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A cruise ship, which caught fire off the coast of Mexico, has arrived in San Diego and the 4,500 passengers began disembarking the ship after spending three days adrift in the Pacific Ocean without power.
The cruise ship, owned by Carnival Cruise Lines, was 200 miles from San Diego when the fire broke out in its engine room on Monday.
About 8:30 a.m. the first passengers straggled off the Carnival Splendor in San Diego. It took nearly five hours for all passengers and crew to disembark.
“I love being back on land. The staff was excellent. Only a few people were rude. The food was horrible. Starting at 5 a.m. Monday, we didn’t have toilets for 13 hours,” said Ken King, one of the first passengers to disembark.
The ship was pulled into San Diego Bay by six tugboats and escorted by several Coast Guard vessels. When the Carnival Splendor reached land, people started to cheer loudly and both passengers and crew were coping well with the obvious challenges. Authorities said that there were no reports of injuries among the crew or passengers.
A passenger, David Zambrano said that many of the people he had talked to have said that they would never take another cruise again, especially with Carnival.
