They have been following this on the local news (of course) and yesterday I actually heard an anchorman say "... the Carnival Splendor is twice the size of the Titanic and sharing the same bad luck..."
Uh, no, I don't think being (relatively) safely adrift for a couple days off the Mexican Riviera and then being towed into San Diego by tugboats while the military airlifts you food and supplies, is quite the
same kind of "bad luck" as watching the ship you were on sink with over half of its passengers and crew dead or dying while you, as one of the lucky ones, freeze your butt off in an open lifeboat in the middle of the freakin' north Atlantic and pray all night that some passing ship picked up your distress signals or maybe just happens to see you as it goes by.
But most of our morning/noon local news anchors appear to be high-functioning morons, so I suppose it's not that surprising.