Carnival cruise brawl caught on camera broke out over alleged cheating, passenger says

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She said the guests were “ignorant fools acting stupid” and praised the cruise ship’s security for how they handled the fight, saying the dispute could have been a lot worse. U.S. law enforcement is investigating a massive fight that broke out early Tuesday morning on a Carnival Magic cruise ship that involved around 40 to 60 passengers. Local broadcaster WPIX said the fight began with two people on the dance floor.

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James, who witnessed the hour-long fight from her door, saw beer bottles smashed and said a woman may have been cut during the brawl. And deployed a vessel to escort the cruise ship through the New York Harbor. It had initially been reported that the violence erupted after a passenger dressed as a clown interrupted a black-tie party held in one of the ship's 13 restaurants. One person on board described the cruise as “Benidorm on Sea” and said many passengers were on an unlimited drinks package.

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Passengers disembarked without further incident upon their NYC arrival Tuesday. A wild brawl that erupted on the dance floor of a Big Apple-bound Carnival cruise ship was sparked by jealousy over a ménage à trois, according to a report. Multiple people were reportedly injured when a fight broke out on a Carnival Cruise Line cruise ship sailing out of Jacksonville, Florida late Wednesday night. Two people were arrested after the fight broke out on P&O’s Britannia cruise ship last Friday as it was returning from a week-long trip to the Norwegian fjords.

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The NYPD told PIX 11 the cruise was escorted into New York for an emergency docking, but Carnival Cruise Line contends that the stop was already scheduled. “After that, a boarding team from USCG Sector New York assisted NYPD and (Customs and Border Protection) with crew processing,” the coast guard told People magazine. Explorethe latest travel news, advice, updates, upcoming exclusive deals and more.

We also wrote about this problem in Another Brawl Breaks Out on a Carnival Fun Ship. A woman fell overboard a luxury cruise ship 18 miles off the coast of Florida and died. Shortly afterwards, passengers on the ship broke into a fight while waiting to disembark the cruise, the Daily Mail reported. According to cruise passenger Theresa James, the fight started before 2 a.m. On the ship’s fifth floor, where the dance club and casino are located.

Even with the significant disruption, Carnival Cruise tells the New York Post that the ship docked back in Manhattan on schedule. A jealous threesome leading to a 60-person brawl was certainly not on the summer 2022 bingo card, but here we are. The dust-up lasted roughly an hour and spilled into the casino area on the same level of the ship, she said.

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The Reuters news agency reported Monday that Carnival had released a brief statement, saying "all aspects including the security response" would be investigated. The statement did not provide a timeline for the company's investigation. Cellphone video footage purportedly of the brawl on Friday shows security guards fighting and trying to separate passengers amid shouting and kicking. By the time the brawl was broken up, there had been anywhere from 40 to 60 people involved. New York Police Department officers and paramedics were there when the ship arrived.

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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Carnival Magic was returning from an eight-day cruise to the Caribbean with stops in Dominicana, Turks and Caicos, and a private Bahamian island. Jurisdictional questions prevented police from boarding the vessel, but the NYPD has opened an investigation. Police and P&O said a clown was not the cause of the mass brawl, refuting earlier reports. Cruise companies that embark from the US are required by law to disclose the number of criminal incidents on board, something that isn’t enforced in the UK. A female passenger said she and her young son were woken by the aftermath of the brawl.

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The fight occured between the pool and one of the ship’s many bars. The cruise liner with more than 2,000 passengers was on a 10-day trip from Melbourne to New Caledonia, a French territory in the South Pacific. Police said they were investigating the incident and the operator apologized for the "disruptive behavior" by the group that was removed from the cruise liner. The video is from aboard the Carnival Elation as it was approaching Jacksonville. The incident happened late Wednesday night, toward the end of a five-day trip. A fight broke out on a Carnival cruise ship based out of Jacksonville.

The fight was apparently so big that security had to call help from the U.S. It's unclear if anyone was arrested or if New York or New Jersey authorities would handle it or another jurisdiction since it may have happened over international waters. PIX 11, a local outlet, reported that the fight began with two people but quickly grew in size as more people joined in, police said.

Dozens more joined the fray — with an estimated 40 to 60 people involved, according to WNBC. The two people arrested, a 41-year-old woman and a 43-year-old man, have been released under investigation. Carnival Cruise Line said it was offering guests a 25 percent future cruise credit as a "goodwill gesture" but some passengers criticized the offer. Videos posted online from inside the ship appear to show Carnival security personnel beating an individual on the ground and attempting to grab cell phones from other passengers as they recorded the events. It’s unclear if the brawl happened in New York, New Jersey, or international waters, complicating criminal jurisdiction. She credited security guards with finally getting the unhinged passengers under control.

He said some passengers were “injured and cut up from glass” and that “most if not all’” of the ship’s security guards rushed to the club to stop the violence. The skirmish started in a nightclub on the fifth floor of the Carnival Magic ship at around 2 a.m. After the angry lovers confronted their respective partners for two-timing on the seven seas, according to James, a travel agent who watched the fracas from her room. Six people were injured in the brawl and one witness was covered in blood after plates and furniture were thrown when two groups of passengers had an argument at about 1.30am in the ship’s Horizon restaurant on the 16th floor. The Daily Mail in the UK covered the cruise ship skirmish and included a TicTok video which showed the begining of the fight.

Video obtained from First Coast News shows several passengers squaring up and throwing punches while other passengers and crew members attempt to intervene. The Coast Guard then escorted the ship into Pier 88 near West 48th Street in Manhattan, police said.

Allegations of a threesome and cheating between passengers sparked the drama when their significant others found out about their sexcapade. The brawl lasted about an hour, according to the travel agent, and took the parties involved from the fifth floor to the ship’s first floor, which James described as a huge distance. She said the altercation wasn’t physical the whole time, and an estimated 60 people may have been involved. "Security onboard the boat attempted to de-escalate the situation and subsequently called for the Coast Guard," the NYPD said. "The Coast Guard escorted the cruise ship to Pier 88, confines of the MTN Precinct. Uniformed personnel and Traffic Agents met the ship and the ship disembarked passengers without further incident." The fight took place on the dance floor within a nightclub on the ship, police confirm.

Coast Guard were on hand as the vessel docked in New York, but they did not board the ship due to jurisdictional concerns. P&O’s US owner, Carnival, recorded 134 serious criminal incidents on its ships in the past three years, including 100 alleged sexual assaults, The Times reported. The figures only apply to ships that set off from the US and do not include any P&O cruise liners. Since the beginning of this year, P&O passengers have been offered a £40-a-day “Ultimate” drinks package, which allows them to have 15 drinks, including wine and spirits, in a 24-hour period between 6am and 6am.