The only thing that Carnival did “quickly” was to look after its own financial interests. The large fire did cause extensive damage to the Carnival cruise ship which will require that the ship go into the shipyard in Freeport, Bahamas. Fortunately, no one was injured or killed by Carnival’s inadequate response to the fire. At least one experienced master mariner said that Carnival failed to follow the International Safety Management (ISM) “Policies and Procedures,” with respect to the immediate “muster, accountability and evacuation” of all persons, passenger and crew, not essential to the emergency response to that stack fire. Countless videos posted on Twitter show the guests videotaping the spectacle and staying on the ship. Incredibly, although some passengers assembled on the ship and wore life jackets (which were not needed because the burning ship was docked in port), there was no order to evacuate passengers or non-essential crew members as the ship burned. Gotta love PR teams bull**** letters they sent out to prevent compensation. Those fire hoses couldn't even reach the blaze. The Quickly Extinguished is absolutely hilarious. You can clearly see the water falling 20 to 50 feet short of the funnel fire. As you can see, the crew used firehoses which were unable to stream water to reach the top of the funnel. Carnival forced the unpaid crew to travel to their far-away homes in the Philippines and Indonesia via Carnival cruise ships because the cruise giant was simply too cheap to fly them home by jets.Ĭarnival claims in a letter to the guests (text below) that the crew “quickly extinguished” the fire which occurred while the ship was dockside in Grand Turk. This slow method of transporting cruise guests is reminiscent of the way that Carnival treated its crew members during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We first reported on the fire on Thursday morning:Ĭarnival Freedom Catches On Fire in Grand Turk Despite telling its guests in a letter delivered to their cabins on the burnt ship that it intended to send them home “as soon as possible,” Carnival decided to sail the Carnival Conquest from Florida all the way to Grand Turk to transport the cruise guests back to Port Canaveral. Following the fire on the Carnival Freedom cruise ship, the burned ship was neither safe nor suitable to carry vacationing guests on a return cruise back to Florida.
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