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4,000 Carnival Triumph Passengers Sharing Five Toilets on Drifting Liner
By Dominic Gover: Subscribe to Dominic's RSS feed
February 13, 2013 5:09 PM GMT
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Holidaymakers have spoken of their cruise nightmare after the massive cruise liner was crippled by an engine fire which left it drifting in waters off Alabama.
The situation has been worsened by the fact that only five working toilets are being used by 4,200 people.
Desperate crew members have reportedly ordered passengers - who paid thousands of dollars for the trip - to defecate in plastic bags and to use showers for urinating in. There are reports of mass vomiting on board.
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Nautical expert Jim Herring warned that there was a growing risk of onboard disease spreading through passengers with many of them potentially vulnerable to a norovirus, which cause spontaneous vomiting and diarrhea.
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Full text:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/434854/20130213/cruise-ship-stricken-carnival-triumph.htm
By Dominic Gover: Subscribe to Dominic's RSS feed
February 13, 2013 5:09 PM GMT
...
Holidaymakers have spoken of their cruise nightmare after the massive cruise liner was crippled by an engine fire which left it drifting in waters off Alabama.
The situation has been worsened by the fact that only five working toilets are being used by 4,200 people.
Desperate crew members have reportedly ordered passengers - who paid thousands of dollars for the trip - to defecate in plastic bags and to use showers for urinating in. There are reports of mass vomiting on board.
...
Nautical expert Jim Herring warned that there was a growing risk of onboard disease spreading through passengers with many of them potentially vulnerable to a norovirus, which cause spontaneous vomiting and diarrhea.
...
Full text:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/434854/20130213/cruise-ship-stricken-carnival-triumph.htm