AIDAblu

This article is about the 2010 AIDA Cruises ship. For the former ship of the same name, see Karnika.

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.

AIDAblu in Corfu
History
Italy
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	Call sign: IBWX IMO number: 9398888 MMSI number: 247282500
Status	In service
General characteristics
Class & 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

The name of AIDAblu was used for a former AIDA ship from 2004 to 2007.

Facilities

AIDAblu has six restaurants, ten bars,^[4] 8,120 square metres (87,000 sq ft) of outer deck area and 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 on the inside and 722 on the outside.^[6] The callsign is IBWX . IMO 9398888 . MMSI 247282500.

Incidents

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]