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Relief as fire-hit cruise ship safe in Malaysia

Last updated Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 5:07pm

SANDAKAN, Malaysia — Smiling passengers voiced relief and gratitude after safely leaving a fire-damaged luxury cruise ship that was stranded at sea for 24 hours and limped without air-conditioning into a Malaysian port Sunday.

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Fire-stricken cruise ship safe at Malaysian port

Eileen Ng The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 8:05am

SANDAKAN, Malaysia -- A luxury cruise ship stranded at sea for 24 hours because of a fire safely reached a Malaysian port where police and embassy officials stood by Sunday to help 1,000 people aboard.

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Another cruise ship suffers mishap

Oliver Teves The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 8:05am

MANILA, Philippines — A cruise ship with 1,000 people on board that was disabled by a fire and was drifting in southern Philippine waters has been repaired and is headed toward Malaysia, the Philippine coast guard said Saturday.

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FILE - A Monday, Feb.13, 2012 file photo showing ongoing operations to remove fuel from the half sunken hulk of the luxury ship Costa Concordia a month after it ran aground outside the port of Isola del Giglio island in Tuscany, Italy. The Concordia capsized in a protected sea sanctuary, and salvage teams have been removing fuel since Feb. 12 in hopes of sparing the pristine waters from pollution. Costa Crociere SpA., the Italian cruise company, and Italian officials said fuel removal was expected to be completed by Friday evening. (AP Photo/Giorgio Fanciulli, File)

3 more bodies found in wrecked cruise ship

Paolo Santalucia The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 2:16pm

GIGLIO, Italy -- Searchers on Thursday found three bodies under the hull of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized off an Italian island in January, an official said, raising the number of bodies found so far to 28 and leaving four still missing.

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Rachel White, a 20-year-old from Kaysville, performs as an ice skater as a cast member aboard the Royal Caribbean’s Adventure of the Seas and Allure of the Seas cruise ships. (Photo courtesy of Rachel White)

Kaysville ice skater takes her show on the sea

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 8:22am

KAYSVILLE — Life changed for a 20-year-old Kaysville woman the moment she stepped aboard the Royal Caribbean’s Adventure of the Seas cruise ship.

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In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 by Zil Air and released by the Seychelles Office of the President, the Costa Allegra cruise ship is seen at sea near the Seychelles. Disabled by an engine fire, the cruise ship is being towed and should reach land Thursday, according to a spokesman for Costa Cruises. (AP Photo/Zil Air via Seychelles Office of the President)

Passengers on disabled cruise ship to fly to Rome

Jason Straziuso The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 10:33am

VICTORIA, Seychelles -- A disabled cruise ship being towed to the Seychelles' main port is expected to arrive Thursday morning -- three days after the ship lost power and began drifting in the Indian Ocean. An aviation official said passengers would begin flying to Rome within hours after arrival at port.

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Cruise line halts jungle tour after passengers are robbed

Rong-Gong Lin II, Tracy Wilkinson Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 3:00pm

Carnival Cruise Lines says it has suspended a guided nature hike in the jungle near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, after 22 guests were robbed by hooded gunmen.

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An undated picture of the Costa Allegra cruise ship in Genoa's Harbor Italy. The Italian coast guard says a fire has broken out on an the Costa Allegra cruise ship off the Seychelles islands, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, and the ship is adrift, but the passengers are safe. The ship owner Costa Crociere says in a statement there were no injuries or casualties among the 636 passengers and 413 crew members. (AP Photo/Tano Pecoraro)

Cruise ship adrift in Indian Ocean after fire

Frances D'Emilio, Jason Straziuso The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 2:51pm

NAIROBI, Kenya — An Italian cruise liner carrying more than 1,000 people was adrift without power in the pirate-infested Indian Ocean on Monday after a fire erupted in its generator room. The blaze was extinguished without causing any injuries, an official said.

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An oil recovery expert wears a scuba diving equipment during preparations to work on the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. The ship still contains about 500,000 gallons (2,400 tons) of heavy fuel and other pollutants. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

Underwater prep resumes for ship’s oil removal

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 6, 2012 - 12:07pm

ROME — Underwater operations have resumed aimed at readying the shipwrecked Costa Concordia for the removal of tons of oil from its tanks.

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FILE In this undated photo released by the Italian Navy Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, scuba divers inspect the Costa Concordia cruise ship grounded off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. A veritable treasure now lies beneath the pristine Italian waters where the massive cruise liner ran aground last month. In the chaotic evacuation of more than 4,200 people from the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th century Bohemian crystal glassware, thousands of art objects and even 300-year-old woodcut prints by a Japanese master. (AP Photo/Italian Navy GOS handout)

Cruise shipwreck has plenty of sunken treasures

Vanessa Gera The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 1:29pm

ROME -- In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th century Bohemian crystal glassware, thousands of art objects including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master.

In other words, a veritable treasure now lies beneath the pristine Italian waters where the luxury liner ran aground last month.

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Oil recovery experts work on a wave control buoy to be used near the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. Residents of Giglio are growing increasingly worried about threats to the environment and the future of the Italian island following the temporary suspension of the recovery operation of the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

It could take 10 months to remove capsized cruise ship

Colleen Barry, Fulvio Paolocci The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 1:31pm

GIGLIO, Italy -- The cruise ship that capsized off Italy's coast will take up to 10 months to remove, officials said Sunday, as rough seas off the Tuscan coast forced the suspension of recovery operations.

Officials called off both the start of operations to remove of 500,000 gallons of fuel and the search for people still missing after determining the Costa Concordia had moved four centimeters (an inch and a half) over six hours, coupled with waves of more than one meter (three feet).

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An Italian Coast Guard dinghy sails around the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Rough seas off the Tuscan coast have delayed for a second day the start of operations to remove half a million gallons of fuel from the grounded Costa Concordia. Officials called off both the fuel removal and search operations Sunday after determining the ship had moved 4 centimeters (an inch and a half) over six hours. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

Rough seas delay work on grounded cruise ship

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 2:40pm

GIGLIO, Italy -- Rough seas off the Tuscan coast have delayed for a second day the start of operations to remove half a million gallons of fuel from the grounded Costa Concordia.

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In this undated photo released by the Italian Navy Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, the Costa Concordia cruise ship is seen grounded off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. Italian authorities have identified the bodies of three German passengers as divers kept up the search for those still missing from the Costa Concordia cruise ship that rammed into a reef off Italy. Sixteen deaths have been confirmed so far in the disaster, but three of those bodies have yet to be identified. Another 16 people are still missing from the ship, which grounded Jan. 13, but officials have acknowledged that it would take a miracle to find any more survivors. Salvage experts worked Thursday so they could begin pumping tons of fuel off the ship starting Saturday to avert an environmental catastrophe. The stricken ship lies very close to a marine sanctuary. (AP Photo/Italian Navy)

Cruise line offers $14,460 per person for ruined Italy trip

Nicole Winfield The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 11:13am

ROME -- Costa Crociere SpA offered uninjured passengers (euro) 11,000 ($14,460) apiece Friday to compensate them for lost baggage and the psychological trauma they suffered after their cruise ship ran aground and capsized off Tuscany.

But some passengers are already refusing to accept the deal, saying they can't yet put a figure on the costs of the trauma they endured.

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In this undated photo released by the Italian Navy Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, an inside view of the Costa Concordia cruise ship grounded off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. A large platform carrying a crane and other equipment hitched itself to the toppled Costa Concordia on Tuesday, signaling the start of preliminary operations to remove a half-million gallons of fuel from the grounded cruise ship before it leaks into the pristine Tuscan sea. Actual pumping of the oil isn't expected to begin until Saturday, but officials from the Dutch shipwreck salvage firm Smit were seen on the bow of the Concordia and in the waters nearby making preparations to remove the fuel, while the search for missing passengers continues. (AP Photo/Italian Navy GOS)

Official: Finding survivors from shipwreck would be a miracle

Manuel Schwarz, Peter Mayer Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 10:35am

GIGLIO, Italy -- It would take a "miracle" to find survivors 12 days after the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia, the Italian official leading rescue operations said Wednesday.

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