better than on the rocks
Posted on 02/11/2013 3:57:42 AM PST by Doogle
Edited on 02/11/2013 5:32:22 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The Coast Guard says it is maintaining communication with a Carnival cruise ship that is adrift off of Mexico after a fire in an engine room.
The Coast Guard said in a news release personnel aboard the Carnival Triumph extinguished the fire and no one was injured. The ship is now operating on emergency power about 150 miles off southern Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
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Think of Carnival cruise liners as huge cattle cars ... adrift ... with engine fires.
Luckily, the Carnival Posedion was nearby.
A three hour tour...
A three hour tour...
We did a cruise in 1997.
I was bored to tears.
Never again.
better than on the rocks
And...
Tug boats have been dispatched to tow the ship to port in Progreso, Mexico, where it is expected to arrive on Wednesday afternoon, Carnival said in a statement on its Facebook page. The ship's 3,143 guests will then be flown from Progreso back to the U.S.
Fire in the engine room? Bummer of a location...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater
That’s a little melodramatic. Usually the ship loses power, no more running water and bathrooms don’t work, then four thousand people jammed into a big sardine can spend several hot sweaty days having no good place to poop. More likely than the horror movie scenario, and probably just as pleasant. I’d rather be eaten by man-eating clams.
Cruise ships, while underway, are floating tenements, operating under some nebulous standard of law. At least if my hotel on land loses power and water, I can walk somewhere else. I guess Cozumel and Cancun count as "places," so you got me there.
According to the radio news, there is no plumbing, i.e., working toilets and the tow will take 3 days. Said they are “working” to get “some” functioning. 4,000 passengers. Yuck.
Your sense of adventure is underwhelming. Cruise lines are anxious to protect their reputation and are liable to civil suits. In my admittedly limited experience, they’re ok, I suppose it depends are where you go and what you do.
Always buy trip insurance and pack lots of clean undies.. and socks. We cruised a pile of times over the last 30 years..
a 10-day Alaska cruise in and out of San Fran in late May is up next..
I never sailed on Carnival, mostly RCCL and Princess, just the luck of the draw, wifey is the big # cruiser , we have never been norovirused or too badly rocked and rolled.. It’s a great way to see things and not have to worry about driving a lot or having to cook.
ITALIANS ARE Lovers NOT CAPTAINS OF SHIPS!!!!!!!!
THE BEST ARE THE NORWEIGANS.
If you think that's bad, you should see Guam!
-PJ
Reminds me of the definition of “Hell”
Where the food is British
The cars are French
The police are German
The lovers are Swiss
...and the whole thing is run by Italians
My mom was on a cruise in the 1970s that ran aground on some sand in the Bahamas. They were stuck for a couple of days and they had to helicopter liquor in.
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