![]() AIDAblu in
Corfu
| |
History | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Name | AIDAblu |
Owner | Costa Crociere S.p.A. [1] |
Operator | AIDA Cruises |
Port of registry | Genoa, Italy |
Ordered | July 1, 2006 [2] |
Builder | Meyer Werft (Germany) |
Cost | $420 million |
Yard number | S. 680 [2] |
Launched | July 11, 2009 |
Christened | February 9, 2010 [3] |
Maiden voyage | February 9, 2010 to Palma, Majorca |
In service | 2010–present |
Identification |
|
Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Sphinx-class [4] cruise ship |
Tonnage | 71,304 GT [1] |
Length | 253.33 m (831.14 ft) [1] |
Beam | 32.2 m (105.64 ft) [1] |
Draught | 7.3 m (23.95 ft) [1] |
Decks | 15 decks |
Installed power | Diesel-electric (about 36,000kW) [2] |
Propulsion | 4 Caterpillar MaK engines [2] [4] |
Capacity | 2,192 passengers |
Crew | 607 crew |
AIDAblu is a Sphinx-class cruise ship, operated by the German cruise line, AIDA Cruises. AIDAblu is the seventh ship [5] in the cruise line. The vessel was delivered by Meyer Werft on 4 February 2010. [6] She is a sister ship to AIDAdiva, AIDAbella, AIDAluna [5] with a half deck more, and is followed by similar AIDAsol and AIDAmar. She has a passenger capacity of 2,050.
The name of AIDAblu was used for a former AIDA ship from 2004 to 2007.
AIDAblu has six restaurants, ten bars, [4] 8,120 square metres (87,000 sq ft) of outer deck area and a 3,000 square metres (32,000 sq ft) theatrium. [4]
It also has the first brewery installed on a cruise ship, where the beers served in the ship are brewed. [6]
AIDAblu has 1096 cabins, 374 are on the inside and 722 on the outside. [6] The callsign is IBWX . IMO 9398888 . MMSI 247282500.
In 2010 Francesco Schettino, the captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia before, was the captain of the Costa Atlantica, also a Carnival Corporation ship as it entered the port of Warnemünde, Germany, at too high a speed, allegedly causing damage to the AIDAblu. [7]
On 18 May 2020, whilst the ship was docked in Hamburg, a male Filipino crew member of AIDAblu who had worked in the galley department was found dead in his cabin. The crew member was not suspected to have died of COVID-19. [8]
![]() AIDAblu in
Corfu
| |
History | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Name | AIDAblu |
Owner | Costa Crociere S.p.A. [1] |
Operator | AIDA Cruises |
Port of registry | Genoa, Italy |
Ordered | July 1, 2006 [2] |
Builder | Meyer Werft (Germany) |
Cost | $420 million |
Yard number | S. 680 [2] |
Launched | July 11, 2009 |
Christened | February 9, 2010 [3] |
Maiden voyage | February 9, 2010 to Palma, Majorca |
In service | 2010–present |
Identification |
|
Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Sphinx-class [4] cruise ship |
Tonnage | 71,304 GT [1] |
Length | 253.33 m (831.14 ft) [1] |
Beam | 32.2 m (105.64 ft) [1] |
Draught | 7.3 m (23.95 ft) [1] |
Decks | 15 decks |
Installed power | Diesel-electric (about 36,000kW) [2] |
Propulsion | 4 Caterpillar MaK engines [2] [4] |
Capacity | 2,192 passengers |
Crew | 607 crew |
AIDAblu is a Sphinx-class cruise ship, operated by the German cruise line, AIDA Cruises. AIDAblu is the seventh ship [5] in the cruise line. The vessel was delivered by Meyer Werft on 4 February 2010. [6] She is a sister ship to AIDAdiva, AIDAbella, AIDAluna [5] with a half deck more, and is followed by similar AIDAsol and AIDAmar. She has a passenger capacity of 2,050.
The name of AIDAblu was used for a former AIDA ship from 2004 to 2007.
AIDAblu has six restaurants, ten bars, [4] 8,120 square metres (87,000 sq ft) of outer deck area and a 3,000 square metres (32,000 sq ft) theatrium. [4]
It also has the first brewery installed on a cruise ship, where the beers served in the ship are brewed. [6]
AIDAblu has 1096 cabins, 374 are on the inside and 722 on the outside. [6] The callsign is IBWX . IMO 9398888 . MMSI 247282500.
In 2010 Francesco Schettino, the captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia before, was the captain of the Costa Atlantica, also a Carnival Corporation ship as it entered the port of Warnemünde, Germany, at too high a speed, allegedly causing damage to the AIDAblu. [7]
On 18 May 2020, whilst the ship was docked in Hamburg, a male Filipino crew member of AIDAblu who had worked in the galley department was found dead in his cabin. The crew member was not suspected to have died of COVID-19. [8]