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Articles of Interest

 * MV Dunedin Star.   I highly recommend this article if you have any interests in shipwrecks.
 * Disney Cruise Line
 * Wiki:Caribbean Sea

Academic Journals In Relation to MV Dunedin Star

 * Van Tonder, E. (2005). Shipwreck survivor camps: A neglected terrestrial component of maritime archaeology in South Africa. Anthropology Southern Africa, 28(1/2), 49-56. []  "I recommend this paper because it relates to the many shipwrecks that have taken place in Africa.  Especially along the skeleton coast of Namibia.  Most Importantly, it tells the stories o th many survivors.  It also highlights the trials and tribulations that they were faced with."
 * Greaves, J. (2007). Managing decline: The political economy of British shipping in the 1930s. Journal Of Transport History, 28(1), 57-130. ]  ''"  I highly recommend this paper because it covers the British mercantile marine network during world war two and after.  It also highlights faltering commercial ship performance.  This is important because the MV dunedin star has a commercial vessel that sank possibly due to U boats.  However, mot believe that it id because off environmental conditions."

Recommended

 * Talk: MV Dunedin Star  "Further reading"

Recent News With The Disney Cruise Line
In recent days the Imagineers from the Disney Cruise Line have come up with a new image for their upcoming cruise ship but not their overall goals. Their main goals have always been to keep their customers happy. However, the new ship should be built to have more appeal to its customers than its sister ships Disney Dream and Disney Magic. Because of this factor, new features have been added to Disney’s sister ships. Some new features include enchanted art, a aqua duck water rollercoaster, and new vibrant interior designs. Also, more decks will be added so that the ships can carry more passengers. However, even with these modifications the new ship will be the best yet.

Another new feature that Disney Cruise Line has been offering since 2011 is the ability for families to upgrade their trip to have a privately guided tour in both the Caribbean and Alaskan. The purpose of the new transformation is to allow the guests to have more adventure, a hands-on experience, and the luxury of convenience.

Lastly, Chiquita Brands and Fresh Express have teamed up with the Disney resorts and cruise line to prove a food and beverages for its families. Their main goal is to improve the quality of food for its guests and to teach it’s guests how to obtain a healthy lifestyle. That includes diet and exercise.


 * CruiseLineFans; CruiseLineFans: Enjoy a fairy-tale cruise on the disney fantasy. (2011). Leisure & Travel Week,, 45. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/871047671?accountid=10353


 * Adventures by disney; adventures by disney sets sail with disney cruise line to offer cruise guests unique travel tours in 2011. (2011). Leisure & Travel Business, (1944236), 16. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/821608251?accountid=10353


 * Chiquita and walt disney world resort sign multi-year agreement to offer healthy chiquita and fresh express products to disney guests. (2011). Food and Beverage Close - Up,, n/a. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/880621669?accountid=10353

Evaluating A Wikipedia Article: Wiki:Caribbean Sea Versus The Encyclopedia of Maritime History
In the past, Wikipedia has issues with confirming the creditability of their free, online, and open to the public encyclopedia. In the article Nature by Giles J., those issues are confronted by using a method that chose similar articles from the encyclopedia Britannica and from Wikipedia. After these articles were chosen, they were sent to a panel of experts for peer review. Next, the panel of experts were told o compare the articles to each other without having previous knowledge of where each article came from. Nature got back 42 usable reviews from its field of experts. In the end, there were 42 usable reviews and found that the serious errors that were found came from the general misunderstanding of the main concepts, factual errors, and/or misleading statements coming from each article. Overall, Wikipedia had far more problems with it’s creditability that the encyclopedia of Britannica. The average resulted in almost three mistakes per page for Britannica and about four mistakes per page for Wikipedia. Using similarities from the Nature Study, as a Wikipedian, I was able to gather valuable data that was useful in determining the credibility of an article on the same subject. The article was on the Caribbean Sea and was found on Wikipedia and in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History. Even though I would not be the ideal candidate for a panel of experts, I decided to make myself one for my own personal experiment in determining the creditability of Wikipedia versus The Encyclopedia of Maritime History. After comparing the two articles together I was able to conclude that Wikipedia is not as good source. I was able to determine this because I found facts that contradicted each other and most importantly I found that Wikipedia’s article was very vague and sparse of information. For example, an area where the two articles disagreed was on the origins of the name Carib. In Wikipedia it is said that the Spanish came up with the word for the indigenous people occupying the area. In the Maritime encyclopedia I found that the term “Caribbean” came from the actual group of people known as the Taino. They described the first raids with the Europeans as “Caribs” which was a native term. It later came the root for the Spanish word “Cannibal” because the Spanish had heard the word from Tainos and had labeled them as the savage man-eaters (Carib). Also, another area where the two articles disagreed was it terms of size. Wikipedia stated that the sea was 2,754,000 million square kilometers and the encyclopedia of Maritime history stated that it was 2.5 million square kilometers. Another key factor as to why The Encyclopedia of Maritime History may be more reliable is because it offered more information on it’s history, geology, ecology, and weather. For example, it revealed information the first migration of people to the area. In Wikipedia, it only spoke of what took place there after Christopher Columbus landed there in 1492. When comparing sources from each article, I found that both sites had reliable sources when it came to Wikipedia’s own guidelines for identifying reliable sources. Those sources included scholarly monographs, textbooks, academic journals, and news articles. However, one should be aware that opinion based articles are not reliable sources. Also, when it came to comparing readability, writing style, and/or organization I found that the article coming from the encyclopedia of maritime history was more organized which headings and information pertaining to that specific heading. Wikipedia tended to jump around more. However, Wikipedia was still organized and readable but not as much as the other article. Overall, like I stated earlier, I was able to a better rating to the article on the “Caribbean sea” coming from the Encyclopedia of Maritime History.

-The Encyclopedia of Maritime History []
 * References:

-Wiki:Caribbean Sea