Carnival Cruise Ship Catches Fire

The ships automated Fire Detection Alarm and Suppression System activated closing the decks emergency fire doors immediately and activating the fire sprinkler system in the area.

Carnival cruise ship catches fire. 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. Carnivals passengers and crew members were extremely lucky in that incident. For firefighting teams to respond to the engine room 5 vertical.

The Carnival Cruise Ship Splendor caught fire today. Contributing to the extensive fire damage on the ship was the lack of an automatic fire. CNNs Erin McPike reports.

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. The two photos below via Reuters I have never seen before. Additionally in 2013 three Carnival cruise ships were ported after engine room fire problems.

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. MSC Cruises Ship Catches on Fire in Corfu Greece VIDEO Carnival Cruise Line Earns Four USA Today Awards And Carnival Cruise Line has earned four first-place honors in the annual USA. Another Cruise Ship Catches Fire and Carnival Sees the Light on Backup Power eMail 1539 4 Tweet Share This weeks news of yet another cruise ship fire with images of a blackened ship sitting in port prompted me to revisit my post of a few months ago about a similar incident that it turns out wasnt all that similar.

A Carnival cruise ship engine caught fire Monday during a Caribbean voyage. 090715 AT 445 PM. Crew and guests aboard a Carnival cruise for a Caribbean vacation Monday were.

Feel free to discuss this topic and all things cruise. The Carnival Triumph fire is just the latest in a string of serious incidents involving cruise ships most notably the Costa Concordia capsizing. 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.