Carnival Cruise Ship Now STOPPED Because Of Broken Tow Line

[JaneyVee]

Per AP report: https://twitter.com/AP/status/302135596921544704

[JimDandy]

1. Oh those poor passengers... Thiiiis close to getting away from the poop deck.

[dgibby]

5. DUzy!

Well played, very well played!

[JimDandy]

9. It sort of wrote itself...

Thanks, though!

[NV Whino]

2. I keep wondering

If there isn't a way to off load ,the passengers.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. They were describing how it could be too dangerous. Given strong headwinds,

the possibility of falling off a gangplank, getting crushed, etc.

[NV Whino]

8. Thanks

Better pooped than dead, I guess.

[get the red out]

3. Their bad luck just never ends!

Poor people.

[Auntie Bush]

6. Oh god! Those poor people!!

However, maybe now they can dock and unload tomorrow during the day and more facilities will be available. How does 4000 people embark in the middle of the night and try and find lodging, showers, food and bed.

[Grammy23]

12. Carnival has dispatched 200 people to Mobile to meet the ship

and help expedite getting the passengers off the ship, through customs and either on a bus to New Orleans to fly home or stay in a hotel in Mobile until arrangements are completed to get them home. Hotel rooms and transportation have been arranged in New Orleans for those who want to go on tonight or tomorrow. Yes, it will take some time to get that many people off the ship (something over 3000 are passengers, the rest are crew and staff) and they will have to go through customs. Mobile has a large terminal that used to be a Carnival disembarkation point so it has the set up to do this. They may have even brought in former employees to help with this task. The terminal was closed just over a year ago when Carnival moved the Elation to New Orleans. So there is an appropriate and safe place for them to disembark once they reach Mobile. There are ample hotel rooms in Mobile if anyone wants to rest there overnight and go home on Friday or Saturday. And they can fly from there, too, if they want. They just have a few more options if they go on to New Orleans, which is about a 2 and 1/2 or 3 hour ride by bus from Mobile.

The passengers could not be safely taken off the ship while it was still at sea. This has been discussed on other posts and in the news. It was much riskier for them to attempt to do this and unnecessary especially since the danger of fire spreading throughout the ship was over. As inconvenient and disappointed as the passengers might feel about this, it was much safer to leave them aboard the crippled cruise ship than to attempt a transfer to another ship or air lift them.

[Katashi_itto]

7. Death Ship (1980) - Teaser Trailer .

I understand that aboard, the ship's theater is playing this nonstop as a double feature with "The Posidon Adventure"

[mfcorey1]

10. (On the phone canceling my September cruise with Carnival.)

[Teamster Jeff]

11. Maybe they cut the tow line themselves

to avoid going to Alabama

[Cleita]

13. They aren't carrying a cursed pharoah's mummy in the hold are they?

For those who don't know all the old wives' tales out there about disasters in the last hundred years. One of them is about a pharoah's mummy that was being transported to a museum in NYC on the Titanic. The mummy was cursed and we know what happened to the Titanic.