Linda - I always wondered as well.  They tell you not do do certain things with the outlets, but I'm sure people do them anyway.   People still bring hairdryers for example. from the one site, it appears something like this might have happened: "We can confirm that a small fire occurred in a guest stateroom on board the Viking Orion while the ship was docked in Sydney the morning of February 3 (local time), .... early reports indicate the cause of the fire was electrical, possibly from