Nearly 4,500 passengers wait on stuck cruise ship

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Nearly 4,500 passengers wait on stuck cruise ship
SAN DIEGO – The nearly 4,500 passengers and crew of the Carnival Splendor have no air conditioning or hot water. They are low on food. And for at least another 24 hours, they have no way out. What began as a seven-day cruise to the picturesque Mexican Riviera stopped around sunrise when an engine room fire cut power to the 952-foot vessel and set it adrift off Mexico’s Pacific coast.
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No one was hurt and, by Tuesday, U.S. Navy helicopters were ferrying 70,000 pounds of supplies, including boxes of crab meat, croissants and Spam, to the stricken ship.
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Mexican tugboats, meanwhile, were rushing out to the vessel to begin towing it 150 miles to the port of Ensenada, about 50 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border. The Splendor could reach the port as early as late Wednesday.
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Accidents like the engine room fire are rare, said Monty Mathisen, of the New York-based publication Cruise Industry News.
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The last major cruise accident was in 2007 when a ship with more than 1,500 people sank after hitting rocks near the Aegean island of Santorini, Mathisen said. Two French tourists died.
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“This stuff does not happen,” he said. “The ships have to be safe, if not the market will collapse.”
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The Splendor, which left from Long Beach on Sunday, was 200 miles south of San Diego at the time of the engine fire, according to a statement from Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines. It began drifting about 55 miles off shore.
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The 3,299 passengers and 1,167 crew members were not hurt and the fire was put out in the generator’s compartment, but the ship had no air conditioning, hot water, cell phone or internet service.
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:gopray2: for everyone on board that they have a safe passage home.
 
Yikes, I hope the people that brought babies with them have enough food if they aren’t eating solids. We’re taking DD (who will be 8 months when we sail) on a cruise in January. This is a good reminder to be sure to have a few extra days worth of food and bottled water for her!

Prayers for all of them :gopray2:
 
SPAM! The airforce is supplying them with crates of SPAM!

THOSE SICK SADOMASOCHISTIC DESK JOCKEYS!!!

SPAM!

Good grief. Is if those people didn’t have it bad enough.
 
vz71 said:
In other news, there has been a resurgence in people quoting the Monty Python Spam skit.
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Great idea! They have a stage and performers on the ship…a little Spamalot may raise spirits. 👍
 
NotCrazyDan said:
SPAM! The airforce is supplying them with crates of SPAM!

THOSE SICK SADOMASOCHISTIC DESK JOCKEYS!!!

SPAM!

Good grief. Is if those people didn’t have it bad enough.
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You do know that they love the stuff in the Philippines and Hawaii, they even hold a yearly festivals in the 50th state. 🤷

spamjamhawaii.com/
 
NotCrazyDan said:
SPAM! The airforce is supplying them with crates of SPAM!

THOSE SICK SADOMASOCHISTIC DESK JOCKEYS!!!

SPAM!

Good grief. Is if those people didn’t have it bad enough.
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Hey, they could have sent MREs – meals, rejected by Ethiopians 😃
 
rlg94086 said:
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam
Lovely Spam, wonderful Spam!
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Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam SpSpam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam
Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Eggs and Spam

it just doesn’t get old…

:rotfl:
 
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