Tuesday, November 9, 2010

“Cruise Control” or "Carnival Carnage"

http://travel.usatoday.com/cruises/post/2010/11/carnival-splendor-fire-cruise-ship-engine-room-tug-boat/130420/1

The Carnival cruise ship Splendor had an engine room fire Monday, forcing the ship to be towed to port by tugboats over an estimated 2-day period with limited food, no air conditioning, and no working toilets. Trying to still enjoy their trip, some passengers are just pretending they are vacationing in India.

It will take an estimated 2 day journey for tugboats to pull the 113,000-ton ship into port in Ensenada, Mexico. It would take less than a day, but there are a lot of fat Americans aboard.

Passengers say the only thing that would have been worse was if the cruise had proceeded as normal.

Per Carnival policy, once the ship docks, passengers wishing to disembark will be asked to remain calm and form an orderly Conga line.

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