Carnival Cruise Ship Catches Fire

Passengers were flown home from the island cutting their seven-day cruise short.

Carnival cruise ship catches fire. A year earlier a second Carnival ship the Celebration was left adrift for two days after a fire in the. A Carnival cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4200 passengers and crew will be towed to port after a weekend engine fire the cruise line said. Feel free to discuss this topic and all things cruise.

The fire started in one of the lifeboats on the starboard side of the cruise ship and all damage to the Cruise Ship Catches on Fire While Docked in Greece Video. CNNs Erin McPike reports. The 3299 passengers and 1167 crew members were not hurt and the fire was put out but the 952-foot ship had no air conditioning hot water or telephone service.

Cruise Ship Catches Fire Off Florida. Contributing to the extensive fire damage on the ship was the lack of an automatic fire. A Carnival cruise ship engine caught fire Monday during a Caribbean voyage.

A Royal Caribbean cruise ship bound for the Bahamas catches fire. For firefighting teams to respond to the engine room 5 vertical. Additionally in 2013 three Carnival cruise ships were ported after engine room fire problems.

Its CEO Arnold Donalds job to navigate uncharted waters for the cruise giant which operates nine brands that span the globe. Another Cruise Ship Catches Fire and Carnival Sees the Light on Backup Power eMail 1539 4 Tweet Share This weeks news of yet another cruise ship fire with images of a blackened ship sitting in port prompted me to revisit my post of a few months ago about a similar incident that it turns out wasnt all that similar. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of fire aboard the Ecstasy was the unauthorized welding by crewmembers in the main laundry that ignited a large accumulation of lint in the ventilation system and the failure of Carnival Cruise Lines to maintain the laundry exhaust ducts in a fire-safe condition.

For more information please read the story at Cruise Law News. A large ferry boat with 200 people onboard caught fire on Saturday May 29 while sailing to a remote island in northeastern Indonesia. The Carnival Triumph fire is just the latest in a string of serious incidents involving cruise ships most notably the Costa Concordia capsizing.