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“I’m waiting for Jimmy to say, ‘Mom, it’s me. I’m here,’ ” said the 58-year-old Connecticut resident. “I know my son is probably dead, but in my heart and soul I can’t believe it because there is nothing that tells me he’s gone. He didn’t die; he vanished.”

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PHOENIX—-Congress has already held three hearings with cruise industry representatives, International Cruise Victims and federal agencies. The latest Congressional hearing was on March 27, 2007 with Cruise Line International Association and International Cruise Victims.

Americans spend more than $1 billion on travel insurance products each year. But most travel insurance actually just “duplicates coverage” that travelers already have.

MIAMI, April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Carnival Cruise Lines’ new 113,300-ton Carnival Splendor - representing a new class of vessel with a host of innovations including exclusive new “spa staterooms” that surround a luxurious 21,000-square-foot health and wellness center — will debut in July 2008 operating the line’s first-ever Northern European cruise program.

NEW YORK – This is a West Side story, a chance for a 24- hour romance with Manhattan. Yes, I have been here many times – and the Port of New York’s cruise terminal at 55th Street and the Hudson River isn’t in the most scenic part of town. But there’s always a bit of romance in the air with cruise ships in the neighborhood.

NEW YORK – This is a West Side story, a chance for a 24- hour romance with Manhattan. Yes, I have been here many times – and the Port of New York’s cruise terminal at 55th Street and the Hudson River isn’t in the most scenic part of town. But there’s always a bit of romance in the air with cruise ships in the neighborhood.

Hola. The cruise ship Veendam is now touring the Mediterranean. Our first port-of-call brought the need for sunglasses and then an umbrella. The ‘rain in Spain does not always stay on the plain.’

UM ocean labs get long-term berth on cruise ship, but trips are no vacations As Royal Caribbean International’s Explorer of the Seas prepares to sail from the Port of Miami, passengers start to navigate what will be their home for the next week.

People in the cruise industry are talking about the marketing fiasco that Carnival Cruises, owner of Costa Cruises, has suffered in its attempt to operate vacations at sea for the people of China.