Carnival Cruise Lines to Expand Capacity in New Orleans by 34 Percent With Deployment of Carnival Triumph in Nov. 2009 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

19 August 2008, 7:45 am

Carnival Cruise Lines -- which operates the only year-round cruise program from New Orleans -- will increase capacity by 34 percent when the 2,758-passenger Carnival Triumph replaces the 2,056-passenger Carnival Fantasy from the Big Easy in November 2009.... read more

Finding new life at a lost reef (The Columbus Dispatch)

19 August 2008, 12:41 am

In this classroom, students can't hear a word their professor says, have to juggle notebooks and jellyfish, and must remember to breathe regularly. Every January, 15 or so Capital University students dive along a small coral reef off the Mexican island of Cozumel, east of the Yucatan Peninsula, to c... read more

When your cruise veers off course (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

17 August 2008, 12:32 am

Ding, ding: This is the captain. Due to a medical emergency. . . . That's how our Caribbean cruise began its descent into Adventures (You Don't Want) on the High Seas.... read more

All-inclusives: Resorts offer myriad of styles (Miami Herald)

17 August 2008, 12:27 am

Order breakfast while still in bed at the new Aura Cozumel Wyndham Grand Bay. You'll have just enough time for a dip in the private plunge pool above your third-floor suite before room service delivers smoked salmon, fruit and coffee.... read more

TV's Trista & Ryan will christen Ruby Princess (USA Today)

13 August 2008, 2:52 pm

Princess is tapping into its Love Boat roots by naming one of TV's most famously romantic couples to christen its next ship, the 3,070-passenger Ruby Princess.... read more

Submarine reveals colorful world beneath surface of sea (The Columbus Dispatch)

10 August 2008, 1:55 am

Imagine you are diving beneath the surface of the Caribbean Sea. A shipwreck emerges in the deep blue distance. You head in that direction, cruising alongside a picturesque coral reef.... read more

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