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Originally Posted by redforever
My sister just got back from a 2 week cruise in the Caribbean and there was an incident with the ship she was on too.
It was also a ship from the Carnival line, the Liberty, a sister ship to the Concordia. The ship listed 20 degrees and then lurched back and uprighted itself again. My sister was up on a deck, having some breakfast by a pool. All the dishes, chairs etc suddenly lurched one way and then when the ship uprighted itself, it went the other way first, and water even emptied out of the pool, and got into the stairwells etc.
They were not really given any explanation at the time. There was a public announcement made that went everywhere on the ship, saying it was some malfunction that was now under control.
The rest of the cruise went without incident. However, my sister got to know one steward and he told her and her group, "malfunction my arse, we almost hit a sandbar close to the coast of Cuba."
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That's creepy, We were on a Christmas cruise from Miami on the Liberty just a few weeks ago, I recognize the voice of the cruise director and the captains name, that is some scary stuff.
When you are on the ship you don't think about it but when you go out onto the walkways it can be a little humbling looking at all the water stretching out with no land in sight, especially at night when it is pitch black