Cruise Emergencies, New York Sailings, and Smarter Sea Days

Carnival Firenze reshuffled the back half of a four-night Long Beach sailing after a critically ill guest was evacuated near the Long Beach Sea Buoy on August 25, with Long Beach Fire Department Marine Safety crews taking the patient ashore for hospital treatment; the ship's Catalina Island and Ensenada calls each moved back a day and it still returned to Long Beach on schedule August 28. Norwegian Escape opened its fall season from Manhattan on August 19, sailing 10-night Eastern Caribbean itineraries, seven-night Canada and New England runs, and a 16-night transatlantic crossing that ends in Barcelona. And Seabourn named the writers and editors from The Atlantic joining two 2026 Seabourn Ovation voyages under its Seabourn Conversations program, including Megan Garber and Yvonne Rolzhausen on the October 31 to November 13 Atlantic Coast sailing, and David Frum and Evan Smith on the Southern Caribbean Gems voyage from November 20 to 28.