – Northeast US|Newport RI: New to charter fleet in Newport, RI: 2010 4 cabin Jeanneau 54DS, bareboat or with skipper, $6500/week.
The Jeanneau 54 is designed for optimum performance on the seas. From your preferred steering station, the furling main and electric winches throughout allow for single-handed management of the sails
Read More »Explosion injures 12 cruise ship passengers
A fuel tank exploded in the port of Gibraltar on Tuesday near Independence of the Seas, injuring 10 passengers.
Read More »Space Boat Could See Sea Near Saturn
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has numerous lakes and seas. But they're not bodies of water--Titan's reservoirs are full of liquid hydrocarbons such as methane.
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