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• Hundreds of P&O Cruise Passengers Flown Home After Tanker Crash
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• A cruse ship headed for Miami is forced to dock in the Bahamas after orders to seize the vessel
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And 6 p.m., according to online schedules, but passengers were left in holding patterns by text alerts from cruise companies. One of the most critical positions on the ship, the officer of the watch ensures the vessel navigates safely regardless of obstacles or conditions. During the simulation, Finnerty gave orders to the crew to continue testing the equipment, then to drop the anchor and, finally, to sound the danger signal warning anyone on the water that collision was imminent.

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Amidst a powerful storm on Sunday morning (August 27th), the cruise ship Britannia, operated by P&O UK from Southampton England, faced a maritime incident while docked in Palma de Mallorca. The adverse weather conditions prompted the ship to break free from her moorings, resulting in a collision with a nearby freight ship. "A small number of individuals sustained minor injuries and are being cared for by the onboard medical centre," a P&O representative told Insider. Passengers were taken off the Britannia while an assessment was carried out, but they were all now back on board and the captain had given passengers an update, the representative added. A P&O Cruises spokesperson said in a statement Monday that the Britannia was involved in a weather-related incident while docked in Mallorca, which saw a small number of individuals sustain minor injuries. The strong winds - of around 120 kilometres per hour - hit the island of Mallorca and broke the moorings of the Britannia cruise ship, pushing it to the other end of the dock until it collided with the Castillo de Arteaga oil tanker.

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Video: P&O Cruise Ship Breaks Away From Moorings and Drifts Into Tanker.

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You could clearly see some had injuries due to either falling over or debris flying around, and people were distraught. It was understood that 321 guests from the ship will be flying home early as it heads back to Southampton with a reduced number of people on board, as required by maritime law. Cruise ship carrying thousands of Britons crashes into oil tanker in Mallorca, states an Euro News source. A ship scheduled to land in Miami never arrived after a US judge granted an order to seize the cruise ship after a a lawsuit over fuel. Alex Berrios was eating soft serve ice cream with his family on deck Sunday afternoon on the Carnival Celebration. He described a cruiseship seeming to do a good job handling an extra day of sea as restaurants and pools reopened, children camps restarted and movies started rolling to accommodate passengers.

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That type of pressure is difficult to mimic in a simulator, which is perhaps why the crew on the bridge of Cal Maritime’s digital ship operated with calm efficiency each time they ran through the scenario. They ensure that U.S ships are built and maintained to the highest standards and that its crews follow industry best practices. These rules also apply, to a certain extent, to foreign-flagged ships in U.S. waters, even though those ships might operate under what some experts described as subpar conditions.

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The £473m ship, which entered service in 2015, is the flagship of the P&O fleet. Ricky Stubbs, a passenger, said he and his children had been about to disembark when the crash happened. The £473m boat, called the Britannia, remained in Palma overnight while the damage was being assessed.

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Stubbs said the passengers had been told they would be staying overnight while the boat was moored up so the damage could be assessed. The Britannia has capacity to carry 3647 passengers and P&O said the vessel was “close to capacity” at the time of the collision. The Coast Guard uses an algorithm based on the vessel’s history and previous ports of call and current port to determine which ships to check. On May 26, 2002, the towboat Robert Y. Love was pushing two empty asphalt tank barges on the Arkansas River when it veered off course and struck a pier supporting the Interstate 40 highway bridge near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. In the meantime, maritime experts have offered a number of possible causes based on their own experience with engine failure.

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Fourteen people died and five were injured in the accident, which the report said caused an estimated $30.1 million in damage to the bridge and $276,000 to the barges. Such incidents reinforce the need for extra precaution when ships navigate near critical infrastructure, said Pandey of Massachusetts Maritime, who advocated for mandatory tug escorts regardless of the ship, its cargo or the port. Even if the engine had been working, Calnan said, it would have taken 0.8 nautical miles to bring that particular vessel under those particular conditions to a full stop – farther than the distance to the bridge it was about to hit. Sometimes a simple miscalculation can cause a crew to lose command of a ship – or cause an otherwise seaworthy ship to hit a bridge.

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"A small number of people suffered minor injuries and are being treated by the ship's medical centre," a spokesman for P&O Cruises, which owns the Britannia cruise, said in a statement. "A loud crash came from the bar and the door flung open with people running in," he told the outlet. "Within seconds there was more crashing followed by chaos as people were trying to escape the onslaught of wind and rain." The cruise line’s third-party surveyor confirmed that one of the ship’s lifeboats “sustained structural issues” and could not be repaired onboard, a P&O spokesperson said in a subsequent statement. Maritime regulation required that the ship return to Southampton with fewer people.

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To evaluate the extent of the damage, the ship will remain docked in Palma de Mallorca, offering onboard entertainment and activities to the passengers in the meantime. “Within minutes, the captain addressed us through the speakers, asking everyone to return to their rooms for safety reasons,” said Stubbs. The crew and guests promptly assisted others, including those who suffered minor injuries from flying debris or falls. A P&O Cruises spokesman told news.com.au the ship was involved in a weather-related incident while docked in Mallorca, with a small number of individuals sustaining minor injuries.

Stewart Chiron, a cruise industry expert known as The Cruise Guy, told USA TODAY in July that those types of incidents are “very rare” but have occurred in extreme weather. “We are so sorry but these extraordinary circumstances mean that the ship is required, by maritime regulation, to return to Southampton with a reduced number of people onboard. Another passenger, Gary McGuinness, told The Mirror he and his seven-year-old daughter Kasey had stepped off the ship to go out for the day when he noticed a ‘wall of water and wind’ heading towards them down a concrete jetty.

The storm disrupted an ongoing emergency drill, causing the ship to detach from the dockside moorings, damaging tethering lines, water hoses, and the walkway. The incident comes just weeks after Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 ship broke from its moorings in Italy due to strong winds this month. Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Prima was also blown from its mooring ropes due to unexpectedly strong side winds in Belgium earlier this summer. The area saw strong thunderstorms beginning in the late morning on Sunday, with reported wind gusts between 60 and 70 miles per hour, according to AccuWeather.

P&O’s flagship Britannia entered service in 2015 and is 143,000 gross registered tons. “On Sunday 27 August, P&O Cruises Britannia was impacted by severe weather when alongside in Palma de Mallorca,” the spokesman said. He has been offered 20 percent off his next cruise but said it “didn’t come close” to making up for the situation. Passenger Ricky Stubbs said he and his children were about to disembark at the time of the crash.

The ship can carry up to 3,647 passengers and 1,350 crew, is 330 metres long and weighs 143,000 tonnes, according to the company’s website. Some of the thousands of Brits on board were left with minor injuries and were being cared for by medical staff, P&O said. As a result of the collision, the tanker suffered a hole in its hull on the side of the quay, but no oil was spilled into the sea. The ship was carrying thousands of British tourists who were preparing to disembark in the middle of the storm.

The ship, going about 10 knots, tore away a 322-foot span of the bridge as it attempted to pass under a section with insufficient clearance. Coast Guard investigators are still working to determine the cause of the blackout on the Dali. They have retrieved documents and interviewed the crew, as well as others who witnessed or were involved in the crash. For more Britannia incidents and accidents see the ship's CruiseMinus page. "To allow our technical teams to carry out an assessment, Britannia will remain in Palma de Mallorca this evening, with entertainment and activities planned on board." "It was panic stations, I was bawling my eyes out," she said, per the outlet.

As of Monday morning, the ship was docked in Palma to undergo technical inspections. There were thousands of cruise-goers on-board the Britannia, the flagship of the P&O fleet when it was battered by a storm off the coast of Palma de Mallorca on Sunday. The delays threaten a wave of missed flights at Miami International Airport. Spokesperson Greg Chin said the county-owned airport notified airlines of the situation at PortMiami, and that all rebooking fees are being waived for cruise passengers impacted by the situation. DJ Parker was one of 5,246 passengers on the MSC Seascape that was scheduled to dock at PortMiami at 7 a.m.