Operational career
MSC Seaview set off on her maiden voyage on 10 June 2018 from Genoa, a 7-day sailing around the Western Mediterranean, visiting Marseille, Barcelona, Naples, Messina, and Valletta.[11] For her inaugural season, she continued sailing weekly voyages in the Western Mediterranean before re-positioning to Brazil for the winter 2018–2019 season.[20] The rotation repeated the following year.[21]
On 21 June 2019, an Irish national jumped overboard during a Mediterranean voyage and a crew member was credited for saving the passenger after they dove into the water to rescue the passenger. Both were later brought back onboard and sent to a local hospital and the ship resumed sailing thereafter.[22]
She was originally scheduled to be deployed to her first season sailing in the Persian Gulf from her homeport of Dubai for the winter 2020–2021 season,[23] but due to the COVID-19 pandemic forcing fleet redeployments, she was scheduled to return to Brazil during that timeframe.[24] In summer 2021, she will return to the Mediterranean to sail weekly voyages.[25]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, ten crew members aboard MSC Seaview reportedly tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.[26] Subsequently, the ship entered quarantine at the Port of Santos on 30 April 2020.[26] On 5 May 2020, Empresa Brasil de Comunicação reported that there were now 80 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, with another 30 suspected cases, out of a total of 615 crew members aboard.[27] Later that day, the number of confirmed cases rose to 86.[28]
