From warship to luxury explorer: The Aqua Blu story

I’ve been a passenger on quite a few ships of late – cruise ships, icebreakers, former Russian research vessels and ships that have ranged in age from just a year or two to being decades old.

I’m aware that over the course of often long maritime lives, ships can be bought and sold, they can have their names changed, their purposes altered and be given various tech upgrades and internal and external refits. As a rule, I never cared much for what a ship used to be, only what it is…