Weekend Cruise News Brief - July 22, 2018 [BETA]

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🗓️ 22 July 2018

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Your cruise news brief for July 22, 2018. Norwegian Cruise Line is banning straws at sea, Virgin Voyages cut the steel for their second ship, two crew members fell off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, and Carnival Liberty made an unexpected stop off the coast of Florida.

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0:00.0	I'm Doug Parker and this is your Sunday morning news brief for July 22nd, 2018.
0:05.0	Norwegian Cruise Line announced they are doing away with all plastic straws across all of their ships.
0:10.0	This comes on the heels of other cruise lines also cutting back. Royal Caribbean and Carnival are also making efforts to reduce the use of plastics.
0:17.5	Virgin Voyages cut the steel for their second cruise ship on Friday that is due out in 2021. Also at the
0:23.1	steel cutting ceremony, they named their ship that's currently under construction, this Scarlet
0:27.5	Lady. At the event, the cruise line also planned against plastics at sea. You'll find no plastic
0:33.0	straws, no plastic coffee stirs, or no shopping bags on any, well, plastic shopping bags on any Virgin Voyages cruise ship.
0:41.2	Two crew members aboard Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas fell into the water off the coast of Victoria, Canada, during what looked to be a test of launching the skiff into the water.
0:51.4	The skift went over on its side of the two men were launched out of the boat.
0:54.9	Both of the men were wearing life jackets rescued from the water and are okay. And finally,
1:00.1	Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Liberty was returning back to Port Canaveral on Saturday when it had to make an
1:05.1	unexpected stop off the coast of Port Everglades. That was to offload a guest with a medical emergency. They
1:11.7	met the Coast Guard cutter out there, and then the ship continued back north up to Port Canaveral.
1:17.0	According to the shipmapper website, Carnival Liberty is due to arrive at Port Canaveral
1:21.7	early Sunday morning. Carnival Liberty was on a three-night Bahamas cruise. For more stories,
1:26.6	visit cruiserrady.net. I'm Doug Parker with Cruise Radio News.

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