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Mobily Challenged Woman Saved From Watery Death

Two U.S. Virgin Islands Local Men Made A Daring Rescue Of A Wheelchair-Bound Woman From The Water After She And Her Wheelchair Plunged Into The Water From The Dock by Heather Cassell A cruise vacation to the Caribbean got a little too exciting for a woman in a wheelchair last Monday when she inadvertently fell […]

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New Year, AmaWaterways Is Ready For Expansion In 2019

“I am very excited to join the growing AmaWaterways family,” Janet, a more than 15-year customer-centric marketing veteran, said in the release. “Rudi Schreiner, Kristin Karst and Gary Murphy have built an award-winning company with a reputation for innovation and impeccable customer service – two things that I am very passionate about.”

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Experts Question Two Women Lost At Sea Story

Experts have been seriously questioning two women’s story of being lost in the South Pacific following the Navy’s harrowing rescue last month as they started pulling apart, examining and finding fallacies in their story.

Under closer scrutiny, their tale at sea immediately started to fall apart and sound more like a tall tale of being lost at sea. The women are defending their version of what happened on the high seas.

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Tasha, Jennifer and their two dogs were rescued by the USS Ashland months after their boat became adrift in the Pacific. (Photo: Associated Press)

Women Sailors Lost At Sea Blissful By Navy Rescue

Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava stood with the USS Ashland’s commanding officer and others high on the bridgeway when the ship arrived at White Beach Naval Facility in Okinawa Monday, October 30, local time in Japan.

Five days earlier, the U.S. Navy’s USS Ashland rescued the two women and their two dogs from their shark and storm-battered sailboat 900 miles southeast of Japan.

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Cruising the high seas in luxury aboard Cunard Cruise Line’s the Queen Mary 2. (Photo: Courtesy of Cunard Cruise Line)

Cunard Launches First-Ever Fashion Week Cruise

Cunard Cruise Line Announces Fashion Week Cruise Across The Atlantic Along With Cruises Celebrating Big Bands and British Cuisine As A Part Of Its Sailing Calendar In 2016 by Heather Cassell Cunard Cruise Line, the British luxury cruise line, is bringing back fashion and style to cruising with its first-ever Transatlantic Fashion Week along with […]

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St. James Rum in Martinique. (Photo: Nicole Clausing)

A Rummymoon at Sea

Do you hate cruising? For years, I thought I did, too. I went on a transatlantic cruise as a teenager, and by about the fourth overcast, 50°F day, I was scanning the horizon for icebergs, because an emergency evacuation would at least have been something to do.

Years later, I went on a booze cruise out of Los Angeles. That jaunt didn’t include much time on land, either. When we did disembark, it was in Ensenada, Mexico, which is essentially a dusty, tequila-soaked suburb of San Diego whose name, I’m pretty sure, means “three-day hangover” in Spanish.

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Sweet’s Adventure Ends

It was an adventure for six years, but Sweet, the eco-lesbian travel company, is calling it quits on its “do-goodery” vacations.

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Cruise Industry Hosts International Volunteer Day Event in Florida

To mark International Volunteer Day, more than 100 employees from cruise lines in South Florida, including Royal Caribbean International, Carnival Cruise Lines and Costa Cruises joined together to help clean and beautify the North Shore Park in Miami for the continued enjoyment of locals and vacationers.

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Cruise Critic Names The Best Cruise Lines of 2013

The editors of Cruise Critic have made their selection for the best cruise lines, ships and ports for 2013 with the 2013 Editors’ Picks Awards released Oct. 17.

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