Suddenly there we were no lights, then very dim lighting and the ship bobbing around going nowhere fast. The automatic system for getting the generators going had failed and the engineers were using a manual system. In the meantime the NZ Coastguard had been informed!
Rushed to the cabin to have a drink of water and use the toilet before neither was available. There were updates fro the Captain which stressed how the engineers were making progress. The finally after a long couple of hours we started moving again. The loos are flushing again, water is flowing through the taps and hopefully I will get that cup of tea my tongue is hanging out for, now that the lifts are running again.
Don't know how the NZ Coastguard would have coped with 2938 stranded passengers and 1000 crew stuck out in the Tasman somewhere!
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