Can Cruise Ships Sink

Cruise ships can still sink.

Can cruise ships sink. Many of the boats that sink are docked but a lot of them sink at sea from ferry boats to freighters to sailboats and yachts and yes even cruise ships occasionally sink. Cruise ships are designed to be as safe as possible but it is still possible for them to sink. That cruise ship sank off the coast of Greece in 2007.

Ok being serious in recent times no cruise ship from a major line has literally sunk like the Titanic. A Cruise ship out at Sea would not even notice a tsunami. No cruise ship sinks more than once.

But only a few of those were cruise ships. Limiting the water inflow can ultimately keep the ship from flooding and sinking. But there sure are many that have sunk unlike what some other answers here claim.

Why do ships break in half. Wind on its own cant cause a cruise ship to capsize. Cruise ships can still sink.

While it isnt something that happens often cruise ships can and do sink. The cruise ship costa concordia lies partially sunk just a few hundred yards from the rocky coast of the italian island of giglio on monday. First off its actually happened.

There was some bumbling by the crew as far as. From what I recalll from reading about the former Prinsendam that incident was the catalyst for the current SOLAS standards required of modern cruise ships. The most recent sinking I can recall was the Costa Concordia in 2012.