Fire risk known before Carnival Triumph sailed
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Documents have been unveiled detailing how Carnival Triumph was facing safety issues a year before an engine room fire took place on the ship earlier this year.
Reports and inspection documents made public by CNN show that the generator that caught fire on the ship was due for maintenance more than a year before the incident in February 2013.
While Carnival said the fire was not linked to the lack of maintenance, its documents show a concern for fuel leaks. In February 2012 a cruise ship from sister brand Costa Cruises, Costa Allegra, caught fire because of a fuel leak, with Triumph’s fire starting from a fuel fault too.
Carnival had already ordered a spray shield to be installed on 2 January 2013, but this had not been put in place on Carnival Triumph.
A fire broke out on the ship in February 2013 off the coast of Mexico with more than 4,000 passengers and crew onboard. They were stranded for four days with no air conditioning and largely without lighting, water, food and working toilets.
Carnival has continued to say the incident was an accident but has since plugged US$300 million into a fleet-wide safety upgrade focused on preventing fire hazards in its engine rooms.
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