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Problems are not over for Carnival. The Press is now reporting that the Carnival Legend is slowly returning to the Port of Tampa after having problems with its azipod propulsion system. She is returning under her own power , all emergency and hotel systems are working.
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Dave---The USAF pretty much follows the same sort of Flight Safety Review and, like the USMC, stands down as appropriate. Carnival claims to be implementing inspections but inspections and/or repairs/modifications are already too late.......the Corporate reputation has been affected.....I am sure that a fly on the wall is hearing some interesting things at Corporate Headquarters!!!
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People tend to look at recent events and forget what happened in the past. A few years ago Celebrity Cruises had propulsion problems almost monthly, and some times weekly, on all of their ships which used azipod propulsion. It went on for over a year. Dozens of cruises were affected in all.
All of the Carnival incidents are unique. If there is a common cause it lies in something as mundane as a maintenance procedure or process that is used by every ship, or in a lack of rigor in the quality assurance processes at the shipyard for the newer ships. It is easy to point fingers at Fincantieri shipyard, but then you also need to consider Fincantieri has also built many of the Holland America and Princess ships currently in service. The latter cruise lines have had few to no problems. And despite what some reports say, not all Carnival ships were built by Fincantieri. The Fantasy and Spirit classes were built in Finland by Kvaerner.
I'm sure the maintenance schedule will get revamped for sure. Cahill himself said the fuel line that caused the Triumph fire was in month 5 of the 6 months between inspections. Who wants to bet the new interval is like 3 months?
Airplanes don't fly for maintenance issues all the time, but no one reports it. The Dream could have sailed, but Carnival did the right thing by not risking sailing without the emergency generator. Now they are being barbecued tours south america in the media for it.. Its not right.
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