Carnival Ship Strikes Ice in Alaska, Delayed [CRUISE NEWS]

Cruise news today with Doug Parker during a recent cruise to Southeast Alaska Carnival Spirit came in contact with an iceberg now the incident occurred around 12:30 p.m. on Thursday and while no immediate damage was reported the crew did pause operations for around 3 hours to assess the ship's condition Carnival confirmed the ship made contact with a piece of ice on Thursday while sailing in Tracy arm fur and there was no damage to the ship Carnival Spirit returns back to Seattle tomorrow in proves that Carnival guests aren't the only things hitting each other and a delay in purchasing Escambia county is seeking additional funds to purchase the historic ocean liner SS United States with plans of sinking it in the Gulf of Mexico now during their latest meeting County Commissioners approved a fundraising campaign and authorized staff to pursue up to 2 million in restore act funds though neighboring Okaloosa County has a tenative agreement to buy the ship so far es scambia county has raised five .5 million to purchase the ship the ship is going for around 9 million the ship is out of service and would need to be towed from the Delaware River in Philly down to the Gulf of Mexico and Carnival Cruise Line has announced a new premium Multi-Device Wi-Fi plan available fleetwide starting this month the plan announced by brand ambassador John heeld allows up to four devices to simultaneously connect and offer speeds three times faster than Carnival's value plan supporting streaming and video calls the plan for four devices start at $75 per day single device plans are still available for around 1530 per day that is the value plan and Cruise Line stocks were down on Friday Carnival Corporation down 3% 15.67% 156.35 Norwegian also down 1% 16.95 and Viking down 2.4% 32.3 n lead on a story let us know tips at cruiseradio.net I'm Doug Parker with Cruz news today back in studio have yourself a great Monday

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