CARNIVAL SPLENDOR To San Francisco — Updated
After three scheduled departure times, CARNIVAL SPLENDOR finally leaves San Diego’s Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal, January 21, in the early afternoon, (where she has been laid up since November 18, 2010), under her own power for dry-docking in San Francisco.
The Carnival cruise ship became unwittingly famous after a fire left the Mexico-bound vessel without power on November 8. The story became a media sensation as passengers, all of whom remained safe, were fed rations dropped by US Navy helicopter during a slow tow back to her homeport of San Diego.
CARNIVAL SPLENDOR departs San Diego for the completion of the electrical repair work and dry-docking in San Francisco. The work, which technically could have been done in San Diego were the 215 foot tall ship able to clear the 200-foot high span of the Coronado Bridge.
CARNIVAL SPLENDOR is operating under her own power with the accompaniment of two tugs ERNEST CAMPBELL and MILLENNIUM DAWN. By 3:30pm Jan 21, the vessels were some 15 miles from the port of San Diego proceeding very slowly. It is anticipated the journey will take two days to reach San Francisco and that the ship will be back in service on February 20.
The MV CARNIVAL SPLENDOR on her maiden arrival at Long Beach, California. Photo (c) Shawn Dake, March 19, 2009.
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I’m so sorry I was at work when she finally left, and I got no pictures for you.
I dont know…………………..Something tells me she wont be ready by February either………..maybe March. We will see. I was noticing on a news film clip of the ship drifiting off Baja California, she had a slight list to her. She must really be top heavy.