Carnival Splendor
Carnival Splendor at the Port of Vancouver
Lloyd 's Register of Shipping
IMO no. 9333163
The Carnival Splendor (German grandeur ) is a traveling Panamanian flag post-Panamax cruise ship in the American company Carnival Cruise Lines, which was put into service on 2 July 2008. It is measured with 113 323 GT and was at the time of entry into the largest ship of the company. Meanwhile, it was replaced in this respect from the ships of the "Dream " class.
The ship was in particular known by the accident off the Mexican Pacific coast in November 2010.
History
Construction and commissioning
On September 23, 2004, the Group Carnival Corporation & plc and the Italian shipyard Fincantieri signed a contract with a total of five cruise ships, which also included the construction of the Carnival Splendor. Due to the peculiarities of the " Splendor " was built at the Fincantieri shipyard in Sestri Ponente, near Genoa, Carnival Splendor, yard number 6135; the keel-laying ceremony took place on 1 June 2006. The production of the individual Bausektionen performed on various shipyards; among other things, the chimney was built in Trieste. On 3 August 2007 the building dock was flooded and the ship was transferred to the fitting-out to completion. The handover to the owner took place on the agreed date June 30, 2008 in Genoa. On 2 July 2008, Carnival Splendor left the shipyard and was transferred to Dover, where she was baptized on 10 July 2008 by the musician Myleene Klass.
Use
After the naming ceremony, Carnival Splendor ran a short cruise from Dover to Amsterdam. This was followed by a 13 -day Baltic cruise. By the fall of 2008 she was in the Mediterranean way. The transfer of the home port Port Canaveral (Fort Lauderdale ) started on 3 November 2008. In January 2009, the Carnival Splendor to Long Beach moved to carry out of there cruises to the Mexican Riviera. As the ship through the Panama Canal can not happen, had to be circumnavigated in the context of a 49 - day cruise South America. The Carnival Splendor was the first ship of the company, which undertook this journey. In 2013, the ship will finish the season in Mexico. About South America they will head towards the east, where it is used from 2013 from New York to the Caribbean.
Accident
On the way from Long Beach to Puerto Vallarta (Mexico) broke November 8, 2010 6:00 clock local time (Pacific Standard Time ) on diesel generator No. 5 in the rear of the two machinery spaces of Carnival Splendor fire out. The ship was located about 300 kilometers southwest of San Diego and 70 miles off the coast at this time. After about three hours, the fire was able to be deleted, the Carnival Splendor, however, remained under command. Parts of the power supply and the onboard facilities could be kept functioning of the emergency generators. Several ships came to the distressed vessel to help, including the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, who took over the supply of the 3,299 passengers and 1,167 crew members with food. After two days in towing the ship arrived in San Diego on November 12, 2010. Gerry Cahill, CEO of Carnival Cruise Lines, described the accident as "the worst disaster in 35 years of company history." As a cause of the fire a fraction of the crankcase was called to the drive motor of the generator from the shipping company. The first plans stipulated that the Carnival Splendor mid-January 2011 should be brought into drive again; during the repair work, however, showed that the damage was more extensive and more problems had to be resolved. On 21 December 2010 the U.S. Coast Guard issued two so-called " Marine Safety Alerts", which showed that the CO2 extinguishing system of the Carnival Splendor had failed in the engine room at the time of the fire. On 19 January 2011 the ship left on it's own the Port of San Diego to complete the repair work at the shipyard Pier 70 in San Francisco. The work in which the damaged main generator set and two auxiliary generators are replaced, lasted from 31 January to 12 February 2011. The 106 -ton main generator set, which was originally intended for the distributors at this time under construction Carnival Magic, was a transport aircraft flown in from Italy. The damage caused by compensation of passengers and loss of cruises was given as approximately U.S. $ 65 million. On 20 February 2011, the Carnival Splendor to the scheduled cruise traffic resumed.