‘Titanic experience’: Terrifying moment water gushes from Carnival cruise ship ceiling

A guest who shared videos on TikTok described it as “absolutely terrifying”. Photo / TikTok / @dawn7877

A passenger on board a luxury cruise has captured the moment the ship began to flood through the ceilings in what one has described as “absolutely terrifying”.

Carnival Radiance passenger Amber was staying on the seventh floor when she noticed a torrent of water come flooding through her room at 2am.

On the first night of their cruise starting from California, Amber was woken suddenly to “water gushing into our room from the ceiling”.

She then opened her door and stepped outside, only to find more rivers of water running down the walkways inside the ship.

Amber took out her phone and began filming the moment that she said made her feel terrified.

That clip showed her dark, wet cabin reportedly without power and workers attempting to clean up the water in the hallway.

@dawn7877

Our room flooded on carnival cruise radiance. Its been 4 hours and no one has came and spoke to us. Im so 😡 #carnivalcruise #flooded #nohelp

♬ original sound - Amber

@dawn7877

At 2 AM we were woken up with water gushing into our room from the ceiling on the carnival radiance. Security in this video telling me I can’t record. it was absolutely terrifying. Still waiting on corporate to contact us. #cruise #carnivalcruise #flooding #terrifying #carnival

♬ original sound - Amber

Carnival Cruise Line said the flooding was caused by “a burst water line” which they say impacted an area of the ship that “accounts for less than two per cent of its staterooms”.

“The ship’s team members cleaned the area and the pipe was fixed,” the spokeswoman told news.com.au.

The footage was enough to freak out viewers with some making references to the Titanic.

“The way I thought this was a literal Titanic experience museum or something at first,” wrote one person.

“I see that I’m going straight to the main deck, life jacket on just in case. I’m not getting stuck behind one of them gates,” said another.

“I see this and I am on the first safety boat out of there,” added a third.

A keen cruise-goer said: “I’ve been on several Carnival cruises and never had an issue but if I saw that much water I would absolutely panic.”

Another added: “Definitely my biggest fear.”

The Carnival Radiance was launched in 2000 and underwent a NZD$330m refurbishment in 2020.