Carnival
Legend
Eastern Caribbean

Sue Ruggero

Age: 40
Occupation: homemaker
Number of Cruises: 1

Guess What, I too was on that wonderful cruise - wherein the boat almost capsized! I don't think I'll ever forget the sheer panic that we all felt those few minutes when the boat was tipping. I thank god I was in my room, it was approximately 5:10pm and we were getting ready for our dinner, when all of a sudden it felt like we were tipping over, everything was flying off our counters and I said to my husband - "Are we tipping over? He ran and looked out the window and he said "I think we are" My 3 kids started to panic - I immediately called my mom who was on deck 1. She was screaming that her window was under the water. My nephews both fell off their beds. It was pretty scary - we left our room to see what was happening and we saw some people in life jackets - now that was scary - (because god forbid the ship did fall on it's side - do you really think any of their rescue drills would work.) We made it to the main deck and waited to hear from the Captain - finally he came over the loud speaker and announced that the ships "list" - I guess that's another word for almost flipping over - was due to a computer glitch and that the problem was now corrected. Well I did not feel that safe on the rest of the trip then - we still had 2 long days at sea. One of the highlights after that was the karoke show that night in the follies lounge - when a guy got up and sang "Don't rock the boat, don't tip the boat over!" Everybody roared.

So, I still don't really know if I like really cruises or not. One thing is for sure I would never cruise from NY again it was just too long at sea with out seeing land - I really felt trapped after the "TIP"....No word from Carnival about their mistake - let's see if they make it up to all the cruisers that they scared out of their wits!

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