All our guests are safe, and we re doing everything we can to make them as comfortable as possible,

(CNN) Ewwwww. That about sums up how people are describing conditions aboard the Carnival Triumph on Tuesday as tugboats slowly drag the stricken cruise uk long term car rental ship toward Alabama and freedom for its 3,143 passengers.
Some on the ship reported sewage sloshing around in hallways, flooded rooms and trouble getting enough to eat after a fire in the ship s engine room Sunday left it drifting in the Gulf of Mexico. Passengers dragged their mattresses onto the ship s open deck to stay cool and get away from the nasty smells inside.
The fire is at least the second problem for the ship since late January, when it had an issue with its propulsion system, according to a notice uk long term car rental posted to Carnival senior cruise director John Heald s website.
But the fire knocked out the ship s propulsion system and left the vessel slowly drifting in the Gulf until a second tugboat uk long term car rental arrived Tuesday, joining one that had come earlier. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Vigorous is also sailing nearby to provide assistance if necessary.
Passenger Ann Barlow said the staff on the Triumph was doing a good job, but that flooded rooms, hot, humid conditions, long lines for food and overwhelming uk long term car rental odors were making things tough for passengers.
Barlow s husband, Toby, said she told him there was sewage running down the walls and floors with passengers being asked to defecate in bags and urinate in showers due to the lack of functioning toilets. The air conditioning uk long term car rental is also out.
Gulliksen said Tuesday that cabins have running water cold only and some toilets uk long term car rental are working in public uk long term car rental areas and some cabins. The ship s poolside restaurant was open until 10 p.m. Monday night and reopened again at 7 a.m. Tuesday.
All our guests uk long term car rental are safe, and we re doing everything we can to make them as comfortable as possible, Carnival CEO Gerry Cahill said Monday night. We re terribly sorry for the inconvenience, discomfort and frustration our guests are feeling.
The Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board launched an investigation into the cause of the engine room fire. Because the Carnival Triumph is a Bahamian-flagged vessel, the Bahamas Maritime Authority is the primary investigative agency.
Carnival initially planned to tow the ship to Progreso, Mexico, but strong currents uk long term car rental that had pushed it 90 miles north by Monday night prompted the decision to move the ship to Mobile instead. The change also made it easier on the 900 passengers who don t have passports, the cruise line said.
In 2010, the Carnival s cruise ship Splendor lost power after an engine room fire, leaving it drifting off the Pacific coast of Mexico. The USS Ronald Reagan ferried 60,000 pounds of supplies for the ship s passengers and crew as the ship was towed to San Diego.
uk long term car rental Richard Burke, chairman uk long term car rental of the engineering faculty uk long term car rental at the State University of New York s Maritime College, told CNN he had no reason uk long term car rental to believe that Carnival in any way is not a first-class operator. Nor do I believe that their ships are not good ships. I think they are just being unlucky right now.