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The cruise ship Carnival Triumph is moored at a dock in Mobile, Ala., Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. The ship, which docked Thursday in Mobile after drifting nearly powerless in the Gulf of Mexico for five days, was moved Friday from the cruise terminal to a repair facility. The ship carrying more than 4,200 passengers and crew members had been idled for nearly a week in the Gulf of Mexico following an engine room fire. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
In a released statement, Eaves says, “Texans who watched Carnival’s million-dollar ad campaign in Texas and bought their tickets in Texas and who boarded the ship in Texas deserve to have their case heard in Texas by a Texas judge.”
Carnival Triumph departed from the Port of Galveston before experiencing a fire on Feb. 10 off the coast of Mexico, leaving the vessel stranded at sea. The Carnival cruise ship was then towed to Mobile, Alabama, where it finally docked on Feb. 14.
According to the Jackson law firm, district court in Galveston ordered the seizing of the Triumph on March 29, 2012, based on Carnival Cruise Lines’ “lack of compliance to standards regarding on-board safety and procedures aimed at preserving the lives of passengers and crew.”
Eaves also represents passengers and family members of the January 2012, Costa Concordia tragedy. The Carnival-subsidiary owned vessel ran aground on the Italian coastline killing 32 passengers including two Americans.
“Once again, Carnival’s desire to increase profits at the risk of passenger safety has resulted in putting passengers at risk,” he said. “The same inadequate standards that caused the sinking of the Costa Concordia are the same problems on every Carnival cruise vessel. Carnival has had billion-dollar profits yet consistently cuts costs in hiring and training of its crew, in the discipline of its officers, in the design of its vessels and, as we know now, in the maintenance in its mechanical operations.”
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