He said waste tipped out of some commodes and sloshed across floors as the ship listed to the side. It's running out of somebody's bathroom out into the hallway all the way across," he said. Long lines for food and frequent delays were constantly aggravating, he said.
The incident aboard the ship scared Poret's daughter and a friend taking the cruise with her, Poret said. During less stressful times, passengers passed the hours playing cards, walking the deck and going to see what was happening on other areas of the ship, Poret said.
Passengers set up charging stations to help their fellow passengers juice up cell phones and other devices, he said. Aboard the cruise ship? Share your story with CNN iReport. Carnival promised an army of about employees would take care of its passengers once they cleared customs. Passengers boarded buses to Galveston, where the cruise originated, or Houston, or went to spend the night in a hotel in New Orleans.
Carnival said it had reserved about motor coaches, more than 1, New Orleans hotel rooms, multiple charter flights from New Orleans to Houston on Friday and transportation from Houston to the Port of Galveston so that guests may retrieve their cars if they drove to the port. Carnival officials had initially planned to tow the ship to a Mexican port, but after Gulf currents pushed it farther north before tugboats could take control, and considering that of the passengers do not have passports, the company decided to take the Carnival Triumph to Mobile instead, where it can be repaired.
The Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board launched an investigation into the cause of the engine room fire. Because the Carnival Triumph is a Bahamian-flagged vessel, the Bahamas Maritime Authority is the primary investigative agency. Read related: Cruise safety drill results in 5 deaths. Travelers have few options for compensation in these cases, other than what the cruise line is already offering, according to travel expert Jason Clampet of Skift.
Travel "insurance really doesn't cover this sort of thing. Their trip wasn't interrupted and they aren't incurring extra expenses Testimony from passengers is expected to continue for at least another week. Many passengers have already testified to injuries they sustained during the cruise, though few are physical in nature.
I got mentally injured," testified Jean Cripps, a year-old grandmother who suffers from Parkinson's disease. She went on the cruise with her husband, Alton, who has diabetes and a hurt leg that forced him to retire disabled. The elderly couple was on the cruise as a present from their son, David, and grandson, Easton, who went with them. We had two good days," she said, referring to the first days of the cruise. I think about the smell, the stench and the bad things.
All the memories come flooding back, and I can't stop them. Are cruise ships floating petri dishes? Among the worst memories, Cripps testified, was the fear that the ship, which listed severely after the fire, would actually turn over and sink.
Alton had to go several days without his diabetes medicine and was forced to climb numerous flights of often slippery stairs with his bad leg, causing him to fall once. Fleda Key described having terrible diarrhea on numerous occasions and having difficulty finding any toilets that were not overflowing. Her daughter, like many of those testifying, said the cruise ship company kept them in the dark, with no information about what was truly happening, and did not care for them properly.
When asked by Graham what Carnival should have done, she responded, "If they knew something was wrong, they should never have left the dock. Michelle Key may have been referring to the company's internal documents that became public through this lawsuit in December and obtained exclusively by CNN. The documents revealed the fiasco on board the Carnival Triumph was a problem waiting to happen.
Internal company documents show that the crew of the Triumph set sail in February with only four of six generators fully operational, knowing that the company had an ongoing generator fire hazard in ships across its fleet, including the Triumph.
The first trouble with Triumph was in diesel generator No. Starting more than a year before the cruise, that generator was overdue for maintenance and often not in compliance with the safety laws of the sea, known as SOLAS, according to the ship's engineer. Read the document about the generator PDF. Over and over again, Carnival's own maintenance reports stated the same thing: Diesel generator No. The company says the fire that originated with the generator was not connected to the lack of maintenance.
But, during that same period, Carnival learned about another, even more alarming safety problem in the engine room: fuel lines. A dangerous pattern of leaks had emerged on other Carnival cruise ships, according to the company's documents.
In fact, Carnival's Costa Allegra caught fire in the Indian Ocean in February because fuel leaked onto a hot spot and ignited. That fire left the ship without power for three days in tropical heat of nearly degrees Fahrenheit. Read Carnival's advisory notice PDF. That would be eerily similar to what started the fire on board the Triumph one year later.
Carnival says it proactively began investigating after the Costa Allegra fire and found a big problem in a different type of fuel line. There had been nine incidents resulting in fuel leaks associated with flexible fuel lines in just two years. Spate of fires pose problem for cruise industry. On January 2, Carnival issued a compliance order, giving ships two months to address the problem to "ensure a suitable spray shield Several passengers mentioned that the ship lost power as early as P.
A generator was started but the ship remained drifting without propulsion for several hours. The Carnival cruise ship called on Cozumel, Mexico yesterday February 27th and is currently north of Cuba at this time. Before the power failure, the ship was scheduled to arrive back in Miami tomorrow morning at A.
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