Carnival Triumph

[bobofthenorth]

It has happened before , a number of times , do these folks never learn from past dead in the water fun?

What would you like them to learn? As long as the sheeple keep lining up for the next floating buffet there's really no problem from Carnival's perspective.

 

[BruceK]

Lets see now,

• too much food
• too much booze
• too little exercise
• norovirus
• fire at sea
• sinkings
• crowded ports of call

Wow, what fun

Add to that: "No working toilets".
Our one and only cruise (circular) was a week on a Norwegian ship out of NYC, in between our visiting NYC and SF, we liked it, a week was enough. The predominantly Filipino crew were great, especially if you travel with a Filipino who gets on with them.
As for the "Triumph". Renaming coming up? An unreliable cruise ship here claimed to be "the funship", passengers got money back so often someone called it the "refund ship".

 

[FF]

"What would you like them to learn?"

Redundancy , the ability to NOT go Dead in the Water from a single problem.

 

[ancora]

Going "black" on an American ship is a big deal. The Coast Guard requires a complete report on the event. My son is a chief engineer on American cargo ships and had a 5 minute "black" event. The CG report was voluminous.

 

[Art]

Some needed perspective;

Murray - Regarding your insightful text inside picture on post # 27...

You have open heart, clear mind, and seeing eyes. Congrats!

As must too often be stated: "Life Isn't Fair For Everyone!"

Art

 

[twistedtree]

There unfortunately is very little information (at least that I could find) about how the boat's systems are designed, and why the failure was so complete.

I did read one very interesting thing. The ship has two separate engine rooms, presumably to firewall (literally and figuratively) a problem in one area from taking out everything. This particular failure was a return fuel line on one of the generators which leaked and the fuel ignited. By the way, it takes a lot of heat to ignite diesel, but that's another subject...

Anyway, the fire suppression system worked and doused the fire. But what's interesting is that the failure only took out one generator, and the engineers elected not to restart the generators in the unaffected engine room. The fire suppression chemicals probably explain why they didn't restart anything in the room where the fire occurred, but why not restart the equipment in the other room? They must have had a really good reason, but what do you suppose it was?

It's so aggravating that no news service anywhere bothers to inquire about what happened, but rather elect to talk about the crap and urine in the halls.