MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Now that a troubled Carnival cruise ship has been moored again after breaking away from the dock at an Alabama port, authorities planned to keep searching for a shipyard worker thrown into the water in a separate wind-related incident.
The crippled cruise ship whose sewage-filled breakdown in the Gulf of Mexico subjected thousands to horrendous conditions tore loose Wednesday from the dock where it's being repaired, lumbered downriver and crunched into a cargo ship.
Wind gusts near hurricane strength shoved the 900-foot Carnival Triumph free from its mooring in downtown Mobile, Ala., where the ship was brought after a five-day ordeal that began when an engine fire stranded it off of Mexico in February. Hours later Wednesday, four tug boats used several mooring lines to secure the ship to the cruise terminal.
The violent weather Wednesday also blew a nearby guard shack into the water. One shipyard worker was rescued and crews were searching for another, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said, but the cruise ship's mishap was unrelated.
Coast Guard officials said they saw no sign late Wednesday of the missing employee of BAE Systems, which runs the shipyard.
