AN engine room fire aboard Carnival Cruise
Lines’ Carnival Triumph has made the vessel
not such a ‘Fun Ship’, with the 4200
passengers and crew on board surviving on
cold food, sweltering temperatures, no
airconditioning and just a few working toilets.
The ship was crippled about 200km off the
coast of Mexico, and although the automatic
fire extinguishing system put out the blaze, the
vessel has since been drifting and waiting to be
towed all the way back into port.
Some pax have taken to sleeping in makeshift
tents on the deck, and other reports claim that
before an emergency generator got some of
the plumbing working, passengers were forced
to go to the toilet in plastic bags which they
turned over to crew members for disposal.
