Cruise ships promise luxury, leisure, and escape—but sometimes, those dreams go disastrously off course. Behind the glossy brochures and endless buffets are stories of chaos, confusion, and survival ...
In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship came dangerously close to one of the worst maritime disasters in recent history. While crossing Hustadvika, a stretch of Norway’s coast known for treacherous ...
In 1985, the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked in the Mediterranean by armed militants posing as passengers. They took hostages and murdered an elderly disabled American man, throwing him ...