Frederick FN Noronha wrote: > Nightmare at Sea: Carnival Cruise Liner Nears Port
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6aFxnesstc FN, Since this cruise left from Galveston, Texas, there would be few if any Goans as passengers on board. Had the departure been from Florida or any port in the Caribbean, it would have been a different story. At this time of the year, you usually have groups of 40 or more Goans from Toronto going on Caribbean cruises every week. As for Goans as crew members, I hope there were a lot of them. The crew has been getting rave reviews by the passengers. Almost every passenger has said the crew went beyond the call of duty. I have been looking to short the Carnival Cruise Lines stock ever since the engine room fire. However, this particular ship is registered in the Bahamas and that adds another layer of complexity to the legalities. What I find perplexing about the Carnival people though, is that the ship left from Texas but they decided to tow the crippled ship, one without electricity or indoor plumbing to Alabama i.e. the only US state with no electricity or indoor plumbing requirements. The latest news is that a bus with some ex-passengers who were being sent from Mobile to Galveston broke down. Some of those passengers were sent to the nearest airport to catch a flight. The flight they were booked on could not leave because of electrical problems on the plane. If I was religious, I would be inspecting those particular ex-passengers scalps for 666. Mervyn
