Regis Philbin to Broadcast From Cruise Ship

Reeeeeg! That's right, Live with Regis and Kelly is setting sail aboard Norwegian Cruise Line's new Pride of America. From June 18-24 the ship will be sailing along the east coast of the US on an introductory cruise with the show aboard before relocating to Hawaii for its year-round 7-night Oahu-roundtrip itineraries.

Pride of America, you may recall, is the ship that sank in 2004 during its construction in a major storm at its shipyard in Bremerhaven, Germany, adding a lengthy delay to its introduction. Its hull had been one of the two Project America ships commissioned by American Classic Voyages (parent of the American Hawaii cruise line) that went bankrupt post-9/11. NCL scooped up the two hulls, creating the first two new US-flagged cruise ships in many years, the other being Pride of Aloha that is already in service in Hawaii. The US-flagging means that these ships are permitted under the Passenger Services Act to sail inter-island Hawaiian itineraries without the inconvenient and time-consuming detour to a foreign port such as Fanning Island, Kiribati required of foreign-flagged vessels.

AP via Yahoo! News: Regis Philbin to Broadcast From Cruise
Pacific Business News: Pride of America Sinks at Dock