Cruise Ship Bus Breaks Down Transporting Carnival Triumph Passengers to New Orleans

Some passengers from the stranded Carnival cruise ship Triumph are far from having their worst vacation being over.

CNN reports one of the charter buses traveling from Mobile, Alabama to New Orleans, Louisiana broke down within 45 minutes after they left. They bus pulled over to the side of the road after passengers heard "a loud popping sound."

"The bus literally breaks down," passenger Clark Jones told Live at Daybreak. "It comes to a stop in the middle of the highway. We have to pull over to the side. It's dark. All the lights on the bus go out."

Carnival spokesman Vance Gulliksen said another bus was available and those aboard were transferred and continued their trip, arriving safely in New Orleans Friday morning.

The Carnival Triumph carrying some 4,200 people aboard was towed to the dock late Thursday, after an engine-room fire Sunday left it powerless and adrift.

It nearly took about four hours for all passengers to disembark. Then were given three options either to take a bus straight to Galveston, Texas, to retrieve cars parked at the ship's departure port, take a bus to New Orleans to stay at a hotel before a charter flight home or have family or friends pick them up in Mobile.

That's not even all of it as some were even told the plane that they were to catch is experiencing electrical failure, and was delayed 90 minutes.