The communities staged dances, hawked arts and crafts, and expressed hope that the Crystal Serenity reaches New York safely on Sept. Britain’s Telegraph hinted at Titanic hubris, asking, Is this “the world’s most dangerous cruise”?Īs for the Arctic villages the Serenity visited, they were, depending on whom you ask, either overwhelmed or overjoyed by the ship’s hordes of curious, wealthy strangers. Canada’s National Post described the cruise as an “invasion” of indigenous communities. For that, passengers were anointed, by Slate, “the world’s worst people”-for venturing into a vulnerable ecosystem in a diesel-burning, 69,000-ton behemoth. Rates on the Serenity started at around $22,000 per person. In 2013, the Nordic Orion was the first bulk cargo carrier to transit the Passage, hauling a load of coal. As climate change melts Arctic sea ice twice as fast as models predicted, more and larger ships have made their way along these fatal shores. Operated by Crystal Cruises, the Serenity became on that day the first passenger liner to successfully ply the Northwest Passage.
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When the Crystal Serenity emerged free and clear of the maze on Sept. 5, there were no accounts of scurvy or cannibalism, only tales of bingeing on themed buffets and grumbles from shutterbugs about the Arctic’s monotonous landscape. A few stranded sailors famously ate their boots-and each other. For centuries, explorers tried to establish a sea route here between Europe and Asia. She circled west and north around the Alaska Peninsula and through the Bering Strait before heading east into the maze of straits and sounds that constitute the Northwest Passage. 16, the Crystal Serenity set out from Seward, Alaska, carrying 1,700 passengers and crew, and escorted by a comparatively minuscule, 1,800-ton icebreaker.
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