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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Entertainment
J. Alas

Carnival's 'Poop Cruise' Horror: 4,000 Passengers Stranded With No Toilets, No Food—And No Apology

Passengers were forced to build tent cities as the ship's interior began to fill up with sewage.

A routine cruise holiday spiralled into chaos in 2013 when thousands of passengers aboard the Carnival Triumph found themselves trapped in what would later become known as the 'Poop Cruise'.

With raw sewage flooding the ship, makeshift tent cities forming on deck, and passengers fighting for basic survival, the event shook the cruise industry to its core. Now, Netflix's documentary Trainwreck: Poop Cruise lays bare the horror—and the legal manoeuvring that followed.

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