"Titanic moment": Cruise ship passenger captures iceberg collision
A worried passenger onboard a Carnival cruise ship has recalled the moment the vessel collided with a large piece of ice off the coast of Alaska.
The moment was captured on camera by Cassandra Goskie, who witnessed when the huge cruise ship was scraped by an iceberg.
As the collision was taking place, Cassandra wrote, "If we die it was damn well worth it, it's a Titanic moment."
According to another passenger, the vessel was halted "for hours to assess damages" before it eventually continued on its course.
A Carnival spokesperson told CNN, "An assessment determined no damage to the ship's hull and the vessel continued on its cruise and there has been no impact to operations."
The cruise company also confirmed that no one onboard was injured by the collision.
Despite the close call with the ice, the ship was able to finish its seven-day expedition, returning to Seattle in Washington before embarking on a 14-day trip back to Alaska.
Alaska is home to notoriously icy waters, as other cruise ships over the years have had similar scary encounters.
In 2022, Norwegian Cruise Line vessel Norwegian Sun hit a piece of an iceberg while sailing in Alaska, sustaining damage to its starboard bow.
According to Captain John Herring, a marine pilot in southeast Alaska, the region is home to "hard ice that can damage the hull or propellers", while "strong winds and currents make navigating icy waters even harder.”
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