Tag: Carnival Triumph

• Monday, January 15th 2018 - 10:43 UTC

  “Carnival Triumph” fails CDC sanitation inspection, for the first time ever

  

  The cruise ship that earned the “poop cruise” moniker in 2013 has failed her sanitation inspection for the first time ever. In a report completed in November and released earlier this week, inspectors with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) gave the Carnival Triumph a score of 78 out of 100, well below the required 86-point margin for a passing grade. It is the first time she has ever failed an inspection, according to two decades of CDC records, and the first time since 2009 that her score fell below 90 points.

• Saturday, August 2nd 2014 - 08:06 UTC

  US Senate looks into passenger protection on Caribbean cruise ships

  

  There could have been few places where the old adage “worse things happen at sea” seemed more appropriate than a recent US Senate Commerce Committee hearing in which members were regaled with Caribbean cruise ship passengers’ horror stories of everything from rape and violence to seeping sewage and hallways lined with bags of feces.

• Thursday, April 4th 2013 - 00:08 UTC

  Carnival’s Triumph breaks loose from its dock; US Senator calls for “Cruise Ship Passenger Bill of Rights”

  

  One person was missing Wednesday afternoon after high winds in Mobile, Alabama, caused the disabled cruise ship Carnival Triumph to break loose from its dock, officials said. An official with the city's fire department said the missing man and another person were in a guard shack that was blown into Mobile River. One man has been recovered from the water.

• Friday, February 15th 2013 - 19:12 UTC

  Stranded cruise vessel docks in Alabama; “the ship’s afloat, so is the sewage”

  

  More than 4,000 people, passengers and crew members, disembarked on Friday from a crippled cruise ship that docked at Mobile, Alabama four days after an engine fire knocked out power while sailing in the Gulf of Mexico.