Carnival Freedom has a brand new glance following final Saturday’s fireplace. However the brand new design might glance acquainted in the event you aren’t new to cruising.
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What took place to Carnival Freedom?
Closing Saturday, because of top winds, the send needed to spend an afternoon at sea as a substitute of visiting its personal vacation spot, Princess Cay. Whilst at sea, the send encountered a critical thunderstorm.
Footage courtesy of Heath Barnes; Carnival Cruise Line
Because the send was once crusing northbound to Freeport, Bahamas, lightning struck the vessel, igniting fireplace to the funnel’s port facet.
Together with the send’s firefighting group, the captain introduced the send into a space of heavy rain bands to lend a hand extinguish the hearth, which was once a hit.
Carnival Freedom funnel on fireplace. ({Photograph} courtesy of Heath Barnes.)
The all-clear was once given in a while after, and the send proceeded to its subsequent scheduled forestall in Freeport after which onto Port Canaveral, Florida, on Monday to debark visitors.
Freedom funnel after fireplace. ({Photograph} courtesy of Heath Barnes.)
On Sunday, Carnival Cruise Line despatched letters to booked visitors advising them that the following two cruises had been cancelled so the send’s funnel might be repaired in Freeport, axing the March 25 and March 29 voyages.
The send left Port Canaveral on Monday afternoon certain for Grand Bahama Shipyard in Freeport, arriving early Tuesday to begin paintings.
Heavy-duty equipment and shipyard employees had been atop the funnel all over the week, prepping for the smokestack redesign.
This procedure concerned keeping apart and rerouting the exhaust pipes, sooner or later eliminating the winged portion of the funnel, and recreating its 2022 glance.
Carnival Freedom Send Hearth in 2022
In Would possibly 2022, Carnival Freedom’s smokestack stuck fireplace whilst the send was once docked on the Grand Turk Cruise Heart.
The final funnel substitute was once in October 2023. (Picture courtesy of Carnival)
In October 2023, Carnival Freedom underwent a dry dock in Cadiz, Spain, to obtain a brand new funnel after the 2022 blaze.
Carnival has no longer launched how a lot of a monetary hit they took for pulling the send out of provider for 2 sailings.
The send is scheduled to go back to provider on Monday, April 1.
