Madeline is 100% correct in her posting that it is just too dangereous to transfer passengers from one ship to another while in open seas.
I was on a tender once in Cozumel going from shore back to the ship. The tender engine quit and we had to transfer in the rather choppy harbor in Cozumel from one tender to another - before our powerless one hit some huge rocks! That was difficult enough to do and I can see how it would have been so much more dangerous going in a lifeboat from one ship to another on the open sea.
Carnival did all they could do in those terrible conditions. Remember, what you hear or what is reported is just one side. As someone once said, there are 3 sides to a story - your side, their side, and THE TRUTH. Lots of these stories are going to be exaggerated for the sake of possible lawsuits, etc. It still had to be terrible to be in such filth and no running water, etc for that time period.
It is not going to deter me from my future cruising - but I like Celebrity and not Carnival.
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