Alaska Cruise Ship Disasters

On July 11 2017 a 68-year-old male passenger was medevaced while the ship was close to Kake Southeast Alaska.

Alaska cruise ship disasters. 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. The Sinking of the MV Goya.

Disasters sinking grounding capsizing collision allision terrorist and pirate attacks pollution crashes and killings on land toursshore excursions mechanical fire propulsion issues power loss - often result in cruise cancellations. The Exxon Valdez was a large scale oil spill which occurred in Prince William Sound Alaska on March 24 1989. When the Goya sank nearly all of the approximately 7000 passengers and crew members on.

In terms of lives lost the Princess Sophia was the worst maritime disaster in Alaska history. You get a lot for your money. The Crown Princess and Emerald Princess.

The incident occurred during 7-day Alaska Glacier cruise itinerary July 13-20 roundtrip from homeport Seattle WA to Juneau Skagway Tracy Arm Fjord and Victoria Canada. Around 1100 hours on Monday August 4 2014 the ferry MV Pinak sunk in the Padma River about 18 miles Cruise Ship Disasters. In 2005 while 100 miles off the coast of Somalia pirates in speedboats attacked the small cruise ship.

The Coast Guard caught Royal Caribbean with its bilges open. The sinking of the MV Goya was one of the worst ship disasters of all time. 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.

By worst ship disaster we mean deadliest ship disaster and deadly it was. 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. 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.