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A major power failure Monday left a cruise ship with thousands of passengers drifting for hours off the coast of Italy, according to Cruise News Today.

An electrical issue the ship’s engines caused the outage, though onboard services continued with little disruption The ship required help from the Italian Coast Guard and two tugboats that guided it into Naples. The ship later regained partial engine power, arriving hours after it was originally meant to. The cruise line is conducting a full inspection and said the ship is expected to resume its sailing schedule Tuesday.

While this power failure was quickly addressed and resulted in limited disruption to passengers’ vacations, other engine failure, mechanical issues and fires do occur aboard ships. If not swiftly dealt with, however, there can be bigger consequences. The passengers of a 2013 cruise ship that lost power know this better than most. In that case, which was explored in a recent Netflix documentary, passengers were stranded without power for days in a stifling ship with no working bathrooms, creating a recipe for disaster.

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The horrors of a February 2013 Carnival Cruise are being revisited in a new Netflix documentary that dropped this week, and the story is nothing short of a total shipshow.

What was meant to be a four-day roundtrip from Galveston, Texas, to Cozumel, Mexico, turned into at least 4,000 passengers and crew being stranded in the Gulf of Mexico for almost a week after a fire damaged cables powering the Carnival Triumph. The toilets began overflowing and there was sewage dripping down the walls, witnesses can be seen explaining in the documentary, which was released Tuesday.

‘It Got Bad Fast’

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