Posted on 11/11/2010 12:21:23 PM PST by BenLurkin
Relieved passengers wheeled their suitcases down the gangplank of a disabled cruise ship Thursday, cheering as they finally touched land after three nightmarish days adrift with limited food, backed-up toilets and dark cabins.
Pulled by six tug boats and escorted by Coast Guard cutters, the nearly 1,000-foot Carnival Splendor reached the dock at about 8:30 a.m. PST.
The first group of passengers walked down a ramp about an hour later, dragging rolling suitcases behind them and entering a tent on the dock. With the ship’s elevators out of order, port officials estimated it would take about four hours for everyone to leave the ship.
It was gross when the toilets weren’t working. What can you do?” Harlan said. “There were a lot of people getting smashed off warm beer.”
People on the decks and about 100 onshore cheered loudly as the ship reached the dock, while all along the harbor, tourists, joggers and fishermen stopped to snap photos.
High up on a ship railing, someone had stuck a sign thanking the Coast Guard and a hand-drawn U.S. flag.
“We’re so happy to be getting off. Everybody’s been cheering and clapping,” passenger Fahizah Alim, 26, of Sacramento, said by cell phone.
“It’s been like a nightmare,” she said. “There’s been no food, no power, no electricity, no flushing toilets. I spent the night tossing and turning in my cabin in the dark.”
The ship left Long Beach on Sunday for a seven-day trip to the Mexican Riviera, only to return days early without ever reaching the beaches vacationers had hoped for. A fire in the engine room knocked out power Monday morning, leaving passengers with no air conditioning, no hot food, no hot water, no casino. The swimming pool was off-limits because there was no way to pump chlorine.
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YIKES!
Anyone reporting fried cell phones from the EMP attack???
Oh
Em
Gee !
Some where 33 or so miners are laughing there ass’s off
Hmmm....the cause of the fire still hasn’t been identified....Hey...Now cut that out!
Indeed!
Mickey Arison crap cruise line company.
Is this the EMP attack that caused the fire in the engineroom?
The horror. The horror.
“Some where 33 or so miners are laughing there ass’s off”
Right on! LOL
Article says crankcase explosion on one of six main engines.
Nah, it was debris from the Chinese sub ICBM. Eigther that or an errant death ray test from Area 51.
“We’re so happy to be getting off. Everybody’s been cheering and clapping,” passenger Fahizah Alim, 26, of Sacramento, said by cell phone.
Sounds like a suspect to me. Terrorist on cruise ships
IIRC, there was no power or running water on the Mayflower either. Not a single flushing toilet could be found. And the passengers and crew were stuck there for days till the wind finally blew them to shore.
Article says crankcase explosion on one of six main engines.
BS one engine out of six and they could not even keep beer cold
I wonder how many of those passengers are talking to their lawyers right now? Physical and emotional suffering, yada yada. Probably going to cost Carnival a mint.
LOL! Good point.
Forgive me in advance for this, but my "grammar police" restraint has its limits. It's a curse of being an English instructor...lol.
"Somewhere 33 or so miners are laughing their asses off."
Cry baby
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