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Nightmare over for the 4,229 aboard the Carnival Triumph

Miami, Feb 15 (EFE).- The 4,229 exhausted passengers and crew on the disabled cruise ship Triumph are now on their way home from Mobile, Alabama, where they disembarked in the wee hours Friday after almost five grueling days at sea in the Gulf of Mexico. "The 3,143 passengers have now disembarked that were on the Triumph and were taken to hotels or picked up by family members who were waiting for them at the dock" in Mobile, Joyce Oliva, spokeswoman for Carnival Cruise Lines, told Efe on Friday.

Desperation on board as cruise ship towed to port

An operation to tow a disabled cruise ship packed with desperate passengers back to the United States was again delayed on Thursday when one of the cables attaching it to a flotilla of tugs snapped. The Carnival Triumph lost power in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after a fire, leaving more than 4,000 passengers and crew sleeping in corridors, waiting hours for sparse meals and relieving themselves in plastic bags.
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