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Naomi John

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Carnival Cruise Lines say the Triumph lost power for eight minutes after an electrical breaker failed. Carnival says the loss of power affected ventilation in the ship's incinerator, sending smoke into limited areas of three decks.
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It dont seem like a big deal. The same thing can happen in your house if you plug too many things into an outlet

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no biggie. if I were laying out on lido, I wouldn't have even noticed. I wonder where the news media was on Friday when 3 of our planes wouldn't start back up after deicing. oh wait, its not a carnival cruise. we lost our power at home for 4 hours when it was -40 windchills....THAT didn't even make local news! 8 minutes is nothing

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It was 8 minutes, not 8 days. What's the big deal? Could have been an overheated circuit that needed to cool and be reset. Anyone ever dealing with industrial power supplies realizes this happens.
In 8 minutes, those cabins may been filled with smoke. Smoke hangs in the air and even when ventilated, leaves not only film on stuff but a stench that can remain for a long time. This I have experienced. If there were no empty cabins to transfer to, I would not want to be there for days. Article does not say what decks were involved.
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I am not overly concerned with the breaker tripping, since it is a safety precaution and the lost of power is temporary and can be easily restored.

 

I am more concerned with the fact that the incinerator is linked up to the ventilation to the rooms. Shouldn't the incinerator gets its own dedicated and closed exhaust like the main engine?!

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It was 8 minutes, not 8 days. What's the big deal? Could have been an overheated circuit that needed to cool and be reset. Anyone ever dealing with industrial power supplies realizes this happens.

 

First off, I am not a Carnival hater. We had a wonderful cruise on the Pride out of Baltimore but I will never cruise on Carnival out of Galveston again.

 

It was not eight minutes it was about an hour. Emergency power came on in about 15 minutes but the only things that had power were the point of sales terminals in the bars. Keep the fools drinking and maybe they wont notice. Carnival handled this poorly. They could have asked people not to smoke in enclosed areas with no ventilation while the power was off but wouldn't. We were at the slot machines with over a hundred dollars in credit when the power went out so we couldn't just leave. When power was finally restored we couldn't transfer the credit to our on board accounts as the servers had crashed. So we had to play. Staff wouldn't or couldn't credit our account manually.

 

All in all a very poor excuse for a cruise. Food was tasteless, beds saggy and hard as a rock, toilet never had enough water to flush properly. We were told nothing could be done because there wasn't enough pressure on deck 8. Had "new" mattresses brought in but they obviously weren't new as they sagged in the middle just like the "old" ones. Entertainment was poor at best with the exception of the band in the casino bar. The casino staff were surly and acted as though they would rather be anywhere else. Couldn't place a wake-up call request. The only good thing to come out of this fiasco was we were able to get off the ship two hours early and get home.

 

This ship should be scrapped. It is as has been previously suggested "snake bit". Some vessels are cursed. This one sure exhibits the symptoms.

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First off, I am not a Carnival hater. We had a wonderful cruise on the Pride out of Baltimore but I will never cruise on Carnival out of Galveston again.

 

It was not eight minutes it was about an hour. Emergency power came on in about 15 minutes but the only things that had power were the point of sales terminals in the bars. Keep the fools drinking and maybe they wont notice. Carnival handled this poorly. They could have asked people not to smoke in enclosed areas with no ventilation while the power was off but wouldn't. We were at the slot machines with over a hundred dollars in credit when the power went out so we couldn't just leave. When power was finally restored we couldn't transfer the credit to our on board accounts as the servers had crashed. So we had to play. Staff wouldn't or couldn't credit our account manually.

 

All in all a very poor excuse for a cruise. Food was tasteless, beds saggy and hard as a rock, toilet never had enough water to flush properly. We were told nothing could be done because there wasn't enough pressure on deck 8. Had "new" mattresses brought in but they obviously weren't new as they sagged in the middle just like the "old" ones. Entertainment was poor at best with the exception of the band in the casino bar. The casino staff were surly and acted as though they would rather be anywhere else. Couldn't place a wake-up call request. The only good thing to come out of this fiasco was we were able to get off the ship two hours early and get home.

 

This ship should be scrapped. It is as has been previously suggested "snake bit". Some vessels are cursed. This one sure exhibits the symptoms.

 

Granted alot of us were not there, but I think some of this may be a bit of over reaction. There has been NOTHING on the national news about this. I am sure it was uncomfortable and unnerving, but did you make it home safe? Did you still have a place to stay, food to eat, comfort of air and electricity the the other 4 days and 23 hours of the trip?

 

Some of the claims in this post are nothing at all to complain about? Water in the toilet to flush, you do realize that it is not a traditional flush bit a vaccum right? I have never had a hard and saggy bed (That seems line a contridiction to me.)

 

I guess you will be asking for a refund or some kind of future cruise credit....

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1 minute, knowing the history of that ship, would have me panicking. 8 would seem a lifetime. I'd be playing out the previous years events the whole time.

 

It's the length of listening to one airing of Stairway to Heaven. Now THAT'S a long song.

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Naomi John

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Where in the story did "smoke filled rooms" come up? Some of you folks should apply to CNN.

 

Your right, it did not say "smoke filled rooms". It only said " Carnival says the loss of power affected ventilation in the ship's incinerator, sending smoke into limited areas of three decks."

 

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"Family members of a person on the ship tell KATC that their relative is still on the deck waiting for the smoke to clear."

 

Thinking it was smoke filled rooms was wrong.

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