All 207 passengers were taken off the ship, which was off the coast of Norway.
Whatever went wrong to cause or exacerbate the Concordia cruise ship disaster, most of the Concordia crew and passengers safely made it off the ship.
While aboard a ship, many amenities are all-inclusive, but the cost of items purchased off the ship will likely be exorbitant.
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Kris Anderson, a passenger aboard the ship and reporter for CNN affiliate WREG, said Thursday passengers have been told they will be allowed off the ship to enjoy the island while flight arrangements are made.
Passengers will be able to get off the ship at Freeport if they choose, Martinez said.
Brittany Ferguson and Kendall Jenkins, both 24, got off the ship cheering and dancing.
You would think Carnival would have something in place to get these people off the ship.
The 50 crew members are off the ship recovering and being given Tamiflu medication, Surette said.
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The crew had earlier overpowered the pirates and forced them off the ship, according to messages from first officer Shane Murphy.
He'd previously been declared a hero, the last person winched off the ship, but he's now accused of failing in his duties to help with the evacuation.
Brooklyn Burgess, 18, got off the ship scanning the crowd for father and brother, who had driven from their Carthage, Mississippi, home to get them and bring them home.
"We were given targets of taking man-hours and training hours off the ship, " said Rich Lockwood, director of the Advanced Naval and C4I Program for Lockheed Martin NESS - Surface Systems.
There were roughly 4, 200 people on the ship when it ran aground -- about 3, 200 passengers and 1, 000 crew members, the vast majority of whom made it off the ship safely.
Mr. Schultz was thrown off the elevator wheel, and for a moment it spun unattended before he and Mr. Curtis launched themselves atop it and fought to level off the ship.
Finally most of us were able to make our first call, only to find out that people off the ship knew more details of the events than any of us on it.
I'm on board as the expedition safety guide, which means making sure that everyone venturing off the ship is well-equipped and well-informed for dealing with conditions in the harsh and remote Arctic wilderness.
Ultimately, there will be a news item: Bob, tragically, must have fallen off the ship on the last night of the voyage while leaning over to get a better camera angle on the northern lights.
In the biggest high-profile incident in the U.S. in recent years, more than 3, 000 passengers aboard the Carnival Splendor were towed to shore in 2010 by a Mexican tugboat after an engine-room fire cut off the ship's electricity.
And they make sure and they tell you that if anything was to happen that you are going to scan your sea pass and we're going to know who got off the ship and who's still on the ship so they know who to look for.
Two tugboats and a pilot were used to pull the 450-foot ship off the rocks.
An Indian Navy officer, on board a ship off the coast, said the sea level was unchanged.
Muse is the only surviving attacker of the Maersk Alabama merchant ship off Somalia's coast in April 2009.
Three crewman have been taken hostage after pirates attacked a British ship off the west coast of Africa.
On this day 390 years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama.
The pirates hijacked the ship off the coast of Somalia September 25.
After a few minutes, a gaggle of about 20 English tourists arrive - khaki-shorted and fresh off the cruise ship from Barbados.
Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse is the only survivor of the crew of pirates who attacked the Maersk Alabama merchant ship off Somalia's coast in April 2009.
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