From sudden storms and engine fires to mysterious disappearances and full-blown mutinies, these true cruise ship disasters reveal just how quickly paradise at sea can turn into a nightmare. Imagine ...

With the weather forecasting capabilities of today, the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald may not have even embarked from port.

Image via Shutterstock At least 63 people stranded in the middle of the ocean got an unlikely rescue. A cruise ship became ...

Kerala: Months after the MSC Elsa 3 capsized off Kerala’s coast, local fishermen remain uncompensated. The disaster exposed ...

— -- The fast-growing cruise industry is facing one of its biggest tests in years after this week's Costa Concordia disaster off the coast of Italy. Many Wall Street analysts, travel agents and ...

The Love Boat 's cruises weren't always smooth sailing. In the show's second of three pilot episodes, cast and crew filmed ...

Fishermen in Sri Lanka have welcomed the country’s top court ordering US$1 billion in compensation for marine pollution caused by a Singapore-flagged cargo ship that caught fire and sank off the ...

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