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A fire broke out on the world’s largest cruise ship on Tuesday, the same one where a passenger fell to his death last month.
A small fire broke out on Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas while it was docked in Mexico’s Costa Maya, causing the massive ship to briefly lose power, officials told USA Today.
The fire was confined to the crew area and was quickly extinguished without any injuries.
The ship’s backup power source kicked in, preventing the vessel from being unable to proceed as scheduled. The 20-story ship had departed Miami, Florida, on Saturday for a week-long Western Caribbean cruise, according to CruiseMapper.
The small fire is not the first notable incident aboard the Icon of the Seas since it set sail on its maiden voyage in January.
In May, a passenger jumped from the 1,200-foot cruise ship on the first day of a week-long trip to Honduras, just 300 miles from its departure port in Florida.
Passengers described “dystopian” scenes to The Washington Post as they believed the man was alive and prematurely celebrated being pulled from the water.
A month earlier, 20-year-old passenger Le’Veon Parker died after falling from a boat on another Royal Caribbean cruise ship after a drunken fight with his father.
He jumped from a window on the Liberty of the Seas and died in front of his brother and father, but his body has never been found.
Royal Caribbean did not immediately respond to The Washington Post’s request for comment.
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