Coast Guard Ends Active Search for Passenger Overboard from Carnival Liberty

The US Coast Guard suspended their active search Sunday night at 8:14pm for a 33-year-old woman who went overboard from Carnival Liberty early Friday morning.

Details appeared in the May 16 edition of Cruise News Daily.

Harmony of the Seas Leaves Saint Nazaire

Royal Caribbean's Harmony of the Seas left the yard at Saint Nazaire (France) this weekend for it's first port call at Southampton. The video below shows the crowd of 60,000 local people who came out to see her off.

Where Thousands Will Go to Sea without Ever Leaving Port

It was just about a year and a half ago we were reporting that Carnival Corp had acquired seven acres outside Amsterdam in the Dutch town of Almere for a new training facility. Now we can report that the state-of-the-art facility is just about ready to open - and it will have a new name.

The new training center contains a variety of bridge and engine room simulators for training the company’s deck and engineering officers from all ten of Carnival’s global brands. Carnival says, “It will be the most progressive maritime center of its kind in the world for training and continually improving industry-wide safety and excellence.”

The complete story appeared in the May 13 edition of Cruise News Daily.

Passenger Overboard from Carnival Liberty

The US Coast Guard is searching an area of the Gulf of Mexico 195 off the coast of Galveston where a 33-year-old woman went overboard from Carnival Liberty early Friday morning.

Details appeared in the May 13 edition of Cruise News Daily.

There’s Finally Harmony in the World

Royal Caribbean took delivery of the 227,000-ton Harmony of the Seas from STX France today at Saint Nazaire (France), and Harmony officially became the largest cruise ship in the world.
 
The official handover came during a flag-changing ceremony in the ship’s AquaTheater, complete with tons of confetti. During the event, there was quite an extraordinary moment when all 2,100 crew members sat for a portrait along with Richard Fain (Chairman and CEO of RCCL) and Michael Bayley (President and CEO of RCI). That’s not likely to happen again. (Who was running the ship?)

The complete story appeared in the May 12 edition of Cruise News Daily.

The flag-changing signified the ship's handover.

At the handover, the 2,100 crew members sat for a portrait.

The day before at a rally, the crew posed for a selfie with Richard Fain.

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