Luxury Liner Stops in Unalaska Before Inaugural Northwest Passage Voyage


Tuesday, August 14 2012
Even though it may look like one, The World is emphatically not a cruise ship.
“They call it a residence at sea,” says crew member Michael Moore. “Yeah. That’s the lingo.”
Moore is what’s called an expedition member, a person who comes aboard and helps facilitate some of the The World’s more extreme excursions. He and the rest of the gang aboard The World were in Unalaska for two days for a quick stop.
The World is the third and final luxury liner to make an appearance in Unalaska this summer. Moore says that the vessel is different from ordinary cruise ships in that the people aboard aren’t just there for a two-week vacation. They own apartments on the ship, and they operate more like a floating condominium than anything else. Except instead of discussing matters like pet policy and garbage disposal at their cooperative board meetings, they’re planning big adventures across the globe.
“They get together and have a planning meeting and decide where the ship’s going to go in the next year,” says Moore. “When it goes into expedition mode, then we get called on to sort of up the experience.”
Recently, The World has made stops in the Seychelles, Antarctica, and Madagascar. Now, it’s bound for the Northwest Passage, where at 644-feet long, they’ll be the largest vessel to make the voyage.
Radar-n-Gus on Wednesday, August 15 2012:
awsum - can I go too?!