
Technical Specifications
Overview
National Geographic Quest is a coastal expedition cruise ship operated by Lindblad Expeditions. She is the lead vessel of the Quest class and was followed by her sister ship, National Geographic Venture (2018). National Geographic Quest was the first new-build vessel ordered by Lindblad and was constructed in the United States by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders at their Freeland, Washington, shipyard on Whidbey Island.
Compliance
On 05 May 2022, the passenger vessel "NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC QUEST" reported its port propeller as being fouled by a fishing net while anchored in Trincomali Channel, BC. The vessel resumed its scheduled departure for Nanaimo, BC, by using its starboard engine.
Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.
Composite Risk
No strong adverse signal on the components we could read for this hull.
A coverage-weighted blend of the single component we could read for this hull; the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. This headline is flagged low-confidence (a thin or structural-only read) and should not be treated as a verdict. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.
Commercial
Price it in the Route Planner between any two commercial ports: ballast and laden legs, two fuels at live bunker prices, port and canal costs, the weather on the way, and the TCE set against the market.

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