My Love Will Go On!
Couldn't they have evacuated the 4,000 people earlier? Too costly? Not necessary?
4,000 people? You’d probably need 5 or 6 good-sized ships. And no guarantee the conditions on those won’t become as bad.
I’d bet that evacuation at sea would be quite dangerous and by the time it would take to set up a process to do it safely, they could be in port and off loaded.
I say we start a petition to send the First Family on a Carnival Cruise.
I can’t imagine anything that could wrong when evacuating 4000 geriatrics and drunk slops from one ship to another in 10 foot seas.
these things should come with oars, imagine 3,400 passengers and 1,000 crew members rowing.....
“Row, Row, Row your boat...”
These passengers are going to have a great story to tell, they are going to get a refund, they will almost certainly get a free cruise voucher and who knows what other freebies from Carnival, many will be on TV, some will write books, a few will find a way to get a realityTV gig out of it, etc. I just don’t buy that this is all that harrowing. The people are completely safe, the boat isn’t going to capsize. It’s a big adventure!
I understand that although ICKY , this isn’t an emergency ,, as to why the slow response ,, I believe the ship is Bahamian flagged , call Nassau and complain to someone there.. not a USA problem. At least they didn’t run this one aground and kill people... although I fail to see how they couldn’t make temporary repairs and get SOME of the engines running...
I can’t even imagine what a place like that becomes as a disease-plagued, sewage-laden, crime-riddled SHTF hellhole becomes, when everything goes wrong. The SuperDome in NOLA during Katrina quickly comes to mind. No one’s fully-prepared for the desperation which quickly comes, and a rescue seems to take forever.
Reason #1 why I’ve never gone on one.
I found a FREE set of tickets for a Carnival Caribbean Cruise in the mail last night LOL
I dropped them in the trash.
Bon voyage “Poop Sloop”!!! LOL
To his credit, he said SURE! He had nothing but praise for the crew members who were trying to accomodate all the 4,000 passengers during this horrendous ordeal.
I don't care what anyone says, you can't forsee every possible thing that can go wrong on a cruise ship, all you can do is have a plan to deal with whatever happens. And in this case, it sounds like the cruise line was doing just that.
Unfortunately, I suspect the majority of the passengers are going to try to take advantage of the "legal lottery" here.......
They’re getting towed around? That’s a shore excursion for $125 in the Bahamas.
The only way I could see to do it would be to cast off the passengers in lifeboats and have other ships present recover the passengers from the boats. 4,000 passengers floating around in lifeboats? It would be like herding cats, assuming no weather blows up. Bottom line is attempting a transfer would needlessly expose the passengers to safety hazards.
We seem to have some carriers at loose ends. Maybe one of them?
From what I read, the sanitary conditions are so bad that when the captain sounds the horn it makes a sound like a whoopee cushion.
As the ship enters Mobile Bay, cell phones should begin to work. The passengers will be able to see land on both sides, encouraging some, yet it is a long way up the Bay.
Its chilly in Mobile, 53F, & breezy. Down to 37F tomorrow AM. Standing/sleeping on deck is gonna get real uncomfortable as the night progresses. Hope these folks have some warm clothes.
Mobile Infirmary offered a triage station at port arrival but Carnival turned them down. After a week living in a cesspool, maybe feeling a little ill, I might want someone to take a quick look at me & give me some good advice.
Who are we bullshitting!! I would have been swimming for shore by now...
I was just thinking. What will they do when they get to Mobile? I have been to those docks and I doubt they have much facilities.
Maybe they can get exterior power and get the ship’s systems to operate.
I have a good friend of mine from High School on this ship. Can’t wait to talk to her.
One thing I learned in the Navy if I didn’t learn anything else: you don’t pull a big ship by a string!