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The nightmare is finally over.

Passengers aboard the crippled Carnival cruise ship Triumph are rejoicing after three tugboats were finally able to pull the oceanliner towards Alabama. The ship had been stranded off the Gulf of Mexico since Sunday morning.

Rough weather overnight slowed the Triumph and the three tugboats leading it to Mobile, Alabama, and the ship is now expected to arrive at the port by 7 p.m. (8 p.m. ET), according to an official brief on plans for the ship’s recovery. It had been expected as early as 3 p.m.

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Passengers reported that the conditions on the ship are hellish, describing it as a “floating petri dish” of germs, feces, urine and sewage. A fire in the engine room disabled the toilets and other sanitary equipment on the boat.

The 3,143 passengers are also out of food. Sources say that people are hoarding food in their hot rooms to last them until they can get to shore.

On Wednesday, a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter from Mobile transferred 3,000 pounds of equipment, including a generator to help provide power on the Triumph.

But that’s not the end of their worries. Jorge Rodriguez, a doctor of internal medicine, said the sordid conditions on board make the Triumph full of disease.

“So far, there hasn’t been an outbreak of anything, but … it’s in the Gulf. It’s warm,” he said. “You don’t have sanitary conditions, so hopefully they’ll get back to shore … before anything breaks out.”

Raw sewage is a major health risk, Rodriguez said, but respiratory infections could also spread quickly. Spoiling food could unleash E. coli bacteria, salmonella and other types of food poisoning.

“People on that cruise need to be careful for the next day to couple of weeks,” he said. “They may have contracted something that’s just sort of festering under the surface and won’t come to full-blown infectious status for the next couple of weeks.”

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YIKES! Carnival is planning on reimbursing the passengers and providing them with a $500 credit, but after this, we’re sure no one is going to want to go on a Carnival cruise.

SOURCE: CNN