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Passengers recount ordeal as US cruise ship limps home

AFP - Michael Thurston - 10 Nov, 2010
LOS ANGELES â€" Passengers on a US cruise ship which broke down in the Pacific recounted tales Wednesday of sleeping on deck and queuing for emergency-issue ...

Cruise goes awry for 4500

Montreal Gazette - 10 Nov, 2010
An engine room fire has left a luxury cruise ship carrying nearly 4500 people stranded with minimal power in the Pacific off the coast of Mexico, ...

Tugboats pull crippled cruise ship with 4500 aboard on slow journey to San Diego

The Canadian Press - Elliot Spagat, Greg Bull - 10 Nov, 2010
SAN DIEGO â€" Two tugboats slowly pulled a disabled cruise ship with nearly 4500 passengers and crew toward San Diego on Wednesday. ...

Carnival Splendor Passengers Begin Calling Out From Ailing Ship

ABC News - Sarah Netter - 10 Nov, 2010
Passengers aboard the ailing Carnival Splendor began getting a strong enough cellular signal to make phone calls out to worried friends and ...

With two tugs pulling, powerless cruise ship continues to San Diego

Los Angeles Times (blog) - 10 Nov, 2010
Pulled by two tugboats, the crippled cruise ship Carnival Splendor is slowly heading toward San Diego, with arrival estimated for midday Thursday, ...

Stranded ship passengers get Spam, Pop-Tarts

CBC.ca - 10 Nov, 2010
AP The disabled cruise ship Carnival Splendor was being towed toward San Diego by tugboats Wednesday while passengers sat in dark rooms and ate cold food ...

Crippled cruise ship expected in San Diego Thursday

CNN (blog) - 10 Nov, 2010
A crippled cruise ship stranded off the coast of Mexico with nearly 4500 people onboard is now expected to arrive in San Diego, California, around midday ...

Track the Splendor as it's towed toward San Diego

USA Today - Kitty Bean Yancey - 10 Nov, 2010
Cruise aficionados and relatives and friends of the 3299 passengers aboard Carnival's crippled Splendor are watching and ...

Carnival Splendor passenger describes 2-hour lines for food, other problems ...

Los Angeles Times - 10 Nov, 2010
A passenger on the Carnival Splendor cruise ship that lost power off Baja California and is being pulled by towboats to San Diego described long food lines ...

2 Detroit area women stranded on Carnival cruise ship

Detroit Free Press - Ellen Creager - 10 Nov, 2010
Two metro Detroit women, Angela Evans of Wyandotte and Natalie Martinez of Taylor, are aboard Carnival Splendor, the disabled cruise ship ...

Crippled cruise ship makes slow voyage to San Diego [Updated]

Los Angeles Times - 10 Nov, 2010
As the sun rose Wednesday morning, tugboats continued the slow process of pulling the powerless cruise ship Carnival Splendor into San Diego. ...

Stranded luxury cruise passengers fed Spam

Telegraph.co.uk - Jon Swaine - 10 Nov, 2010
They were promised a choice of "gourmet delicacies and mouth-watering favourites" including lobster tail, prime rib and filet mignon. ...

Passengers on stricken Carnival ship making do with Spam

USA Today - 10 Nov, 2010
The 113000-ton ship was left adrift with limited power early Monday after a fire broke out in the aft engine room. Carnival Cruise lines says no one was ...

What's a Good Reward for the Stranded Cruise Passengers?

ABC News - Lee Ferran - 10 Nov, 2010
The damaged ship is being towed to San Diego at an excruciatingly slow pace -- four miles an hour. And the passengers aren't exactly enjoying Beef ...

Stranded Carnival Cruise: To San Diego, With Spam

ABC News - Lee Ferran - 10 Nov, 2010
The nearly 4500 people onboard the stranded Carnival cruise ship off the coast of Mexico are settling in today for another full day at sea, ...

Twenty-four Aussies on crippled ship

The Australian - Nicolas Perpitch - 10 Nov, 2010
TWO dozen Australians are among almost 4500 people on board a crippled luxury cruise liner being towed to San Diego after an international rescue mission ...

Carnival over for cruise guests

The Age - 10 Nov, 2010
THEY'RE called ''floating cities'', massive cruise ships that offer all the amenities of high-end resorts - spas and casinos, Broadway shows and amusement ...

Stranded cruise ship making slow trip back to US

CTV.ca - 10 Nov, 2010
This Nov. 9, 2010 photo released by the US Navy, shows an HH-60H Sea Hawk helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan delivering pallets of ...

Giant Carnival Splendor cruise ship stranded after engine fire

RT - 10 Nov, 2010
A tugboat has begun towing to shore a cruise ship which caught fire and was stranded off the coast of Mexico. The Carnival Splendor, with about 4500 people ...

Spam helicoptered in to stricken cruise ship

Telegraph.co.uk - 10 Nov, 2010
Helicopters have flown in tins of spam to feed nearly 4500 passengers, including 16 Britons, on the stricken Carnival Slendor cruise ship as supplies run ...

Stricken ship's cruise cancelled

The Press Association - 10 Nov, 2010
The next cruise of a fire-hit ocean liner now being towed to port has been cancelled. The 113000-tonne Carnival Splendor had been due to leave Long Beach in ...

Help reaches stranded cruise ship

BBC News - 10 Nov, 2010
Emergency food supplies are being delivered to a luxury cruise liner stranded off the Pacific coast of Mexico with around four and a half thousand ...

Australians stranded on stricken cruise ship

ABC Online - 10 Nov, 2010
Helicopters have started ferrying provisions to the Carnival Splendor, which has about 4500 passengers and crew on board. (Reuters: Dylan McCord) More than ...

4500 stranded on cruise ship drifting in Mexican waters

The Province (blog) - Torben Rolfsen - 10 Nov, 2010
A cruise ship sailing from Long Beach, California to the Mexican Riviera suffered an engine fire, ...

US aircraft carrier delivers supplies to stranded cruise ship

Xinhua - 10 Nov, 2010
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- A US Navy aircraft carrier has been sent to deliver supplies to an American cruise ship stranded off the Mexican coast, ...

Stricken cruise ship is under tow to San Diego

Kansas City Star - 10 Nov, 2010
AP The Carnival Splendor wasn't having a splendorous voyage Tuesday; it was stranded about 250 miles off the coast of California. ...

Officials Try to Rescue Cruise Ship

New York Times - Anahad O'Connor - 10 Nov, 2010
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR It was supposed to be a luxurious seven-day cruise to the Mexican Riviera. But two days in, this majestic vacation for thousands of ...

Stuck Cruise Ship Being Towed to San Diego

The Associated Press - 10 Nov, 2010
Navy helicopters shuttled in supplies Tuesday to 4500 passengers and crew members stranded on a disabled cruise ship off the coast of Mexico. ...

Carnival Cruise Ship Still Out At Sea, Conditions Onboard 'Challenging'

NPR (blog) - Eyder Peralta - 10 Nov, 2010
This photo, provided by the US Navy, shows Carnival cruise ship Splendor sitting off the coast of California. Carnival's 113000-ton cruise ...

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Huffington Post - 10 Nov, 2010
Sitting powerless fifty five miles west of Punta San Jacinto, Mexico, Carnival Splendor's staff and crew are working non-stop to restore power to the ship ...

 

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