This is a cruise radio special edition, Carnival Splendor 2010.

From The Cruise Once to News in Jacksonville, Florida.

I'm Matt Baskford.

And I'm Doug Parker.

Thanks for checking out this special edition of Cruise Radio, focusing on the recent Carnival Splendor ordeal.

We'll talk to a couple of passengers who have just gotten off the ship.

But first, Stuart Sheeeron, the cruise guy is with us.

He is a regular contributor for Good Morning America, CNN, and MSNBC. Hello, Stuart.

First question, how long will the splendor be in San Diego?

That's a good question. I know right now that they were waiting for the Panamanian authorities

to take the lead in the investigation,

considering the ship is Panamanian flagged, joined with the U.S. Coast Guard and the NTSB,

the National Transportation and Safety Board, and they're going to determine what, in fact,

occurred on board the splendor that essentially rendered it lifeless,

because, you know, there are a couple of different

engine rooms and the fact that the, you know, the fire that which occurred in the rear engine

room on a panel was able to actually shut the power down, you know, almost to the, I mean,

for the entire ship. So they're going to try to look into what caused that and how to, you know, prevent

that in the future. I was going to say because the cruise didn't start in San Diego. It started in Long Beach, right? Correct. And what kind of itinerate does this ship usually run? The Mazur-Lan, Cabo-San-Lucus, Porto-Vayarta. Okay, Stuart, I have a listener question here. Basically, they're asking, paraphrasing here, why did the passengers have to go through

customs getting off the ship when the ship left out of a U.S. port and never went to a foreign

port?

The answer is the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which went into full swing within

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