Sitting at dinner during the 5 p.m. early setting, my tablemate, a former Coast Guard officer, noticed that our ship had fully stopped moving. That’s not typical, he explained, given that we had just left port and should theoretically be picking up speed as we head toward international waters.
Instead, we were completely still which suggested that perhaps we were having a propulsion problem or otherwise struggling to get the ship moving forward.
“I was looking at the horizon and it did not appear we were pushing any wake, Then I looked back at the propulsion and it was just churning underneath the ship rather than pushing us ahead,” said Dennis Post, partner at PostCard Travel Planning, Come Cruise With Me’s travel agent partner. “I could also see a Carnival ship off in the distance and were not moving relative to it…