Incidents
A crewmember broke his back onboard Carnival Valor in 2014. In September 2018, a Monaco judge ruled that Carnival should pay the crewmember $1.4 million, but the company refused to pay. The crewmember then took the company to a U.S. Federal court in Miami which ruled in his favor; the crewmember won the suit.[16]
On August 3, 2017, the ship contacted the Houston-Galveston Coast Guard station and requested assistance for a woman who was injured from a fall. She was then medically evacuated by helicopter near Galveston after the ship left port for Cozumel.[17]
On October 10, 2019, a 23-year-old male passenger was critically injured when he fell from where he was sitting onto a lower deck.[18] He was medically transported by a Coast Guard Eurocopter MH-65 Dolphin from New Orleans.[19]
On December 22, 2021, a 53-year-old man started experiencing stroke-like symptoms. He was picked up by a Coast Guard MH-65 218 mi south of Southwest Pass, Louisiana and transported to New Orleans.[20]
On February 16, 2022, a 32-year-old woman fell overboard while the vessel was around 150 mi from the coast of Louisiana when heading to New Orleans after a port call in Cozumel, Mexico.[21]
On 24 November 2022, a 28-year-old-man fell overboard 20 miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. He was found and rescued by a United States Coast Guard helicopter over 15 hours later.[22]
Coronavirus pandemic
During the coronavirus pandemic, the CDC reported, as early as April 22, 2020, that at least one person tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after disembarking.[23] On March 15, a 49-year-old man from Ohio tested positive with COVID-19 after displaying symptoms.[24] On April 8, 300 crew members who tested negative for COVID-19 disembarked at the Port of New Orleans.[25]
