The US Coast Guard is monitoring two cruise ships that have been unable to dock due to Hurricane Harvey. Three cruise ships operated by Carnival Corporation carrying about 20,000 passengers are stranded in the US Gulf of Mexico waiting to dock at Galveston port. "We talk daily with the cruise ship operators as well as the city of Galveston and the Galveston Port Authority in order to try to identify opportunities to be able to get these cruise ships in," said Kevin Oditt, commander of the Coast Guard sector Houston-Galveston. The Coast Guard unit in Corpus Christi, Texas rescued 15 people from distressed vessels near Port Aransas earlier on Saturday. Originally published as Cruise ships stranded by Hurricane Harvey

Source: Daily Sun August 26, 2017 22:18 UTC