And it keeps happening.....

Well, it's true. Over in America, a second oil rig has suffered an 'incident'. The Houston based oil company Mariner Energy have tried to down-play the potential ecolological dangers from the incident. Although, Mariner Energy have stated that the rig was shut down  for maintenence work, according to Homeland Security, the rig was pumping at the time.

All 13 platform workers had to dive into the sea, but thankfully all but one were unhurt.

Now, after all the blame that has been heaped on BP, for the incident at Deepwater Horizon, the US has had two oil rigs blow up, damaging the enviroment in the gulf even further. Not only this most recent incident, on Vermillion 398, as it comes just weeks after the BP Deepwater Horizon well was capped off.

Louisian's Governor Bobby Jindal, is said to be 'furious' as the coast-line,which is just 80 miles from the spill, was informed that seven active wells were shut down after the fire.

Now, it may well be that the 206 million gallon oil leak from the BP oil ig, was the worst in world history, but this latest, might just be the one that adds to all the other damage that is being done.

And, of course, not only the ecological damage, but the financial long term damage that we will all suffer, as the prices continue to rise.

So far, here at cruise.co.uk, the cruise companies don't appear to have been hit all that hard by these developments, but who knows what the future brings....

So, if you want to book a cruise, give me a call on 0800 408 6143, or drop me a line at mariannej@cruise.co.uk