Engineering:Carnival Magic
.JPG) Carnival Magic in Venice
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| Name: | Carnival Magic |
| Owner: | Carnival Corporation & plc |
| Operator: | Carnival Cruise Line |
| Port of registry: |
 Panama |
| Ordered: | 2007 |
| Builder: | Fincantieri, Monfalcone , Italy |
| Cost: | US$740 million |
| Yard number: | 6167 |
| Laid down: | 20 November 2008 |
| Launched: | 27 August 2010 |
| Christened: | 1 May 2011, by Godmother Lindsey Wilkerson |
| Completed: | 29 April 2011 |
| Maiden voyage: | 1 May 2011 |
| In service: | 1 May 2011 |
| Identification: |
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| Status: | In Service |
| Notes: | [1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Dream-class cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | |
| Length: | 306.471 m (1,005 ft 5.8 in)[2] |
| Beam: | |
| Draught: | 8.4 m (27 ft 7 in)[2] |
| Depth: | 11.21 m (36 ft 9 in)[2] |
| Decks: | 14 passenger decks, 17 decks total |
| Installed power: | |
| Speed: | |
| Capacity: |
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| Crew: | 1,386[3] |
| Notes: | [4][5][6] |
Carnival Magic is a Dream-class cruise ship which entered service on 1 May 2011. The ship was named and christened in Venice by her godmother Lindsey Wilkerson, a former patient and current researcher at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.[7]
Carnival Magic was laid down on 20 November 2008, launched from her drydock on 27 August 2010 and completed on 29 April 2011.[8] Sea trials were undertaken between 17 and 20 March 2011.[9] She has 1,845 passenger cabins and 746 crew cabins, and can carry over 6,000 persons in total.[10]
The lifeboat configuration of Carnival Magic differs from that of her sister ship, Carnival Dream, in that Carnival Magic has 18 double-size lifeboats, while Carnival Dream has 30 smaller boats. Carnival Magic also has a large, highly visible SkyCourse ropes course forward of her funnel that is not present on her sister.
There are 19 decks (although marked as having 15 decks on the deck plan because there is no "Deck 13" on Carnival ships) aboard Carnival Magic.[11]
Drydock refurbishment
Carnival Magic was dry-docked in June 2016 which included refurbishment of some public areas. [12] During the suspension of service due to COVID-19, she underwent a second dry dock for expansion of the casino area, in addition to obtaining the blue/white livery seen on the cruise line's other ship Mardi Gras.[13]
Cruising areas
Carnival Magic spent her inaugural season, summer 2011, cruising the Mediterranean Sea.[14] She then made a transatlantic crossing in autumn, 2011, and was homeported in Galveston, Texas from which she made Caribbean Sea cruises. In April, 2016, her homeport changed to Port Canaveral, Florida from which she continued making Caribbean cruises.[15]
Carnival Magic is set to reposition to Miami, Florida in September 2018, sailing 7-day eastern and western Caribbean cruises. She was expected to move homeport to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in May 2019.[16]
As of February 2021, itineraries include trips from Port Canaveral (Orlando, FL) to the Caribbean; New York to Bermuda, Canada, and New England; and Norfolk to The Bahamas, Bermuda, and the Caribbean starting in November 2021.[17]
Following Carnival's suspension of service due to COVID-19, Carnival Magic recommenced cruises on 7 August 2021 with sailings from Port Canaveral to The Bahamas.[18]
Incidents and accidents
On 2 July 2012, during a seven-day Caribbean cruise, a 39-year-old male guest died when he accidentally fell from his cabin balcony and landed on an open deck area three decks below.[19]
In October 2014 a Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas employee who may have handled lab specimens from Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan after he boarded the ship on 12 October in Galveston. The hospital employee and her spouse showed no signs of the virus, but voluntarily quarantined themselves on the ship. The ship was allowed to dock in Belize, but the quarantined couple was refused the ability to disembark; thus derailing the plan to offload the couple for a flight home. Mexico went a step further and did not grant docking privileges to the ship.[20] A United States Coast Guard helicopter flew to Carnival Magic on 18 October to obtain blood samples. The following day the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital employee and her spouse were allowed to disembark in Galveston after the tests were determined to be negative for both the employee and her spouse.[21]
On the morning of August 19, 2021 a 29 year old male passenger was found alone in his cabin unresponsive with no pulse. Relatives said that he went to take a nap around 1am. When they did not hear from him and could get no answer at his door security was notified and found him alone in his cabin on deck 6. The death occurred in Bahama territory, so when the ship docked at Bimini passengers were told there would be a slight delay in disembarking due to enhanced security. The body along with his traveling party were discreetly taken off the ship by the local coroner and authorities.. As of 8/21/2021 no information has been released. This info is being written by a witness that was 2 cabins away when the incident occurred.
References
- ↑ Teijo Niemelä (27 August 2010). "Fincantieri launches Carnival Magic". Cruise Business News. http://www.cruisebusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1337:fincantieri-launches-carnival-magic&catid=43:latest-news-catecory&Itemid=115.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Carnival Magic (9378486)". Lloyd's Register. https://classdirect.lr.org/lros?lrno=9378486.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Carnival DMagic Fact Sheet". Carnival Newsroom. Carnival Corporation. https://carnival-news.com/carnival-magic-fact-sheet/.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Carnival Magic". Fincantieri. https://www.fincantieri.com/en/products-and-services/cruise-ships/carnival-magic/.
- ↑ "Advanced Masterdata for the Vessel Carnival Magic". VesselTracker. 2012. http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Carnival-Breeze-9555723.html.
- ↑ "Carnival Magic (927918)". United States Coast Guard. https://cgmix.uscg.mil/PSIX/PSIXSearch.aspx.
- ↑ http://www.travelweekly.com/Cruise-Travel/St-Jude-employee-named-Carnival-Magic-godmother Wilkerson
- ↑ "Carnival magic (9378486)". Miramar Ship Index. https://www.miramarshipindex.nz/ship/9378486.
- ↑ Peter Knego (22 March 2011). "Magic Off Monfalcone: Carnival Magic Completes Sea Trials". Maritime Matters. http://maritimematters.com/2011/03/magic-off-monfalcone-carnival-magic-completes-sea-trials/.
- ↑ "Carnival Magic laid; work starts Carnival Cruise Line's new flagship". Fincantieri. 12 January 2010. http://www.fincantieri.it/cms/data/browse/news/000329.aspx.
- ↑ Carnival Magic Deck Plan. Carnival.
- ↑ "Carnival Drydock Schedule". http://www.embarkandaway.com/carnival-drydock-schedule.html.
- ↑ Parker, Doug (2021-05-21). "First Look: Carnival Magic Debuts Her Brand New Makeover" (in en-US). https://cruiseradio.net/carnival-magic-new-cruise-ship-paint-job/.
- ↑ "Carnival Magic to Sail Med". CruiseNotes. 19 January 2010. http://www.cruisenotes.com/content.php?67-Carnival-Magic-to-Sail-Med.
- ↑ Miami, Carnival Cruise LinePublic Relations Department 3655 N. W. 87th Ave (12 February 2015). "Carnival's Most Innovative Ship Yet, Carnival Vista, To Operate Year-Round Six- and Eight-Day Caribbean Cruises from Miami, Carnival Breeze and Carnival Liberty Reposition to Galveston". http://carnival-news.com/2015/02/12/carnivals-most-innovative-ship-yet-carnival-vista-to-operate-year-round-six-and-eight-day-caribbean-cruises-from-miami-carnival-breeze-and-carnival-liberty-reposition-to-galveston/.
- ↑ Line, Carnival Cruise. "Cruise Search | Find Cruises for 2018-2020 | Carnival Cruise Line" (in en). https://www.carnival.com/cruise-search/#?dur=d2&layout=grid&numAdults=2&pageNumber=1&pageSize=8&port=mia&resident=ok&shipCode=mc&showBest=true&sort=fromprice&useSuggestions=true&vifp=0018516928.
- ↑ Line, Carnival Cruise. "Carnival Magic | Magic Cruise Ship" (in en). http://www.carnival.com/cruise-ships/carnival-magic.
- ↑ Staff, C. I. N. (2021-07-23). "When the Entire Carnival Cruise Line Fleet Will Restart: July Update" (in en-gb). https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/25529-when-the-entire-carnival-cruise-line-fleet-will-restart-july-update.html.
- ↑ Staff writers (4 July 2013). "Man fell to his death from cabin balcony on Carnival cruise ship". KHOU. http://www.khou.com/news/Man-fell-to-his-death-from-cabin-balcony-on-Carnival-cruise-ship-214230361.html.
- ↑ Lindsey Bever; Fred Barbash; Elahe Izadi (17 October 2014). "Mexico fails to grant access to cruise ship carrying Texas health worker". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/17/cruise-ship-carrying-texas-ebola-nurse-refused-entry-in-belize/.
- ↑ John Bacon (19 October 2014). "Cruise ship returns to Texas; passenger negative for Ebola". USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/10/19/us-gets-blood-sample-from-woman-monitored-on-ship/17543409/.
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