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Photos being shown on various news stations show damage to her starboard stern superstructure.
Some preliminary info can be found here.
Rich
[ 04-03-2013: Message edited by: joe at travelpage ]
1 worker is still missing too.
They mention moving her to the cruise terminal. Would she have been tied off any better there? Seems like it shouldn't make a difference and that would be harder to conduct repairs (not to mention pricier).
quote:Originally posted by FuzzyFish:1 worker is still missing too.
quote:The Coast Guard is searching the Mobile River for a shipyard worker who went missing around the time the Carnival Triumph broke free, but the Press-Register is reporting the situation is not directly related to the Carnival Triumph incident. The Press-Register says the missing worker was in a guard shack at the shipyard that was blown into the water during the high winds.
90 incidents
Seafarers help seafarers... the way it should be.
Pam
It damaged her stern superstructure and was repaired quickly
Now to those who are questioning how often Carnival helped others.
I would recon that this is would be rare if it actually would happen. On one of the bridge tours on a different cruise line the captain spoke of the Carnival fleet as the white whales. This is a term applied by captains and across different cruise lines cruising the Caribbean regularly.He said further that when a Carnival ship approaches that other ships have to alter their course because Carnival would not do that and Captains on Carnival have to first get approval from Miami for any course correction. He also commented that this is no problem for ships who regularly cruise in the Caribbean as everybody is aware of Carnival ships and their policies. It causes sometimes problems with ships and Captain's coming from outside into the Caribbean Sea and are not aware that common maritime laws 'do not apply' to the fleet of white whales.
In light of such info I highly doubt that Carnival actually would be enough of a participant to other cruise lines incidents to make up for those 90 incidents.
To the credit of the Captain who volunteered that information: He was not very forth coming with that info as he did not want to 'talk bad about other cruise lines' (his quote). But a couple of us pushed that question. A couple of people who heard that bit on another cruise line wanted to actually confirm it. The question asked was: what happens if you 'meet' a Carnival Cruise ship at sea. The question was asked several times until the Captain 'spilled the beans'. Both people confirmed afterwards that the answer was almost exactly what they heard on the other bridge tour on the different cruise lines.
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