Another New Ship Floating

On Saturday (November 28, 2020), Meyer Werft floated out Royal Caribbean's new Odyssey of the Seas at their Papenburg (Germany) yard. 

The complete story appeared in the November 30 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

 Photos courtesy of Meyer Werft. All rights reserved. May not be copied or used without express permission. 

Build They Must

Chantiers de l'Atlantique laid the keel today for Celebrity Beyond at their yard in Saint-Nazaire (France). 

Subscribers read the complete story in today's edition of Cruise News Daily. 

 

Photo courtesy of Celebrity Cruises. All rights reserved. may not be copied or used without express permission. 

Still Out There

Even though there are no passengers aboard Carnival Ecstasy, the ship and a small crew are still standing by while the ship is anchored offshore in the Bahamas awaiting a return to service. That crew came to the rescue Tuesday when they heard a Mayday call from a private yacht about four nautical miles away. A crew member had been injured and needed medical assistance. Carnival Ecstasy sailed to the location in rough seas and took the man aboard with the ship's medical team treating him while they waited for a US Coast Guard helicopter to come and medevac him to a shoreside medical facility. 

The complete story appeared in the November 18 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

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Silversea Gets Mooned

A couple of weeks ago, Silversea and Royal Caribbean took delivery of Silver Moon at Fincantieri's Ancona yard. Today Silversea pulled back the curtain slightly when Chief Marketing Officer, Barbara Muckerman hosted a short five-part video tour (below)

The complete story appeared in the November 16 edition of Cruise News Daily.

 

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An X-tra Special Welcome Home

In this video, Celebrity Edge's captain, Kate McCue, explains the planning that went into the special welcome for the new Celebrity Apex when it arrived at the anchorage earlier this month in the Bahamas with its sister ships. After weeks of planning, the ships did a special dance, a series of complex nautical maneuvers that could only be accomplished (safely) with the technology aboard today's modern ships.