Video: Carnival Cruise Line ship hit by driving rainstorm
Crew were dispatched to stem the flow of water, and the captain had to take emergency precautions.
Carnival Occasion faced a diving rainstorm that delayed it March 30 departure from Miami.
The ship used to be planning to move away in unhurried afternoon for a 7-evening Eastern Caribbean sailing. The ship has deliberate visits to Puerto Plata, Amber Cove Dominica, San Juan, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Carnival Occasion used to be best a limited bit delayed with its deliberate departure at 4 transferring encourage to 4:15. The captain failed to designate a formal announcement of the prolong, per PostCard Shuttle Planning's Dennis Post.
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"Supervisors were on your whole decks because the rain used to be coming internal. At deck 18 they'd to block doorways with piles of towels to pause water from coming into the elevator lobby," he shared.
The ship plight off off safely but the captain did have to sound a chronic blast of the ship's horn every two minutes. (which is maritime law in port areas for the length of sessions of reduced visibility).
"At one point," Post shared, "the captain sounded five rapid blasts of the horn which indicate threat as there were crossing yachts in the channel while the ships used to be heading down.
Captain Rino Costanza in the in the meantime leads Carnival Occasion.
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(All video courtesy of Dennis Post of PostCard Shuttle Planning, Come Cruise With Me's race agent accomplice).
"Carnival Occasion has a constructing date of 2022 and a total size of 183,521 irascible so much. The ship measures 1,130 toes (344 meters) in size. Carnival Occasion is integrated in Carnival’s XL Class. At fleshy ability, the Carnival Occasion holds 8,375 passengers. That involves 6,630 cruise vacationers and 1,745 workers contributors. The Occasion total option of staterooms is 2,682," per GangWaze.com.
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