Passengers on Carnival's Infamous 'Poop' Cruise Are Having Their Day in Court

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• The economic downfall of 2008 did not bode well for Carnival or the rest of the cruise ship industry.
• In November 2010, another Carnival cruise ship had a fire on board.
• The case against work friends: The office has changed. Maybe it’s time our relationships do too
• Tata’s consultancy arm cuts bonuses for employees who aren’t in the office 5 days a week
• Leave it to Reddit to find someone who experienced all the poop firsthand.
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• Class action launched against P&O Cruises over cyclone 'cruise from hell'

According to the Times, "Debbie Moyes, 32, of Phoenix said she was awakened Sunday by a fellow passenger banging on her door, warning people to escape." An engine fire had left the ship stranded off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula. Carnival Sunrise (formerly Carnival Triumph) is a Destiny-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line. As she and her three younger sisters (Carnival Radiance, Costa Fortuna, and Costa Magica) are each a redesigned version of the lead ship in the class, she is sometimes referred to as the first of the Triumph class of cruise ships. Carnival Sunrise is homeported in Miami, Florida. On Friday morning we finally saw them, those wretched refugees of the Carnival Triumph, after five days stranded at sea.

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The economic downfall of 2008 did not bode well for Carnival or the rest of the cruise ship industry.

The brand also signed an agreement with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri for both a 99,000-ton ship for its Holland America Line and a 135,000-ton ship for its Carnival Cruise Line. The generator room on Carnival's 'Splendor' caught fire, causing the ship to lose power. The ships were docked along the Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas coastlines. A little over a year later, the Tropicale's engine room caught fire, leaving the ship in the path of Tropical Storm Harvey.

In November 2010, another Carnival cruise ship had a fire on board.

It was also the largest ship ever built by the Italian shipbuilding company Fincantieri. Despite Carnival's honorable intentions, the contract was highly criticized because Carnival was earning more money than it normally would have had the ships been used as vacation spots. While the early 2000s were relatively uneventful for the brand, things changed after Hurricane Katrina when the U.S. government signed a six-month contract with Carnival. Under the agreement, Carnival received $236 million in exchange for three ships to be used as temporary housing for Katrina victims. But with every PR disaster in Carnival's history, it has also experienced record-breaking good moments.

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The unrefrigerated food and the unrefreshed bodies, the uncirculated dankness of the cabins, so filthy that passengers began sleeping on deck chairs instead, lugging their pillows to some high-thread-count open-air slumber party. Hundreds of passengers and up to 1,000 businesses on the Italian island have sued or are in the process of suing Carnival. Thirty passengers aboard the Costa Concordia lost their lives, and as of December 2012, two were still missing. 'Dream,' the largest of the "Fun Ship" line, was retired in 2009.

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Although the fire was contained, all passengers on board were stuck in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico waiting for help to show up. One of the engines of the cruise had caught fire but the worst part was yet to come. A former senior politics reporter for the Daily Dot, Kevin Collier focuses on privacy, cybersecurity, and issues of importance to the open internet. Since leaving the Daily Dot in March 2016, he has served as a reporter for Vocativ and a cybersecurity correspondent for BuzzFeed. A few people were crying, a few fights over food and the long lines, and a few fights over the outlet/ charging station situation. There has also been a 3.3 percent increase in yearly passengers since 2012.

The Carnival Triumph pulled into the Port of Mobile at about half past nine, local time, bringing an end to the days-long, feces-filled journey. Despite being adrift for almost a week with no running water, passengers were told that they would still have to wait on board for hours before they could set foot on dry land. After almost a week of being stranded with no running water or air conditioning, passengers who suffered aboard the 'Triumph' ship are already starting to sue Carnival over the conditions they endured.

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It has also had to deal with circumstances of passengers jumping overboard to their deaths. “Not if you use one, but if you fall in and wallow in it for a couple of days, yes,” Schiodo said. Larry Poret, of Lufkin, Texas, who took the cruise with his then-12-year-old daughter Rebecca, said he remains scarred by how frightened she was, especially trying to sleep out on deck in pitch black nights. Passenger Debra Oubre, of Friendswood, Texas, who said she has worked in cruise line shore operations and has enjoyed a dozen cruises, said she joined the suit to hold someone accountable. “Ships shouldn’t catch fire in the middle of the sea for no reason,” said Robert Peltz, a Miami maritime attorney not involved in the Triumph case.

In the 90s, Carnival began launching newer, bigger ships, including the world's first non-smoking vessel.

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.

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I didn’t know what to think but I wasn’t very scared. No waiver, but on the check that they will send us it’s like signing a settlement. We are for sure holding off on cashing those in and we are going to participate in a class action. Nothing will stop since the unsanitary environment and how my mom is sick because of it. I saw a few people crying but honestly, without the dirtiness, it wouldn’t be too bad. One year later, Carnival launched 'Paradise,' the first non-smoking cruise ship in the world.

Strong fecal and urine stench near the cabins and just a poor environment. No food shortages, we’ve had 3 other carnival ships come by and one of the three again and they used a helicopter to drop a generator and just recently (today) we got a delivery of sterno. "And then," The New York Times explains, "there is the matter of potential litigation by passengers, although the ability of passengers to sue cruise ship operators is sharply limited, lawyers said." Said one passenger of the $500, "We think it's hush money."

And even then, it was either a two-hour bus trip to New Orleans or a seven-hour trip to Galveston or Houston. An earlier plan had called for the ship to be towed to Mexico, but Carnival decided heading to Alabama would make travel home easier for the passengers. According to Cruise Market Watch, the worldwide cruise industry is an estimated $36.2 billion business. Making things even worse, one of the buses carrying rescued passengers from Mobile to New Orleans broke down.

In court papers, Mase said the passengers either haven’t proved their health issues are linked to the Triumph cruise or haven’t shown they suffer from any lingering problems at all. Fellow passengers described three days of terror leading up to the family’s removal. One woman described people “walking around with cut heads and hands and bandages everywhere” in an interview with the radio station 3AW. She added that she and her husband had tried to get their kids out of the pool whenever the group was around. Carnival put the passengers on buses, heading either to New Orleans or to their origin point of Galveston, Tex. The company had promised to cover all travel expenses home.

According to Carnival, at least nine other Triumph lawsuits are pending in South Florida federal court, including a proposed class-action that seeks to represent all of the roughly 3,000 passengers aboard the ship. Attorneys involved in the current trial say its outcome could affect what happens in these other cases, although the legal claims are somewhat different. The ill-fated Carnival Cruise that lost power at sea in February and stranded 4,000 passengers without working toilets was plagued with safety and technical problems before it set sail, according to newly-disclosed company documents. The Carnival cruise ship whose engine burned out and was left stranded at sea—lovingly nicknamed the “poop cruise” by major media outlets because of the lack of working toilets—finally docked late Thursday night. At stake is perhaps millions of dollars, as well as the industry’s restrictive policy — printed on each ticket — that governs the kinds of lawsuits passengers can file.

After about five days in the Gulf of Mexico, the ship was finally towed to Mobile, Ala., and the weary, bedraggled passengers disembarked Feb. 14. Carnival sought to make amends by offering each passenger a $500 check, a voucher for a future cruise, refunds of most on-board expenses and reimbursement for transportation, parking and so forth. As they finally came off the Carnival cruise ship Triumph late Thursday and early Friday in Mobile, Ala., passengers from the ill-fated cruise told stories that call to mind TV's Survivor and literature's classic Lord of the Flies, the Los Angeles Times writes. Thanks and yeah, people are getting sick because sewage everyone; urine on the floors, waste in bags, and undercooked food.