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Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

179 Carnival Triumph Revealed + Travel Insurance Questions Answered

Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

Doug Parker

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8636 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2013

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

This week, we talked to cruise passengers that were aboard Carnival Triumph as it was stranded at sea for five days. Cruise Guy joins us, travel writer Chris Owen, and Dan Skilken from TripInsurance.com.

Thoughts or reviews? Email me: doug@cruiseradio.net 

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from tripinsurance.com. Okay, standby. Broadcasting from the cruise radio studios in Jacksonville,

0:18.3

Florida. This is Cruise Radio. Hey, I'm Matt Bass for.

0:18.9

Doug Parker is on assignment in Nassau, Bahamas. It's all about Carnival Triumph this week. We'll speak with one of the passengers who was on board from Houston, Texas, Bethany Fosnacht. Drobble rider Chris Owen will weigh in, and we'll check in with Doug and Nassau to get some other passengers take on the Triumph. But first Stewart's year on the cruise guys here. Hello, Stuart.

0:19.4

Hey, Matt.

0:38.3

Let's start with the three carn other passengers take on the triumph. But first, Stuart, you're on the cruise guys here.

0:38.9

Hello, Stuart.

0:39.3

Hey, Matt.

0:42.9

Let's start with the three carnival ships that came to Triumph's aid with supplies,

0:44.6

elation, legend, and conquest.

0:49.9

Why didn't they simply transfer the triumph passengers onto those ships, dividing them up equally?

0:52.1

Well, I guess to make it simple.

0:53.2

You have an elevator.

0:55.8

It's certified to carry 20 people in the elevator.

0:56.3

Yeah.

0:57.4

You can't stick 40.

1:00.1

These three other ships were full.

1:03.4

Now, let's make this a little more complicated.

1:09.5

Let's add 7 to 10 foot seas and 30 not wins.

1:10.5

Uh-huh.

1:17.0

So the passengers on Tri, while it was uncomfortable, unpleasant, awful,

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