Carnival made a pretty big announcement recently. They have decided to spend 200 million dollars transforming Carnival Triumph to Carnival Sunshine. They are performing a top to bottom makeover adding new venues and refurbishing all of the staterooms. To read more click the link
What I find so interesting about this move is Carnival Triumph was the ship in the headlines dubbed the “poop ship.” In 2013 an engine fire took out the electrical system and rendered the ship dead in the water. Cruise ships rely on electricity for everything from food services to propulsion. So when the power was lost the plumbing system also started to fail this caused raw sewage to back up. There were reports of passengers having to use the restroom in buckets.
Now as bad as this must have been for the passengers some good did come from this. Shortly after the incident, the cruise industry as a whole really took a step back on how they designed their ships and begun incorporating more redundancy’s to prevent a failure like this from occurring in the future. Carnival even went a step further and installed generators on the top deck of all their ships so they could always fail over their critical systems in the event of another outage.
So why the name change? I think the name change is a smart move. Currently, if you type in Carnival Triumph into cousin google, you do not have to scan very long to find a reference to the 2013 incident. With a new name comes a new history and so the average passenger will have no idea that they are sailing on the same ship that caused the cruise industry to change.