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Ralph Lauren Polo Outlet, Feb. 11, 2013. The Carnival Triumph has been floating aimlessly about 150 miles off the Yucatan Peninsula since a fire erupted in the aft engine room early Sunday, knocking out the ship's propulsion system. No one was injured and the fire was extinguished. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Paul McConnell)MOBILE, Ala. After days stranded in the Gulf of Mexico in conditions some have described as dismal, most passengers aboard the disabled Carnival Triumph can look forward to an hours long bus ride Thursday after they reach dry land.
The company announced its plan for passengers late Wednesday as the Triumph was being towed to a port in Mobile, Ala., with more than 4,000 people on board, some of whom have complained to relatives that they have limited access to food and bathrooms.
But passengers stay in Alabama will be short. Carnival said in a statement late Wednesday that passengers were being given the option of boarding buses directly to Galveston,
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Speaking by phone to NBC show Thursday morning, passenger Jamie Baker said conditions on the ship were terrible. There has been no electricity and few working toilets, she said.
Baker also described having to use plastic bags to go to the bathroom and wait in line for hours to get food and once saw a woman pass out line.
Baker said she and her friends slept with their life vests one night because the ship was listing and they feared it would tip over.
Vivian Tilley, whose sister, Renee Shanar, is on the ship,
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The company has disputed the accounts of passengers who describe the ship as filthy, saying employees are doing everything to ensure people are comfortable.
Meanwhile, officials in Mobile were preparing a cruise terminal that has not been used for a year to help passengers go through customs after their ordeal. The Triumph is expected to arrive Thursday afternoon.
Mobile Mayor Sam Jones questioned the plan to bus passengers to other cities late Wednesday,
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raised the issue that it would be a lot easier to take a five minute bus ride than a two hour bus ride to New Orleans, Jones said. Jones said Carnival employees will be staying in Mobile, adding he was not told of the company reasoning for putting passengers on extended bus rides after their experience at sea.
don know if the passengers even know that, Jones said.
Earlier Wednesday, Carnival Cruise Lines cancelled a dozen more planned voyages aboard the Triumph and acknowledged that the crippled ship had been plagued by other mechanical problems in the weeks before the engine room blaze. The National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation into the cause.
know it has been a longer journey back than we anticipated at the beginning of the week under very challenging circumstances,
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Testing of the repaired part was successful and is no evidence at this time of any relationship between this previous issue and the fire that occurred on Feb. 10. Smedley, a passenger on a recent Triumph cruise,
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Communication with passengers on the Triumph has been limited to brief windows when other cruise ships with working cellular towers have rendezvoused to deliver supplies,
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Robert Giordano, of the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond, said he last spoke to his wife, Shannon,
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having to urinate in the shower. They been passed out plastic bags to go to the bathroom,
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Carnival, she said, has not told families what hotel passengers will be put in or provided precise information about when they will arrive in Mobile. And that came after the cruise line switched the ship towing destination from Progreso, Mexico, to Mobile.
Passengers are supposed to get a full refund and discounts on future cruises, and Carnival announced Wednesday they would each get an additional $500 in compensation.
Once docked, the ship will be idle through April. In addition to the dozen voyages cancelled Wednesday, two other cruises were called off shortly after Sunday fire.
Jay Herring, a former senior officer with Carnival Cruise Lines who worked on the Triumph from 2002 to 2004, said the ship was not problematic when he was on it.
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