Carnival Cruise Ship Grazes Iceberg While Sailing in Alaska

A Carnival Cruise Line ship traveling through Tracy Arm Fjord , south of the city of Juneau, Alaska, struck a small iceberg last week. The waterway is known for its breathtaking views as well as floating pieces of ice, as passengers learned all too well.

Thankfully no one was injured in the collision and there were no damages to the ship, but video posted to social media captured the harrowing incident.

Cassandra Goskie, a passenger on the ship, posted video to TikTok of the accident that occurred last week on Sept. 5. "If we die it was damn well worth it ... it’s a Titanic moment," Goskie can be heard narrating the video, before letting out an exaggerated scream as the ship was seen plowing right through the floating chunk of ice.

"Oh, we are hitting it!" she exclaimed. "Damn!!"

"Carnival Spirit hit an iceberg. It didn't do any damage that caused us to use any emergency procedures," Goskie added in the video's caption. "The crew did an amazing job at accessing the damage and keep all of its crew and passengers safe and informed!"

Another passenger, Saurabh Singhal, posted his account of the collision to Facebook the following day.

"My wife and I have been on a cruise ship Carnival Spirit to Alaska since Sept. 3," Singhal wrote in the post. "Our ship hit an iceberg yesterday afternoon and the ship came to a complete halt for hours to assess damages. Luckily, there were no damages and we moved ahead to Skagway, AK."

In a statement to CNN Travel , a spokesperson for Carnival Cruise Line described the incident as the ship hitting "an errant piece of drifting ice."

“An assessment determined no damage to the ship’s hull and the vessel continued on its cruise and there has been no impact to operations," the spokesperson said. The vessel finished its seven-day Alaska cruise on Tuesday and safely returned to its port in Seattle, WA. It has since embarked on another 14-day round trip to Alaska.

The accident follows a push from locals to reduce the number of cruise ships passing through Juneau, concerned about effects of increased traffic from cruise ship tourism on small, coastal Alaska towns. A citizen's initiative was proposed back in July that would forbid cruise ships on Saturdays, which residents will vote on whether to enact in October.

"I know what Juneau used to be, and I know what it could be and it isn’t now, and so I’m fighting to bring some of that back," Karla Hart, a local proponent, told the Alaska Beacon . "Ship-free Saturdays is a way to just give everybody in Juneau one day a week without the blanket of impacts on our lives. And to me, I believe that if we all have that one day a week without all of the chaos that comes with the cruise industry, that we’ll all be happier and healthier."