Alaska Cruise Ship Disasters

The Carnival Triumph was anything but.

Alaska cruise ship disasters. 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 pirates fired on it with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. In 2005 while 100 miles off the coast of Somalia pirates in speedboats attacked the small cruise ship.

170 mi southeast of Cold Bay Alaska. A 152-foot cruise liner the Majestic Explorer got stuck on a shoal in Frederick Sound off southeastern Alaska. The Sinking of the MV Goya.

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 pristine white Alaskan shoreline was devastated.

The sinking of the MV Goya was one of the worst ship disasters of all time. Since 1997 all new cruise ships must have all stairways enclosed in self-contained fire zones. 125 Dead Ship Sinking Deaths MV Pinak Sinks August 4 2014 Time of Death 1100.

The Exxon Valdez was a large scale oil spill which occurred in Prince William Sound Alaska on March 24 1989. 000 950. When the Goya sank nearly all of the approximately 7000 passengers and crew members on.

The sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Titanic in 1912 with over 1500 fatalities is probably the most famous shipwreck but not the biggest in terms of lives lostThe wartime sinking of the German Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945 in World War II by a Soviet Navy submarine with an estimated loss of about 9400 people remains the deadliest isolated maritime disaster ever excluding such. 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 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.