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  Here’s some raw footage from a Russian news source showing the early parts of the fire. Notice the passengers still onboard and how quickly turing the vessel so that the the smoke blows away. Pretty scary stuff.

  Shes listing due to the amount of water sprayed into her. Making her unstable. from Svein Ove Ekornesvag

  UPDATE:NRK has more photos. I say explosion in quotes since that’s what is being reported, but I highly doubt that’s what happened. A fire in the engine room killed two crew members and sent nine other crew to the hospital on board the Norwegian Coastal (Hurtigruten) ship Nordlys. The 207 passengers o/b were evacuated [...]

Remember the ship Carnival Splendor. I know you do. In fact the whole world knows of it. It even made it to South Park. The ship is STILL laid up in California after the engine room fire, crippled the ship off of Baja. Well, it just got kicked out of/ sailed from San Francisco. Initially, [...]

Just a month after the Carnival Splendor was incapacitated by an engine room fire, another one has struck an MSC ship. The MSC Musica was scheduled to leave Rio de Janeiro, Brazil yesterday when an engine room fire crippled the ships air conditioning and water purification system. Local Brazilian papers report the following: A principle [...]

Martin Cox over at Maritime Matters, announced that the damage was worse than originally thought to the ship that caught fire off of Baja Mexico. The Carnival Splendor will now be ready by February 20th, 2011. She will be moved soon from San Diego to San Francisco, where she will be dry-docked. Gerry Cahill, Carnival’s [...]

From Carnival Corp [Carnival Cruise Line’s Parent company]: Carnival Corporation estimates that the total impact from voyage disruptions and related repair costs will result in an approximate $0.07 reduction in the company’s 2010 fourth quarter earnings per share. The impact of voyage disruptions in the first quarter of 2011 is not expected to be material [...]

I promised no more Splendor drama, but this is BIG news. The ship will be laid up until the next year, while they investigate, repair, and then inspect the damage done below the waterline. The original plan called for her to miss the cruise she would be on now, but be repaired in time for [...]

I promise this will be the last post about the Splendor fire. Some reactions from various passengers and so called experts were too funny to pass up. Take this one for instance: Carnival Cruise Lines Insider is more than likely a laid off crewmember from the hotel department. He claims to know what actually happened [...]