During this past week of the Queen Mary 2’s World Cruise, Captain Kevin Oprey took a short moment to enjoy the view from a rather interesting spot rather than the navigational bridge. [slideshow_deploy id=’16033′] According to Cunard, the Queen Mary 2 briefly dropped anchor off of the Bali Coast to stage the photographs of Captain Oprey. […]
For the first time in the cruise line’s 20 year history, Silversea has promoted one of their female officers to the position of Captain. Margrith Ettlin is Silversea’s first female Captain and will be at the helm of the line’s Silver Explorer, a specialized expedition ship. Captain Ettlin assumed control of the ship on August […]
Hailing from Holland, Captain Emiel de Vries began his career with Holland America Line as a 4th Officer and worked his way up to the rank of Captain. He has sailed on every class of Holland America Line ship and has been fortunate to sail the seven seas and visit all seven continents. Currently, Captain Emiel […]
On January 13, 2012 the tragedy of the Costa Concordia began to unfold around 8:30pm EST. As soon as I was notified of the incident, I began creating a timeline of the events on this website. On the one year anniversary of this tragedy, I have restructured, edited, and cleaned up the original timeline to share […]