A fire on Sunday knocked out the vessel’s propulsion system, leaving it unable to sail and without power, sewage, heating or air-conditioning systems. The ship, the Triumph, is carrying 3,143 passengers and 1,086 crew members.
“It is just squalor and disgusting,” said Steven Peery, whose wife, Cindel Peña, was on the ship.
Ms. Peña, in conversations with both her husband and her mother, Serena Peña, described a vacation turned nightmare. The lines for meals lasted more than an hour, she said, and the hallways and cabins were so hot and foul that people had taken to sleeping in whatever outdoor space they could find.
Also, with many of the toilets not functioning, the crew was forced to distribute plastic bags for people to use instead.
“The first time I talked to her,” Serena Peña said, “she asked if I had seen reports on the news and if those reports described the raw sewage on the floors, because they should.”
The sewage also seemed to be seeping through the walls, the daughter said.
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