| dd/mm/yy |
2010 |
Incident |
| 28.1.10 | SKN Vibes reports the ship collided with the pier at Port Zante (St. Kitts) around 11:00 a.m. Upon arriving on the scene, there was no permitted entry into the arrival hall, but the cruise ship had a visible blackened dent on the right side. It was confirmed that both the cruise ship and the port facility were damaged during this morning’s berthing. “According to information received, while the ship was berthing a gust of wind thrust the ship to hit one of the dolphins and it subsequently hit a one of the fenders on the pier. The dolphin and fender were damaged and the ship also sustained damages.” The ship will remain in St. Kitts overnight for repairs and depart for Fort Lauderdale tomorrow morning. It will arrive Sunday in Fort Lauderdale four hours later than usual, arriving at noon. | Collision with
pier |
| dd/mm/yy |
2008 |
Incident |
| 23.12.08 | From a passenger: I just returned from an 8-day cruise to the Western Caribbean (Dec. 15 to 23). We found out the morning of the cruise that due to "mechanical difficulties", Panama and Costa Rica were off the itinerary, replaced with Costa Maya, Cozumel and Roatan (Belize remained from the original itinerary, but on a different date). Two days into the cruise, I personally met with the Captain and two of his senior officers. Also attending the meeting was a guy who had collected 250 email addresses from disgruntled passengers. The meeting lasted for about 1 1/2 hours. The Captain told us that two days prior to returning to Ft. Lauderdale (our cruise left there on Dec. 15), they had problems with the thrust bearing on one of the two main azipods, which limited their top speed to 18 knots. This is the same problem which apparently affected the Carnival Legend when it was doing the Panama run (the Miracle took over this itinerary after the Legend was no longer able to do it). Due to the limited top speed, the ship simply would not be able to get to Panama in time. Both ships are expected to have the problem repaired when they go into dry dock in a couple of months (late February). The new itinerary was over 1600NM shorter than the originally scheduled cruise, but no refund of the fuel surcharge was offered. A second incident occurred on Monday afternoon, December 22. We were informed over the PA that a passenger was gravely ill, and so the ship was going to return early to Fort Lauderdale - ETA midnight instead of 7:00 the next morning. To our amazement, our "damaged" ship made 21 knots NO PROBLEM all the way back to Fort Lauderdale. | Itinerary change -- Mechanical problems |
| 14.11.08 |
The ship's cruises scheduled for February 25, March 5, and
March 13 have been cancelled because the ship will enter drydock.
Repairs are reportedly releated to propulsion problems reported during
the summer (see July 7 below). |
Cancelation for dry dock |
| 3.10.08 |
Cruising
Talk reports that it appears there is a confrontational problem
aboard Carnival Miracle. Due to the storms in the Caribbean, the ship
has had her itinerary changed 4 times. The latest change will be a call
to Newport Rhode Island on Friday this week. There are a few very vocal
passengers who have apparently almost taken the reception area by siege
demanding full refunds etc for ruined cruises. This behaviour has not
gone down well with other passengers or the crew. The most vocal of the
passengers have allegedly reduced their auto-gratuities to zero. Time
will tell if this turns into another QM2 type mutiny. The ship departed
from New York City on a cruise of the Eastern Caribbean. |
?Passenger mutiny? |
| 7.7.08 |
It has been reported that the ship is running slower than
normal due to propulsion problems. Tortola has been dropped as a port
of call and replaced with Grand Turk. The itinerary change will
reportedly remain in place until the end of the year at least. |
Propulsion problems |
| dd/mm/yy |
2007 and earlier |
Incident |
| 4.3.07 |
From a passenger on the 7
day sailing (25 Feb - 4 Mar): We
had a wonderful cruise for the first four days, but the night of
Wednesday Feb. 28th brought gale force winds and high seas as we passed
Costa Maya on our way to Belize. On Thursday the winds diminished
enough to allow passengers to partake in excursions, but the Turneffe
Atoll snorkel I was scheduled for had to be redirected to a more
protected location because of the rough seas. The next morning
the ship was unable to dock at Costa Maya due to rough seas -- I later
learned that the same thing had happened the week before.. As the
ship made its way back to the US along the Mexican coastline and passed
outside of Cozumel the winds and seas began to diminish. |
Missed port |
| 25/26.12.04 |
From a passenger: We pitched over violently to one side,
shattering 10's of thousands of dollars in kitchen ware, booze,
etc. Tossed stuff all over the cabins. Had tugboats pull us
to a temporary dock since we were coming back into Tampa and couldn't
hold our own against the winds. From what I heard, we drifted
onto sand and that caused us to pitch to one side. Didn't see
anything in the news about it. |
Weather |
| 4.8.04 |
The Baltimore Sun carried a story that Carnival had been forced to bump passengers on cruises leaving from Baltimore because the cruises were overbooked. Hundreds of passengers have had their cruise cancelled. See story in Baltimore Sun (August 4, 2004) | Overbooking |
| 31.7.04 |
At
4 AM, just hours before docking in NYC, an announcement came over the
public address system saying, "This is the Captain speaking. All
crew members abandon ship." This was followed a few minutes later
by a message from a female saying all was well and the previous message
was a mistake. The Captain followed a bit later apologizing with
the explanation that teenagers had gotten hold of the public address
system. |
Hoax |
| 5.6.04 |
It
was announced that the August
28, 2004 sailing would be cancelled for maintenance on the seal on the
slewing bearing, a component of the steering drive in the podded
propulsion
unit. Carnival says it has made a temporary fix that will suffice
for now. |
Cancelation |