A Downey family aboard the Costa Concordia cruise ship survived and has returned home, and its members are now recounting their horrific brush, or brushes, with death. And they are angry. more ›

Today's video lunch is a nostalgic look at the SS Catalina and SS Avalon known as the Big White Steamers -- passenger steamships that operated summer tourist service from Los Angeles to Catalina island beginning in the 1920s. The SS Avalon retired to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in 1964 when an anchor chain broke loose during a storm, while the SS Catalina, despite being listed on the National Register of Historic Places (and being named California Historical Monument #894), was sentenced to rust in an Ensenada Harbor after running aground in the 1990s and was ultimately cut into scrap metal. more ›

A woman was reported missing from a cruise ship travelling from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico to San Diego after it docked on Tuesday. The 65-year-old woman was reportedly last seen on the Celebrity Millennium Monday night but she did not show up for a customs check on Tuesday. more ›

The parents of Rebecca Coriam, a Disney cruise ship employee who vanished at sea, met investigators on Sunday in San Pedro as the Disney Wonder docked at the Port of Los Angeles. more ›

Hey, who wants to take a cruise to a country beleaguered by violence and kidnapping and risk catching one of those ship-board illnesses that often grip cruisers on a boat that caught fire in the middle of the ocean the last time it sailed? If this sounds like you, you'll be happy to know Carnival's Splendor is arriving back home in Long Beach this weekend, and is about to resume its Mexican Riviera cruise service, according to the Daily Breeze. more ›

More bad news for travelers booked on future sailings on Carnival's Splendor, as the company has announced they will have to cancel five more trips, according to ABC7. The Splendor was damaged by an engine room fire in November that left passengers and crew stranded at sea for several days without power. more ›

For the passengers stranded aboard the disabled Carnival Splendor cruise ship, the ordeal is almost over this morning, as the ship is being pulled towards the dock in San Diego. Though hundreds of passengers gathered on the decks are happily seeing some light after days without working toilets, electricity, and fresh food, docking the ship presents a unique challenge since the vessel has no propulsion, according to a live report on KTLA. more ›

The Carnival Splendor cruise ship once headed to Puerto Vallarta from Long Beach for a seven-day luxury cruise that suffered an engine fire that knocked out power and stranded guests 200 miles off the coast of San Diego is now being tugged ever-so-slowly to shore. The 4,500 passengers and crew have experienced a different kind of luxury than they signed up for: no air conditioning, no hot water, no cell service, no internet connection, no fancy buffets. Instead they've had to settle for once-not-but-now-working toilets, cold water, Spam and Pop Tarts. more ›

A cruise ship headed to Puerto Vallarta from Long Beach suffered an engine fire yesterday knocking out power, air conditioning, hot food service, toilets and telephones leaving the 952-foot luxury ship like a bath toy, dead-in-the-ocean 200 hundred miles off the coast of San Diego. more ›

Royal Caribbean's majestic Mariner of the Seas arrived in Los Angeles early last year with a huge splash. One of the cruise line's most luxurious ships, the Mariner has been embarking on Mexican Riveria jaunts from the Port of Los Angeles, at a time when such a trip is proving to be somewhat unpopular. Recently, Royal Caribbean announced that the Mariner of the Seas will be redeployed in January 2011, bringing an end to their brief tenancy here in San Pedro. more ›

Disney Cruise Line and the Port of Los Angeles announced today that in 2011, Disney's "Wonder" will be setting sail from our shore. The vessel is one of a trio of ships currently offering family-friendly cruises from Port Canaveral, Florida; no itinerary has been announced, but the Mexican Riviera is the rumored destination. Bringing another cruise ship to LA is a revenue booster for the city: "It will bring about 250,000 passengers through the Port of Los Angeles, create about 2,600 new jobs, and yield for L.A. and the state of California $7 million in state and local taxes," boasts L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Disney's "Wonder" has 875 staterooms and a crew size of 945, per their official site. It's smaller than Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas, who made the move from Florida last month and is now sailing from San Pedro. more ›

"If you build it, they will come," right? Or, in the case of Royal Caribbean's fifth of five in its Voyager Class of cruise ships, Mariner of the Seas, if you make the port accommodate it, they will come. And come they did. more ›