Cruise ships promise luxury, leisure, and escape—but sometimes, those dreams go disastrously off course. Behind the glossy brochures and endless buffets are stories of chaos, confusion, and survival ...

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There are still only 14 survivors of Monday's cruise ship disaster in China's Yangtze River. Rescue teams have now cut holes through parts of the overturned ship's hull, but they've found no more ...

Sadly, when hundreds of people set sail to travel to several destinations over a few weeks, deaths can happen. Although the incidents are rare, cruise ships have to be prepared for if a passenger does ...

Richard Fain, the longtime CEO of the Royal Caribbean Group, is revealing to PEOPLE how Gloria Estefan prevented a cruise ship disaster In 1990, the singer was named godmother of the company's new ...

The New York Review of Books‘ blog has a short, but quite moving piece about the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster in Italy, mostly focusing on the sociology of what people do when everything goes ...

FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors placed four ship's officers and three company executives under investigation on Wednesday in connection with the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster as ...

Nearly 400 people are reported dead in the capsizing of the Eastern Star, Chinese state media said, making it China's deadliest boat disaster in nearly 70 years, The Associated Press reported. Search ...