It was a cruise for bruises.
A Carnival cruise ship chartered for the “Six Scary Nights of Music and Madness” event crashes into the side of a pier, causing major damage and leaving many party-goers temporarily stranded in Jamaica. .
The Carnival Magic crashed into a pier while anchored on the Caribbean island of Ocho Rios on Tuesday, the company said in a statement. “High winds and swells caused the pier’s fender to collapse under pressure, causing the ship to contact the pier,” the company said in a statement. told the Miami Herald.
“No one was injured and all services on the ship remained operational,” but the ship was forced to leave the port, leaving behind many stunned passengers.
The Magic “left the area for the safety of all on board and subsequently moored at another nearby pier to allow guests who came ashore Tuesday morning to rejoin the ship,” the company said.
Dillon Price was one of the shocked passengers who watched the 1,004-foot ship depart before boarding.
“We’re watching a ship sail into a storm. We’re like, no one knew what was going on,” Price said. told Orlando FOX 35..
Another passenger, Adam Middleton, told the outlet that his group left the ship around 8am on Tuesday and were stranded on the island for almost 12 hours due to storms that preceded the incident on the pier.
“There were thousands of people out in the fields in the pouring rain, with no shelter, food or drink. I think there was only one toilet,” he said after returning to the ship. .
“Everyone was running around not knowing what to do because they locked us out of the ship,” he added.
A company called Ask4Entertainment chartered the ship for an annual rock band trip called ShipRocked 2024, the Miami Herald reported.
The flight will depart from Florida on Sunday and will make stops in Bimini, Ocho Rios and Grand Cayman, according to the paper, and will feature performances from several bands including I Prevail, Killswitch Engage, Beartooth and Badflower. It is said that there is
Barbara Ligman and her husband, James, both 60, of Fort Myers, were also on the trip.
She said I Prevail was scheduled to perform Tuesday at 4:30 p.m., but several members were stranded on land.
“I’m fine now that I’m back on the boat,” Barbara told the Herald on Wednesday. “Yesterday was really bad because Carnival wasn’t communicating what was going on.”
Barbara Ligman, an American Airlines pilot who was traveling with her husband, James, said they were unable to stop in Bimini because of the weather. When they arrived in Ocho Rios, she said, it was “very windy.”
“You can immediately see huge waves crashing against the pier and washing away the port,” she told the outlet. “Stones and mud were getting into the building.”
The couple left the ship around 8:20 a.m. to go hiking and returned to the ship around noon, well before the 3:30 p.m. return time, but the ship stopped without any notifications on the app. I realized that I had set sail.
“People were just standing there. No one was telling us what was going on,” Barbara told the Herald.
She said about 1,000 passengers were taken to a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home to wait.
“We had no idea where the ship was. We weren’t getting any information from Carnival,” Barbara said, adding that eventually “at 6:30 p.m., the boat was docked and ready for boarding.” “Update information has been received from another pier that there is a similar situation,” he added.
Carnival told the outlet that no passengers were ever stranded.
“No one of our guests was left behind, and no one will be left behind,” it said, adding that passengers who came ashore were “cared for by the Carnival team and shore excursion partners.”
No one was injured in the accident, but the ship was damaged.
The company announced that the Magic will leave Jamaica on Wednesday night to continue its voyage.
The newspaper has contacted Carnival for comment.
