Passengers ship Carnival Triumph fight for food Bashny.Net

The story of the cruise ship Carnival Triumph, which is a result of a fire in the engine room lay in free drift in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico began to grow creepy details. Respectable passengers of the ship in a matter of days turned into savages, arranging fights between them for food.





Recall that the fire broke out on board the ship on Sunday, February 11th. As a result of the incident ship left without electricity, engines are out of order, disconnected the life support system on-board. The vessel hove in 240 kilometers from the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

None of the passengers and crew members was injured, but for the fourth day they have to endure hardship, which can not but affect the mental state stuck in a floating prison people. On board, we recall, there are more than 4 thousand people, including crew members.

As the newspaper writes Daily Mail, the passengers managed to contact friends and family on the phone thanks to a passing ship Carnival Legend, owned by the same company-operator, where cellular communications work. Details that has learned from the stories of the passengers, appalling.

Despite the fact that the ship was transferred to the food, it is clearly not enough for such a large number of people. Passengers have to stand in line for a meal for four hours, and sometimes comes to violent clashes over food. The entire diet hostages vessel make sandwiches with raw onions and cucumbers.

However, food is not the only problem. Due to the lack of electricity does not work no air conditioning, no toilets. The cabins are so hot that the passengers had to sleep in tents on deck.

Installed on board five toilet stalls is clearly not enough for more than four thousand people. Those who are tired to stand in queues for the administration of their natural needs, are forced to use non-working showers in the cabins.

According to eyewitnesses, the ship hovers over the fetid cloud carpets in cabins and walls soaked with sewage flowing down from the upper deck, which clearly does not add comfort stay on the drifting vessel.

This tow the vessel to the port should only Thursday. According to the original plan, the rescue operation was supposed to tow the ship to the Mexican port of Progreso, where passengers had to return to the US aircraft. However, while preparing a rescue operation, the ship drifted

over 90 miles to the north of the original location, and the nearest port appeared in Mobile, Alabama.

As the journalist and expert on maritime subjects, founder of the website "Sea Bulletin" Mikhail Voitenko, everything that happens around the accident at the Carnival Triumph to as "a mess" can not be called.

According to him, in this case a lot of obscure and unknown, in spite of the social significance of the incident. In addition, it is surprising that a ship in distress in almost coastal waters, still can not be towed to port.

First of all, said Voitenko, striking discrepancy in time and place of the accident. According to him, the real scene should look to the north-east of the coordinates that gave the US Coast Guard.

Secondly, for some reason, there is no data on satellite tracking system AIS.

Third, the situation remains unclear tugs.

"From about the accident site to the port of Progreso, about 100 miles, day towing. Where tugs that? Apparently, they came from the US port or ports. And Mexico goes, anything not close, despite the fact that the liner in their coastal waters? "- He wrote in his article on the website" Sea Bulletin ».

Therefore, concludes the journalist, the situation when 100 miles from the coast ship, carrying thousands of people suffer from terrible heat, lack of air conditioning and minimal amenities, the third day of waiting for tugs can be called a "mess»

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