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Carnival Dream lost power and some toilets stopped working Wednesday, and no one was allowed to get off the vessel docked at Philipsburg, St. Maarten, in the eastern Caribbean. Carnival says it is flying the more than 4,000 passengers back to Florida and will give them discounts.
And in the most publicized case, last month, an engine room fire left the Carnival Triumph crippled and adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4,200 people aboard. That scheduled four-day cruise stretched into eight days as tugs pulled the vessel into port in Alabama. Food was scarce and passengers sweltered in the heat with no air conditioning.
Carnival Legend is experiencing a technical issue with one of the ship s Azipod units that is affecting the vessel s sailing speed, the cruise company said. The ship s safety systems and hotel services are all functioning normally.
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On Tuesday, Carnival announced it was conducting a comprehensive review of all of its 23 ships after a fire last month that crippled one of its ships in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving passengers stranded for days while the vessel was towed back to land. Carnival President and CEO Gerry Cahill said the probe will focus on the prevention, detection and suppression of fires, engine room redundancies, and what additional hotel facilities might be provided and might run off the emergency generators.
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The Coast Guard has responded to a string of 90 marine casualty incidents with passengers onboard Carnival ships in the last five years, the West Virginia Democrat wrote. It seems that Carnival has failed to take any meaningful course of corrective action after these continual incidents. This needs to change.