No Injuries at Grandeur’s in Run-in with Costa Maya Dock
No passengers or crew were injured when the Grandeur of the Seas struck a pier in Costa Maya, Mexico, while performing a docking maneuver, due to 15-knot winds and a 3-knot current, the Royal Caribbean International informed.
The boat suffered a 42-foot-long football-shaped gash in its bow. The puncture, on the bow’s starboard side, is about five feet wide at its widest point.
A team of technical experts and regulatory authorities arrived in Costa Maya to make a full evaluation of repairs.
The Grandeur was operating a seven-day cruise from New Orleans that included stoops in Cozumel, Grand Cayman and Costa Maya.
The Grandeur’s cruise from New Orleans on April 23 was delayed, but it currently is unclear when that cruise will actually depart.