Port St. Maarten management are very pleased with emergency protocol procedures that were carried out Friday morning after crew onboard Carnival Liberty were alerted to a bow thruster overheating.
Carnival Liberty crew followed shipboard procedures related to the smoke alarm and after some time everything was back to normal.
The St. Maarten Fire Department as part of standard procedure under such circumstances was called to the port.
After the all clear was given, the fire trucks returned to their base in Cay Hill.