A video capturing the aftermath of late-night flooding aboard the Sky Princess, a cruise ship of Princess Cruises, with staff members shown navigating flooded walkways has gone viral on TikTok.
The short clip, posted by user @wallisthomastravels, has amassed 8.6 million views since it was posted on April 9. Text overlaid on the video adds: “POV [point of view] your cruise starts to flood in the middle of the night.”
The caption reads: “Sky Princess Flooding. The emergency systems went down and started telling people there was a fire in the corridors, which isn’t great. Have arrived in France, which is good though.”
A spokesperson for Princess Cruises told Newsweek that a pipe had burst on deck 7 of the Sky Princesson the evening of April 8, leading to water accumulation in the Piazza on decks 5 and 6. “Our shipboard teams immediately shut off the water and …