Carnival Legend - TIPPED TO THE PORT SIDE

I am on the Carnival Legend right now, out of NY on July 8. Yesterday the Legend tipped sharply at a 30-40 degree angle. It was around 4-5pm last night and the ship tipped to the port side sharply. People were running in halls, some grabbing life vests, a man fell in the casino and rolled into something and hit his head. A woman had been cut with a porcelain plate when she fell and landed on it. Our cabin, 8th floor, starboard side had broken glass in it as did all the other cabins. They are still cleaning up the gift shop right now as the liquer bottles fell and broke. I just heard someone (female) was on the Sun deck looking overboard and had to be held onto as she almost went overboard.

The captain came on the intercom shortly after and said this was due to a 'listing glitch in the computer'. What ever it was, it shouldn't have happened. It was scary. I am not writing this to scare anyone from cruising, just want someone on land to know what happened. My 8yo daughter scared to death (I am also, but can't let the kids see). This was our first cruise and sorry to say, my last. We are told this is something that does not happen, but it did yesterday on board the Carnival Legend.

My family was having a GREAT trip up until then. We swam with the dolphins yesterday in Tortola, snorkeled the day before in St Johns, then laid on beach in St Thomas in the afternoon. It was a great time, the crew wonderful, but the tipping scared me.

I will post more when we get home.

Yikes! I'm sailing on the Legend on the 24th. :eek:

I hope no one was seriously hurt. Take care and safe trip home!!

Rose

Oh My..so sorry to hear this. Do you know the location of the ship when it was tipping. I have some friends who are cruising this weekend and with Hurricane Emily out there I am freakin out. The waters have to be churning because of the past two and now the one coming thru the caribbean.

It's a ship; I don't think it will stop me from cruising.

I am on the Carnival Legend right now, out of NY on July 8. Yesterday the Legend tipped sharply at a 30-40 degree angle. It was around 4-5pm last night and the ship tipped to the port side sharply. People were running in halls, some grabbing life vests, a man fell in the casino and rolled into something and hit his head. A woman had been cut with a porcelain plate when she fell and landed on it. Our cabin, 8th floor, starboard side had broken glass in it as did all the other cabins. They are still cleaning up the gift shop right now as the liquer bottles fell and broke. I just heard someone (female) was on the Sun deck looking overboard and had to be held onto as she almost went overboard.

 

The captain came on the intercom shortly after and said this was due to a 'listing glitch in the computer'. What ever it was, it shouldn't have happened. It was scary. I am not writing this to scare anyone from cruising, just want someone on land to know what happened. My 8yo daughter scared to death (I am also, but can't let the kids see). This was our first cruise and sorry to say, my last. We are told this is something that does not happen, but it did yesterday on board the Carnival Legend.

 

My family was having a GREAT trip up until then. We swam with the dolphins yesterday in Tortola, snorkeled the day before in St Johns, then laid on beach in St Thomas in the afternoon. It was a great time, the crew wonderful, but the tipping scared me.

 

I will post more when we get home.

This is a VERY RARE event - even more rare than the close proximity to a hurricane (Dennis) we had last week on the Miracle - a few 1st timers were unlucky enough to be there, but most will likely sail again, as they too realized how much fun they were having until that point (and after, in some cases!)... Please do not let the GREAT fun you had prior to this TIPPING turn you forever away from cruising... It was an isolated incident, and one that you would likely NEVER experience again.

Tom

Even though it must have been VERY scary for you and your kids, please don't give up on cruising! It's rare that something like that happened and, I doubt you'll ever have that type of trouble again. Try to focus on the positive stuff!

I sailed last year on the Legend, 7/18/04, Same thing happen, the ship listed as well 30 degrees. I was on our way down to the Caribbean, We hit a cold front on the first day, But that was the only bad sea day we had, The rest of the cruise was Perfect. Although the cruise was full of problems, not ship related, People hurting themselves, heartattackes, ETC

Yikes!! That must have been really scary! Especially for the children. :eek:

I have a co-worker on the Legend right now, I hope she's ok and not too scared.

I agree with the others, this is a rare occurrence and I hope you will cruise again. I'm sailing the Legend on 8/15 and I can't wait. :D

Ms Jazo I was on the same sailing!! Yep..cold front and a doozy of a wave slamming the ship and it listed to one side! So its not the first time for the Legend. I wonder if the stabilizers are ok?

Then a man got a heart attack, but not from the weather. That was a seperate indicident. I got alot of video of the seas, it sure was rough.

Did you guys get hit with a wave???

My son got sick as a dog. :( . Now I may be sailing into bad weather again.

It was scary. Im still cruising again on July 24, same ship, same itinerary, it didnt stop me.

Same things happened: booze fell off the shelves in the gift shop, dishes fell over, people landed outside of the pool.

i would HATE every second of that! 4 cruises and thank God nothing like that. (that right there is why i DONT want a balcony!!)

I am on the Carnival Legend right now, out of NY on July 8. Yesterday the Legend tipped sharply at a 30-40 degree angle. It was around 4-5pm last night and the ship tipped to the port side sharply. People were running in halls, some grabbing life vests, a man fell in the casino and rolled into something and hit his head. A woman had been cut with a porcelain plate when she fell and landed on it. Our cabin, 8th floor, starboard side had broken glass in it as did all the other cabins. They are still cleaning up the gift shop right now as the liquer bottles fell and broke. I just heard someone (female) was on the Sun deck looking overboard and had to be held onto as she almost went overboard.

 

The captain came on the intercom shortly after and said this was due to a 'listing glitch in the computer'. What ever it was, it shouldn't have happened. It was scary. I am not writing this to scare anyone from cruising, just want someone on land to know what happened. My 8yo daughter scared to death (I am also, but can't let the kids see). This was our first cruise and sorry to say, my last. We are told this is something that does not happen, but it did yesterday on board the Carnival Legend.

 

My family was having a GREAT trip up until then. We swam with the dolphins yesterday in Tortola, snorkeled the day before in St Johns, then laid on beach in St Thomas in the afternoon. It was a great time, the crew wonderful, but the tipping scared me.

 

I will post more when we get home.

This does not surprise me at all. We felt the ship was not built well when we sailed her 4/04. We stated it in our review back then.

I'm sure it was scary but remember you are far safer on a cruise ship than you are driving home every day.

This does not surprise me at all. We felt the ship was not built well when we sailed her 4/04. We stated it in our review back then.

Exaclty what does this have to do how the ship is "built".:rolleyes: Computer glitches happen

would HATE every second of that! 4 cruises and thank God nothing like that. (that right there is why i DONT want a balcony!!)

ROFLMAO...imagine a rougue wave with all those balcony doors propped open:D :eek:

I am on the Carnival Legend right now, out of NY on July 8. Yesterday the Legend tipped sharply at a 30-40 degree angle.

Did someone give you that angle? 40 degrees would put it on its side within 5 degrees.:eek:

It's not fun being on a ship when they tilt. I had that once on the Jubilee, and once was enough for me.

I heard that this happened on HAL's Ryndam about 2 yrs ago. When it was reported on CC, some people on the HAL board did not beleive the poster as it was not on the news !

Then a lady posted that she was on the ship !!-still with the non-believers.

Don't worry, I believe you, but some people will always be 'skepticle':rolleyes: !!

I think I'll bring a seat belt for my 11/9/05 Legend cruise.

Were you in the Carib. or Atlantic when that happened?

I dont like hearing that the ship wasnt built right..could this possibly be?

Now we are aware of 2 times that the Legend has listed to one side.

this is starting to scare me now :eek:

 

this is starting to scare me now :eek:

Marge,

Just hope it doesn't happen when you're on the stage!

I dont like hearing that the ship wasnt built right..could this possibly be?

 

this is starting to scare me now :eek:

Highly DOUBTFUL.

Then perhaps you sould look at other vacation options.

I'm with Pete I think the degree that the ship listed sounds like it may be blown out of proportion

So its not the first time for the Legend. I wonder if the stabilizers are ok?

When we were on Legend last December, a crew member told DD and I that the captain doesn't like to use the stabilizers because that means the ship uses more fuel, and that cuts in to his fuel-usage bonus. I can't say how much truth there was to that statement, since he did seem to be a disgruntled worker.

ahahaha..THE SHOW GOES ON NO MATTER WHAT!

I was watching the performers loose their footing when we had the rough seas.. But, the show goes on.

When I use to tour, I was on stage outdoors doing a huge rock festival in Kearny, Nebraska during Tornado season. WE had a micro blast collapse the tent and lights right onto the stage during a performance. Thank God no one was killed, but our equipment was demolished. We rented equipment for the next night and the show went on.

Im heading out to buy some bonine, brb. :D

It is very rare for somthing like that to happen with no rough waters. But when we were on the Glory last August it was hurricane season and there was a lot of hurricanes. The ship was rocking a lot then at one point it just kept on tilting, I was in the pool with the kids and we all started to float to one side as the water poured out. The crew members told us to get out of the pool and it was drained immdiately and the rope cover was put on top of it. They did the same to the one in the back. The pool in the middle lost a lot of water ut for some reason they didn't drain it.

The kids weren't scared at all, they wanted it to happen again. As for me I was a little worried because then about 10 minutes later we were in thick fog with heavy rains. Even though it only lasted less than 5 minutes I was scared. Plus with all the rumors flying around that there was 2 ships in front of us and they had to turn around because the seas were to rough, etc. So I was a little scared. That was the only day we had rough seas.

Oh thats is scarey..:(

Did someone give you that angle? 40 degrees would put it on its side within 5 degrees.

Wouldn't it have to be at a 90 degree angle to be on its side???? Sounds to me like 40 degrees would be possible. Scary, but possible. :eek:

We were also on the Legend in Dec and also heard the same thing that InNM523 has reported. The captain of the Legend does not like to use the stabilizers. We had a rockier trip than usual. We also had a "listing incident" on the Glory about 2 years ago coming out of Canaveral. At dinner first night, first seating and we started to lean toward the port side. Felt like a huge turn and banking. It righted itself pretty quickly but a bit scary.

:eek: How is it that I'M the one freaking out (we're going on the Legend this August), and my mom is the calm one? SHE'S the one who has a fear of the ocean! All of a sudden, she's all "There's no point in worrying, let's hope they fix whatever's wrong," blah blah blah.

But I'm still super-freaked out.

xoxo

Maggi