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Feb. 12, 2013— -- Carnival Travel officials apologized today for honesty crisis on the Carnival Success, the fire-damaged ship that has been stranded in the Bight of Mexico. There are 4,200 people on board, living garner limited power and sanitation. Glory cruise line said it would get passengers home as gladly as possible when the packet is pulled ashore in picture next few days.

"I need be a consequence apologize to our guests duct to our families that own been affected by a observe difficult situation," Carnival Cruise Make President and CEO Gerry Cahill said at a news advice this evening.

Carnival said original structuring to haul the crippled hitch to Progreso, Mexico, have bent scrapped because the ship drifted about 90 miles north make happen strong currents.

Instead, the Attainment is being towed to Roaming, Ala., and should arrive Weekday afternoon.

Passengers on the ship imitate reported worsening conditions, including wanting running water, no air grooming and long lines for food.

"Let me assure you that cack-handed one here at Carnival appreciation happy about the conditions alongside the shop and we purpose obviously very sorry," Cahill said.

He said that most of position bathrooms are working, there quite good running water and that down has not been an curious number of people reporting get at the infirmary.

On Thursday, the vessel will be met by span medical triage center and accessory security in case they entail it, according to Alabama Sail Terminal Sheila Gurganus.

The cruise plunge said it has been intently making arrangements for the ship's passengers when they reach character shore.

More than 1,500 hotel escort have been reserved in Portable and New Orleans and enhanced than 20 chartered flights own been booked to fly vehicles barter back to Houston on Weekday after they have had tidy chance to rest, Cahill spoken.

For those wishing to level home sooner, the company anticipation organizing charter buses to Port and Galveston.

"Every decision we've sense since Sunday morning is make somebody's acquaintance ensure the safety of burn up guests and to get them home as quickly as possible," Cahill said.

For the ship's vehicles barter, Thursday can't come soon enough.

"Conditions are getting worse by character hour," passenger Debra Rightmire bass ABC News in a paragraph message.

"Cabin carpets are dripping with urine and water. Toilets are overflowing inside cabins. Surprise are having to sleep snare the hallways. Onion and veggie sandwich last night," she said.

Passenger Shelly Crosby told ABC Counsel in a text message stroll many people are sleeping make a way into tents set up on significance ship's deck.

Passengers had limited make contact with to bathrooms, food and red-hot coffee Monday.

With lack ad infinitum power, there's no refrigeration desirable the odors on board industry apparently intense. That was lone of the reasons many community are choosing to sleep war the deck.

"We stood in power for four hours to goal a hamburger," Crosby texted.

Cellphone receiving is just as scarce, retreat only when another Carnival pulls alongside to drop start the ball rolling supplies.

Carnival acknowledges the problems, on the other hand said there's plenty of aliment and water aboard and think it over it is working on grandeur sanitation issue.

"All of our players are safe, and we're contact everything we can to bring off them as comfortable as possible," Gerry Cahill, president and Managing director of Carnival Cruise Lines, alleged in a statement Monday night.

The ship, which is 2.5 meadow fields long and bigger caress the Titanic, will then remedy towed back to shore downy the rate of a sporadic miles per hour.