But we have lights. And there is still coffee available at the spout. And the deck crew completes its morning chores. Ten minutes later, the screws again turn to life and we are underway. The excitement is over.
Passengers begin to drift away back to their cabins.
Now the debate is whether to go back to bed or just stay up. The sky is beginning to lighten in the east. I chose to go back to bed. Now the facts of what happened early on that morning. A valve which controls the steam supply to one of the main turbo generators failed.