It could take four to five hours for Carnival to complete the disembarking process, because of the s

"It got a lot better once the notification went out that the (National Transportation Safety Board) and the Coast Guard was coming on board, Davis said. They spent a lot of time cleaning up, and it s sort of frustrating because it doesn t look like now the way it's been looking and the way we ve been living."
It won t be over immediately for the crew and passengers. Because more than 4,000 people are aboard, and there s just one working elevator, Carnival anticipates it ll take about four or five hours to get everyone off the ship.
[Updated at 5:50 p.m. ET] We ve been getting a bunch of pictures from Triumph passengers ahead of the ship s docking. Here s one that passenger Megan Clemons-Foxall sent of what she said was buckets of sewage in a stairwell aboard the ship.
We wrote earlier about passengers improvising cell-phone charging stations with surge protectors and the few still-working outlets or computers. Here s a look at one of these stations, from passenger Kaitlyn Robertson.
It could take four to five hours for Carnival to complete the disembarking process, because of the ship s power problems, said Terry Thornton, Carnival senior vice president. The ship has only one working elevator right now, he said.
[Updated at 4:01 p.m. ET] More descriptions of sewage running senior citizen florida bus tours down the ship s interior walls this week: Triumph passenger Darryl Malone tells CNN that that it sounded like it was raining sewage at one point.
[Updated at 2:57 p.m. ET] A few more details about our interview with passenger Julie Morgan earlier this hour she offered some more insight on why she and others people senior citizen florida bus tours with rooms on the lower floors had been sleeping on the deck over the past few nights.
Though people have had to wait in lines for food, people aren t left in hunger. We re not hungry at all. We re doing fine on that front, Morgan said. The Coast Guard and a sister cruise ship had dropped off supplies this week.
[Updated at 2:31 p.m. ET] If you re wondering why some passengers are just now talking senior citizen florida bus tours to their onshore relatives senior citizen florida bus tours by phone in some cases for the first time in days passenger Julie Morgan offers an explanation:
First, there s the reception situation. senior citizen florida bus tours Since Sunday s power outage, people generally haven t had cell phone reception except in brief periods of time when other cruise senior citizen florida bus tours ships came nearby, Morgan told CNN by phone minutes ago. Since the ship is coming close to Alabama s shore, reception is better.
Second, people have struggled to keep their cell phones charged. A generator is on the ship. Passengers have rigged charging stations from the ship computers, Morgan said. She didn t go into too much detail, but apparently it involves lots of surge protectors.
The crew on the ship has been phenomenal, Morgan told CNN by cell phone moments ago. Never a bad word (from them). They ve been working to the bone," only getting three hours of sleep at a time, she said.
Morgan said she s frustrated about communication with Carnival officials on land it took her a while to figure out how she was getting home, because senior citizen florida bus tours the ship had departed from and initially was supposed to return to Houston.
[Updated at 2:13 p.m. ET] It s been an interesting climate change for the passengers senior citizen florida bus tours and crew - it s 51 degrees in the Mobile, Alabama, area, and it was cooler senior citizen florida bus tours this morning. Passengers have told us by phone that they ve been wearing bathrobes to stay warm today - remember, most didn t pack for a cool day, since it was a cruise to the Caribbean.
[Updated at 1:48 p.m. ET] CNN s Chad Myers reports that strong winds and unfavorable currents still are hampering efforts to tow the stricken cruise ship toward shore. The Carnival Triumph, senior citizen florida bus tours with the help of four tugboats, is currently moving at just 1 mph.
[Updated at 1:19 p.m. ET] About 30 minutes ago we wrote about getting a father and daughter on the ship to wave to our helicopter camera. The video also showed the pair s friends, including 10-year-old Allie Taylor and her father.
Earlier today, passenger Larry Poret, senior citizen florida bus tours the friend of Allie s father, told CNN by phone that urine and feces streamed in the halls and down walls after toilet facilities failed, soaking the mattress of a friend of his who was sleeping in a hallway.
The man, Rusty Adkins, talked to CNN s David Mattingly senior citizen florida bus tours moments ago as he waited on shore for the ship. Adkins had just talked privately to his relatives by phone, and he relayed what his daughter had told him about the conditions senior citizen florida bus tours aboard.
[Updated at 12:46 p.m. ET] We seem to have managed a remote mother-daughter reunion of sorts. While we ve been in contact with passenger Larry Poret and his daughter Rebekah Poret by phone, we got them to wave from the deck to the helicopter, and then got Rebekah to talk on air to her mother, who didn t take the cruise senior citizen florida bus tours and is waiting for them on land.
[Updated at 12:39 p.m. ET] The ship is now visible from shore in Alabama, but the ship has quite a way to go it s about 45 miles away, and it still has to navigate a channel, CNN s Ashleigh Banfield reports.
[Updated at 12:33 p.m. ET] More details about the sanitary situation: Carnival has said a couple dozen toilets for the more than 4,000 people aboard are working. Triumph passenger Larry Poret tells CNN by phone that the toilets functionality has been erratic.
[Posted senior citizen florida bus tours at 12:16 p.m. ET] CNN has a helicopter giving us our first live views of the crippled ship Carnival Triumph where thousands of passengers have been living in squalid conditions - limping toward senior citizen florida bus tours port in Mobile, Alabama, Thursday senior citizen florida bus tours afternoon.
It s been a nightmare five days for the 3,143 passengers and 1,086 crew members on board the 900-foot, 14-story Triumph, senior citizen florida bus tours where a fire broke out in the engine room early Sunday. Much of the ship s electrical power went down in the fire, causing widespread malfunctions, including taking out sanitary systems.
Passengers have been gathering on the deck for days to get away from terrible smells and stifling heat on the inside, though as the ship gets closer to shore, the air is colder, and some are huddling together with whatever blankets or bathrobes they can find.
I ll take the $500.00 they get and more than willing to pay 50% of the value of the voucher for the free cruse they are getting............................................. they make out sine they get 100% refund.
Cory, In the bygone days, there were no ships capable of transporting large numbers of people. There were over 4,000 people senior citizen florida bus tours aboard the Carnival Triumph. Try shutting down a city with this number of people in it for the same period of time and see what happens. senior citizen florida bus tours Disease spreads rapidly under these conditions. Hopefully, reasonable people senior citizen florida bus tours will boycott this cruise line company.
I wonder how the men who went to war in boats shoulder to shoulder think about these people complaining aboard a luxury ship. Yes, this is a BIG inconvenience, but no one died, and we are so used to living the good life, that anything that goes wrong is BIGGER THAN LIFE. I would not want to be on there, but lets put things in prespective.
Good grief, Nora. These people payed hard earned money to hopefully take a vacation. senior citizen florida bus tours War is war! That is like comparing apples senior citizen florida bus tours with oranges. They only thing that they both have in common is that they float on the water!
Also forgot to comment on the new guy in for Anderson. I really like him, sounds like a people person, compassionate and insightfull at relating to the average person. Nice to hear after so many news castors that can only read a prompter, or could really senior citizen florida bus tours care less about the actual situation people are in within the story they are reporting.
senior citizen florida bus tours Did I just here that after they let the the off the elderly and children, then they are going to do VIP, etc. That is just wrong.This is a horable situation.They should do just them by decks and get them out.
This ship along with all tall ships should senior citizen florida bus tours have a gravity fed drainage system. I am no engineer wanted to be but the largest complaint on this ship is NO RUNNING WATER in the OCEAN of all places...If senior citizen florida bus tours they can have a generator for electricity they should have had a very large pump for water. It would have solved MOST of the complaints (disposal of waste) the passengers on board had just my two cents. I wish I had a company that could fulfill that request
Everyone says the crew was wonderful. I wonder whether the poor crew got tips and what Carnival will do for them while the ship is out. These people depends solely on tips, so I hope all the people who commended their service, and everyone seems to have done that, put their money where their mouths are and if that was inadvertetly overlooked, I hope there is some kind of initiative to see that this heroic and compassionate crew is rewarded. That would be the right thing. However, everyone seemed to say a lot was lacking with management.
There is no excuse for the squalid conditions on the ship. Obviously there should have been two generators (one for back-up power), in two separate locations and away from the propulsion engine room, to provide power for the ship.
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