A cruise ship struck a big floating piece of ice in Alaska final week in a scene one passenger referred to as a “Titanic second.”
On Thursday, Sept. 5, the Carnival Spirit cruise ship was traversing the notoriously icy Tracy Arm Fjord when it “made contact with an errant piece of drifting ice,” a spokesperson for Carnival Cruise Line stated in an announcement to a number of retailers together with USA Today and CNN.
In a video shared to TikTok of the cruise — which departed from Seattle, Wash. on Sept. 3 — consumer Cassandra Goskie documented the second. “If we die it was damn-well price it, it is a Titanic second,” Goskie stated within the clip because the ship approached the ice, which appeared to make contact with its proper facet. “Oh gosh. We’re hitting it. Rattling.”
Fortunately, she wrote, the ice “did not do any harm that triggered us to make use of any emergency procedures.”
Carnival spokesperson Matt Lupoli instructed USA Right this moment that an evaluation then decided there was “no harm to the ship’s hull” because the ship “continued on its cruise” with “no impression to operations.” CNN studies that nobody on board the ship was damage.
The footage itself confirmed a number of passengers on the facet of the ship with their telephones out, recording the massive chunk of blue-tinged ice because the Spirit sailed proper towards it. Within the video’s caption, Goskie counseled Carnival employees on how they responded to the ice, writing, “The crew did a tremendous job at [assessing] the harm and hold all of its crew and passengers protected and knowledgeable!”
Whereas CNN studies that passenger Saurabh Singhal stated the ship was stopped “for hours to evaluate damages,” the ship reportedly returned to Seattle as deliberate after its seven-day cruise on Tuesday, Sept. 10, earlier than embarking once more on a 14-day journey to Alaska.
A Carnival spokesperson didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for extra data on Thursday, Sept. 12.