Carnival says that once everyone is brought on board, the ship will sail Saturday evening and arrive at Port Canaveral on Monday.Ĭarnival is giving passengers a $100 onboard credit, extending the beverage and Wi-Fi packages for those who bought them, and giving everyone a 50% future cruise credit. “In order to get you home as soon as possible, we have made arrangements to send Carnival Conquest to Grand Turk to sail back to Port Canaveral,” Carnival said.Ĭonquest is Freedom’s sister ship. On Thursday Carnival sent a letter to guests onboard the Freedom, notifying them that the ship would have to make repairs in Grand Bahama and would not return to Port Canaveral. The ship was due to return to the port on Saturday, May 28. Records show that ship departed from Port Canaveral on May 23. The company later confirmed that Freedom caught fire. One poster identified the ship as the Carnival Freedom. See video of the fire in the player below: Pictures posted to Twitter show smoke and flames coming from the right fin of the ship’s smokestack. Carnival Freedom left Port Canaveral on Monday on a five-day cruise.” Matt Lupoli, Senior Manager of Public Relations, Carnival Cruise Line All guests and crew are safe, and the ship’s guests were cleared by local authorities to go ashore. The ship was arriving at Grand Turk from Amber Cove in the Dominican Republic. “Carnival Freedom’s emergency response team quickly activated and extinguished a fire inside the ship’s funnel while the ship was in Grand Turk. The Carnival Freedom is on a five-day cruise that departed Port Canaveral, Florida on Monday, May 23. News 6 reached out to Carnival Cruise Line for comment and the following statement was released: Now Carnival is sending another cruise ship to pick up stranded passengers and bring them back to Port Canaveral, which means a delay in getting home. Crew appears to finally be getting it under control. Conquest’s planned sailing Friday has been canceled so it can arrive to Grand Turk on Saturday for a delayed return to Port Canaveral on Monday.Flames erupted from the smokestack of a Carnival cruise ship as it was docking Thursday morning in Grand Turk, according to the cruise line. The Carnival Freedom’s funnel/exhaust system is currently on fire in Grand Turk’s port. With the funnel out of commission, the cruise line is sending Carnival Conquest out of Miami so it can come to the island and return Freedom’s guests to Port Canaveral. “Carnival’s technical team completed an initial assessment of the funnel and related features, and the shoreside team completed a plan to get our guests back to Port Canaveral,” the line stated in an update. While the majority of the 2,504 guests went ashore, Carnival’s teams assessed the severe damage, images of which showed the charred and gutted remains of the of the funnel system with the exhaust pipes exposed. The crew did a great job as it appears the fire did not spread any further than where it was.” Luckily the wind was blowing away from our ship. A partial piece of the funnel fell from the top deck while smoke and ash flew in the wind. The crew quickly started to battle the fire to extinguish it. Twitter user said in a post, “Shortly after the Carnival Freedom arrived in port next to us on the Mardi Gras, smoke and flames began to shoot out of the exhaust funnel. The ship was alongside Mardi Gras, which also sails from Port Canaveral, and images and video of the incident poured in on social media. All guests and crew are safe, and all other ship, hotel, and guest services, along with safety equipment are fully functioning. Praying there are no injuries and everyone will be safe,” reads the post. ET On Thursday morning while in port at Grand Turk, Carnival Freedom’s emergency response team quickly activated and extinguished a fire inside the ship’s funnel. “Carnival Freedom caught fire in Grand Turk while docked this morning. A Carnival Cruise Line ship will be taken to Freeport in the Bahamas after sustaining a fire to its funnel on Thursday while docked in Turks and Caicos. Photos posted by Twitter user showed black smoke and orange flames billowing out of the starboard side of the red-white-and-blue funnel. All guests and crew are safe, and the ship’s guests were cleared by local authorities to go ashore.” A Carnival Cruise Line ship that sails out of Port Canaveral became a spectacle Thursday morning with its iconic smokestack funnel engulfed in flames while docked in Grand Turk.Ĭarnival Cruise Line officials said in a statement the ship’s “emergency response team quickly activated and extinguished a fire inside the ship’s funnel while the ship was in Grand Turk.
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