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Photos: The First Cruise Ship Purpose-Built for the Galapagos

Celebrity Cruises has released photos of the first cruise ship purpose-built for operations in the Galapagos Islands. The new expedition ship Celebrity Flora has a capacity of 100 passengers, the larg...

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The Human Side

When the Titanic sank in 1912, many crewmembers went down with the ship so that passengers could survive. When the cruise ship Oceanos foundered off the coast of South Africa in August of 1991, most o...

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St. Lucia Provides Measles Vaccine for Quarantined Cruise Ship

On Thursday, the government of the island of St. Lucia provided the quarantined cruise ship Freewinds with 100 doses of measles vaccine after a request from the ship's physician. One female passenger...

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Scientologists' Cruise Ship Quarantined for Measles

The Church of Scientology's cruise ship, the Freewinds, has been quarantined at the port of St. Lucia after the local government learned of a confirmed case of measles on board.  The Freewinds repo...

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Greening the World’s Blue Highways

Ferries today are typically fueled by oil, but when they first got their start beasts of burden propelled them across the water. In the Roman Empire, two oxen walking in front of a ship with a water w...

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New Armstrong Marine Catamaran Arrives in Juneau, Alaska

The 46’ x 17.5’ high tunnel catamaran George Ryan recently arrived in Juneau after departing Port Angeles, Washington three days prior. The vessel was built by Armstrong Marine USA for Alaska Tales Wh...

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Cracking Down on the Swim Bladder Smugglers

China’s craze for the swim bladder of the totoaba, a giant Mexican fish, has driven it close to extinction. Dubbed “aquatic cocaine," trade in the delicacy is banned, but smuggling is still a major pr...

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Indian Coast Guard and Navy Brace for Arrival of Cyclone Fani

India's Coast Guard and Navy are bracing for the arrival of Cyclone Fani, an "extremely severe cyclonic" storm. Fani is expected to intensify with wind speeds of up to 115 knots, making it the equival...

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Fact Sheet: The People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia (PAFMM)

To distill five years of research on China’s maritime militia into actionable policy recommendations, the author offers the following memorandum, which he proposes to be issued with official U.S. gove...

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NOAA Panel Proposes Limits on Lobstering to Save Right Whale

NOAA's Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team, the advisory committee that makes recommendations on fisheries' impacts on the North Atlantic right whale, has endorsed a steep reduction in lobster tr...