A luxury cruise liner bigger than the Titanic is set to embark on an epic voyage this summer. In anticipation, the US and Canadian coast guards will conduct exercises so they are ready should tragedy befall the trip, although NASA has reported record low Arctic sea ice. The extravagant cruise ship, Crystal Serenity, will set sail next August on its maiden voyage, departing from Alaska then traveling through the Bering Strait and Northwest Passage before arriving in New York 32 days later. US and Canada coast guard officials will carry out drills next month for mock mass rescue missions just in case Crystal Serenity’s 1,070 passengers and 655 crew members run into trouble. The joint exercise will take Crystal operators and rescue officials through the scenario of rescuing hundreds of passengers along the 1,000 miles from the nearest coast guard base, officials said. “We all have to be very proactive in trying to game out what we do in an emergency situation,” Lieutenant Commander Jason Boyle, the coast guard’s prevention office for the Alaska region told The Guardian.