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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passengers, boarding Le Mistral II in Port Isabel, Texas, the only luggage needed is their bankroll. Le Mistral embarks on four-to-six-hour cruises into the Gulf of Mexico, where the ship eludes the Texas ban on casino gambling. When the vessel enters international waters, the crew opens the ship's gaming tables and slot machines. Since its maiden voyage in November, it has been attracting 250 to 300 customers a trip...
While Florida-based ships offer similar trips to nowhere, Le Mistral is the first in Texas. One reason is that it cruises through a loophole in state law that requires the ship to make a "bona fide voyage to a foreign port," an obligation Le Mistral fulfills by sailing to a point off Mexico and clearing customs by radio. But the Texas legislature is considering striking the foreign-port requirement, thus making such cruises more practical from Galveston and other Texas ports...
...astounded by their capacity." He is already a bit sad that this long voyage into his shining past and Broadway's iffy future is completed. "I'm like a cruise director," he says. "I organize the trip and the entertainment and the luggage. Then everybody gets on the ship, and it sails off without me. After a show opens, a chasm opens before me. My relationships with 70 people almost come to a halt. I like them a lot, and I miss them tremendously...
...replies the managing director, smug as a puffin.) To reach their rooms, guests can board a bullet-nosed monorail tram or take a boat along the canal that runs the mile-long stretch of the resort. Crispy captains in white shorts and knee socks pretend to steer, clanging the ship's bell, but the boat is actually guided by wheels running along a 19-in. groove underwater. "Disneyland changed the way people view entertainment," muses Amy Katoh, who is visiting Hawaii from Tokyo with her husband Yuichi. "And this place will change the way people think about resorts...
...calamity began on Jan. 28, when the captain of the Bahia Paraiso, a naval resupply ship that doubles as a tourist boat, sailed through waters identified on charts as having "dangerous ledges and pinnacles." The ship was shaken by a "terrible jolt," says passenger Nadia Le Bon. "I thought we hit an iceberg." Instead, the ship had struck Full Astern Reef, which ripped a 30-ft. gash through its double hull and into the engine room. With the ship listing and the smell of gasoline thick in the air, the 314 passengers and crew members were rescued unharmed by scientists...