Carnival cruise ship DIW off Mexico

Fox News Channel | 11/9/10

[pabianice]

Breaking... Carnival Lines ship adrift off Mexico; 4500 on board; USCG and USN send help... one aircraft carrier involved...

[1rudeboy]

DIW, or DWI?

[AU72]

Passengers will be fine as long as the booze holds out.

[RnMomof7]

I heard this at 7am this morning on the radio.. Carnival is going to to remove the ship from their line because it is not repairable .

This am they had no air conditioning, no hot food etc..

[ShadowAce]

It’s interesting that the number of passengers keeps going up with every report....

[Menehune56]

Apparently no toilet flushing either with the pumps off. That can’t be very pleasant...

[jslade]

Passengers will be fine as long as the booze holds out.

I can't do without ice.

[forgotten man]

Toilets are not working. Ship is being towed to Ensenda (about 90 miles south of border). Passengers will be bussed back to California. Sounds like a great vacation.

[BenLurkin]

Coast Guard Reaches Cruise Passengers Stranded Off Mexican Coast
LEE FERRAN
Nov. 9, 2010

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter has reached a crippled Carnival cruise ship, stranded off the western coast of Mexico since early Monday morning with nearly 4,500 passengers and crew on board after an engine room fire.

Two officers from the Coast Guard are now aboard the ship to help ensure the safety of the passengers until two tugboats chartered by Carnival are expected to arrive midday today to tow the ship to a Mexican port. Though Carnival did confirm that three people on the ship were treated in the ship’s infirmary for panic attacks, a spokesman for the Coast Guard said no major medical concerns had been reported. No one was injured in the fire.

The Carnival Splendor, a 113,000-ton behemoth, suffered an engine fire early Monday morning which knocked out the ship’s power, including air conditioning, hot food service, flushing toilets and telephones, Carnival said in a statement.

The fire was extinguished in about three hours. Even after the tugboats reach the ship at midday today, it could be at least 24 hours before it can be safely towed to the Mexican port of Ensenada, the cruiseline said in a statement Tuesday morning.

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/carnival-splendor-cruise-ship-rescue/story?id=12095096

[Semper911]

DIW, or DWI?

DIW = Dead in the Water, for those who need a translation..

[forgotten man]

oops, that is Ensenada, B.C.

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

CARNIVAL SPLENDOR SHIP FACTS Gross Tonnage: 113,300 tons
Length: 952 feet
Passenger Decks: 13
Cruising Speed: 21 knots
Guest Capacity: 3,006 (double occupancy)
Total Guest Staterooms: 1503
Total staff: 1,150
Registry: Panama

[Izzy Dunne]

It’s interesting that the number of passengers keeps going up with every report....

Well, it -IS- off the coast of Mexico.

[kalee]

roflol

[ShadowAce]

Awesome response!

[Never on my watch]

It’s interesting that the number of passengers keeps going up with every report....

Well, it -IS- off the coast of Mexico.

And the word got out about the free bus ride to California.

[maggief]

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/09/cruise.ship/?hpt=Sbin

However, engineers were not able to restore power to the ship, which was operating on auxiliary generators, the statement said. As of Tuesday, “several key hotel systems, including air conditioning, hot food service and telephones are not available,” the cruise line said.

On Monday night, engineers were able to restore toilet service to cabins and public bathrooms, along with cold running water, Carnival said. “The ship’s crew continues to actively work to restore other services.”

[GeronL]

SCRAPheap

[mamelukesabre]

No backup generators?? wth

[Never on my watch]

Carnival is going to to remove the ship from their line because it is not repairable.

What is the failure that is so catastrophic that the ship was sea worthy last week and and condemned this week?

[DuncanWaring]

Passengers to be reimbursed with a coupon for a discount on another Carnival cruise?

[muawiyah]

Ah sho’ ain’t gonna’ BUSS wif’ nun uv’ those guys After this.

[engrpat]

Any idea of the age of this ship?

[Army Air Corps]

That must have been one hell of an engine fire. It seems as though much power generation systems was damaged. According to one report, they did have auxiliary generators but still not enough power to provide many basic services.

[GingisK]

...sea worthy last week and and condemned this week...

Inaccurate assessment last week? That would explain this week's delightful cruise.

[Army Air Corps]

The ship entered service on 2 July 2008.

[Army Air Corps]

“It seems as though much power generation systems was damaged.”
I meant to type: It seems as though much power of the generation system was damaged.

[theDentist]

Oh. I thought DIW was short for “Dithering in Washington”.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

They don’t make them like they used too. Where was she built? Taiwan? France?

[Army Air Corps]

Okay, one more try with a sip of coffee.

“It seems as though much of the power generation system was damaged.”

[Vendome]

No AC, No “hot” food”???

At this time of year, the horrors???

Buck it up and live like it was your last minute.

Don’t shake hands with anyone, don’t drink any water unless it comes in a bottle or you purify it yourself.

I am going on a cruise in December to the West Coast of Mexico. I will be taking my Lifesaver Bottle.

Purifies any water and I am totally confident after drinking water from an alligator farm in Puerto Aventuras.

The people freaked when I did it and warned my not to do it.

I showed them the Lifesaver Bottle and said everything will be fine and it was.

Love Lifesaver.

Don’t leave home without it.

[Army Air Corps]

T think that this ship was built in Italy.

[jimbo123]

No all you can eat buffet tables? The passengers must be rioting.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Passengers will be fine as long as the booze holds out.

Back in the 1970s my mother was on a cruise ship that ran up on a sandbar somewhere in the Bahamas. While they were waiting for a tug to come and pull them off, they actually had to helicopter more booze out.

[Vendome]

I’d take that trip.

A two-fer.

[Irenic]

I wonder if it could be used for shelter in Haiti?

[rahbert]

Builder: Ficantieri
Yard: Sestri Ponente, Genoa, IT
Launched Aug 2007

[Faith-Hope]

45 or 50 buses? Good luck to those on board. They may have a long wait.

[libs_kma]

Post of the day! LOL

[OrangeHoof]

Breaking...

Lord, I hope not.

[tumblindice]

An ocean cruise, def.: claustrophobia with a chance of drowning.
And now—aimless drifting while surrounded by sewage stench.
It doesn’t get any better than that! (Unless it’s a `Reason’ or NR cruise and you’re surrounded by libertarians or neo-cons.)

[OrangeHoof]

Any idea of the age of this ship?

So old that Kathy Lee Gifford used to be their spokesperson.

[RnMomof7]

Actually that is a great idea ... do you think they will need working toilets?

[RinaseaofDs]

If you have your cigars, something that holds liquor, and a bottle of bourbon, you have a party.

I’d be OK.

[sasquatch]

No backup generators?? wth

Builders usually park the generators in the engine room.

[GunsAndBibles]

Carnival is going to to remove the ship from their line because it is not repairable. What is the failure that is so catastrophic that the ship was sea worthy last week and and condemned this week?

Wonder what the insurance payoff would be? BTW, How IS Carnival Corp. doing these days?

[GonzoGOP]

Apparently no toilet flushing either with the pumps off. That can’t be very pleasant...

The seven seas, need no latrines.
Ya just pull down your britches.
And hang your tail over the rail
and defecate on the fishes.

[Army Air Corps]

Well, there is the poop deck...

[Irenic]

Actually that is a great idea ... do you think they will need working toilets?
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I would imagine they do but it seems somebody could come up with some type of solution for the toilets.

I just hate to see all that potential shelter wasted.