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''Carnival Breeze'' is a of
Carnival Cruise Line Carnival Cruise Line is an international cruise line with headquarters in Doral, Florida. The company is a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. Its logo is a funnel shaped like a whale's tail, with a red, white, and blue color scheme. This ...
which was
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on 20 November 2008, launched on 16 September 2011 and completed on 3 June 2012.


Concept and construction

''Carnival Breeze'' is the third and last ''Dream''-class ship built for Carnival but Costa Crociere also operates a ''Dream''-class ship. Fincantieri Monfalcone of Italy is the builder. The ''Dream''-class vessels were the largest passenger ships ever built by Fincantieri at the time of their construction. The ship's godmother is Tracy Wilson Mourning, a motivational speaker and founder of the Honey Shine girls' empowerment charity.


Areas of operation

From June to November 2012 she sailed out of Barcelona, Spain and
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, Italy on
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cruises, and afterwards from
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,
Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to th ...
to the
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and
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. In May 2016, she moved to
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,
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. In April 2017 ''Carnival Breeze'' entered dry dock, at the Grand Bahamas Shipyard, for the first time since entering service in 2012. ''Carnival Breeze'' is currently home-ported in Galveston, Texas after moving from Florida due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She continues cruising to the Caribbean.


Incidents

During the coronavirus
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, on 9 May 2020, it was reported that a 29-year-old Hungarian crew member aboard ''Carnival Breeze'' had been found dead in his cabin, reportedly due to suicide. He was an assistant shore excursion manager, and was last seen with someone on 6 May 2020. A crew member blamed depression due to long periods of isolation aboard the ship, while others were shocked because things seemed normal with the crew member. A feature article in Bloomberg news in late December 2020 elaborated on the circumstances of his life and death, along with those of many other suspected suicides by cruise ship crewmembers during indefinite COVID quarantines during 2020. At the time, ''Carnival Breeze'' was crossing the Atlantic Ocean heading toward
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, England, to repatriate its European crew members.


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* {{Carnival Cruise Line Breeze Ships built in Monfalcone Ships built by Fincantieri 2011 ships