Carnival cruise ship tilts amid rough climate, scattering dishes, flooding elevator | Latest Travel News
Rough climate hit a Carnival Cruise Line ship during a Mexican Riviera cruise, inflicting the ship to tilt.
Matt Lupoli, a spokesperson for the cruise line, told USA TODAY that the ship “encountered wind and rain that led to a listing” – or leaning to one aspect – on Aug. 20. Passenger video footage from the Carnival Panorama seems to show damaged dishes in the eating room, objects strewn on the ground in an onboard store and water spilling from an elevator, amid lightning strikes exterior.
The ship was crusing an eight-day cruise from Los Angeles to Mexico at the time, according to CruiseMapper.
“The incident was over quickly and as the captain maneuvered to calmer seas, crew members quickly turned their attention to assisting guests and clean up,” Lupoli said in an electronic mail. “A small number of guests were checked by our medical team on board. There were no serious injuries and no significant impact to the ship’s systems and features. The ship’s itinerary was not affected and it’s now sailing its next voyage.”
Listing is prompted by a shift in weight and stability, according to Joanna Kuther, a journey agent and proprietor of Port Side Travel Consultants. “In the case of a cruise ship that does not carry cargo, it is usually weather-induced,” she told USA TODAY in an electronic mail.
While there have been other comparable incidents in latest years, including on Carnival Sunshine in 2023, Kuther said they’re “very rare” and crew members are well-trained on how to keep vessels steady during storms.
“While with all of the weather forecasting available, ships will do all they can to avoid bad weather (but) sometimes it is simply unavoidable,” she said. “The ships are prepared from the way they are built and engineered to be able to handle these types of situations.”
Contributing: Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY
Nathan Diller is a client journey reporter for USA TODAY based in Nashville. You can attain him at ndiller@usatoday.com.
This article initially appeared on USA TODAY: Rough climate causes Carnival cruise ship to tilt
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