Someone wise once said nothing ever goes wrong — until it does. The captain of the cruise ship Carnival Triumph probably thought nothing would go wrong with his 102,000-ton ship when he got underway from Galveston, Texas on Feb. 7 for a four-day cruise to Cozumel, Mexico.
Inspection reports by the U.S. Coast Guard on the condition of back-up generators and lifeboats raised few red flags. The same goes for the sanitation inspection report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet, something went wrong, and the 4,200 passengers and crew became poster children for what happens when disaster
