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Carpets soaked in urine, sewage running down walls and onion sandwiches for dinner: Passengers reveal the dire conditions of disabled Carnival cruise ship that they will be stuck on until Thursday

Passengers on the nightmare Carnival cruise ship stranded in the Gulf of Mexico are using patchy cellphone coverage today to reveal that 'conditions are getting worse by the hour'.

Some of the 4,200 people on board reported that cabin carpets are soaked in urine, passengers are sleeping in tents on deck and scarce food supplies has reduced them to eating cold onion sandwiches.

The ship has been stranded since Sunday after a fire in the engine room crippled the power system.

The first tug boat reached the Carnival Triumph on Monday night and it is being towed to Mobile, Alabama at the rate of a few miles per hour. It is expected to crawl into its destination on Thursday.

One passenger Debra Rightmire texted ABC: 'Conditions are getting worse by the hour. Cabin carpets are wet with urine and water.

'Toilets are overflowing in the cabins, we are having to sleep in the hallways. Onion and cucumber sandwiches last night.'

Another Donna Gutzman wrote: 'There's no lights, no water, we can't flush. Some people were able to shower.'


Those on board were only able to make contact with land via their phones when sister ship, the Carnival Legend pulled up alongside to drop off limited supplies on life rafts.

Holidaymakers have been forced to sleep outside as there is no air conditioning in their sweltering cabins.

Some passengers have no options other than bags or buckets for toilets with reports of 'raw sewage running down the walls'.

The news came amid claims that those on the ship have turned into 'savages' and are fighting over food, relatives said.

Passengers are reportedly queuing up to four hours to get a hamburger.


David Raynes, from New Hampshire, is on sister ship the Carnival Legend. He took a picture of passengers on the Triumph on Monday, lined along the top deck, staring out to sea.

He wrote on Facebook: 'Our ship shuttled supplies to them, which was not an easy task due to the wind and high waves – it was hard for the boat they were using to get up close to the other cruise ship and then back to ours. They made at least two trips.

'Another ship, the Conquest, came along to bring more food to them. We could hear announcements from the Triumph, and their guests cheered when they heard the news that a tugboat was just 17 miles away. It arrived before we left. We were there about five hours.

The Triumph made a pass by us and the guests cheered and waved to us.'

The ship is listing to 4.5degrees and although not dangerous, the angle of the boat is 'not normal and would definitely be felt by passengers walking around', an expert told MailOnline.

A 25-mph south-southeasterly wind has made it too difficult to tow the ship to its original destination of Progreso, Mexico so the vessel has changed course and is heading north to Alabama.

Carnival Cruise Lines president and CEO, Gerry Cahill, said: 'All guests on the current Carnival Triumph voyage will receive a full refund for the cruise, along with transportation expenses.

'In addition, they will receive a future cruise credit equal to the amount paid for this voyage, as well as reimbursement of all shipboard purchases during the voyage, with the exception of gift shop and casino charges.

He added: 'We're terribly sorry for the inconvenience, discomfort, and frustration our guests are feeling.

'We know they expected a fantastic vacation, and clearly that is not what they received. Our shipboard and shoreside teams are working around the clock to care for our guests and get them home safely.

Brent Nutt, whose wife Bethany is on board, claimed that brawling has started among hungry passengers because food is so scarce.

At least one person has also been transferred off the ship because they are in need of dialysis and can't wait for the power to come back on.

The Carnival Triumph was left stranded 150 miles off the coast of Mexico after a fire broke out in the engine room.

By Monday afternoon, some of the ship's power had been restored, but not enough to get the disabled ship moving again.

Although none of the 3,150 passengers and 1,100 crew were injured, the ship was adrift off southern Yucatan peninsula for an entire day before the tugboat arrived.

Mr Nutt, of Angleton, Texas, said his wife called him to say the plumbing wasn't working - but he was horrified by what he heard next.

He told CNN: 'She said that that would be the last phone call I was going to get. They have no power, there's no way to charge cell phones or anything.

'To hear your loved one crying saying she just wants off of the ship and it all has to end.

'All of the girls in their group were calling their family members as well and they were crying. Everybody wants off of this. It's a big mess, there's no power, there's no toilets, there's no food - it's like a bunch of savages on there.

'People are fighting over food and stuff - that's a bunch of savages. It's ridiculous. Carnival has nothing at all in plan in case something like this happens.'

Asked if his wife had been given any help, Mr Nutt said: 'The only help they've got is that they told them they needed to stay on the decks or in common areas.'

Writing on Cruise Critic, a blogger named Clinty76 whose wife and mother-in-law are on the ship, painted a similar picture.
lol at the veneer of civilization. No air conditioning or running water? Oh, my.
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Anyone who turns savage because they cannot get food for a few days is weak.
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Well, that's just terrible. Poop walls. The humanity.

Actually, I'd absolutely hate to be on a cruise ship under those conditions. Or any conditions, really.
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not knowing when the next food will come and being isolated from the ability to feed yourself would definitely add to the problem. How many days does it take before they start assembling into gangs to kill and eat on of the members of the community?
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Hoosiernorm wrote:not knowing when the next food will come and being isolated from the ability to feed yourself would definitely add to the problem. How many days does it take before they start assembling into gangs to kill and eat on of the members of the community?
Knowing that there is a rescue plan in place would make it more bearable.
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Looks like the Doomsday Prepper scenarios are quite likely.
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Mr. Perfect wrote:Looks like the Doomsday Prepper scenarios are quite likely.
I think it's probably an over-reaction to a crisis than actual bedlam. People getting into a tiff over some food is not Lord of the Flies.
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Drinkable water: Important as it is difficult to survive without it for more than a few days, especially in hot weather. Should be air lifted in.

Food: Can survive without until the ship makes it back to port. Unless someone has a specific medical condition. Such people should be airlifted out.

Toilet: Do it in a bucket and dump it over the leeward side. Toilets should have been sealed after water pressure was lost. Every cabin should have had an emergency bucket with a seat and a rope.

A bit unpleasant and uncomfortable, but not an issue of survival for a healthy passenger.
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Demon of Undoing wrote:Well, that's just terrible. Poop walls. The humanity.

Actually, I'd absolutely hate to be on a cruise ship under those conditions. Or any conditions, really.
yep - poop and angry fatties is quite low on the list of reasons not be on one.
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Enki wrote:
Mr. Perfect wrote:Looks like the Doomsday Prepper scenarios are quite likely.
I think it's probably an over-reaction to a crisis than actual bedlam. People getting into a tiff over some food is not Lord of the Flies.
The coming collapse is going to be orders of magnitude worse than this.
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Typhoon wrote:A bit unpleasant and uncomfortable, but not an issue of survival for a healthy passenger.
Exactly. They'll be in a US port on Thursday.
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noddy wrote:
Demon of Undoing wrote:Well, that's just terrible. Poop walls. The humanity.

Actually, I'd absolutely hate to be on a cruise ship under those conditions. Or any conditions, really.
yep - poop and angry fatties is quite low on the list of reasons not be on one.
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Remember, these are people who voluntarily paid money to spend their vacation on a cruise ship. In other words: idiots. To expect them to sensibly manage a crisis is really unfair.

No doubt the kitchen staff of knife-armed Filipinos immediately seized control of the pantry and started rationing food.
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Having been to at least 25 carnivals in the French Quarter, I'd say the cruise line is aptly named. The locals even have a word for the ankle high deposit of strata of trash vomit and excrement that covers the street from curb to curb - splooge.
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Anybody that paid money to get on a boat the size of a city to do things they could do in a small town deserves anything they get.

Also, raw onion sandwiches when the heads are overflowing is not a good thing.
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Nonc Hilaire wrote:Having been to at least 25 carnivals in the French Quarter, I'd say the cruise line is aptly named. The locals even have a word for the ankle high deposit of strata of trash vomit and excrement that covers the street from curb to curb - splooge.
Nasty.

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Typhoon wrote:
Nonc Hilaire wrote:Having been to at least 25 carnivals in the French Quarter, I'd say the cruise line is aptly named. The locals even have a word for the ankle high deposit of strata of trash vomit and excrement that covers the street from curb to curb - splooge.
Nasty.

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Saw some of these people coming off the ship on the news (against my will, it was covered all day yesterday) and they all looked pretty good. Doesn't seem like it was that much of a crisis.


Two Southern girls told the interviewer that they were planning to head to India next to "spread the Good Word." So I guess this cruise was a kind of training exercise for them in terms of overcrowding and open sewers. Indians are more polite though.
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Nonc Hilaire wrote:
Typhoon wrote:
Nonc Hilaire wrote:Having been to at least 25 carnivals in the French Quarter, I'd say the cruise line is aptly named. The locals even have a word for the ankle high deposit of strata of trash vomit and excrement that covers the street from curb to curb - splooge.
Nasty.

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Dang, probably have a store of anecdotes about that.
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Nonc Hilaire wrote:
Typhoon wrote:
Nonc Hilaire wrote:Having been to at least 25 carnivals in the French Quarter, I'd say the cruise line is aptly named. The locals even have a word for the ankle high deposit of strata of trash vomit and excrement that covers the street from curb to curb - splooge.
Nasty.

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Very cool.
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Ibrahim wrote:
Nonc Hilaire wrote:
Typhoon wrote:
Nonc Hilaire wrote:Having been to at least 25 carnivals in the French Quarter, I'd say the cruise line is aptly named. The locals even have a word for the ankle high deposit of strata of trash vomit and excrement that covers the street from curb to curb - splooge.
Nasty.

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Dang, probably have a store of anecdotes about that.
One of my favorites was the year a group masked as beer-powered barbarians built a small catapult and spent the day stalking Westboro Baptist type party poopers and kept pelting them with catapult loads of plastic beads.
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Another Donna Gutzman wrote: 'There's no lights, no water, we can't flush. Some people were able to shower.'
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Nonc Hilaire wrote:
Ibrahim wrote:
Nonc Hilaire wrote:
Typhoon wrote:
Nonc Hilaire wrote:Having been to at least 25 carnivals in the French Quarter, I'd say the cruise line is aptly named. The locals even have a word for the ankle high deposit of strata of trash vomit and excrement that covers the street from curb to curb - splooge.
Nasty.

Are you a member of a Krewe?
I was a founding member of the Krewe du Vieux. Now I live a quiet life in Florida.
Dang, probably have a store of anecdotes about that.
One of my favorites was the year a group masked as beer-powered barbarians built a small catapult and spent the day stalking Westboro Baptist type party poopers and kept pelting them with catapult loads of plastic beads.
:lol: Brilliant.
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Typhoon wrote:
Nonc Hilaire wrote:
Ibrahim wrote:
Nonc Hilaire wrote:
Typhoon wrote:
Nonc Hilaire wrote:Having been to at least 25 carnivals in the French Quarter, I'd say the cruise line is aptly named. The locals even have a word for the ankle high deposit of strata of trash vomit and excrement that covers the street from curb to curb - splooge.
Nasty.

Are you a member of a Krewe?
I was a founding member of the Krewe du Vieux. Now I live a quiet life in Florida.
Dang, probably have a store of anecdotes about that.
One of my favorites was the year a group masked as beer-powered barbarians built a small catapult and spent the day stalking Westboro Baptist type party poopers and kept pelting them with catapult loads of plastic beads.
:lol: Brilliant.
What never shows up in the news is the locals around Jackson Square who stay in character as well as costume and engage in extemporaneous street theatre. That area is a great playground removed from all the crowds, parades, debauchery and drunkenness.
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