It was the ship that launched a thousand headlines. A dozen years ago, the country was riveted — and, let’s face it, entertained — by the plight of more than 4,200 people adrift in the Gulf of Mexico on the Carnival Triumph after an engine room fire.

The latest episode of Netflix's "Trainwreck" anthology series examines the incident aboard Carnival Triumph in 2013.

Netflix's latest documentary unpacks the 2013 'poop cruise,' in which a Carnival cruise ship was stranded at sea for days without working toilets. EW details its most gut-churning revelations.