Alaska Cruise Ship Disasters

On October 4 1980 the aurora borealis danced above the stricken cruise ship as the elderly passengers crawled out of bed and made their way to the upper deck after the captain announced that there was a fire in the engine room.

Alaska cruise ship disasters. In 2005 while 100 miles off the coast of Somalia pirates in speedboats attacked the small cruise ship. Thousands of garbage bags washed ashore on Miami Beach and tar fouled the sandy beaches of South Florida and the Bahamas while Royal Caribbean dumped waste and emptied its oily bilges from cruise ships sailing the pristine waters here in Key Biscayne to Glacier Bay in Alaska and back. The blaze began courtesy of a leaky fuel line and making things worse only four of the Triumph s six generators.

You get a lot for your money. In terms of lives lost the Princess Sophia was the worst maritime disaster in Alaska history. 170 mi southeast of Cold Bay Alaska.

When the Goya sank nearly all of the approximately 7000 passengers and crew members on. The Carnival Triumph was anything but. However between 1878 and 1915 alone 87 ships wrecked along Alaskas rugged coast.

On July 11 2017 a 68-year-old male passenger was medevaced while the ship was close to Kake Southeast Alaska. July 22 1995 Regent Star fire while in Prince William Sound Alaska resulted in two injuries. The pirates fired on it with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

Waterfront streets of Juneau Ketchikan and Skagway are now crowded with cheesy jewelry shops that have followed cruise ships from the Caribbean. The pristine white Alaskan shoreline was devastated. The tanker hit Prince William sounds bligh reef resulting in a spill of some 260000 to 750000 barrels 41000 to 119000 m 3 of crude oil.

15 January 1980 Ship Country Description Gemini United States The 198-gross register ton 936-foot 285 m crab-fishing vessel iced up capsized and sank in the Gulf of Alaska with the loss of two livesA United States Coast Guard helicopter rescued her three survivors from a life raft approximately 150 nautical miles 280 km. The Coast Guard caught Royal Caribbean with its bilges open. These are the worst cruises and cruise ships that sank and the most horrible cruise ship events8.