Storms in sydney, A cruise ship with thousands of passengers safely docked in Sydney Harbor on Wednesday after suffering damage from 40-foot waves during a storm that caused officials to close the area’s commercial shipping wharfs, according to the Port Authority of New South Wales.
The Carnival Spirit ship sailed into the overseas passenger terminal about 9:30 a.m., roughly 24 hours after its originally scheduled arrival, officials said. Harbour Master Captain Phil Holliday had shut down the ports just before 8 a.m. Tuesday due to winds of about 57 mph and waves approaching heights of 42 feet, he said in an announcement.
The ship’s 2,500 passengers and 1,500 crew members remained offshore Tuesday at the end of a 12-day tour of New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji, Carnival officials told ABC News.
The ship took on water on a fourth-level deck and elsewhere and the squall shattered glass panels during the ordeal, Fairfax Media reporter and passenger Rachel Browne reported in an eyewitness account in the Sydney Morning Herald. Teacups in Browne’s quarters fell to pieces when they “blew off the table and hit the wall,” she wrote.
But there were no reported injuries when passengers disembarked Wednesday , other than a few cases of seasickness, 9 News reported.Carnival representatives didn’t immediately respond to questions about the extent of damage on the massive ship.
One relieved passenger noted an interview with 9 News that patio furniture outside her room had smashed through a glass partition and that closet doors in her cabin had rocked off their hinges.It was scary, there wasn’t a lot of sleep the past two nights,” she said, praising the crew. “They probably have a lot of work to do but the staff was awesome.”
The Carnival Spirit ship may have escaped the worst of the storm. Three people died and at least one home washed away in floods in the hard-hit town of Dungog about 125 miles north of Sydney, the Associated Press reported. Around 200,000 homes and businesses lost power as the storm pummeled New South Wales with over a foot of rain and gusts up to 60 mph, according to AP.
The ship’s 2,500 passengers and 1,500 crew members remained offshore Tuesday at the end of a 12-day tour of New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji, Carnival officials told ABC News.
The ship took on water on a fourth-level deck and elsewhere and the squall shattered glass panels during the ordeal, Fairfax Media reporter and passenger Rachel Browne reported in an eyewitness account in the Sydney Morning Herald. Teacups in Browne’s quarters fell to pieces when they “blew off the table and hit the wall,” she wrote.
But there were no reported injuries when passengers disembarked Wednesday , other than a few cases of seasickness, 9 News reported.Carnival representatives didn’t immediately respond to questions about the extent of damage on the massive ship.
One relieved passenger noted an interview with 9 News that patio furniture outside her room had smashed through a glass partition and that closet doors in her cabin had rocked off their hinges.It was scary, there wasn’t a lot of sleep the past two nights,” she said, praising the crew. “They probably have a lot of work to do but the staff was awesome.”
The Carnival Spirit ship may have escaped the worst of the storm. Three people died and at least one home washed away in floods in the hard-hit town of Dungog about 125 miles north of Sydney, the Associated Press reported. Around 200,000 homes and businesses lost power as the storm pummeled New South Wales with over a foot of rain and gusts up to 60 mph, according to AP.
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