Carnival Freedom in port today with a major change

[CruisinCrow]

What is the part sticking up in the middle?  Is that a light?

[ButterflyGirly]

Glad to see this as it will disrupt fewer passenger travel plans that keeping it out of commission until the entire funnel could be restored.

[SeaShark]

31 minutes ago, CruisinCrow said:

What is the part sticking up in the middle?  Is that a light?

Yes...always been there.

 

 

[JRG]

1 hour ago, CruisinCrow said:

What is the part sticking up in the middle?  Is that a light?

 

It is a mast.   That is a good picture because it can be enlarged and you can get a good look at the external grate on the wing that is intact.

 

You can see that there is some irregularity to the shape of the vents,  which look like a drain grate,  and that would be the place where build-up is likely to get trapped on the edges and accumulating like the back of your stainless steel barbecue.

 

So,  if we guess that the fire started from the outside-in,  that is from the grate area,  then this would be consistent with something igniting from this point,  and that might explain why they truncated both winds and left the vents exposed conventionally.

 

 

[CruisinCrow]

52 minutes ago, SeaShark said:

Yes...always been there.

 

 

 

I knew it was there before, I just didn't know what its purpose was.  I'll pay more attention to it now that it's so much more obvious.