A woman who was on the infamous “Poop Cruise” as it’s been nicknamed has spoken out, and she says it was so much worse than the documentary makes out.
Netflix released a new film about the disaster this week called Trainwreck: Poop Cruise which explains exactly what happened when an engine fire left 4,000 people stranded at sea with no power or plumbing.
24-year-old Tay Redford was on the Carnival Cruises ship which was cruising from Texas to Mexico in February 2013, and told SWNS: “It was the scariest thing I’ve ever been through.”
“I’ve only seen the trailer, but from what I saw, it doesn’t even scratch the surface. It’s just Carnival workers telling the story,” she said before the documentary came out.
“It’s really hard watching the documentary come out and seeing all these people making money from it. To me, it feels like they’re profiting off something that deeply affected and traumatised me.”
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She was only 12 at the time, but still remembers the fear she felt when the ship lost power. A fire burst out in the ship’s engine room and damaged the generators.
“It was the most fear I’ve ever felt in my life. I’m not that old yet, but that was hands down the scariest thing I’ve ever been through,” she said.
“My first thought is we’re sinking, we’re going down. That was the only thing I thought. I was crying hysterically, trying to follow my parents around in the dark.”
“When we went down to our room, we were up to our ankles in sewage and urine and feces, and there was no air flow. There were no lights.”
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Tay was on the ship with her parents, brother, and some family friends, and they were all forced to leave their cabin due to sewage and a lack of airflow.
They then had to camp on the top deck for nearly four days with little food or water before the ship was eventually towed to Mobile, Alabama.
Her brother came up with a great idea to build a tent out of bed sheets to shade them from the sun, and everyone else on the deck copied.
After the ship ran out of water, she said they opened up the bar and started letting people drink the alcohol.
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“They forced their housekeeping staff to stay in rooms infested with sewage, withheld proper meals, and made them eat out of the trash,” she added.
“Carnival called my nana and was like ‘We just wanted to let you know there was a fire onboard. There are no casualties, but your family’s just on an extended vacation. Have a nice day.’”
Tay said the company never reached out to her after the incident. All they did was give her parents $500 compensation and reimburse them for the journey home.
“But that was it. After that, it was like nothing ever happened. No one was supposed to talk about it,” she said. Now, Tay has long-term trauma and will never go on a cruise again.
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