A NUMBER of technical recommendations
have been made in an official report released
by the US Coast Guard into a fire onboard the
Carnival Splendor in 2010.
The fire in November that year occurred
in the aft engine room and two switchboard
rooms, leaving the vessel without power for
multiple days and adrift off the US West Coast.
Among the report’s suggestions is for
Carnival Cruise Lines to review onboard Safety
Management Systems and to eliminate risk
factors that contributed to the incident.
Splendor was on its second day of a cruise
from Long Beach, California to the Mexican
Riviera and took three days to be towed to San
Diego in an event much like what happened to
the Carnival Triumph in Feb this year.
A US$300m “enhancement program” was
announced by Carnival Cruise Lines earlier this
year (CW 18 Apr), which will see operations
and backup systems upgraded on 24 Carnival
vessels and across 101 ships from nine brands
operated globally by the Carnival Corporation.
