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. 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. ![]() Crew appears to finally be getting it under control. A partial piece of the funnel fell from the top deck while smoke and ash flew in the wind. The Carnival Freedom’s funnel/exhaust system is currently on fire in Grand Turk’s port. 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. The Caribbean cruise aboard Carnival Freedom was cut short when a fire broke out in the ship’s funnel during their visit to Grand Turk on May 26, 2022. Praying there are no injuries and everyone will be safe,” reads the post. “Carnival Freedom caught fire in Grand Turk while docked this morning. 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.” Reimbursement of max US$200 per person was offered to affected passengers with independently booked non-refundable flights for airline change fees.įor more Carnival Freedom incidents and accidents see the ship's CruiseMinus page.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. Extended parking fees (at Port Canaveral) were waived. Due to the replacement, Conquest's May 27th cruise from PortMiami (3-day to Nassau) was canceled.Īs compensation, Carnival Freedom passengers with purchased WiFi and drink packages received complimentary extended packages, while all passengers received US$100 per cabin in OBC/onboard credit and 50% in FCC/future cruise credit. On May 27th, CCL also sent as a replacement ship Carnival Conquest to pick up Freedom's passengers in Grand Turk, with estimated arrival on May 28th at 4 pm. ![]() UPDATE MAY 27th: On May 27th, from Miami (where is CCL's Fleet Operations Center) to Grand Turk was flown a technical team for a damage assessment and to plan for the repairs as Freedom was booked for wetdocking at Grand Bahama Shipyard in Freeport Bahamas. Freedom is scheduled to return to homeport on Saturday, May 28th. ![]() There has been no official statement yet on what caused the blaze.ĬCL has not announced whether the current cruise, a 5-day sailing from Port Canaveral that departed on May 23, will continue or whether subsequent voyages will be affected.ĬruiseMapper's schedule and our satellite AIS show that Carnival Freedom departed from homeport Port Canaveral (Orlando, Florida) on May 23, and on May 25th visited Amber Cove Dominicana. “All guests and crew are safe, and the ship’s guests were cleared by local authorities to go ashore. In a statement, CCL said the fire had broken out in the ship’s funnel (“whale tail”) while the liner had been docked at Grand Turk (Cockburn Town, Turks and Caicos), a port the company developed specifically for use by passengers. There are no reported injuries, according to the cruise line. A fire that caused damage to the funnel on CCL-Carnival Cruise Line‘s ship Carnival Freedom on Thursday, May 26, has been extinguished. Emergency crews responded to the Carnival Freedom cruise ship docked in Grand Turk Thursday morning to extinguish a fire inside the ship's.
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