Carnival has another poop cruise on its hands
The Carnival Dream is stuck in port down in St. Maarten. The passengers apparently aren't allowed off the ship, even though toilets are overflowing and there are power outages abound.
Carnival has another poop cruise on its hands
The Carnival Dream is stuck in port down in St. Maarten. The passengers are, apparently, not allowed off the ship even though toilets are overflowing and there are power outages abound. Some of the travelers contacted CNN on Thursday morning.
"We are not allowed off of the boat despite the fact that we have no way to use the restrooms on board," Jonathan Evans of Reidsville, North Carolina, said in an e-mail early Thursday. "The cruise director is giving passengers very limited information and tons of empty promises. What was supposed to take a hour has turned into 7-plus hours."
Passenger Gregg Stark (of Winterfell, no doubt) spoke to CNN about the plumbing problems.
Gregg Stark, who is traveling with his wife and two young children, told CNN, "There's human waste all over the floor in some of the bathrooms and they're overflowing -- and in the state rooms. The elevators have not been working. They've been turning them on and off, on and off."
Apparently the issue revolves around a generator problem.
The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday it was notified by Carnival that the Dream was experiencing generator issues. Carnival has not requested assistance from the Coast Guard, which has no jurisdiction in the ship's current location, Coast Guard Petty Officer Jon-Paul Rios told CNN.
The vessel's emergency generator has failed, Coast Guard Petty Officer Mark Barney said. The emergency generator powers propulsion for the ship, Barney explained.
Carnival Dream's captain is reportedly in direct contact with the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Command Center and tells them that the sewage system and main generator are functioning properly. The ordeal comes just a few weeks after the whole Carnival Triumph fiasco. [CNN]
A gaggle of monkeys could run this cruise line better than these idiots.— verve- Maybe your orangutan self, should try running the government.
— vanillasky - The only people who go on cruises: The newly-wed, the over-fed, and the almost-dead.— Bill_Brahsky
- Call the captain turds overboard ,turds overboard.— angrywhtguy
- The end of Carnival...— Dunsmore
- Carnival gives the word poop deck a new meaning.— angrywhtguy
- win. — carl and sons
- This company should fold.— brio
- Toilets stuffed up, waste on the floor. Ain't we got fun.— Drew777
- Sounds like they were given training by JetBlue company officials.— rounddollar
- sounds like they are in a real crappy situation.... OH!!!!! thank you, thank you. i will be commenting all week— kevwalton
- You couldn't get the Tonner on a cruise ship unless it was loaded with bikini babes and complimentary Genny Cream Ale. Even then, the Tonner might take a pass and just go to washy washy.— hunglikeaton
- Whoa verve, you just blew the Tonner's mind. In the case of the ship itself being a giant keg of Genny Cream Ale? The Tonner would be doing the world's biggest keg stand. How awesome would that be?
