Table Of Content
Head to The Big Easy Bar for a taste of New Orleans, or the Hollywood Dance Club to get your groove on. You can hear my prediction two years ago that any lawsuits against Carnival will be unsuccessful. Carnival later claimed to the press (after ignoring the family and their counsel for two months) that the device was “non operational,” which should be obvious at this point after Carnival disassembled the devices and disconnected them from their power sources. The wire service adds that another passenger, Maria Hernandez of Angleton, Texas, had "tears welling in her eyes as she talked about waking up to smoke in her lower-level room Sunday and the days of heat and stench to follow. She was on a 'girls trip' with friends."
Oceanview (OV)
A small boat belonging to the Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous patrols near the cruise ship Carnival Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico. According to Cruise Market Watch, the worldwide cruise industry is an estimated $36.2 billion business. Despite Carnival's honorable intentions, the contract was highly criticized because Carnival was earning more money than it normally would have had the ships been used as vacation spots. It took six tugboats to fight the fire and pull the ship to shore. One year later, Carnival launched 'Paradise,' the first non-smoking cruise ship in the world.
Balcony (8C)
Poret, for example, would get about $115,000 and his daughter, who is much younger, an estimated $345,000. For many of the passengers, those offers were an insult and multiple lawsuits were filed seeking millions of dollars in damages. In the current trial, Judge Graham has ruled that passengers cannot collect punitive damages and may only get damages for past and future medical costs that are conclusively linked to what happened on the Triumph. According to CBS News, 4,500 passengers were trapped at sea for over 24 hours with very little food and no A/C or hot water. Learn about Carnival Cruise Lines' handicap accessible cruises and accommodations for guests with special needs or disabilities - including special staterooms, accessible elevators, dietary accommodations and more. Three passengers received $15,000 each and the remaining 24 passengers who did obtain compensation received varying amounts averaging less than $3,000 each.
Carnival Apologizes For Triumph Conditions, Cancels 14 Upcoming Cruises - NPR
Carnival Apologizes For Triumph Conditions, Cancels 14 Upcoming Cruises.
Posted: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:00:00 GMT [source]
Carnival, the “Poop Cruise,” Becomes the “Pervert Cruise?”
All other brands, including MSC Cruises and Norwegian, are shown in light blue. According to Carnival's website, in 1972 "the company’s first cruise ship, the TSS Mardi Gras, runs aground on a sandbar during its inaugural voyage." Follow our social media and blog for the latest cruise and travel news, including our best vacation deals.
Despite Carnival's recent problems, the brand is still used by almost 50 percent of worldwide cruise passengers.
Although a financial disaster for the passengers’ attorneys, the case did reveal that Carnival knew that there were dangerous problems on the cruise ship due to its shoddy maintenance. The Triumph was essentially a ticking time bomb ready to catch on fire, Court ordered Carnival records demonstrated. A Florida federal judge recently awarded a combined $118,500 in damages to 27 Carnival Cruise Line passengers from Texas who sailed on the ill-fated cruise ship from Galveston.
"The spray shields for the flexible fuel hoses were an additional Carnival Corporation recommended best practice to avoid fuel fires," the company said in its response Tuesday, and not otherwise required by any regulation or statute. A leak from a hose on engine No. 6 led to a fire early on Feb. 10 as the ship returned from a stop in Cozumel, Mexico. More than 4,000 people aboard endured a nightmarish tow to Mobile, Ala., that the plaintiffs' attorney called a "floating hell."
Carnival attorney Curtis Mase has asked Graham to reject all of the damage claims. In court papers, Mase said the passengers either haven’t proved their health issues are linked to the Triumph cruise or haven’t shown they suffer from any lingering problems at all. Many of the 33 passengers involved in the trial complain of lingering emotional issues such as PTSD, anxiety and depression; some have physical ailments they blame on squalid conditions, including leg pain, diarrhea, upper respiratory problems and even aggravated hemorrhoids.
Carnival Sunrise has a diesel-electric propulsion system in which the main generators provide electricity for all shipboard functions from propulsion motors to hotel systems such as air conditioning and lighting. Her power plant consists of six diesel generating sets, four 16-cylinder Wärtsilä-Sulzer 16ZAV40S and two 12-cylinder 12ZAV40S medium-speed diesel engines. Her two 17.6-megawatt electric propulsion motors and controllable pitch propellers give the ship a maximum speed of 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph) and a service speed of about 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph). For maneuvering at ports, Carnival Sunrise has six transverse thrusters.[10][11] She was completed and entered service in 1999. Carnival Sunrise (formerly Carnival Triumph) is a Destiny-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line.
DISASTER TIMELINE: How Carnival Went From 'Fun Ship' To 'Poop Cruise'
Ironically, the Fantasy left the same port (Mobile) where the Triumph “poop cruise” was towed back to after it lost power. At stake is perhaps millions of dollars, as well as the industry’s restrictive policy — printed on each ticket — that governs the kinds of lawsuits passengers can file. Two maritime law experts also said the trial already set an important precedent in cruise line cases when the judge ruled Carnival was negligent simply because the fire broke out, regardless of the reason. View Carnival's cruise ship staterooms, including suites, balconies, oceanviews and interior staterooms. Yes, there are plenty of perverts on Carnival cruise ships, both crew members and passengers, as evidenced by the fact that the Department of Transportation documented 26 sexual assaults which occurred on ships in the Carnival fleet in just over the last 9 months.
On average, consumers are 11% less likely to purchase a cruise than they were in the pre-“poop cruise” days. Again, Carnival has taken the biggest hit in this department, with consumer purchase intent down 20%. What’s unclear, however, are what kinds of prices are being paid by passengers on these Triumph sailings. It’s very possible that a significant percentage of the people filling up cabins in the Triumph and other Carnival ships this summer are customers who are using the credit they received for a free future cruise after the voyage they’d purchased was canceled in recent months.
The court documents reveal Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines knew about the risk of leaks from engine fuel hoses and recommended taking precautions on the ill-fated ship that later caught on fire at sea. "And then," The New York Times explains, "there is the matter of potential litigation by passengers, although the ability of passengers to sue cruise ship operators is sharply limited, lawyers said." Said one passenger of the $500, "We think it's hush money." The Carnival Triumph pulled into the Port of Mobile at about half past nine, local time, bringing an end to the days-long, feces-filled journey. Despite being adrift for almost a week with no running water, passengers were told that they would still have to wait on board for hours before they could set foot on dry land.
The Carnival Triumph, dubbed the “Poop Cruise” after passengers were forced to live for almost a week amidst their own sewage, set sail Feb. 7 with only four of the six generators working, and the company knew about the fire hazard posed by the generators, CNN reports. The generator that caught fire and caused the outage had been overdue for maintenance for over a year, and was often not in compliance with the safety laws, according to the internal company documents. CNN obtained the documents as lawsuits are pending against the cruise line.
U.S. District Judge Donald Graham (a conservative Bush appointee) zipped 6 of the passengers who will now be faced with Carnival’s motions to tax costs against them. Cruise ship accidents, injuries, crimes, disappearances, fires, and collisions on the high seas involve issues of maritime law. Jim Walker graduated from law school in 1983 and has been handling maritime law cases for the past thirty-five years. He handles a wide variety of cases from serious injuries to the highest profile sexual assault and cruise crime cases. As they finally came off the Carnival cruise ship Triumph late Thursday and early Friday in Mobile, Ala., passengers from the ill-fated cruise told stories that call to mind TV's Survivor and literature's classic Lord of the Flies, the Los Angeles Times writes.
No comments:
Post a Comment