A local radio station recently kept talking about a new documentary on Netflix called “The Poop Cruise”. It was about the events aboard the Carnival Triumph in 2013.

The Carnival Triumph in 2013 was sailing on a 7 day cruise when day 1 of sailing there was a fire in the engine room. The fire did so much damage that the ship eventually lost all power that affected the plumbing and sanitation. In short, the toilets wouldn’t flush. They were stranded in the Gulf of Mexico (which the orange idiot has renamed Gulf of America) for 5 days.

There was 4,000 passengers aboard the ship. Not every passenger was going to hold it until they return to port. Wait, how would they return to port?

The documentary goes into that along with talking with people who were actually on the ship. The whole ordeal lasted 8 days. The passengers were told to pee in the shower and poop in red biohazard bags. Yuck.

When the tugboats finally showed up, they started towing the ship but the showers started to overflow into the rest of the ship and into the carpet. Yeah, the showers full of pee. Nasty!

The ship went through a $200 million overhaul and was renamed to Carnival Sunrise. Hopefully, whatever caused the fire won’t happen again.

I’ve only been on one cruise in my life and it was on Carnival. It was one of the best vacations I ever hard. I wasn’t bored once.

I can’t imagine what those passengers went through. The trauma, the feeling of hopelessness being stranded on a ship. Not to mention the smell aboard. If I went through that, I wouldn’t step foot on another cruise ship again no matter how much money was offered.

I’m sure it was an accident but in this day in age where companies, shall we say try to cut corners, it does make you wonder where something like this will happen again. I certainly hope not but hopefully cruise companies have a better response than Carnival did with the Triumph.