There are 12 cruise ships departing on a wide variety of cruises today, including:

• Carnival Paradise, leaving Tampa on a 4-day cruise to the western Caribbean, while Carnival Victory does the same from Miami;
• Island Princess begins a 10-night round-trip southern Caribbean cruise from Fort Lauderdale, with stops in Aruba, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and the Cayman Islands;
• Seabourn Pride will still be cruising the Mediterranean Sea for a couple more weeks – today it leaves Monte Carlo on a 10-night tour of Italy that ends in Civitavecchia.

Six months from today, April 10, 2014, you could be aboard one of 16 ships departing from 15 different ports, including an unusual 19-day cruise through the Suez Canal from Mumbai, India to Civitavecchia on Seabourn Odyssey.