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Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel
National
Tiffini Theisen

Construction crane crashes into Royal Caribbean ship in Bahamas

ORLANDO, Fla. _ A crane toppled over onto a Royal Caribbean cruise ship Monday with no passengers on board in the Bahamas, according to news reports.

The Oasis of the Seas vessel was in dry dock and out of service at the time of the accident, the cruise line said in a statement.

There were no deaths, Bahamas Press tweeted, but it was unclear whether there were any injuries.

A video tweeted by Bahamas Press showed the construction equipment lying against the vessel at the Great Bahamas Shipyard near Freeport.

"Big, big, big, big disaster," a man's voice can be heard saying on the video.

"We are aware of damage to the dock structure and to construction cranes," Melissa Charbonneau, Royal Caribbean's director of corporate reputation, emailed in a statement. "We are assessing damage to the ship."

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