Meet the Cruise Crew: What It’s Like to Run a Tattoo Parlor at Sea
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Meet the Cruise Crew: What It’s Like to Run a Tattoo Parlor at Sea

April 1, 2025
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This is the fourth installment of our new bimonthly column Crews on Cruise, spotlighting the people who work behind the scenes of the world’s most memorable voyages—from bartenders and entertainers to ship captains and expedition leaders. Tattooing is an age-old seafaring tradition, but if any modern-day cruise line can pull

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This New Eco-Cruise Through the Galápagos Takes Passengers On a Safari at Sea
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This New Eco-Cruise Through the Galápagos Takes Passengers On a Safari at Sea

March 16, 2025
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I could imagine how perplexed Darwin must’ve been, because these islands birthed some real freaks of nature: On our climb we passed boobies with bright red or electric blue feet. On Española Island I nearly trampled a tangle of marine iguanas, which have scabby red and green skin, like oversized

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Kristen Kish on Swimming Like a Seal in Svalbard, Norway’s Frigid Sea
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Kristen Kish on Swimming Like a Seal in Svalbard, Norway’s Frigid Sea

March 12, 2025
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While filming my National Geographic show, Restaurants at the End of the World, in 2022, we visited Isfjord Radio Adventure Hotel in Svalbard, Norway, where chef Rogier Jansen and I went diving for sea urchins in the Arctic Ocean. Two grown-ass men had to help me into this tight, seven-millimeter-thick

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