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Originally Posted by gocubsgo
Here's what baffles me...why didn't Carnival send out another ship when all this first happened and transfer the passengers? Why did they leave them on that nasty ship for days on end in those filthy conditions? How hard would it have been to do that?
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The logistics of moving 4,000+ passengers and crew would have been a nightmare scenario. It would only have been possible to move passengers from one ship to another by tender, how many tenders would be needed to accomplish this, how long would they take to get to the ship? Can you imagine trying to remove passengers from a ship of that size whilst the ship is being moved by the windy conditions in the Gulf? How would you have removed infirm passengers, people confined to wheel chairs, young children etc. etc? I don't like getting on and off tenders when you are in port and the ship is tied up, let alone one that is drifting around.
These cruise companies are experts at their business, and I know it was miserable conditions for these poor people, but I don't think there was an alternative unless the ship was sinking, then things would have been very different.