Crippled Cruise Docking at Ala Port

Tom February 14, 2013 2

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) – Passengers pulling into an Alabama port after days aboard a disabled cruise ship are shouting “Hello, Mobile” and “Roll Tide” to hundreds of people gathered at the terminal.

Despite their obvious excitement, passengers who have described miserable conditions aboard still have hours to wait Thursday and into Friday before they can walk on solid ground.

Carnival Cruise Lines said once the ship is stationary it will take up to five hours for all of the 3,000 or so passengers to disembark.

Anxious passengers are lining the decks waving, cheering loudly and whistling to those on shore.

Passengers have the option of a seven-hour bus ride to the Texas cities of Galveston or Houston, or a two-hour trip to New Orleans. Buses are standing by to take them to their next stop.

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2 Comments »

Trish February 15, 2013 at 4:22 PM -

if other cruise ships were able to drop off fresh food to the passengers , why couldnt they just de-board the passengers on another boat instead of making them suffer for days without power?
Kid Chronic February 16, 2013 at 11:42 AM -

Hi Babe,

Great hearing from you! I think since there was 3k in passengers on the boat it would have been to hard and expensive to send another giant cruise ship to retrieve the passengers. The company probably did a cost analysis of paying out the lawsuits verse sending out another cruise ship, and decided against it. Also there are limited amount of cruise ships in the world and they may have all been booked or to far away at the time. The ones that dropped off the food, already had guests on them and just happened to be close enough to stop by. Hope this answered your question. I miss you, I wish we were still blogging together. I hope life is treating you well

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