I heard this at 7am this morning on the radio.. Carnival is going to to remove the ship from their line because it is not repairable .
This am they had no air conditioning, no hot food etc..
Apparently no toilet flushing either with the pumps off. That can’t be very pleasant...
Coast Guard Reaches Cruise Passengers Stranded Off Mexican Coast
LEE FERRAN
Nov. 9, 2010
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter has reached a crippled Carnival cruise ship, stranded off the western coast of Mexico since early Monday morning with nearly 4,500 passengers and crew on board after an engine room fire.
Two officers from the Coast Guard are now aboard the ship to help ensure the safety of the passengers until two tugboats chartered by Carnival are expected to arrive midday today to tow the ship to a Mexican port. Though Carnival did confirm that three people on the ship were treated in the ship’s infirmary for panic attacks, a spokesman for the Coast Guard said no major medical concerns had been reported. No one was injured in the fire.
The Carnival Splendor, a 113,000-ton behemoth, suffered an engine fire early Monday morning which knocked out the ship’s power, including air conditioning, hot food service, flushing toilets and telephones, Carnival said in a statement.
The fire was extinguished in about three hours. Even after the tugboats reach the ship at midday today, it could be at least 24 hours before it can be safely towed to the Mexican port of Ensenada, the cruiseline said in a statement Tuesday morning.
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/carnival-splendor-cruise-ship-rescue/story?id=12095096
No backup generators?? wth
What is the failure that is so catastrophic that the ship was sea worthy last week and and condemned this week?
No AC, No “hot” food”???
At this time of year, the horrors???
Buck it up and live like it was your last minute.
Don’t shake hands with anyone, don’t drink any water unless it comes in a bottle or you purify it yourself.
I am going on a cruise in December to the West Coast of Mexico. I will be taking my Lifesaver Bottle.
Purifies any water and I am totally confident after drinking water from an alligator farm in Puerto Aventuras.
The people freaked when I did it and warned my not to do it.
I showed them the Lifesaver Bottle and said everything will be fine and it was.
Love Lifesaver.
Don’t leave home without it.
No all you can eat buffet tables? The passengers must be rioting.
Who was reporting that?