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.

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.

Before watching Poop Cruise with my Netflix Subscription, my biggest fear of a cruise was being stuck on a boat with a bunch of drunk, sunburned vacationers screaming the words to a Jason Aldean song. Now I know things could be so, so much worse.