...The 3000 passenger 22-knot floating hotel "Crown Princess" was 11 miles south of Port Canaveral, heading out on a Western Caribbean cruise ...
It had completed the Western Caribbean cruise and was heading to Brooklyn.
...the ship was launched in 2003...
It was launched in 2006.
These ships have thew equivalent of airplane "black boxes"...every movement, every control input to the engines and systems is recorded, as well as who did what...this will be easy to backtrack and confirm/deny..
>>...the ship was launched in 2003...
>It was launched in 2006.
Actually no. Stories about it being launched in 2006 are wrong. It was launched (made to float) in 2003, fitted out, then christened (by Martha Stewart!) in 2006.
In the cruise business, launching to revenue runs is a few years.