Passengers recount flight from doomed paddle-wheeler as New Orleans officials chart response

After Friday’s cardio test, Laura Ross is about done with small cruise ships.

The Massachusetts woman and her husband Albert, 90, were finishing up lunch in the dining room of the paddle-wheeler American Heritage when the bow of a tanker grew large in the port side window.

“We were wondering at what point it was going to turn away from our boat, and it never did,” said Ross, 85…

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