Two more cruise ships are being quarantined for 14 days each in hopes of limiting the spread of the coronavirus. Ten people aboard the Diamond Princess tested positive for the virus. Of these nine are passengers — two Australians, three Japanese, three from Hong Kong, and one from the U.S. — as well as one Filipino crew member. Those who tested positive will be taken ashore to local hospitals, leaving the roughly 2,660 passengers and 1,045 crew, under quarantine for two weeks.
A second ship, the World Dream, is docked at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Cruise Terminal with 1,800 people on board, the city’s Department of Health said Wednesday. 3,700 people are being held aboard pending more testing after three confirmed cases of coronavirus were reported.
As has so often been the case, predictions of the impact of climate change have been proven to be inaccurate. The problem is not that they have been too alarmist, but that they haven’t been alarmist enough. For the past several years, scientists have warned of the 
About a year ago 
In honor of Black History Month, a post about the first African-American pilot in the US Navy, 
On the morning of April 16, 2014, the ro-ro/passenger ferry 
UPDATE: The illness which sickened a passenger was determined not to be the coronavirus and the 6,000 passengers and crew were allowed to disembark from the Costa Smeralda. Two cases of the coronavirus, not related to the cruise ship, were diagnosed in Rome, however.
Four years ago, we 
On January 28, 1915, the US flag four-masted bark 
More than thirty years ago, I sat on the rotting planks of the old Pier 17 in the East River in Manhattan and listened to Bernie Clay and the X-Seaman’s Institute sing a song about the schooner Alice S. Wentworth. The song became known as the “
On New Year’s Eve, in 20-foot seas and high winds, the 130′ crab boat 
The 
Today, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the US Navy officially named the newest of the future 
Congratulations to 
Will the Titanic II ever be built? And if so, when will it sail?