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Pictures of Carnival Cruise Line s ship Triumph as it s pulling into dock, Mobile, Alabama Friday February 15, 2013. Almost five days after their ship was disabled hotel paris by an engine fire, the more than 4,200 people on board the Carnival cruise hotel paris ship Triumph began disembarking late Thursday, about an hour after docking at the Port of Mobile. Crews were busy tying the ship to the dock at the Alabama Cruise Terminal hotel paris as cheering passengers hung over balcony rails or waited in lines to exit the vessel. It s almost over for the 4,227 passengers and crew stuck on a filthy, disabled cruise ship that limped into port three days after it was due. Once the ship ties up at the dock, it will take four to five hours to get everyone off, said Terry Thornton, a Carnival vice president, said. Carnival CEO Gerry Cahill told reporters he was going on to the ship to personally apologize to passengers. (Beth Hall/CNN)
Carnival Dream lost power and some toilets stopped working Wednesday, and no one was allowed to get off the vessel docked at Philipsburg, St. Maarten, in the eastern Caribbean. Carnival says it is flying the more than 4,000 passengers back to Florida and will give them discounts.
And in the most publicized case, last month, an engine hotel paris room fire left the Carnival Triumph crippled and adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4,200 people aboard. That scheduled four-day cruise hotel paris stretched into eight days as tugs pulled the vessel into port in Alabama. Food was scarce and passengers sweltered in the heat with no air conditioning.
Carnival Legend is experiencing a technical issue with one of the ship s Azipod units that is affecting the vessel s sailing speed, the cruise company said. The ship s safety hotel paris systems and hotel services are all functioning normally.
Capt. Massimo Marino told passengers they will be booked hotel paris on flights to Orlando or another destination. Passengers with cars at Port Canaveral will be bused from Orlando to the facility about an hour away.
We sincerely apologize for the disappointment this unexpected change has caused hotel paris and regret we were unable to provide you with the fun and memorable cruise vacation we had in store for you, he wrote.
Carnival spokesman Vance Gulliksen said Thursday that 4,300 guests were aboard the Dream along with about 1,300 crew members. Carnival s website puts the ship s capacity at 3,646 passengers, but that s based on only two people per cabin, and some cabins hold more, Gulliksen explained.
The first flights for passengers stranded on cruise ship Dream will begin Friday at 9 a.m. ET., starting the process of 10 flights expected to take 2,184 passengers hotel paris back home Friday, Carnival said. More passengers will be taken on the weekend.
On Tuesday, Carnival announced it was conducting a comprehensive review of all of its 23 ships after a fire last month that crippled one of its ships in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving passengers stranded for days while the vessel was towed back to land. Carnival President and CEO Gerry Cahill said the probe will focus on the prevention, detection and suppression of fires, engine room redundancies, and what additional hotel facilities might be provided hotel paris and might run off the emergency generators.
There s human waste all over the floor in some of the bathrooms and they re overflowing and in the state rooms, Stark said. The elevators have not been working. They ve been turning them on and off, on and off.
An announcement hotel paris over the ship s public hotel paris address system said the crew was trying to fix the problem and was working on the generators, according to Stark. A few hours later, another announcement said the problem was worse than originally believed.
We are not allowed off of the boat despite the fact that we have no way to use the restrooms onboard, Jonathan Evans of Reidsville, North Carolina, said in an e-mail Thursday. The cruise director is giving passengers very limited information hotel paris and tons of empty promises. What was supposed to take an hour has turned into 7-plus hours.
hotel paris But Thursday afternoon, Carnival told CNN that based on conversations with the ship s management team, a look at service logs and extensive physical monitoring of all public areas, including restrooms, throughout the night, we can confirm hotel paris that only one public restroom was taken offline for cleaning based on toilet overflow and there was a total of one request for cleaning of a guest cabin bathroom.
Aside from that, there have been no reports of issues onboard with overflowing toilets or sewage. The toilet system had periodic hotel paris interruptions yesterday evening and was fully restored at approximately 12:30 a.m. this morning.
That scheduled four-day cruise stretched into eight days as tugs pulled the vessel into port in Alabama. Food was scarce, and passengers sweltered in the heat with no air conditioning. People aboard also reported overflowing toilets and human waste running down the walls in some parts of the ship.
The Coast Guard has responded to a string of 90 marine casualty incidents with passengers onboard Carnival ships in the last five years, the West Virginia Democrat wrote. It seems that Carnival has failed to take any meaningful course of corrective action after these continual incidents. This needs to change.
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