Harmony of the Seas hits dock extension in Falmouth, Jamaica

May 28, 2022

Royal Caribbean International's Harmony of the Seas hit the dock extension as it entered Jamaica's Falmouth Harbor on Thursday. The incident happen just hours after a Carnival Cruise ship caught fire in Grand Turk.

Royal Caribbean said that the damage on the ship was small and that it would not affect the current sailing.

The ship was on a seven-night cruise from Port Canaveral, where it is located.

A statement from the Royal Caribbean said: "During arrival in Falmouth, Jamaica, the Harmony of the Seas made contact with an extended section of the dock. There were no injured guests or crew, and only minor cosmetic damage to the stern of the ship the voyage will continue as planned."

This was one of two incidents related to the cruise ship from Port Canaveral that happened on Thursday.

The Carnival Cruise Line canceled the planned Saturday voyage of Carnival Freedom from Port Canaveral on Thursday night, after the ship suffered fire damage during a stop at the port earlier that day in Grand Turku. On Friday, Carnival also canceled the four-night Freedom cruise that was supposed to depart from Port Canaveral on June 2 and the five-night cruise that was supposed to depart from Port Canaveral on June 6.

The fire broke out in the funnel of the ship, and Carnival brings the ship to the shipyard in Greater Bahamas for repairs.

Harmony of the Seas class "Oasis" is the third largest cruise ship in the world, based on its weight of 226,963 gross tons. The ship has 2,747 cabins, a capacity of 6,687 passengers and 2,200 crew members.

The ship left Port Canaveral on Sunday with about 5,300 passengers on a seven-night cruise. He landed in Coco Cai in the Bahamas on Monday; Nassau, Bahamas, on Tuesday; Falmout on Thursday; and Labadee, Haiti, on Friday. He should return to Port Canaveral on Sunday.

In January, the Harmony of the Seas entered a space launch "exclusion zone" when leaving Port Canaveral, forcing SpaceX to purge a Falcon 9 rocket launch. Launch hazard areas, also known as exclusion zones and keep-out zones, are areas of the Atlantic Ocean closed to maritime traffic during rocket launches.