Family of 23 Turns Carnival Legend into "Cruise From Hell"

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• DISASTER TIMELINE: How Carnival Went From 'Fun Ship' To 'Poop Cruise'
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• Former HGTV star slapped with $10 million fine and jail time for real estate fraud
• mooring accident in Mobile, Alabama
• Ugandan LGBTQ+ activist stabbed, left for dead, escapes to Canada

“On arrival at Nouméa the ship was required to dock in the industrial port due to the high winds rather than at the cruise ship terminal,” he said. Carnival Sunrise has a diesel-electric propulsion system in which the main generators provide electricity for all shipboard functions from propulsion motors to hotel systems such as air conditioning and lighting. Her power plant consists of six diesel generating sets, four 16-cylinder Wärtsilä-Sulzer 16ZAV40S and two 12-cylinder 12ZAV40S medium-speed diesel engines. Her two 17.6-megawatt electric propulsion motors and controllable pitch propellers give the ship a maximum speed of 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph) and a service speed of about 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph). For maneuvering at ports, Carnival Sunrise has six transverse thrusters.[10][11] She was completed and entered service in 1999. But now the survivors are back, ready to share what really happened.

Carnival Triumph Compensation: Is $500 Enough for Enduring Cruise from Hell? TIME.com - Time Magazine

Carnival Triumph Compensation: Is $500 Enough for Enduring Cruise from Hell? TIME.com.

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DISASTER TIMELINE: How Carnival Went From 'Fun Ship' To 'Poop Cruise'

Carnival was the original brand to pioneer the concept of shorter, less expensive cruises. It built the first ship to weigh more than 100,000 tons, as well as the world's first non-smoking ship. According to Jaunted, trips aboard 'Triumph' can already be booked for as early as April of this year. That's only two months after passengers said that the floors were "flooded with sewer water." The wire service adds that another passenger, Maria Hernandez of Angleton, Texas, had "tears welling in her eyes as she talked about waking up to smoke in her lower-level room Sunday and the days of heat and stench to follow. She was on a 'girls trip' with friends." The claim seeks to recover damages from P&O for “disappointment, frustration, discomfort and distress and a refund of the cruise fare paid by each passenger”.

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They had a worse buffet, but a buffet none the less. Toward the end they started giving you the good themselves to ensure that we weren’t stockpiling it. Sometimes tomato and lettuce, zucchini mayo, onion lettuce, cheese bacon mayo, etc. they weren’t particularly good, but you made do. As he sat in an Alabama port, he was happy to cut the hype and explain what happened to his fellow users in an Ask Me Anything session conducted on his phone. Just think of the smell.Skip this paragraph if you don't want to think of the smell.

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The cruise then missed its next two stops due to the storm, and a deck was completely closed due to the rough conditions. It warned of a Category 3 cyclone, which intensified to Category 4 a day after departure. On May 8, it was upgraded to a Category 5 cyclone. A cyclone warning had been issued for Vanuatu and New Caledonia before the vessel’s departure from Brisbane, Carter Capner Law director Peter Carter said.

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It experienced very similar situations in 1998, 1999, and 2010. And let's not forget about the Costa Concordia disaster in Italy last year in which the ship capsized, killing 32 passengers. Over its 41 years, Carnival Cruise Line has had a checkered past. In its heyday, Carnival was the cruise brand known for innovation, but more recently it has become known as the brand with PR disasters to deal with. Our daily coverage of the global travel industry.

They disembarked the floating Port-a-John on which they had been imprisoned, some wearing white cruise line bathrobes to protect themselves against the unexpected chill, kneeling to kiss the ground as they came ashore. Carnival has already offered passengers a refund, cruise credit, and $500, but this disaster may prove too big to be solved with money. On Friday, 23 people (all related to each other) disembarked from the Carnival Legend after they were accused of committing “disruptive and violent acts”. Six men and three teenage boys were removed from the ship at an unplanned stop at Twofold Bay in Eden, New South Wales.

Two maritime law experts also said the trial already set an important precedent in cruise line cases when the judge ruled Carnival was negligent simply because the fire broke out, regardless of the reason. On Morning Edition, NPR's Greg Allen reported about the $80 million the debacle is expected to cost Carnival and the blow suffered to the cruise industry's image. As for the passengers, he said, they're now getting "a full refund, credit for a future cruise plus $500 in cash." This chart shows the revenues of the worldwide cruise industry. Each color represents a different parent company.

CBS News reports that among the "caravan of buses" that Carnival chartered to take passengers to New Orleans, "at least one ... became stranded on the way." I slept on a bunk type bed that pulled out from the ceiling and smelled smoke and heard yelling. I was pretty pissed to wake up that damn early on my birthday but we then walked outside and Jen (cruise director) told us about the engine fire.

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Most of the passengers are seeking $5,000 in damages a year from Carnival for the rest of their lives, claiming they will need continuous medical monitoring because of what happened aboard ship. They want the money in lump sums based on government tables estimating their life expectancies. Poret, for example, would get about $115,000 and his daughter, who is much younger, an estimated $345,000. All passengers are now safely on land in Melbourne.

But with these breakthroughs also came the company's first major PR nightmares. Two years later, Carnival launched the first network-wide advertising campaign in the industry. In 1982, the 'Tropicale' ship debuted, representing the first new ship the industry had seen in years. By the late 1980s, Arison was reportedly one of the world's richest men, with a personal fortune estimated to be between $6 and $10 billion.

They have been offered a 25% credit for future travel. The people who left the ship early, identified as the Barkho family by news.com.au, have returned to their home in Melbourne and now say they’re the ones who need protection. They have reportedly refused to leave their house and asked police for help when media tried to interview them. After finally getting off the Carnival cruise ship Triumph, this passenger waited for a ride early Friday in Mobile, Ala.

“This was truly a cruise from hell, with many passengers so scared they confined themselves to their cabin,” Carter said. The action, lodged by Carter Capner Law, claims passengers were not given the option to cancel their tickets for the cruise from Brisbane to New Caledonia and Vanuatu. A small boat belonging to the Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous patrols near the cruise ship Carnival Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. The cruise also experience major floodings which made things worse.

Last week, Carnival's 'Triumph' ship was towed into Mobile, Alabama after almost a week stuck at sea due to an engine fire. As for the Triumph, it was repaired and refitted in Mobile, but not before it broke free during a windstorm and sustained about $2.7 million in damage and a dock worker drowned. “I got almost a little tired of people saying, ‘How can I help you? In case the memory of the poop cruise has faded for you, a brawl aboard a Carnival ship in the South Pacific is providing a whole new reason to think twice before you book that dream vacation. Passengers reported large items being thrown around the ship by the force of the waves, including tables and chairs. A pool on board was unable to be used due to the rough sea conditions, with large waves shown on camera.

The documents show that there had been 9 incidents with fuel lines in just 2 years. A cruise represents not only a vacation, but a very specific kind of vacation. One books it when one does not want to have to decide, or plan, or worry, or change money, or get tetanus shots. And then who knows how long it'll be until Carnival coughs up the we're-sorry dollars. The company said that it will give $500 to every passenger in addition to a full refund of the price of the cruise and discounts on future cruises which is probably the worst consolation prize these folks could imagine. CCL serves 48.4 percent of total worldwide cruise passengers.