Overview

• Trainwreck: Poop Cruise became Netflix’s most-streamed film within days of its June 24 release, leading viewership charts for the platform’s Trainwreck series.
• The 55-minute documentary uses on-board footage, reenactments and interviews to chronicle the 2013 engine-room fire that left the Carnival Triumph adrift with 4,000 passengers enduring raw sewage and stifling heat.
• Conditions during the five-day tow to Mobile, Alabama included non-functioning toilets, spoiled food and makeshift tent camps as the ship drifted off the Yucatan Peninsula.
• After the disaster, Carnival issued full refunds, paid passengers $500 each and provided future cruise credits, but still faced multiple lawsuits led by the Spagnoletti Law Firm.
• Carnival reports strong revenues in mid-2025, which company leaders link to extensive safety reforms and a $200 million refurbishment that transformed the Triumph into the Carnival Sunrise.