A woman on the cruise ship struck by a tanker said the riverboat started filling with water like the 'Titanic'

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A passenger on the cruise ship that was hit by a tanker in New Orleans said the crash knocked her to the ground and she thought she was going to die.

Tamara Carrasco was in the dining room of the American Heritage cruise ship, docked in the Port of New Orleans, when she spotted a tanker heading straight toward them. Carrasco, a retired elementary school teacher from Atlanta, was seated at a table by the windows so she could look out at the Mississippi River. She saw the tanker crossing under the bridge nearby and noticed it was lowering its anchor. "I thought, 'Why would they be anchoring here?'" she said. Her friend turned to her: "It's not stopping. It's going to hit us." Carrasco was skeptical, until she saw the crew running across the tanker's deck "like ants." "What was going through my mind was: We're going to die," she said.

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