1998 Cruise Ship Fire

Credit providerREUTERS In mid-February an engine room fire onboard the Carnival Cruises ship Triumph left.

1998 cruise ship fire. The Carnival Ecstasy after a 1998 fire. The incident left one person dead and 14 others injured. On 21 August 1998 cruise ship Edinburgh Castle was west of Cape Carvoeir Portugal.

July 20 1998 A cruise ship fire on the Carnival Ecstasy left 60 people injured. An engine fire broke out today on the Scandinavian Star leaving the cruise ship adrift for hours in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 700 people aboard the authorities said. Carnivals passengers and crew members were extremely lucky in that incident.

The MSC has agreed that future large passenger ships should be designed for improved survivability based on the time-honoured principle that a ship is its own best lifeboat. Ecstasy was leaving the Port of Miami bound for Key West Fla July 20 1998 when dense smoke began billowing from its stern PM 35. A fire started in the main laundry room and spread through the ventilation system to the aft mooring deck where mooring lines ignited.

We dont have any details of how the fire has st. A report from the Los Angeles Times stated Five crewmen died of smoke and chemical fumes in a fire off the coast of Alaska About 70 of the 732 people aboard were injured In the article entitled Fire Kills 5 Injures 76 on Alaska Cruise it stated that the fire occurred at 311 am. A Cruise Ship is ON FIRE.

Edinburgh Castle - fire in main galley of vessel on 21 August 1998. The fire injured 23 people knocked out both propulsion units disabled one rudder and damaged the systems control to the other. A welders spark in a laundry room raced through an air duct and caused an explosive-type fire aboard the giant cruise ship Ecstasy the president of Carnival Corp.

A fire broke out on the car deck of the Norman Atlantic while the ferry was traveling from the Greek port of Patras to Ancona in Italy. In mid-February an engine room fire onboard the Carnival Cruises ship Triumph left more than 4000 passengers stranded in the Gulf of Mexico with. Every passenger is a potential ignition source and the hotel services have an inherent risk.