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 2013-02-12 1:47 PM |
Pro  4174    Keller, Texas |  Subject: Carnival TriumphAs a big time cruiser, I cannot imagine the conditions those people are dealing with. I have about 10 friends on the ship, including 4 kids. 3rd day with no power or sanitation. Reports are that the smells are so bad people are getting sick. Waiting 4 hours for cold food and no showers. I am sure even the pools cannot be used since they need power for filtration. People are being told to go #1 in the showers and #2 in hazmat bags. Personally, I would propably stop eating solid food just so I would not have to use a bag. I really can think of few things more disgusting. So now they are being towed very slowly back to Mobile, Alabama. Then get on planes back to Houston. An hour on a bus to Galveston and for my friends here, a 6 hour drive home. While this will not disuade me from crusing, it makes you realize not to take the little things (like hot food or flushing toilets) for granted. |
| 2013-02-12 1:58 PM in reply to: #4619364 |
Pro 9391 Omaha, NE | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph Sounds like a typical day when I was in the Navy. Hah, I still have a picture of it from ~1993 I was taking the picture in this one, but we were scooping raw sewage into buckets with a dustpan.  |
| 2013-02-12 2:02 PM in reply to: #4619393 |
| Austin, Texas or Jupiter, Florida | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph tuwood - 2013-02-12 1:58 PM Sounds like a typical day when I was in the Navy. Hah, I still have a picture of it from ~1993 I was taking the picture in this one, but we were scooping raw sewage into buckets with a dustpan. Luckily, I can't see the picture...
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| 2013-02-12 2:05 PM in reply to: #4619364 |
Champion 34263 Chicago | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph Wow I didn't realize they were going through that. When I first heard about it I was all `Sweet! They get another week on a cruise ship.' How disgusting. And Tuwood I didn't realize you were a plumber in the Navy! |
| 2013-02-12 2:06 PM in reply to: #4619403 |
Pro 9391 Omaha, NE | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph GomesBolt - 2013-02-12 2:02 PM tuwood - 2013-02-12 1:58 PM Sounds like a typical day when I was in the Navy. Hah, I still have a picture of it from ~1993 I was taking the picture in this one, but we were scooping raw sewage into buckets with a dustpan. Luckily, I can't see the picture...
Ha, it's not that bad. I linked it off my facebook and I thought it would work. I uploaded it to Photobucket as well. |
| 2013-02-12 2:08 PM in reply to: #4619410 |
Pro 9391 Omaha, NE | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph mr2tony - 2013-02-12 2:05 PM Wow I didn't realize they were going through that. When I first heard about it I was all `Sweet! They get another week on a cruise ship.' How disgusting. And Tuwood I didn't realize you were a plumber in the Navy! Everybody's a plumber, and a janitor, and a painter, and a fireman, and ... My actual job was working on the weapons radar. |
| 2013-02-12 2:15 PM in reply to: #4619364 |
Pro 9391 Omaha, NE | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph btw, to the OP. Yeah I agree that it has to really suck. Sewer gasses backing up stink to high heaven and typically you don't have a "window" you can open up either so it all just lingers in the air. bleh. I will say major kudo's to the crew for putting out the fire because as bad as it is, I'm guessing the passengers would rather be going through what they are now versus laying at the bottom of the ocean. |
| 2013-02-12 2:53 PM in reply to: #4619432 |
Champion 11989  Philly 'burbs | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph tuwood - 2013-02-12 3:15 PM Sewer gasses backing up stink to high heaven [sidebar] Shower stall was draining slowly so I set out to snake it. My wife was very interested in what I was doing, but was concerned about water that she could see in the drain. I tried to explain to her about the drain trap and why the water was there but she insisted that "all the water should drain out." So, I got all the water out of the trap. She lasted about 30 seconds in the bathroom and hasn't ever again questioned my plumbing acumen. |
| 2013-02-12 3:29 PM in reply to: #4619432 |
Champion 7821 Brooklyn, NY | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph tuwood - 2013-02-12 2:15 PM btw, to the OP. Yeah I agree that it has to really suck. Sewer gasses backing up stink to high heaven and typically you don't have a "window" you can open up either so it all just lingers in the air. bleh. I will say major kudo's to the crew for putting out the fire because as bad as it is, I'm guessing the passengers would rather be going through what they are now versus laying at the bottom of the ocean. The article I saw said that the fire was extinguished by the automatic fire-supression system, but even if that's the case, the crew definitely is earning their (horrifyingly meager) paychecks this week. |
| 2013-02-12 3:44 PM in reply to: #4619420 |
| Austin, Texas or Jupiter, Florida | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph tuwood - 2013-02-12 2:08 PM mr2tony - 2013-02-12 2:05 PM Wow I didn't realize they were going through that. When I first heard about it I was all `Sweet! They get another week on a cruise ship.' How disgusting. And Tuwood I didn't realize you were a plumber in the Navy! Everybody's a plumber, and a janitor, and a painter, and a fireman, and ... My actual job was working on the weapons radar. In the Corps, we joked about the Navy's tendency to show the SEALS in commercials instead of showing the reality: Dum Dum Da Dum (Heavy Metal Music) Sailor Scraping Paint Dum Dum Da Dum (Heavy Metal Music) Sailor Plunging the Toilet Dum Dum Da Dum (Heavy Metal Music) Sailor sleeping in a rack too small for him to roll-over in.
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| 2013-02-12 3:51 PM in reply to: #4619622 |
Elite 4564 Boise | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph GomesBolt - 2013-02-12 2:44 PM tuwood - 2013-02-12 2:08 PM mr2tony - 2013-02-12 2:05 PM Wow I didn't realize they were going through that. When I first heard about it I was all `Sweet! They get another week on a cruise ship.' How disgusting. And Tuwood I didn't realize you were a plumber in the Navy! Everybody's a plumber, and a janitor, and a painter, and a fireman, and ... My actual job was working on the weapons radar. In the Corps, we joked about the Navy's tendency to show the SEALS in commercials instead of showing the reality: Dum Dum Da Dum (Heavy Metal Music) Sailor Scraping Paint Dum Dum Da Dum (Heavy Metal Music) Sailor Plunging the Toilet Dum Dum Da Dum (Heavy Metal Music) Sailor sleeping in a rack too small for him to roll-over in.
Oh man, I love this song, better join the navy.
My coworker just left for a cruise on Friday in this same region. Secretly we all kind of hope she's on this ship so we can hear all her horror stories, but I'm 99% sure she's not. Edited by JoshR 2013-02-12 3:53 PM |
| 2013-02-12 4:07 PM in reply to: #4619393 |
Elite 5145 Cleveland | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph tuwood - 2013-02-12 2:58 PM Sounds like a typical day when I was in the Navy. Hah, I still have a picture of it from ~1993 I was taking the picture in this one, but we were scooping raw sewage into buckets with a dustpan.
Ahhhh, Navy memories
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| 2013-02-12 4:28 PM in reply to: #4619622 |
Pro 9391 Omaha, NE | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph GomesBolt - 2013-02-12 3:44 PM tuwood - 2013-02-12 2:08 PM mr2tony - 2013-02-12 2:05 PM Wow I didn't realize they were going through that. When I first heard about it I was all `Sweet! They get another week on a cruise ship.' How disgusting. And Tuwood I didn't realize you were a plumber in the Navy! Everybody's a plumber, and a janitor, and a painter, and a fireman, and ... My actual job was working on the weapons radar. In the Corps, we joked about the Navy's tendency to show the SEALS in commercials instead of showing the reality: Dum Dum Da Dum (Heavy Metal Music) Sailor Scraping Paint Dum Dum Da Dum (Heavy Metal Music) Sailor Plunging the Toilet Dum Dum Da Dum (Heavy Metal Music) Sailor sleeping in a rack too small for him to roll-over in.
lol, so true. I developed a very stable sleeping position on my side with my knee out and my arm bracing myself. I could withstand 30+ degree rolls and not even wake up. I still to this day sleep in the same position. lol I also spent 3 months as an E5 underneath the Main Reduction Gear (ships transmission the size of a house) with a needle gun chipping paint while standing in 100+ degree waste deep bilge water/oil/godknowswhatelse. I am a disabled veteran because of these three months due to hearing loss and tinnitus. /sigh |
| 2013-02-12 4:32 PM in reply to: #4619364 |
Champion 34263 Chicago | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph You guys mock the Air Force, but I always had a very comfortable bed in which to sleep and never once did I have to even plunge a toilet. If the toilet was clogged we double-time it to a phone and call someone and say `The toilet is clogged.' Fifteen minutes later someone would show up and unclog the toilet for us. One time we had the air conditioner in the barracks go out in the summer in Iowa. It was really hot, like 85, then someone came and fixed it after about an hour. I still have nightmares about that. |
| 2013-02-12 4:33 PM in reply to: #4619694 |
| Austin, Texas or Jupiter, Florida | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph mr2tony - 2013-02-12 4:32 PM You guys mock the Air Force, but I always had a very comfortable bed in which to sleep and never once did I have to even plunge a toilet. If the toilet was clogged we double-time it to a phone and call someone and say `The toilet is clogged.' Fifteen minutes later someone would show up and unclog the toilet for us. One time we had the air conditioner in the barracks go out in the summer in Iowa. It was really hot, like 85, then someone came and fixed it after about an hour. I still have nightmares about that. Yeah, but the Air Force is part of the Department of Transportation... We're talking DOD over here...
Edited by GomesBolt 2013-02-12 4:34 PM |
| 2013-02-12 4:48 PM in reply to: #4619694 |
Pro 9391 Omaha, NE | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph mr2tony - 2013-02-12 4:32 PM You guys mock the Air Chair Force, but I always had a very comfortable bed in which to sleep and never once did I have to even plunge a toilet. If the toilet was clogged we double-time it to a phone and call someone and say `The toilet is clogged.' Fifteen minutes later someone would show up and unclog the toilet for us. One time we had the air conditioner in the barracks go out in the summer in Iowa. It was really hot, like 85, then someone came and fixed it after about an hour. I still have nightmares about that. Fixed that for ya. Also, do you know why the Air Force motto is "Aim High"? Because Military urinals are made for men. badumpump.. |
| 2013-02-12 4:48 PM in reply to: #4619695 |
Champion 34263 Chicago | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph GomesBolt - 2013-02-12 4:33 PM mr2tony - 2013-02-12 4:32 PM You guys mock the Air Force, but I always had a very comfortable bed in which to sleep and never once did I have to even plunge a toilet. If the toilet was clogged we double-time it to a phone and call someone and say `The toilet is clogged.' Fifteen minutes later someone would show up and unclog the toilet for us. One time we had the air conditioner in the barracks go out in the summer in Iowa. It was really hot, like 85, then someone came and fixed it after about an hour. I still have nightmares about that. Yeah, but the Air Force is part of the Department of Transportation... We're talking DOD over here...
We did have some fancy aeroplanes. Good thing too. Wouldn't want mindless grunts flying anything as complicated as that. |
| 2013-02-12 4:49 PM in reply to: #4619714 |
Champion 34263 Chicago | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph tuwood - 2013-02-12 4:48 PM mr2tony - 2013-02-12 4:32 PM You guys mock the Air Chair Force, but I always had a very comfortable bed in which to sleep and never once did I have to even plunge a toilet. If the toilet was clogged we double-time it to a phone and call someone and say `The toilet is clogged.' Fifteen minutes later someone would show up and unclog the toilet for us. One time we had the air conditioner in the barracks go out in the summer in Iowa. It was really hot, like 85, then someone came and fixed it after about an hour. I still have nightmares about that. Fixed that for ya. Also, do you know why the Air Force motto is "Aim High"? Because Military urinals are made for men. badumpump.. And you would know, since you had to clean them out with your almost-bare hands.  |
| 2013-02-12 4:58 PM in reply to: #4619716 |
| Austin, Texas or Jupiter, Florida | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph mr2tony - 2013-02-12 4:48 PM GomesBolt - 2013-02-12 4:33 PM We did have some fancy aeroplanes. Good thing too. Wouldn't want mindless grunts flying anything as complicated as that. mr2tony - 2013-02-12 4:32 PM You guys mock the Air Force, but I always had a very comfortable bed in which to sleep and never once did I have to even plunge a toilet. If the toilet was clogged we double-time it to a phone and call someone and say `The toilet is clogged.' Fifteen minutes later someone would show up and unclog the toilet for us. One time we had the air conditioner in the barracks go out in the summer in Iowa. It was really hot, like 85, then someone came and fixed it after about an hour. I still have nightmares about that. Yeah, but the Air Force is part of the Department of Transportation... We're talking DOD over here...
In addition to communicating with the local Air Traffic Control facility, all aircraft in the Persian Gulf AOR are required to give the Iranian Air Defense Radar (military) a ten minute “heads up” if they will be transiting Iranian airspace. Iranian Air Defense Radar: 'Unknown aircraft at (location unknown), you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself.' Aircraft: 'This is a United States aircraft. I am not in Iranian airspace, I am in Iraqi airspace.' Edited by GomesBolt 2013-02-12 4:59 PM |
| 2013-02-12 5:22 PM in reply to: #4619364 |
Pro 9391 Omaha, NE | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph |
| 2013-02-13 9:23 PM in reply to: #4619694 |
Champion 10471 Dallas, TX | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph mr2tony - 2013-02-12 4:32 PM You guys mock the Air Force, but I always had a very comfortable bed in which to sleep and never once did I have to even plunge a toilet. If the toilet was clogged we double-time it to a phone and call someone and say `The toilet is clogged.' Fifteen minutes later someone would show up and unclog the toilet for us. One time we had the air conditioner in the barracks go out in the summer in Iowa. It was really hot, like 85, then someone came and fixed it after about an hour. I still have nightmares about that. *shakes head* Silly! |
| 2013-02-15 2:07 PM in reply to: #4619694 |
Master 1883 San Antone, Texas | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph mr2tony - 2013-02-12 4:32 PM You guys mock the Air Force, but I always had a very comfortable bed in which to sleep and never once did I have to even plunge a toilet. If the toilet was clogged we double-time it to a phone and call someone and say `The toilet is clogged.' Fifteen minutes later someone would show up and unclog the toilet for us. One time we had the air conditioner in the barracks go out in the summer in Iowa. It was really hot, like 85, then someone came and fixed it after about an hour. I still have nightmares about that. It was all us Air Force CE guys that fixed those things for you. You're welcome. |
| 2013-02-15 2:17 PM in reply to: #4624145 |
Elite 5145 Cleveland | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph Saw an article earlier today how one of the buses contracted to take passengers away from the ship had broken down shortly after getting loaded up. I literally LOL'd at that one
Air Force..... ::smh::
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| 2013-02-19 7:27 PM in reply to: #4619364 |
Champion 7821 Brooklyn, NY | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph I saw an interview with a woman who was a passenger on the ship. She said (and I wish I was making this up) that the experience was "worse than 9/11, because at least when the buildings collapsed, if you were outside, you could run away from them", unlike the passengers, who were stuck on the ship. She went on to say that she viewed the $500 offered to everyone in her family ( in addition to the full refund, the paid-for flight home and the voucher for a free cruise in the future) as, "a slap in the face". And, you guessed it, she's suing Carnival Cruise Lines. |
| 2013-02-19 8:02 PM in reply to: #4629242 |
| Extreme Veteran 861 Northbridge, Massachusetts | Subject: RE: Carnival Triumph jmk-brooklyn - 2013-02-19 5:27 PM I saw an interview with a woman who was a passenger on the ship. She said (and I wish I was making this up) that the experience was "worse than 9/11, because at least when the buildings collapsed, if you were outside, you could run away from them", unlike the passengers, who were stuck on the ship. She went on to say that she viewed the $500 offered to everyone in her family ( in addition to the full refund, the paid-for flight home and the voucher for a free cruise in the future) as, "a slap in the face". And, you guessed it, she's suing Carnival Cruise Lines. Here is an article that discusses the potential success of a lawsuit against Carnival or any cruise company. Of course, this assumes a rational jury http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2013/02/17/281599.htm |
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