Royal Caribbean ship crashes into Falmouth dock
(CNS): Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas crashed into part of the dock while arriving at Falmouth Port, Jamaica, Thursday morning, just before the Carnival Freedom caught fire at a dock in Grand Turk. On what appears to have been a bad day for the two major cruise lines, the damage to the third largest cruise ship in the world was said to be relatively minor, just dents and scrapes, after the ship collided with a concrete mooring pylon. No one was hurt and the repairs were finished later that day, enabling the ship to set sail as expected.
The Harmony of the Seas, one of Royal Caribbean’s Oasis Class ships, was on a seven-day voyage through the Western Caribbean. Starting at Port Canaveral on 22 May, the ship made two stops in the Bahamas. It spent Wednesday at sea and reached Falmouth around 7am on Thursday, where the collision occurred. It set sail for Haiti Thursday afternoon.
See video of crash on Twitter.
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Category: Business, Caribbean, Tourism, World News
These liners do tens of millions in stakeholder damage daily around the world, and get to shrug it off to shareholders as, “don’t worry, our boat is okay”.
Seem to be quite a few issues with cruise ships crashing, catching fire etc this week….all the Captais forgot how to operate these vessels having been off for a couple of years?
The bus boy was docking the ship that morning.
We were told in 2019 they couldn’t tender , yet the larger ships are now tendering ashore here in 2022 . A strange world we live in.
Yes it is. Better leadership needed.
That they wouldn’t, never that they couldn’t. All of these ships are required to have these functional entry/exits to get into lifeboats if ship is sinking. It’s not a feature they can delete.
You really think they use the tender dock arrangements at waterline to load life boats?….What little you know.
These ships are struggling. Just look at their share price on the NYSE. The cruise ships are no longer in a position of bargaining power, they will tender if they need to…
Things happen
God has spoken.
He doesn’t like cruise ships.
Beware the ides of March.
Stupid comment.
Beware the tides of May.
On a flat calm day, a 226,963gt ship ground right through Falmouth’s concrete dock extension pylon in 40 feet of water, buckling the gangways behind it. Another reason why we can’t have nice things.
These are not nice things, however I agree with the rest. ;o)
Still, much better than dropping anchor on a reef.
So let construction of the dock at one time –destroy the whole reef!
Yes. These things are garbage. Ban them.
Thursday was not a great day for cruise ships 🚢
Probably got his Pilots licenses at the Cayman DVDL
LOL… I hope this is not true.