Look out Below

We're all familiar now with the amazing overhead views drones can give us of everything. Just about anywhere you can think of, a drone can now give us a new ariel perspective of it. But there's a personal perspective they haven't been able to give you yet - until now.

Have you ever wanted to look under your ship? Way down where the fish and the whales live, or to see shipwrecks. If you take a SCUBA excursion you can see some of that, but new underwater drones from Blueye Robotics can take you deeper than you can dive, and keep you high and dry on your cruise ship.

Details appeared in the September 18 edition of Cruise News Daily.

Other Things You'll Want to Know - July 18, 2016

CND subscribers also read about:

• Rolls-Royce signed a contract to design two polar-class cruise ships that will be built by Norwegian yard Kleven for Hurtigruten. 
• Carnival Corp declared their quarterly dividend of 35 cents per share. 

Details appeared in the July 18 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Video of Fire aboard Hurtigruten’s Nordlys

Thick black smoke can be seen in the first video pouring from Hurtigruten’s Nordlys due to an engine room fire as it sailed along the Norwegian coast today. Passengers were evacuated safely.



Later in the process, with the fire nearly out, the ship was brought alongside a pier in Alesund (Norway) this afternoon, which can be seen in the second video. The ship was listing about ten degrees to the port but was later stabilized.

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The complete story was carried in the September 15, 2011, edition of Cruise News Daily.