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No AC Or Toilets, Crippled Carnival Ship Splendor Needs Tow
CBS4.com ^ | 11/8/10

Posted on 11/09/2010 3:57:32 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta

One of Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines' newest ships was dead in the water Monday night, more than 100 miles off the Mexican coast, as fire damage to the engine room left thousands of passengers without hot food, working toilets, or air conditioning for their cabins.

Everyone is safe, the cruise line says, but the cruise is over as soon as the Carnival Splendor can be towed to a Mexican port.

Fire broke out in the forward engine room around 6 a.m, Pacific time, the cruise line confirmed. Guests whose rooms were near the engine room were evacuated to the Lido Deck, an upper deck that opens onto the outdoors. The fire was reported out by 9 a.m., but a re-flash occurred, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The damage is so extensive, the ship's key operating systems, including air conditioning, flushing toilets, hot meal preparations and telephones are not available.

Guests are being provided with bottled water and food items and are able to move around on the ship's upper open deck areas.

Several tow boats were heading toward the ship's location, which is about 150 miles south of San Diego. The US Coast Guard also sent ships to the area.

The 925-foot liner, carrying 3,300 passengers and more than 1,100 crew members will be towed to Ensenada, Mexico and passengers will be taken back to California, where the cruise line will help get them home.

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1 posted on 11/09/2010 3:57:37 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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Carnival Splendor

2 posted on 11/09/2010 3:58:35 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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Remind me not to take a Caribbean cruise.


3 posted on 11/09/2010 3:58:45 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

This ship is stranded off the coast of Mexico.


4 posted on 11/09/2010 4:00:02 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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You would think that for a ship so expensive they would have had a little redundancy in the ship systems.

The cost for lack of it will be very high.


5 posted on 11/09/2010 4:02:16 AM PST by PeteB570 (Islam is the sea in which the terrorist shark swims. It aids & comforts the shark on it's journey.)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

I’d guess it will need a good washing after a few thousand people hang it over the side for their morning constitutional.

Talk about a miserable experience. Feel sorry for the travelers.


6 posted on 11/09/2010 4:03:27 AM PST by IamConservative (Our collective common sense; the only thing a 1.5GPF toilet ever flushed on the first pull.)
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The worst part would be 3300 people w/no toilets. Wonder what the contingency is for that? Ugh. Hope Carnival at least gave everyone free booze.


7 posted on 11/09/2010 4:03:46 AM PST by rbg81 (When you see Obama, shout: "DO YOUR JOB!!")
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To: IamConservative

Carnival says there are 3,299 passengers onboard. It’s bad being trapped with that many people.


8 posted on 11/09/2010 4:11:29 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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That’s the worst part.


9 posted on 11/09/2010 4:12:49 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: PeteB570

It’s going to cost Carnival a bundle.


10 posted on 11/09/2010 4:14:05 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Passengers are getting food and water, but the toilets don’t work. What could go wrong? This article is probably reporting conditions better than they actually are and there is a potential for major health risk.


11 posted on 11/09/2010 4:14:39 AM PST by Truth29
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That free booze won’t feel so free having to hold it for a day.


12 posted on 11/09/2010 4:15:22 AM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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I would demand to be helicoptered off that ship. No Mexico for me:(

Or send in the US Navy - No wait the whole fleet is floating around India.

Too bad, US citizens - you are on your own.


13 posted on 11/09/2010 4:15:55 AM PST by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God 's redemption.)
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It took 3 hours to fight the fire? That seems like some fire.

Don’t these boats have fire suppression systems?


14 posted on 11/09/2010 4:16:18 AM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: Truth29

I agree.


15 posted on 11/09/2010 4:16:40 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: 1010RD

No, it won’t...


16 posted on 11/09/2010 4:17:31 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: sodpoodle

These people are lucky it isn’t a transatlantic cruise.


17 posted on 11/09/2010 4:18:32 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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and passengers will be taken back to California, where the cruise line will help get them home.

Did this strike anybody besides me funny? Does "help" mean they get a $100 voucher or something?

18 posted on 11/09/2010 4:19:18 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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You’d think so. The ship is only 2 years old.


19 posted on 11/09/2010 4:20:33 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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Didn’t something like this happen 10 years ago to another Carnival Cruise?


20 posted on 11/09/2010 4:22:21 AM PST by Londo Molari
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