Charlotte Alter has a
Time article about lawsuits in the making:
The ill-fated Carnival Cruise ship (the above photo is of a different ship) that lost power at sea in February of 2013 and stranded four thousand passengers without working toilets was plagued with safety and technical problems before it set sail, according to newly-disclosed company documents.
The Carnival Triumph, dubbed the Poop Cruise after passengers were forced to live for almost a week amidst their own sewage, set sail on 7 February 2013 with only four of the six generators working, and the company knew about the fire hazard posed by the generators, CNN reports. The generator that caught fire and caused the outage had been overdue for maintenance for over a year, and was often not in compliance with the safety laws, according to the internal company documents. CNN obtained the documents as lawsuits are pending against the cruise line.
The documents also reveal that the company had been aware of the fuel line leaks that contributed to the fire, since similar problems had been plaguing other Carnival ships, CNN reports. The documents show that there had been nine incidents with fuel lines in just two years.
The power outage caused the ship to drift for four days until it could be towed to Mobile, Alabama. During that time, passengers had no air conditioning, and almost no lights, food, water, or working toilets.
Carnival says the fine print on passengers’ tickets ”makes absolutely no guarantee for safe passage, a seaworthy vessel, adequate and wholesome food, and sanitary and safe living conditions”.
Rico says that
Carnival is gonna get sued by every passenger on the 'poop' cruise... (And it won't take much of a lawyer to shred that 'fine print'.)
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