The Navy hospital ship being sent to help coronavirus-stricken Los Angeles traveled just nine miles from San Diego in 24 hours – and spent most of Tuesday anchored off Imperial Beach, California, DailyMail.com can disclose. USNS Mercy, a converted oil tanker that has space to treat up to 1,000 patients, left its home port at … Read more
Desperate British pensioners trapped aboard a cruise ship in northern Italy have pleaded for the Government to send in the Royal Navy to rescue them. Speaking exclusively to MailOnline via video call, three of the 214 British citizens on the Costa Pacifica – which moored last night at Genoa, near the epicentre of the outbreak … Read more
Hundreds of desperate British pensioners have mutinied aboard a cruise ship headed for the epicentre of the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy, MailOnline can reveal. The Costa Pacifica ship, which left Argentina on 3rd March with up to 3,780 passengers aboard, docked in Marseille last night. There were 36 people on board infected with the virus. But there … Read more
Turning sailing into an art form: On board Saga’s Spirit of Discovery ship, which boasts a £1million art collection Saga’s new Spirit of Discovery cruise ship has an incredible 1,200 commissioned pieces of art on board The ship’s onboard library has 3,500 books, as well as comfortable chairs with soft blankets for reading It also has … Read more
More than 600 British passengers – many of them elderly – were tonight stranded on a cruise ship in the Caribbean after it was blocked from a string of ports after a coronavirus outbreak onboard. Five people on the Braemar, operated by British cruise firm Fred Olsen, have already tested positive for Covid-19 and passengers … Read more
President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that four major cruise ship companies have agreed to suspend trips from the U.S. for 30 days, effective at midnight. Trump said that Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian and MSC Cruises all agreed to the suspensions. He said the cruise line industry is a ‘great and important industry – it … Read more
Margaret Bartlett, 77, is one 142 UK holidaymakers left in limbo on the Grand Princess off the Californian coast, where 21 passengers have tested positive for the virus A grandmother has complained of going ‘stir crazy’ on board a coronavirus-hit cruise ship in the US where passengers are having to fight over ‘rotten food’. Margaret … Read more
A Florida couple who were passengers on the Grand Princess ocean liner linked to the coronavirus outbreak have sued the ship’s owner for more than $1million for putting the couple’s health at risk, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday. Ronald and Eva Weissberger of Broward County, Florida sued Princess Cruise Lines Ltd, a unit … Read more
Colour-changing crabs are becoming too stressed by human-created noise to use their camouflage skills to hide from danger, a new study claims. UK scientists observed the behaviour of shore crabs, which can slowly change their shell cover to blend in with rocky shores and hide from predators. But prolonged exposure to the sounds of ships … Read more
By Natalie Rahhal, Acting US Health Editor for DailyMail.com HOW DANGEROUS IS CORONAVIRUS? About 14 percent of people who contract the Covid-19 coronavirus are taken to hospital – with severe symptoms including breathing problems and pneumonia. About 5 per cent need intensive care. But the majority who get the virus suffer nothing more than … Read more