CNN reports that the first claim has been filed against Carnival Cruise Lines in regards 
to the engine fire accident and ensuing days at sea aboard the Carnival Triumph – days that were uncomfortable, inconvenient and potentially hazardous for passengers and crew.
“A floating toilet, a floating Petri dish, a floating hell.” That was how a Texas woman described the Triumph in a lawsuit filed Friday against Carnival Cruise Lines.
Read the full report here at CNN.
The claim was filed in a federal court in Miami, Florida.
Highlights from the CNN story include:
- In the nine-page complaint, Cassie Terry, of Lake Jackson, south of Houston, seeks unspecified damages for what she says she endured on a vacation cruise aboard the Triumph to Mexico.
- For the following nearly five days, Terry, 25, “was forced to endure deplorable, unsafe and unsanitary conditions, including but not limited to, sweltering temperatures, lack of power and air conditioning, lack of hot or running water, and lack of working toilets,” it says.
- During the tow back to the United States, “the vessel listed sharply several times, causing human waste to spill out of non-functioning toilets, flood across the Vessel’s floors and halls, and drip down the Vessel’s walls,” it says.
- “Plaintiff was forced to endure unbearable and horrendous odors on the filthy and disabled Vessel, and wade through human feces in order to reach food lines where the wait was counted in hours, only to receive rations of spoiled food. Plaintiff was forced to subsist for days in a floating toilet, a floating Petri dish, a floating hell.”
- For the following nearly five days, Terry, 25, “was forced to endure deplorable, unsafe and unsanitary conditions, including but not limited to, sweltering temperatures, lack of power and air conditioning, lack of hot or running water, and lack of working toilets,” it says.
- During the tow back to the United States, “the vessel listed sharply several times, causing human waste to spill out of non-functioning toilets, flood across the Vessel’s floors and halls, and drip down the Vessel’s walls,” it says.
For more information regarding the Carnival Triumph incident – or to better understand if you have a potential claim against the cruise line – please contact Waks and Barnett at 800-905-2891.