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More than one in five passengers aboard the Celebrity Mercury cruise ship that departed Charleston more than a week ago has fallen ill with a stomach disorder, so many people that the ship recruited extra medical professionals from a Caribbean island before heading back toward Charleston. The gastrointestinal affliction includes vomiting and diarrhea and seems symptomatic of norovirus, a stomach flu most commonly found in confined places, such as cruise ships, hospitals and prisons.

Cruise ships still find a Haitian berthLuxury liners are still docking at private beaches near Haiti's devastated earthquake zone for holidaymakers to enjoy the water Latest: Cruise company to donate sun loungers to Haiti makeshift hospital Robert Booth guardian.co.uk, Sunday 17 January 2010 21.53 GMT Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines faced a difficult decision over whether to dock as per itinerary at Labadee Beach, Haiti after last week's tragic quake. Photograph: Daniel Morel/AP Sixty miles from Haiti's devastated earthquake zone, luxury liners dock at private beaches where passengers enjoy jetski rides, parasailing and rum cocktails delivered to their hammocks. The 4,370-berth...

The world's biggest cruise liner is to have a New York-style "Central Park" on the ship, its owners have revealed. Royal Caribbean is building the 220,000-tonne liner with the working name Project Genesis and the announcement is the latest salvo in the intensely competitive global cruise market. The company said the park would be "a revolutionary design in which the centre of the ship opens to the sky and features lush, tropical grounds spanning the length of a football field".

QE2 sold as $100m floating Dubai hotel By David Millward, Transport Correspondent  Last Updated: 3:54pm BST 18/06/2007      Profile: The world's most famous cruise liner Have you travelled on the QE2? Was it worth the money? Where is she now? QE2 webcamAfter nearly four decades as the world’s most celebrated ocean-going liner, the QE2 is to become a floating hotel off the coast of Dubai. The QE2 on a previous visit to Dubai in 1997. The liner will become a luxury floating hotel   The veteran of 25 world cruises and more than 800 transatlantic crossings will undertake its...

There is a strong but previously undisclosed undercurrent running through the Coast Guard’s investigation of yesterday’s cruise ship accident that left 92 passengers seriously injured, two of them critically. The questions are being whispered, but there is no denying them; “Was this a terrorist attempt to sink the ship?” This much is known. The 3000 passenger 22-knot floating hotel "Crown Princess" was 11 miles south of Port Canaveral, heading out on a Western Caribbean cruise when suddenly, everything turned topsy-turvy. According to passengers, the ship listed somewhere between 20 and 40 degrees as the vessel made a violent and unnecessary...

Reuters - CRUISE LINER WITH 708 ABOARD ON FIRE 20 MILES OFF SOUTHEAST ENGLAND-SKY TV

Cruiseliner Diverted After Threatening Notes Found Ship To Be Held Off Honolulu POSTED: 1:51 p.m. HST April 23, 2003 UPDATED: 5:08 p.m. HST April 23, 2003 HONOLULU -- Federal law enforcement officials diverted a cruise ship Wednesday bound for Hilo after two notes containing threats were found in a ladies restroom. The FBI said the Legend of the Seas was en route to Hawaii from Ensenada, Mexico, when the two anonymous notes containing vague threats to the ship were found. The ship is being diverted to waters off Honolulu for boarding by federal and local investigators from Honolulu. The letter...