A cruise ship struck a large floating chunk of ice in Alaska last week in a scene one passenger called a “Titanic moment.”
On Thursday, Sept. 5, the Carnival Spirit cruise ship was transiting the notoriously frozen Tracy Arm Fjord when it “came into contact with a stray piece of floating ice,” a Carnival Cruise Line spokesperson said in a statement to multiple media outlets, including USA Today and CNN.
In a video shared on TikTok from the cruise – which set sail from Seattle, Washington on September 3 – user Cassandra Goskie documented the moment. “If we die, it was damn worth it, it’s a Titanic moment,” Goskie said in the video as the ship approached the ice, which appeared to be in contact with its starboard side. “Oh, God. We’re hitting. Damn it.”
Fortunately, she wrote, the ice “didn’t do any damage that required us to use any emergency procedures.”
Carnival spokesman Matt Lupoli said USA Today that the assessment then determined that “there was no damage to the ship’s hull” as the ship “continued its cruise” with “no impact on operations”. CNN reports that no one on board was injured.
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The Carnival Spirit cruise ship docked in Sydney Harbor in April 2015.
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The video itself showed multiple passengers on the side of the ship with their phones out, filming a large patch of blue ice as the Spirit sailed straight toward it. In the video’s caption, Goskie praised the Carnival staff for how they responded to the ice, writing, “The crew did an amazing job [assessing] damage and keep the crew and passengers safe and informed!”
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While CNN reports that passenger Saurabh Singhal said the ship was stopped “for hours to assess the damage,” the ship reportedly returned to Seattle as planned after a seven-day cruise on Tuesday, Sept. 10, before setting off again on 14-day trip to Alaska.
A spokesperson for Carnival did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for more information on Thursday, Sept. 12.
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