The aft generator cracked and burned, leaving 4,500 afloat
カートのアイテムが多すぎます
ご購入は五十タイトルがカートに入っている場合のみです。
カートに追加できませんでした。
しばらく経ってから再度お試しください。
ウィッシュリストに追加できませんでした。
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ほしい物リストの削除に失敗しました。
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ポッドキャストのフォローに失敗しました
ポッドキャストのフォロー解除に失敗しました
The aft generator cracked and burned, leaving 4,500 afloat
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Six in the morning, sixty miles off the California coast, and a ship the size of a small city sits dead in the water on a flat, calm Pacific — no storm, no collision, engines silent. Within hours, U.S. Navy helicopters are lowering ration packs by rope to thousands of passengers below, and a nuclear aircraft carrier is delivering breakfast to a stranded cruise liner. How did a single cracked generator take down every electrical system on a ship engineered with built-in redundancy?
In this episode, we trace the Carnival Splendor from her construction as an Italian Costa-class vessel to the November 2010 fire that left nearly 4,500 people adrift off California, asking how a ship designed to survive exactly this kind of failure ended up completely dark.
Person: Gerry Cahill, Carnival's president
Location: Pacific Ocean, sixty miles off the California coast
Date: November 8, 2010
Case: a crankcase failure in the number five diesel generator that sparked a fire in the aft engine room
Status: towed to San Diego over two and a half days, no injuries, full refunds issued, ship returned to service in March 2011
- The Carnival Splendor measured 113,323 gross tons and carried nearly 4,500 passengers and crew on the voyage
- The fire began with a crankcase split in the number five of six Wärtsilä diesel generators, split between forward and aft engine rooms
- USS Ronald Reagan, a Nimitz-class carrier, and the Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau both responded, with tugboats from San Diego completing the roughly 150-mile tow
- The joint Coast Guard–Panamanian Maritime Authority investigation report, released in July 2013, found both redundant cable pathways ran through the same overhead corridor in the aft engine room
- The ship transited the expanded Panama Canal in 2018 and now sails out of Sydney
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