Photographs: Ensign Chris Shivock/US Coast Guard/Reuters.
From the Costa Concordia disaster to the stranded Carnival Triumph, a look at recent problems plaguing the cruise ship industry.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: /Lt. Cmdr. Paul McConnell/US Coast Guard/Reuters.
The cruise ship lost propulsion after an engine room fire on February 10 and was adrift off southern Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
A small boat from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous patrols near the cruise ship Carnival Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: Tony Gentile/Reuters.
The Costa Concordia cruise ship which ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island lies on its side, half-submerged and threatening to slide into deeper waters.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: Guardia Costiera/Handout/Reuters.
The Costa Concordia capsized off the coast of Italy, killing 32 people.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters.
A fisherman's boat sails near the stricken luxury cruise ship Azamara Quest docked at the port in Malaysia's town of Sandakan on Borneo island during sunrise.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters.
The Azamara Quest suffered an engine room fire that disabled the engines and left the ship temporarily stranded off the southern Philippines coast in waters prowled by pirates.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: Handout/Indian Navy/Reuters.
The Costa Allegra cruise ship is pictured in this photo taken by an Indian Navy maritime surveillance aircraft following their distress call in the Indian Ocean.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters.
An engine room fire on the Costa Allegra knocked out the ship's main power supply in the Indian Ocean, leaving it adrift with more than a thousand people on board in waters vulnerable to pirate attacks.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: Mike Blake/Reuters.
The Carnival Cruise Lines cruise ship C/V Splendor is towed into San Diego harbour.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: Mike Blake/Reuters.
The luxury liner and its 3,300 vacationers had been left stranded off the Mexican coast by an engine-room fire.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: Lisi Niesner/Reuters.
Seagulls fly above the ship, the Bellriva, in Wiesbaden.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: Lisi Niesner/Reuters.
The Bellriva was quarantined after at least 30 passengers were found to be suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting. Authorities believed it was caused by the Norovirus, a virus that is spread from person-to-person and causes flu-like symptoms.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: Daniel Joubert/Reuters.
Firefighters and ambulances are seen at the bow of the Queen Mary 2 in Saint-Nazaire, western France.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: Reuters.
Twelve visitors died and 32 were injured when a dockside gangway to the world's biggest and most expensive cruise ship, the Queen Mary 2, collapsed.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: Anton Meres/Reuters.
Passengers on the British cruiser Aurora wave a banner demanding help in Gibraltar.
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What ails the cruise ship industry
Photographs: Lee Besford/Reuters.
The ship returned to Britain from a trip marred by a diplomatic storm after hundreds of passengers fell ill with a stomach infection.
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