Equipment failures on two well known cruise ships. Carnival Cruise's Carnival Splendor and Cunard's Queen Mary 2, have been serious enough to generate international safety alerts. In the case of Carnival Splendor, which suffered an engine room fire off Mexico, it was found that the vessel's CO2 fire extinguishing system failed to fully activate. According to a US Coast Guard (USCG) report, Splendor's crew responded effectively to the fire, and extinguished it with portable equipment, but before the fire was completely out the captain decided to release CO2 from the ship's fire suppression system. The system failed to operate correctly, despite having been recently serviced.
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