Weekly Cruise News Summary April 16, 2011

This week's news from the cruise industry included items about Carnival Corporation, the drydock for Princess Cruises' Grand Princess, Carnival Cruise Lines, Bermuda, Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas and AIDA Cruises.

Video of Grand Princess Drydock - Day 5

In today's video from the drydock from Freeport, Martyn talks with the captain of Grand Princess about his job during the drydock.




Princess is also publishing a photo journal with more detailed views of the day's work.

Previous day's video

Video of Grand Princess Drydock - Day 4

The big project for today on Grand Princess at the drydock was the removal of the first piece of Skywalkers Nightclub, the Travelator, the tube through which passengers ascended on an escalator. As you can see in the video, that part of the project wasn't completed until dusk this evening.



Princess is also publishing a photo journal with more detailed views of the day's work.

Previous day's video

A Friend for Funship Freddy

Carnival's lovable mascot, Funship Freddy, is getting a friend.

One of Carnival's iconic towel animals has grown and come to life. The yet-to-be-named 6-foot "towel elephant" has been seen in Camp Carnival and on the Promenade Deck of Carnival Dream for the last few weeks, meeting passengers and posing for pictures (one of the things he likes most, but don't mention laundry day).

He will soon be seen aboard five more Carnival ships: Carnival Imagination, Carnival Freedom, Carnival Miracle, Carnival Sensation and Carnival Magic.

Carpathia to the Rescue

On their Facebook page today, Cunard reminds us that on April 15, 1912, "while on a routine voyage from New York to Trieste Carpathia was diverted to pick up all of the survivors of Titanic and returned to New York with them."

Carpathia was a member of the Cunard fleet. You read the rest of the Carpathia story in the Heritage section of the Cunard website.