Cruise Ship

Australia's bumper cruise season kicks off today, as the first ship of the summer sailed into Sydney Harbour.

Tom Robinson was rescued by a P&O cruise ship, who took a detour from their usual route to pick him up.

P&O Cruises confirmed to 9news.com.au that the passenger of the Pacific Adventure – the company's newest cruise liner – died at Mystery Island.

Police have been asked to investigate why the ship ran aground and whether any laws have been broken.

One of the Australian passengers has described the moments leading up to the luxury vessel's grounding.

The vessel is stranded in the world's largest and most northerly national park known for icebergs.

One passenger said the giant vessel 'floated away like a paper storm' during the wild weather.

Since 1933 a regular armada of white hulls representing the Peninsular and Oriental Shipping Line, to give the company its full title, have coursed through the Heads, and pushed out again with a new manifest of passengers.

More than a million Aussies go on a cruise from Australia every year, with Sydney one of the most sought-after cruising ports in the world. But the origins of the $5b industry in the nation dates back over 90 years and can be traced to two ships.

Survivors of a volcanic eruption that killed 22 cruise ship passengers, including 14 Australians, off the coast of New Zealand have succeeded in having back-up legal action in Australia delayed until a Florida court case is decided.

The US Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 35-year-old man who went overboard from a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean this week, the military branch said.

The US Coast Guard says it's searching for a man who fell from a cruise ship off the coast of Florida.

Cruise passengers were called from their rooms in the early hours of the morning after a small fire broke out on a ship's balcony off the NSW coast.

A class action has been launched over a cruise that allegedly sailed from Brisbane into the path of a category 5 cyclone in 2017.

Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for a much-loved bird from Broome to be returned home after it accidentally stowed away on a cruise ship and ended up 1300km away in Bali.

The search for Brisbane man Warwick Tollemache has been suspended, as his devastated loved ones remember him as a "beautiful and gentle soul".

In summer 286 ships sailed into NSW bringing over 600,000 passengers to the state.

Robert Jones was unable to have an open-coffin funeral, a family custom, after his body was stored in a walk-in drinks cooler.

From hearts to words, airline pilots and those behind the controls of smaller planes sometimes fly unusual routes to create radar patterns, with ships also able to create fun designs.

Almost a year after their return to Australian ports, cruises will soon welcome as many passengers as they did before COVID-19, industry bosses say.

The woman was found unresponsive during the ship's February 27 voyage to Nassau, Bahamas.

The fire impacted one guest stateroom and was suspected to have been caused by an electrical device.

Kester Howard, a Brisbane retiree, was painting on a balcony of her luxury cruise ship when a startling announcement came over the loudspeakers.

The Seven Seas Explorer by Regent Cruises cost $680 million to build, which includes a $9 million art collection featuring pieces by Picasso and Changall.

A young woman has been found dead after she fell overboard while on a cruise off the coast of South Australia.

For centuries sailors swapped horror stories of ships mysteriously vanishing, sunk by giant walls of water that seemed to appear from nowhere.

The ship has just completed a trip to New Zealand and has moored at the Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay.

A self-described "average guy" has relived the terrifying ordeal, which saw him encounter two schools of jellyfish and a finned creature from below.

One passenger was killed and four injured when a "rogue wave" hit their cruise ship during a storm

Vision has captured the moment the man was plucked to safety after being stranded at sea without a lifejacket for 15-hours.

A cruise ship is cancelling the Bali leg of its tour due to a COVID-19 outbreak on board.

Carnival Cruises has reintroduced mandatory mask wearing onboard its cruise ships after a recent spike in COVID-19 cases.

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A cruise ship making the first visit to WA since the pandemic has confirmed it has "a small number" of COVID-19 cases aboard.

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Ritz-Carlton's highly-anticipated superyacht cruise has finally made its debut, three and a half years after its maiden voyage was originally scheduled to begin.

Former nurse Susan Karpik admitted she'd been extremely naive in expecting Princess Cruises to eliminate coronavirus from the Ruby Princess before it left Sydney.

It's believed 663 of the 1679 Australians on board went on to develop COVID-19.

The Ruby Princess cruise when 28 people died from COVID-19 should never have sailed, a lawyer says.

The first cruise ship in more than two and a half years has docked in Melbourne, marking the return of the billion dollar cruising industry to Victoria.

A woman who was killed after being mauled by a shark at a popular tourist spot at the Bahamas has been revealed at 58-year-old Caroline DiPlacido. 

An Australian class action over a deadly coronavirus outbreak on board the Ruby Princess cruise ship cannot include passengers from the United States, an appeal court has found.

A cruise ship carrying 2000 passengers has docked in Brisbane on Sunday following a plagued 14 days at sea.

Captain Kate McCue has been mistaken for a captain's wife - or a cruise director's wife - countless times in the past seven years.

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Another COVID-hit cruise ship is docking in Sydney this morning, the second such vessel in less than a week.

More than 100 people on board another cruise ship in Australian waters have tested positive for COVID-19.

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