Passengers stagger off cruise ship reeking of vomit at NJ dock

By Victoria Cavaliere BAYONNE, New Jersey (Reuters) – Cheers erupted aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship reeking of vomit and diarrhea as it pulled into its home port in New Jersey on Wednesday, ending a trip cut short because illness felled more than 600 people. Passengers disembarking the "Explorer of the Seas" recalled the nightmare of getting sick during the Caribbean cruise, being quarantined in their rooms, and putting everything they touched into bio-hazard bags. "I had three days of sickness and quarantine," recalled Susan Rogutski of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, who came down with gastrointestinal symptoms so severe the first day of the trip that she had to be physically dragged to the sick bay. Carl Kern of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, said the ship's hallways smelled of diarrhea and vomit.