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Pictures Show Squalid Conditions for Passengers Aboard Disabled Cruise Ship

By Louise Boyle, DAILY MAIL

After days without power a generator was airlifted unto the ship today and many people took the opportunity to charge their phones.

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    This woman has scrawled a message on her robe which reads: 'I survived Carnival Triumph's red bags. Overflowing toilets + flooded rooms. Great crew. Really working hard'.

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February 14, 2013 Updated Feb 14, 2013 at 5:27 PM PDT

These are the horrendous pictures emerging today of the putrid conditions on board the Carnival cruise ship as beleaguered passengers remain at sea after five days of overflowing sewage, unbearable stenches and makeshift beds in hallways.

The ship has began to slowly inch towards shore again after drifting off course because of a broken line to a tugboat pulling it into port, the coast guard said. It has now been fixed.

Carnival reassured guests and their anxious families that they would be on dry land in Mobile, Alabama between 10pm and midnight (ET) on Thursday. The company estimates it will take four or five hours for passengers to disembark.

The final stage in the Triumph's arduous journey has been excruciatingly slow for exhausted passengers who can now see land from 39 miles out to sea.

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