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The Carnival Splendor, adrift for three days after an engine fire, arrived in San Diego, much to the relief of passengers who described a nightmare scenario onboard. Passengers disembarked the ...
Two marine safety alerts issued by the U.S. Coast Guard indicate that firefighting equipment failure may be one reason the Carnival Splendor ended up losing power and being stuck at sea off the ...
Carnival Splendor ' s inaugural season began on 2 July 2008 with a cruise from Genoa, Italy to Dover, England, followed by cruises to Northern European ports. On 3 November 2008 she transited to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. [10] In January 2009, Carnival Splendor moved to Long Beach, California, a journey which took 49 days.
Carnival Splendor experienced a fire in her engine room on November 8, 2010, resulting in a loss of all electrical power and stranding the vessel with almost 4,500 on board. [2] Costa Concordia sank on January 13, 2012, after running aground shortly off the coast of Tuscany, resulting in 32 fatalities (33 including the later death of a salvage ...
In November 2010 a crippled cruise ship, Carnival Splendor, was towed to the San Diego cruise ship port after drifting for four days without power or electricity following an engine room fire. [11] In May 2013, Celebrity Cruises' Solstice became the longest cruise ship to date to dock in San Diego, during a Wine Country Coastal Cruise. [10]
The Carnival Splendor cruise ship is in limbo about 150 miles south of San Diego after a fire in the engine.
On September 19, 1999, Tropicale's engine room caught fire en route from Cozumel to Tampa. While disabled in the Gulf of Mexico, the ship was struck by Tropical Storm Harvey. The Tropicale spent two days without propulsion. [68] On November 8, 2010, a fire broke out in the generator room of Carnival Splendor and the ship lost power. The ship ...
John Heald was the cruise director of the Carnival Splendor, when the ship's engine room caught fire, stranding the passengers at sea off the coast of Mexico for more than three days. [12] On his blog, he discussed the incident, which the Los Angeles Times ' s Mary Forgione called a "lurid personal account of being stranded at sea". [13]