The singer served as Royal Caribbean's godmother to the brand-new 'Nordic Empress' in 1990, but the job ended up being more ...

Cruise ships are often seen as the epitome of luxury travel, but for some passengers, their dream vacation quickly turned into a nightmare. In this video, we explore the top 10 worst cruise ship ...

Organizations also make their own preparations; the World Food Programme, for example, prepositioned a shipment of food and ...

JIANLI, China (AP) — Many relatives wept openly as they arrived Monday at a morgue for a last look at bodies of loved ones among the more than 430 people killed in the Yangtze River capsizing of the ...

— -- The fast-growing cruise industry is facing one of its biggest tests in years after this week's Costa Concordia disaster off the coast of Italy. Many Wall Street analysts, travel agents and ...

— -- Why the cruise ship Costa Concordia capsized remains a mystery to world maritime and salvage experts two weeks after the tragedy that left 16 people dead and 16 still missing. The ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Salvage experts failed to tow a fire-stricken container ship carrying chemicals out to sea and it started to sink Wednesday off Sri Lanka's main port, raising fears of a ...

All 1,081 feet of the Epic, a Norwegian Cruise Line ship, had disappeared and we were nowhere near the Bermuda Triangle. We were in Catania, Italy, and when we departed for lunch the ship was there.

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka is once again facing a significant marine environmental crisis, as tiny plastic pellets, commonly known as nurdles), have begun washing ashore along the island’s northern coastline ...

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

More ships are cruising through Arctic waters but when disaster strikes, there is little information on how it might affect the environment, and little preparation for quick action.