Hurricane Helene Royal Caribbean, MSC to reroute cruises
Carnival has shared that it's monitoring the developing weather situation and Margaritaville at Sea may have to move MAS Islander out of its path.
While it has now no longer fully developed into a hurricane yet, Tropical Storm Helene appears set to follow a path up the Gulf Coast gaining steam because it goes. That puts reasonably a kind of cruise ships in its path and MSC and Royal Caribbean have already made route changes for some ships.
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The National Hurricane Center has been monitoring the developing storm.
"The system is moving toward the northwest near 9 mph (15 km/h). This general motion is anticipated later at this time time and tonight (Sept. 24), followed by a faster northward to north-northeastward motion on Wednesday and Thursday. On the forecast track, the guts of the system is forecast to move across the northwestern Caribbean Sea through tonight, and then over the eastern Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and Thursday," it shared.
The federal agency shared that there is a near sure bet the system will turn into a hurricane.
"Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph (Fifty five km/h) with higher gusts. Strengthening is anticipated one day of the next few days, and the system is forecast to turn into a hurricane on Wednesday and continue strengthening on Thursday because it moves across the eastern Gulf of Mexico," it added.
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MSC and Royal Caribbean change itineraries
"A developing tropical system contained within the western Caribbean is prompting cruise lines to adjust itineraries. Now MSC Cruises has already changed the route of MSC Seascape to maintain away from the storm's potential path to start with set for Jamaica, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel," shared Doug Parker on his well known Cruise News Nowadays YouTube series. "The ship will now stop in Grand Turk, Porta Plata, and Nassau with yet one more day at sea.
Carnival Cruise Lines, he added said that their fleet operations center is monitoring the ideas and "is tracking the storm and working with their captains and bridge teams for any necessary action."
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Margaritaville at Sea has now no longer commented on any changes to its MAS Islander sailings, which sails out of Tampa, but that's likely that ship could possibly be impacted by the storm.
Royal Caribbean has already changed itineraries for two of its ships Wonder of the Seas and
"Captain has just announced that we may perhaps be canceling all current stops on the Western path to head to the East route. We may perhaps be going to St. Thomas and St. Maarten," shared one Wonder of the Seas passenger to the Royal Caribbean Blog.
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Serenade of the Seas also can swap out its itinerary.
"Tons like Wonder, Serenade will swap out her original Western Caribbean itinerary for something else. At some point of this case, the ship will head to The Bahamas," the blog, which is never from now on from now on affiliated with the cruise line, reported.
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