Cruise ships in the news

摘要

his month we have had more readers than ever writing about the safety or otherwise of modern cruise ships, at a time when cruise ships have been involved in high-profile incidents around the world. The main incidents were the fire on board Carnival Triumph, the lifeboat accident on Thomson Majesty and most recently the detention in Portland of CMV's Discovery. And on 4 March National Geographic Sea Lion struck an uncharted rock while departing the Las Perlas Islands, 70 miles from Panama City,