8 February 2021
Swan Hellenic has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Nordic Cruise GSA (NCG), to provide a direct presence in Scandinavia and Iceland.
NCG founder and chief executive, Jesper Boas Smith, has over 26 years’ experience across the travel sector.
The partnership is a strategic agreement in line with Swan Hellenic’s long-term “vision and global strategic positioning and distribution model”.
Boas Smith, remarked: “We are honoured to represent Swan Hellenic Cruises in Scandinavia and the Nordic Territories.
“We look forward to being a part of the Swan Hellenic family and making sure Swan Hellenic becomes a well-known, high-end brand within expedition cruising in the Nordic Area.”
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Abbeville Native Cruising Onboard USS Nimitz
An Abbeville native, Katlon Broussard, is working hard to keep our world safe.
Quartermaster 2nd Class Katlon Broussard is serving on the USS Nimitz, the oldest aircraft carrier in the world still in use.
U.S. Navy
In the top photo, Broussard is shown maintaining the Nimitz s deck log while on the bridge of the ship (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Joseph Calabrese).
According to a press release by the US Navy, the mission of the USS Nimitz is to protect the prosperity of the United States while maintaining a high level of security of our oceans, as more than 90% of all trade travels by sea. In addition, the Nimitz protects fiber optic cables that lie on the ocean floor (those cables carry 95% of the world s internet traffic and intercontinental phone traffic).
Coast Guard locates overdue boater in Terrebonne Parish Share Updated: 1:37 PM CST Feb 8, 2021 WDSU Digital Team Share Updated: 1:37 PM CST Feb 8, 2021 WDSU Digital Team The Coast Guard has located an overdue vessel Monday near Lake Felicity.The Coast Guard received a report around 5:30 a.m. from the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff s Office that 37-year-old Percy Dardar III, from Pointe-aux-Chenes, left a local boat ramp around 3 p.m. Sunday to look for oysters, and did not return.A Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew located Dardar near Calm Lake and dropped a radio to him. His vessel had reportedly experienced an engine failure, leaving him stranded overnight in shallow water, according to the Coast Guard.A Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries boat crew was then able to reach Dardar to further assist and reported no medical concerns.
Grandfather sentenced in granddaughter s 2019 fatal cruise ship fall Share Updated: 4:51 PM EST Feb 8, 2021 Associated Press Share Updated: 4:51 PM EST Feb 8, 2021
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Show Transcript The grandfather who accidentally lost control of his toddler granddaughter on a cruise ship last year, causing her to fall more than 10 stories to her death, pleaded guilty on Thursday to negligent homicide. Ah San Juan Judge Accepted Salmon Ellos plea An NBC reports that he will be sentenced on December 10th in an ellos agreeing to the plea deal. He will avoid jail time and will be able to serve probation in his hometown of South Bend, Indiana, in October 2019. 18 month old Chloe weekend fell out of the window onto a concrete dock while in the Children s play area of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico. The family s attorney, Michael Winkelmann, said in a statement obtained by people that Canellos decision was incredibly diff