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

[aruvqan]

@Snnipe_70E

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.

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]