Last week, a Carnival Cruise Line ship came into contact with a drift of ice while cruising in Alaska.

“Carnival Spirit made contact with a piece of drifting ice last Thursday while navigating Tracy Arm Fjord in Alaska,” said spokesperson Matt Lupoli in an email to YSL News. “After evaluating the situation, we confirmed there was no damage to the ship’s hull, and it continued its journey without any disruptions to operations.”

The cruise had started a week earlier from Seattle, Washington, on September 3.

Videos from social media depict the ship approaching the ice as passengers watch in awe. TikTok user Cassandra Goskie described the incident as a “Titanic moment.”

“If we go down, at least it was worth it,” she stated in a video posted this week. Goskie has not yet replied to requests for an interview.

This incident follows a previous occurrence in 2022 when a Norwegian Cruise Line vessel, Norwegian Sun, actually struck a small iceberg while on its way to Alaska’s Hubbard Glacier. Stewart Chiron, a cruise industry expert known as The Cruise Guy, mentioned to YSL News during that event that while cruise ships “exercise extraordinary caution” around icebergs, it’s common for ice to break off glaciers and drift into the sea.

“Sometimes contact happens, but it’s usually not a big issue,” Chiron explained.

Nathan Diller is a consumer travel reporter for YSL News based in Nashville.