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Carnival Valor
Carnival ValorinCosta Maya,2022
History
NameCarnival Valor
OwnerCarnival Corporation & plc
OperatorCarnival Cruise Line
Port of registryPanama City,Panama
Builder
CostUS$500 million
LaunchedMarch 27, 2004
Sponsored byKatie Couric
ChristenedDecember 17, 2004
Maiden voyage2004
In serviceDecember 2004–present
Identification
StatusIn service
Notes[1][2][3][4][5]
General characteristics
Class and typeConquest-classcruise ship
Tonnage110,000GT
Length952 ft (290.2 m)
Beam116 ft (35.4 m)
Draft27 ft (8.2 m)
Decks13
Installed power63,400 kW (85,000 hp)
PropulsionDiesel-electric;two shafts
Speed22.5 knots (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph)
Capacity2,974 passengers
Crew1,180
Notes[1]

Carnival Valoris apost-PanamaxConquest-classcruise shipoperated byCarnival Cruise Line.The vessel was built byFincantieriat itsMonfalconeshipyard inFriuli-Venezia Giulia(northern Italy). She wasfloated outon March 27, 2004, andchristenedby American journalistKatie CouricinMiamion December 17, 2004.[3]

History

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The 952-foot (290 m) vessel can hold up to 1,180 crew members and 2,974 guests. The ship's homeport isNew Orleans, Louisiana.[6]

Carnival Valorsails four- and five-night itineraries to theCaribbean.[7]Some ofCarnival Valor's public areas were refurbished during a drydock from April 23 through May 8, 2016.[8]In 2017, the ship earned a perfect health score of 100 from theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention.It was part of the agency's Vessel Sanitation Program, whose purpose is to prevent the transmission and spread ofgastrointestinal disease.[9]

On February 13, 2020, arock music–themed cruise, known as ShipRocked, took place onboardCarnival Valor.Performers includedLzzy Haleand her bandHalestorm,Alter Bridge,andBeartooth.[10]

Port calls

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On September 4, 2018, due to heavy rain and flooding inGalveston, Texas,Carnival Valor's departure was delayed.[11]

On January 23, 2019, the ship lost power at sea for an hour when she left Galveston on her way toCozumel.[12]On May 10, 2019, the ship repositioned and switched homeports withCarnival Dreamto begin short sailings.[13]On July 11, 2019, the ship docked inMobile, Alabamainstead of New Orleans due to atropical storm.[14]

On April 3, 2020, the ship along with other three cruise ships departed from the port ofGulfport, Mississippiafter GovernorTate Reevesannounced a “shelter-in-place” order to contain the spread ofcoronavirus.[15]

Incidents

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A crewmember broke his back onboardCarnival Valorin 2014. In September 2018, a Monaco judge ruled that Carnival should pay the crewmember $1.4 million, but the company refused to pay. The crewmember then took the company to a U.S. Federal court in Miami which ruled in his favor; the crewmember won the suit.[16]

On August 3, 2017, the ship contacted the Houston-Galveston Coast Guard station and requested assistance for a woman who was injured from a fall. She was thenmedically evacuatedby helicopter near Galveston after the ship left port for Cozumel.[17]

On October 10, 2019, a 23-year-old male passenger was critically injured when he fell from where he was sitting onto a lower deck.[18]He was medically transported by a Coast GuardEurocopter MH-65 DolphinfromNew Orleans.[19]

On December 22, 2021, a 53-year-old man started experiencingstroke-like symptoms. He was picked up by a Coast Guard MH-65 218 miles (351 km) south of Southwest Pass, Louisiana and transported to New Orleans.[20]

On February 16, 2022, a 32-year-old woman fell overboard while the vessel was around 150 miles (240 km) from the coast of Louisiana when heading to New Orleans after a port call in Cozumel, Mexico.[21]

On 24 November 2022, a 28 year old man fell overboard 20 miles off Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. He was found and rescued by aUnited States Coast Guardhelicopter over 15 hours later.[22]

Coronavirus pandemic

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During thecoronaviruspandemic,theCDCreported, as early as April 22, 2020, that at least one person tested positive forSARS-CoV-2after disembarking.[23]On March 15, a 49-year-old man fromOhiotested positive with COVID-19 after displaying symptoms.[24]On April 8, 300 crew members who tested negative forCOVID-19disembarked at the Port ofNew Orleans.[25]

References

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  1. ^abWard, Douglas (2005).Berlitz Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships.Singapore: Berlitz.ISBN978-9812467393.
  2. ^"Carnival Valor moving toward Miami".South Florida Business Journal.December 1, 2004.RetrievedAugust 19,2008.
  3. ^ab"Couric to serve as ship godmother".South Florida Business Journal.September 20, 2004.RetrievedAugust 19,2008.
  4. ^"Carnival Valor (IMO: 9236389)".vesseltracker.RetrievedAugust 19,2008.
  5. ^"Carnival Triumph(732488) ".Port State Information Exchange.United States Coast Guard.
  6. ^"Cruise Lines & Itineraries | Cruises | Port of New Orleans".Port NOLA.RetrievedFebruary 28,2022.
  7. ^Line, Carnival Cruise."Carnival Valor | Valor Cruise Ship".Carnival Cruise Line.RetrievedFebruary 28,2022.
  8. ^"Carnival Valor Undergoes Makeover In Preparation For Cruises Out of Port Canaveral".Space Coast Daily. May 10, 2016.RetrievedJuly 30,2016.
  9. ^"Carnival Cruise Ship Earns Perfect 100 Health Score During Recent Inspection".March 21, 2020.
  10. ^"ShipRocked 2020: A Daily Diary and Photo Gallery of Rock's High Seas Adventure".February 13, 2020.
  11. ^"Galveston Floods Delay Departure of Carnival Valor".Travel Agent Central.
  12. ^EST, Katherine Hignett On 1/23/19 at 5:23 AM (January 23, 2019)."Cozumel-bound cruise ship lost power at sea".Newsweek.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^"Two Carnival Cruise Line Ships to Begin New Short Sailings".May 10, 2019.
  14. ^"Carnival cruise ship Valor rerouted to Mobile due to tropical forecast".FOX10 News.
  15. ^"Cruise Ships Depart Port Due to" Shelter-In-Place "Order".April 3, 2020.
  16. ^Dolven, Taylor (September 25, 2019)."Injured Carnival crew member may finally get the $1.36 million the company owes him".miamiherald.RetrievedApril 30,2020.
  17. ^"Coast Guard Medevacs Injured Woman From Carnival Valor Near Galveston".Cruise Law News.August 3, 2017.
  18. ^Oliver, David."Carnival passenger critically injured after falling onto lower cruise ship deck".USA TODAY.
  19. ^"Coast Guard Medevacs Passenger in Critical Condition From Carnival Valor".Cruise Law News.October 9, 2019.
  20. ^"Coast Guard medevacs cruise ship passenger off Southwest Pass | Coast Guard News".coastguardnews.December 23, 2021.Archivedfrom the original on December 23, 2021.RetrievedJanuary 1,2022.
  21. ^"Coast Guard searches for woman who jumped off Carnival cruise into Gulf of Mexico".New York Post.February 17, 2022.RetrievedFebruary 28,2022.
  22. ^Gozzi, Laura (November 26, 2022)."Cruise passenger rescued after 15 hours in the sea".BBC News.RetrievedNovember 28,2022.
  23. ^Self-Checker (April 22, 2020)."CDC's role in helping cruise ship travelers during the COVID-19 pandemic | CDC".Archived fromthe originalon April 22, 2020.RetrievedApril 30,2020.
  24. ^Lee, Anita (March 15, 2020)."Former passenger on Carnival ship docking in Gulfport tested positive for coronavirus".sunherald.RetrievedApril 30,2020.
  25. ^"Healthy workers disembark Carnival Valor to head to home countries, COVID-19 patients remain".WWL.April 8, 2020.
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