# Why can't they just take the passengers off the Carnival Triumph?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 14, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-they-just-take-the-passengers-off-the-carnival-triumph/650257 "2013-02-14T04:33:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-they-just-take-the-passengers-off-the-carnival-triumph/650257/41 "2013-02-18T17:45:08Z")

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> [@Snnipe\_70E](#):
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> A fire in a engine room that involves an electrical buss can cause a short between the phase bars. The damage can easily be enough the the repair is replace the buss bars or even the whole distrobution panel. That is not a simple job. Or a job the ship has the parts to complete. And it would take a few days.
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> If the ship had a few hundred feet of 4-0 or 2-0 wire a lash up could be done to route around the main panel.

Now I am reminded of the line in Das Boot where the engineer complains that he would love to have a few bucks worth of wire [they are repairing the damage of sea water in the bilges on the battery systems]

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