gelo7 Posted February 14, 2013 #1 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Carnival Triumph will not get into Mobile until 11pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StillPooh Posted February 14, 2013 #2 Share Posted February 14, 2013 What do you wanna bet customs will refuse to come clear the ship until morning, trapping all those poor people on board another night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare jimbo5544 Posted February 14, 2013 #3 Share Posted February 14, 2013 What do you wanna bet customs will refuse to come clear the ship until morning, trapping all those poor people on board another night? never happen. Take that bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redsfan Posted February 14, 2013 #4 Share Posted February 14, 2013 What do you wanna bet customs will refuse to come clear the ship until morning, trapping all those poor people on board another night? I wonder if they have to board within a certain amount of time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Gramps Posted February 14, 2013 #5 Share Posted February 14, 2013 They just don't want all those TV camera's showing the ship's condition Gramps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StillPooh Posted February 14, 2013 #6 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Mobile doesn't have regular cruise ships anymore, does it? They likely don't have enough customs agents stationed there to process thousands of people at once. They'll have to bring more in. Regardless, it seems bizarre that Carnival plans to bus all those passengers 2 hours to New Orleans instead of putting them up in Mobile. :confused: Mobile Mayor Sam Jones questioned the plan to bus passengers to other cities late Wednesday, saying the city has more than enough hotel rooms to accommodate passengers and its two airports are near the cruise terminal. “We raised the issue that it would be a lot easier to take a five-minute bus ride than a two-hour bus ride” to New Orleans, Jones said. Jones said Carnival employees will be staying in Mobile, adding he was not told of the company’s reasoning for putting passengers on extended bus rides after their experience at sea. “I don’t know if the passengers even know that,” Jones said. news story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ticka1 Posted February 14, 2013 #7 Share Posted February 14, 2013 they have the ship live on cnn coming into mobile. must beclase has pilot ship there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonna5 Posted February 14, 2013 #8 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Customs is already on the ship clearing passengers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LWiening Posted February 14, 2013 #9 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Carnival is not going to allow anymore bad publicity. They even said on our news last night this cruise will effect the impact of the company. Carnival is having extra security in the port to handle everything. The last thing they need is a boat full of passengers who had endured what they had to to be on that boat any longer. Yes there will be news from all over the world. People will be anxious to tell their side . But I would imagine that Carnival is having them sign something in order to receive their compensation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiserider444 Posted February 14, 2013 #10 Share Posted February 14, 2013 does everyone just make stuff up? this is pretty funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVMet Posted February 14, 2013 #11 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Note to CNN: The Carnival Triumph is not a yacht (as your anchor just called it). With the live chopper shots from CNN now all over the media world, I wonder if Carnival wishes they'd just taken the Triumph to Mexico and flown everyone home. ALso, with the headwinds and it taking so long to get to Mobile, did they check one the weather before they made the decision to go to Mobile instead of Progresso? The media reports they are getting are horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCruisers Posted February 14, 2013 #12 Share Posted February 14, 2013 :( It does keep getting worse and worse! LuLu ~~~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mek Posted February 14, 2013 #13 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Just my oppinion, but everyone could come off the ship with nothing but glowing reports of how the situation has been handled, (and I'm not saying it has), and the press would turn it into a negative media circus. They are just salivating for a story like this all of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vzarah84 Posted February 14, 2013 #14 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Just my oppinion, but everyone could come off the ship with nothing but glowing reports of how the situation has been handled, (and I'm not saying it has), and the press would turn it into a negative media circus. They are just salivating for a story like this all of the time. That is true. While the conditions are awful, many onboard have already stated the staff and crew have been amazing during the midst of it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bguppies Posted February 14, 2013 #15 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Mobile doesn't have regular cruise ships anymore, does it? They likely don't have enough customs agents stationed there to process thousands of people at once. They'll have to bring more in. Regardless, it seems bizarre that Carnival plans to bus all those passengers 2 hours to New Orleans instead of putting them up in Mobile. :confused: news story Customs agents were taken out to sea this morning to board and have everyone through customs hours before they arrive in Mobile. Those people will get off the ship immediately upon arrival. Also read that Carnival cannibalized their Florida embarkation staffs and sent them ahead to Mobile, so they are already in place and ready to get these people off. I'm sure the press trying to stop everyone for their stories will delay these poor people more than Customs, security or Carnival will. Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holders3 Posted February 14, 2013 #16 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Why can't everyone just quit kvetching and spinning conspiracy theories and await the arrival. Human nature I suppose. Depending on various personality traits, we will hear both extremes and the truth will be somewhere in the middle. To the passengers and crew, we are all anxiously awaiting your safe return and the end to this miserable experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrzGrl62569 Posted February 14, 2013 #17 Share Posted February 14, 2013 What do you wanna bet customs will refuse to come clear the ship until morning, trapping all those poor people on board another night? I'll take that bet too. That will NEVER happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrzGrl62569 Posted February 14, 2013 #18 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Also read that Carnival cannibalized their Florida embarkation staffs and sent them ahead to Mobile, so they are already in place and ready to get these people off. Bill What did you mean to say here? I'm sure cannibalized wasn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shipbound Posted February 14, 2013 #19 Share Posted February 14, 2013 What do you wanna bet customs will refuse to come clear the ship until morning, trapping all those poor people on board another night? That is an interesting question concerning customs. If they did not port in Mexico do they still have to go through customs just because the ship left US waters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelvee Posted February 14, 2013 #20 Share Posted February 14, 2013 That is an interesting question concerning customs. If they did not port in Mexico do they still have to go through customs just because the ship left US waters? I thought they stopped in Cozumel, then the engine fire occurred on the voyage home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare shof515 Posted February 14, 2013 #21 Share Posted February 14, 2013 wonder if the broken tow line could of caused this delay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkNC Posted February 14, 2013 #22 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Carnival Triumph will not get into Mobile until 11pm. I bet at this point the passengers would agree to take turns rowing if it would speed things up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WetToes Posted February 14, 2013 #23 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Yay! 'ANOTHER' thread on the Triumph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shipbound Posted February 14, 2013 #24 Share Posted February 14, 2013 I thought they stopped in Cozumel, then the engine fire occurred on the voyage home. I do not know if they stopped in Cozumel, MX if they did they may have to go through customs ,just one more delay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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