Trainwreck at Sea: The Poop Cruise Disaster

This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

This Feels Criminal | Formerly Killer Queens

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In 2013, a Carnival cruise set sail for paradise—and ended up a floating biohazard. Toilets overflowed, food ran out, air conditioning died, and over 4,000 people were trapped at sea… literally marinating in sewage. We break down the Netflix doc Trainwreck: The Cruise from Hell, relive the absolute chaos onboard, and ask the real question: how is this legal?! From PR nightmares to poop buckets, this one's got it all. Bring your sea legs and a hazmat suit.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome to Killer Queens, a true crime podcast. I'm your host, Tarela, and like most
0:09.5	millennials, I've always had an obsession with true crime. On KQ, you'll find light true crime
0:14.8	stories, millennial hypes and gripes, some adult language, and maybe a special guest here
0:20.2	and there. Just like a 90s sleepover,
0:22.7	we're just a couple BFFs hanging out. So gather around and let's launch right into it.
0:32.9	All right, Terrella, it is February of 2013.
0:38.7	There are over 4,000 people about to set sail on the four-day cruise of their dreams out of Galveston, Texas,
0:47.7	and they are going to cruise through the Gulf of Mexico all the way to the beautiful and always sunny Comell, Mexico, where there are no birds
0:55.7	that attack windows. They are in four days of bottomless buffets and bad decisions.
1:05.0	Yeah. Oh, yeah. Lots of bad decisions, right? That's the plan. Ideally.
1:10.8	Ideal, yeah. Except instead of Sun and Pena Coladas, they got sewage-soaked carpet and cold
1:21.2	soggy sandwiches. Yeah. And overflowing toilets, we can't forget about that.
1:28.8	Yikes.
1:29.4	Yikes, indeed.
1:31.9	Yikes. Okay, so all of that. And it's set to the beautiful tune of nothing but the ocean breeze and the smell of a porta potty.
1:41.3	Oh, gosh.
1:42.2	Uh-huh. So we're not talking about just a bad vacation, y'all.
1:46.0	We are talking about the poop crews. You asked for it. And we are here to tell you about it.
1:53.8	Literally, everywhere in the groups is like, oh my gosh, I've launched train wrecked poop crews. Please cover it.
2:00.6	So here we are covering it. And we are now covered in trauma. Yeah. So thank you. We're doing the Lord's work for you guys. So be sure that you like and subscribe this video. Uh-huh. I said that wrong. You like this video and then you subscribe to it, to us. Just do all the things.
2:19.6	If there's a button, just get in there and start clicking it.
2:20.5	Maybe it's a comment.
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