An American cruise line has said it "deeply regrets" the deaths of two Panamanian fishermen amid claims that one of its cruise ships failed to help their stranded boat.
CNN's Rob Marciano looks at the safety drills and incentives cruise lines hope will bring passengers back on board.
It was a Friday evening in February when Adrian Vasquez, an 18-year-old from the town of Rio Hato, Panama, accepted an invitation from two friends to accompany them on what was proposed as an overnight fishing expedition.
For close encounters of the furry, feathered, or scaly kind, there's no place on the planet quite like the Galapagos Islands.
Every year, thousands of yachts owners head to warmer waters to escape the bitter cold of winter. But it seems that for some adventurous owners and charter guests, the balmy air of the Mediterranean and Caribbean no longer hold the same allure, and they are swapping palm trees for penguins in a quest for the ultimate sailing experience -- ice cruising.
Before luxury yachting was the preserve of Russian tycoons and Silicon Valley moguls, it was only the world's wealthiest royals who built palaces on the sea.
Sipping cappuccino and taking it slow is one way to experience Italy. Test driving a growling, candy-apple-red Ferrari in the country's Motor Valley is quite another.
CNN's Anderson Cooper speaks with a former FBI agent about the recent hijacking of a yacht sailed by 4 Americans.
Phyllis Macay wrote of her travels around the world with the breathlessly joyous and staccato style of a teenager.
For years, employees at Google have suggested a project near and dear to their nerd hearts: a Google-led science fair.
Movies in 3-D. Video games in 3-D. Television in 3-D.
Lying on a beach is nice and all, but sometimes, using your downtime to make a difference is just what the doctor ordered. Budget Travel's Trip Coach responds to readers' voluntourism questions.
With its Giant Tortoises, fearless Sea Lions, colorful crabs and endless other vivid and unusual species, the Galapagos Islands maintain an almost mythical status among the world's must-see natural wonders.
Traveling around the world with children is difficult enough, but attempting it without using motorized transport is even more of a challenge.
These past six weeks, we've been thinking a lot about the ocean.
Since I began exploring the ocean as a marine scientist 50 years ago, more has been learned about the ocean than during all preceding history.
The newest cause on the radical fringe of environmentalism is opposition to geoengineering -- the large-scale manipulation of the Earth's climate, in an attempt to reverse global warming. Essential to the argument being made by the Hands off Mother Earth effort - dubbed HOME -- is the notion that planet-hacking, as I call it, might someday be done for profit.
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Jim and Carol Nelson are living the life they'd like to continue through retirement: combining travel with charitable work. Though Carol still works to maintain health insurance for the couple -- Jim retired from banking in 2003 -- the Nelsons are able to get away two to three times a year to go on missions with their church and Rotary International. Recently they assisted doctors in a poverty-stricken area in Ecuador, following that up with a vacation to the Galápagos Islands.
I'm perched in a wooden treehouse lazing on a cushy double mattress atop a white sand beach along Mexico's Riviera Maya. Overlooking the turquoise Caribbean Sea, I'm about as far away from holiday hoopla and craziness as I can get when the beach butler comes by to see if I need anything.
I'm done. I'm done with cooking and cleaning for family guests, with giving presents I'm not even sure anyone wants.
It's only October but Sandra Arthur has her extended family's Thanksgiving gathering entirely planned out. And she's not going to spend a single minute in the kitchen.
When I first visited the Galapagos Islands Marine Reserve, I expected to see an untouched paradise. While it is still beautiful to the naked eye, behind the scenes, all is not well. While there, I learned that the famous sharks of the Galapagos were under siege for their fins.
In the summer months, when the beaches get overrun with sun bathers, the super rich secure a yacht and head a little farther out to find solace on the high seas.
Patricia Pasechnick was sailing to some of the most romantic ports in Europe, but she'd left her husband home in New Jersey. Instead, she was sharing Rome, Tuscany and the French Riviera with her mother-in-law and 13-year-old daughter.
The teen was having a fit. He was hungry, and his mother had left to go to work. His father couldn't calm him down and finally gave up trying. The teen stomped around, squawking. Sound familiar?
The tortoise famously beat the hare, but now conservationists are turning to racing turtles in a bid to raise awareness and learn more about the plight of one of the planet's oldest species.
Rafael Correa, a leftist nationalist who is friendly with Venezuela's anti-U.S. president, defeated banana tycoon Alvaro Noboa in Ecuador's presidential runoff on Sunday, partial results indicated. Here is our guide to the country and the vote.
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Many adults may remember camping as a summer ritual arranged by their parents to keep them out of trouble.
Talk about a tough lineage to live up to. Craig Barrett, the laconic metallurgist who is the fourth CEO in Intel's 35-year history, follows in the footsteps of three semiconductor demigods. First w...
Less than a decade ago getting or sending mail in the Galapagos Islands meant enduring the tortoise pace of the postal service. But now a tourist sailing off the coast of Ecuador--or just about any...
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''WE ARE of the same breed. One of her ancestors was Attila the Hun and one of mine was Genghis Khan. We have found each other. We are on the same wavelength.'' So says Prince Johannes von Thurn un...
The Koch family of Wichita, Kansas, built its empire on oil and its hatred on blood. A brother-against-brother war in 1980 nearly toppled Koch Industries, a $16-billion-a-year oil services giant th...
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