With the Veendam now finished for the season, two cruise ships remain on this week's schedule.

The Explorer of the Seas, which docked at King's Wharf in Dockyard on Monday, sailed yesterday at 5 p.m. With 3,313 passengers and a crew of 1,184, the Explorer is the largest cruise ship currently calling on Bermuda.

On Friday, luxury "condo cruise ship" The World will call at Hamilton.

Operated by ResidenSea and owned by its residents, The World will head from Hamilton to Penno's Wharf in St. George's at 3 p.m. on Sunday.

The ship leaves Bermuda next Monday.

In freight news, Meyer Shipping's Oleander arrived last Sunday (voyage 1572) with 113 dry containers and 52 refrigerated containers, plus seven vehicles and one road trailer. It sailed from Bermuda yesterday at 1 p.m.

Meanwhile, Somers Isles Shipping Limited's Somers Isles (voyage 866) arrived at 8.15 this morning at No. 8 dock in Hamilton, from Fernandina Beach, Florida.

She discharged 135 containers including four refrigerated containers, and will return to Fernandina Beach on Friday.

Bermuda International Shipping Limited's M/V Bermuda Islander (voyage 1134) will arrive from Salem, New Jersey at 8.15 on Thursday morning.

Docking at No. 8 in Hamilton, the ship will unload 124 containers, including one tank, two flatracks and three horses.

The Bermuda Islander is scheduled to return to Salem at 8.05 on Friday morning.

The cable ship Peter Faber, coming to offload fibre-optic cable at the cable depot in Dockyard, will arrive Friday afternoon and leave Bermuda on Sunday morning.

And the 200-metre car carrier CSCC Asia, coming out of Santa Domingo in the Dominican Republic, will arrive on Saturday morning at No. 7 and 8 docks in Hamilton.

After unloading a cargo of 59 cars and trucks, Asia will leave the Island at noon and head to the Bahamas.

A boat sank off Bailey's Bay, Hamilton Parish on Sunday. A distress call was received at 2.55 p.m. by Maritime Operations.

Two men managed to swim ashore, reportedly unharmed.

A spokesman from Maritime Operations was unable to provide further details but described it as "potentially quite a serious accident."