Carnival Cruise Ship Catches Fire

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Carnival cruise ship catches fire. CNNs Erin McPike reports. Additionally in 2013 three Carnival cruise ships were ported after engine room fire problems. In 1998 the Carnival Ecstasy burned shortly after leaving the port of Miami.

Thankfully nobody was injured. The two photos below via Reuters I have never seen before. Passengers and crew jumped into the sea clinging to floating objects as they struggled in the choppy water while the fire on the ferry sent up black clouds of smoke.

On August 27 2016 between 8-9 pm a fire broke out on causing damages to a passenger cabin balcony on Upper Deck 6. In January the engine room aboard the Boudicca caught fire while it was off the coast of Morocco. A Carnival cruise ship engine caught fire Monday during a Caribbean voyage.

For more information please read the story at Cruise Law News. The Carnival Splendor was 200 miles south of San Diego when an engine room fire cut its power early Monday according to a statement from Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines. The Carnival Triumph fire is just the latest in a string of serious incidents involving cruise ships most notably the Costa Concordia capsizing.

Carnivals Liberty cruise ship had an engine fire on Monday September 7 during a scheduled port call in St. Carnival Corp once a 21 billion company saw revenue plunge to zero overnight last year when the pandemic shut down the cruise industry. A year later the Carnival Tropicale was disabled following a fire in the engine room and the cruise ship bobbed around in the Gulf of Mexico for a couple of days.

A Photo History Of Carnival Cruise Ship Disasters There were a couple of interesting photographs of the fire which erupted aboard the Carnival Ecstasy in 1998 as the cruise ship was trying to said out of Government Cut at Miami Beach. A Royal Caribbean cruise ship bound for the Bahamas catches fire. Crew and guests aboard a Carnival cruise for a Caribbean vacation Monday were.