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Princess Cruises gives The Voice a floating stage

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The Voice UK Judges.

Princess Cruises is preparing to take TV singing competition The Voice to sea.

The Voice of the Ocean sailings will start in October with Regal Princess, followed by Royal Princess and Caribbean Princess in November, before further sailings next year.

There cruises will host karaoke sessions for over-16s and opportunities to audition before fellow guests and cruise staff, who decide which hopefuls go further.

Selected singers will be assigned a mentor before a live show on the last night of the cruise. Coaches will pick team members before the audience votes for a winner.

Adrian Fischer, entertainment vice-president at Princess Cruises, said: “Guests will perform on a high-tech set almost identical to the hit show, including rotating red chairs and a live Princess band with backup singers.

“We’re excited to foster undiscovered talent.”

The initiative is part of Princess’s ‘come back new’ tagline.

Incredible Aerial Photos Of Cruise Ships Look Like Alien Space Yachts.

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CRUISES MAY NOT BE IN FASHION, BUT JEFFREY MILSTIEN’S RICH SHOTS

MAKE US WANT TO AT LEAST WANDER THEIR DECKS.

Caribbean Princess

Cruise ships can be hard to wrap your head around. The enormous boats function as floating cities, catering to thousands of people at a time with every imaginable amenity. The ships are rarely appreciated for their design. Jeffrey Milstein‘s arial photos make us question our perception of these massive, gaudy ships.

Carnival Sensation

The bright colors and fantastical layouts complete with pools and putting greens look more like space ships or amoebas than they do photographs.

Carnival Victory

It’s no surprise that Milstein’s images look nice – he shoots with a Phase One IQ180 camera, a device that’s usually used to shoot for fashion magazines and advertisements, and costs more than $40,000.

Carnival Victory

The camera is capable of shooting in incredible detail, with photos measuring 10,328 pixels by 7,760 pixels (for reference, the highly touted iPhone 6 Plus camera shoots images that are 1,080 pixels by 1,920 pixels).

Norwegian Sky

Milstein takes his photos from a helicopter, using a heavy gyroscope to keep the image steady.

Royal Caribbean Freedom of the Seas

Using a camera like his, though, means he only gets a few chances to take a good shot. Despite being a digital device, the complexity of these cameras means they have to be operated manually.

Royal Caribbean Majesty of the Seas

Cruises may not be in fashion, but Milstien’s rich shots make us want to at least wander their decks.

His photos will be shown later this summer at Benrubi Gallery in New York, starting on July 9, and Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, starting on July 18

Oil spill puts cruises on hold

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By Jerry Limone
An oil spill near the Houston Ship Channel has affected the schedules of cruise ships that sail out of Galveston and Houston, Texas.

On Saturday, a collision between a fuel barge and a cargo ship spilled as much as 170,000 gallons of tar-like oil into waters south of Houston.

The Carnival Magic and Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas pulled into the Port of Galveston about 10 hours late Sunday evening. The ships were ordered to slowly navigate into port so they would not create a large wake that could spread the spill.

The Carnival Triumph returned to port early Monday under the same conditions.

All three ships have not departed for their next cruise from Galveston, plus the Caribbean Princess has been stranded at Houston’s Bayport Cruise Terminal since Saturday, with passengers aboard.

It is not certain when the shipping channel will reopen.