Carnival cruise

I recently read the article Disabled Carnival Cruise is on The Move Again After Tugboat Towline Snaps.  The article is about a Carnival Cruise ship that broke down out at sea.  This was a nine hundred foot, fourteen story ship where a fire occurred in the ship’s engine room and knocked the ship out of commission three days later.  There were 3,143 guests, and 1,086 crew members on the ship.  They were stranded out at sea till rescuers finally began towing the ship.  But there just happened to be stiff headwinds that day and then a broken towline that caused them to be stranded even longer.   It got to the point that some of the passengers spelled out “help” with their bodies on the deck of the ship because the tugboats couldn’t pull them any faster than five miles per hour and they were miserable on board.

Not that the situation wasn’t bad enough already, but the conditions on the ship weren’t very pleasant either.  All of the passengers are telling stories of the poor conditions such as the sewage leaking.  The toilets over flowed, there was sewage in the showers, an overpowering odor on the ship, and sick passengers.  Also, to top it all off, there was a food shortage because the cruise wasn’t meant to last for that long of a period of time.  The passengers survived mostly off of cold cuts except for when a passing ship dropped off some burgers.

I think that would be an awful situation to be in.  Just think, all these people paid for a cruise and were expecting to enjoy themselves.  I can’t imagine being trapped on a ship for days with little food with it being in that kind of condition!