(NewsNation) — Netflix’s “Trainwreck: Poop Cruise” has offered a closer look into the 2013 Carnival Triumph cruise that lost all power after a fire, causing passengers to go with no air conditioning and, more importantly, almost no working toilets for days.

On Feb. 7, 2013, the Carnival Triumph left Galveston, Texas, with its sights on Cozumel, Mexico. Instead, the voyage quickly turned into a nightmare when a fire caused the nearly 4,300 crew members and passengers to go without hot meals, air conditioning and toilets.

Passengers and crew members recently spoke with Netflix about the journey, with cruise director Jen Baxter saying, “Half-jokingly, I said we could do a No. 1 in the shower. Then for the No. 2 … that was definitely a trickier problem than No. 1.”

What happened on the ‘Poop Cruise’?

On Feb. 10, while on its way back from Cozumel, Mexico, a fire broke out on the Carnival Triumph around 5:30 a.m. The fire was put out and there were no injuries, but the Netflix documentary revealed that, later that day, the power cut out.

Baxter explained, “Everything’s out, from little things like making a cup of tea or a piece of toast, to the whole propulsion of the ship. Technically, we are just floating dead in the water.” Emergency lights were activated, and people could go out on the deck to make up for no air conditioning.

However, passengers soon found out that “the toilets weren’t working.” Crew members eventually found out that the fire had destroyed the main power cables of the ship, with Baxter saying that there was “no hope of getting the power back.”

‘You want me to what?’: ‘Poop Cruise’ passenger

The first solution for the nonworking toilets was to give out red biohazard bags to everyone who was on board, with passengers being told to drop them “in the bins in the corridor.” Devin Marble, a passenger on the cruise, said he remembered thinking, “You want me to what?”

Abhi, who was a chef on the cruise, said, “I never thought in my weirdest dream I would see a day when I had to poop in a red bag.”

Marble had been on the tip with his fiancée’s family, worrying about his future father-in-law liking him. He said he was “determined” not to use any of the red bags, because it was “not the time” to go to the bathroom in a bag.

At the time, he believed he would make it. However, on day two, Feb. 11, he said, “I’m not going to make it.” So, he started searching the ship for a working toilet after hearing rumors that there were a few that still worked.

One bride-to-be who was on the cruise back in 2013 revealed during the documentary that on the second day of the outage, the pee was no longer draining from the showers because it had “nowhere to go.” On top of that, passengers were still choosing to use the toilets.

Chef Abhi said, “I found this public restroom, and I go inside. It was the most nastiest thing I have ever seen in my life. People were covering the poop with the toilet paper and then again pooping on top of it. So it was layer after later after layer, it was like a lasagna.”

Carnival released 1st statement, didn’t mention broken toilets

Carnival PR representative Buck Banks said during the Netflix documentary that the first move was to release a “short holding statement” to media outlets. In that statement, it was explained that the ship didn’t have propulsion, but there was no mention of the nonworking toilets.

Then, Carnival CEO Gerry Cahill released a statement, saying, “All our guests are safe, and we’re doing everything we can to make them as comfortable as possible. We’re terribly sorry for the inconvenience, discomfort and frustration our guests are feeling.”

But on Feb. 11, family members of those stuck on board started calling media outlets, with former CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin saying, “That’s when we started saying, ‘That’s a story.'”

Bad weather causes boat to tip during rescue

Two rescue tugboats finally reached the cruise ship on Feb. 11 and started towing it, but “suddenly the weather turned for the worst,” Baxter said in the documentary. One passenger, Larry Poret, revealed in the episode that “everything overflowed to the floor and kept overflowing.”

Toby Barlow, whose wife was on the ship, told CNN that his wife, Ann Barlow, texted him and said there was “sewage running down the walls and floors.” Eventually, people started using bed sheets and lounge chairs to set up tents on the deck, with some even starting a prayer group.

Why did the rescue mission for Carnival Triumph take so long?

A tugboat from Progreso, Mexico, was supposed to meet the cruise ship at noon on Feb. 11. However, that didn’t happen. The guest services manager revealed that he had gotten a call at 12:17 p.m., where he learned that the Carnival Triumph had drifted over 100 nautical miles from where it once was and wasn’t near Mexico.

Now, it was going to take up to three days to tow the 900-foot ship to Mobile, Alabama, instead of Texas. Carnival posted on its Facebook page at the time, saying, “Given the strength of the currents, it is preferable to head north to Mobile, rather than attempt to tow against them.”

The ship got closer to Mobile on Feb. 14, with Baxter saying that “people just wanted to get off and go home, hot shower, nice bed.” According to CNN, Carnival planned on fully refunding all customers, flying them home for free and reimbursing any expenses they had to deal with, minus gift shop purchases and casino purchases.

Passengers were also given a credit toward a future cruise. However, Buck said in the Netflix doc that he still “anticipated a complete media blood bath” when they docked. But he was met with something else. He said they were “shocked and relieved that so many of them credited the Carnival crew members with superhuman effort.”

Lawsuits filed after the Carnival ‘Poop Cruise’

Despite there not being a full “media blood bath,” like Buck expected, lawsuits were still filed after the cruise docked.

Maritime attorney Frank Spagnoletti represented some of the passengers and helped them reach settlements. In the documentary, he said, “This was something that was totally preventable, so we definitely had a good chance. The problem is, you run into the ticket.”

After the incident, Carnival spent $115 million to repair and clean the Carnival Triumph, according to the documentary. In 2019, it was renamed the Carnival Sunrise, and mostly sails out of Miami to the Bahamas and other areas in the Caribbean.