After graduating from the University of Alabama in 2002, Tara Kolstad took a job on a cruise line operating out of Seattle.
Several times a year a cruise line photographer shoots footage of the underground gold mine for its brochures and promo videos.
Yet, its diversified revenue streams, which range from a cruise line to an gaming unit, offer a broad read on how consumers are faring worldwide.
The network has turned down sponsors for a cruise line catering to the gay community as well as a lobbying group wanting to protest job discrimination against gay men and lesbians.
The ship has everything you would expect from a regular cruise line: a Karaoke club, a buffet, a kids' pool and open-air bars on the top decks.
Or, see the great island by boat on a Circle Line day cruise, a World Yacht dinner cruise, or even the free Staten Island Ferry, where you sail right past Lady Liberty.
During her five-day cruise, a water line broke in the hallway ceiling near her cabin, and a separate sewer line broke outside the main dining hall, she said.
The ship also comes with the support of New York politicians which have been actively recruiting more ships since signing a homeport agreement with Disney Cruise Line in April.
And while every park within the resort has one or two standout attractions that cater to the older set - Disney's Hollywood Studios delights with the Tower of Terror and even the previously tame Animal Kingdom has added a mega-coaster, Expedition Everest -Disney Cruise Line seems to pick up where the parks leave a void, with entire areas dedicated to pre-teens, teenagers and adults.
West later chartered a ship and formed the first cruise line to travel between Vancouver, B.
Earlier Monday, the cruise line said in a statement that there was hot coffee available, among other options.
Diedrich also believes travel is one of the sectors strongest industries, deeming cruise line operator Carnival a gem within the group.
The Caribbean has long been a cruise hub, with almost every line plying these waters at some point during the year.
The fire still left the ship with 3, 143 passengers and 1, 086 crew members without propulsion, drifting about 140 miles off the Mexican coast, the cruise line said in a statement.
The first rescue happened Thursday afternoon, when the Disney Wonder cruise ship picked up eight people on a raft about 45 miles from Key West, the cruise line said.
CNN: Coast Guard interviews rafters rescued by 2 cruise ships
If a cruise ship crew member negligently kills one of these passengers, the cruise line is liable for funeral expenses and nothing more.
The Conquest was on the last leg of a seven-day trip, the cruise line said.
CNN: Coast Guard interviews rafters rescued by 2 cruise ships
Carnival said the ship's emergency diesel generator failed, but the cruise line disputed notions of a widespread system failure.
Royal Caribbean Cruises (nyse: RCL - news - people) is the second-largest cruise line in the world, a position it attained through aggressive expansion and acquisitions.
Royal Caribbean, the cruise-line company, announced a week after the attack that its Nordic Empress ship could no longer depart from New York because authorities had taken control of the port.
In the case of Carnival Cruise Lines, the owner of the Carnival Triumph that spent days in the Gulf of Mexico disabled after an engine fire, the company is incorporated in Panama, its offices are based in Miami and its ships fly under the Bahamian flag a matrix that is not unusual in the cruise line industry.
In August, a room tag from the line's Maasdam cruise ship and sewage washed ashore in Lynn, Massachusetts, leading town officials to suggest the debris may have come from the ship.
Last year, after the Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Giglio, Italy, Rockefeller held a Commerce Committee hearing to examine deficiencies in the cruise line industry's compliance with federal safety, security, and environmental standards and review industry regulations.
I've spent the last 20 years teaching journalism and writing classes at a selective public university, and the majority of my (bright) students put me in mind of Jack Nicholson's line to Tom Cruise in "A Few Good Men": "You can't handle the truth!"
Net began as a simple fan site 14 years ago but has since blossomed into a leading online resource for details on Disneyland, Walt Disney World and Disney Cruise Line.
The cruise line said the ship was listing at 2 degrees, an improvement from a previous 4.5-degrees reading.
Carnival CEO Gerry Cahill told reporters on Tuesday evening that the cruise line is using its full resources to assist passengers and family members in a "very challenging" situation.
The husband of the 64-year-old Virginia woman found her dead in her cabin aboard Royal Caribbean cruise line's Enchantment of the Seas on Sunday, the last day of a weeklong cruise, the company said.
The dancers are the godmothers for Norwegian Cruise Line's new ship, Norwegian Breakaway, which is being christened Wednesday afternoon at a pier on the Hudson River.
The cruise line has reserved more than 1, 500 hotel rooms in Mobile and New Orleans, about a two-hour drive away, for Thursday night.
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