Carnival Cruise Ship Catches Fire

In 1998 the Carnival Ecstasy burned shortly after leaving the port of Miami.

Carnival cruise ship catches fire. A Royal Caribbean cruise ship bound for the Bahamas catches fire. Carnival Corp once a 21 billion company saw revenue plunge to zero overnight last year when the pandemic shut down the cruise industry. 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.

In January the engine room aboard the Boudicca caught fire while it was off the coast of Morocco. Carnivals Liberty cruise ship had an engine fire on Monday September 7 during a scheduled port call in St. Crew and guests aboard a Carnival cruise for a Caribbean vacation Monday were.

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. Additionally in 2013 three Carnival cruise ships were ported after engine room fire problems. 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.

Business Insider posted an article today. Passengers were flown home from the island cutting their seven-day cruise short. The Carnival Triumph fire is just the latest in a string of serious incidents involving cruise ships most notably the Costa Concordia capsizing.

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. Carnivals passengers and crew members were extremely lucky in that incident.

Thankfully nobody was injured. Cruise Ship Catches Fire Off Florida. 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.