<p>GALVESTON, Texas &ndash; Dozens of passengers are back on land, recovering from injuries they got during a cruise ship scare.&nbsp;At least 60 of them were injured Wednesday on a Galveston-based Carnival cruise ship when the vessel had to make a sharp turn in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Yucatan Peninsula.&nbsp;</p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Carnival cruise lines said its ship, the Ecstasy, almost ran into a large buoy that was adrift and mostly submerged. The maneuver made the ship tilt to one side.&nbsp;</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The Carnival Ecstasy returned to Galveston as scheduled Thursday morning and some passengers described their shocking ordeal after they arrived back on dry land.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">&ldquo;People started rolling around and people were falling on top of each other,&rdquo; says Cookie Trevino, a passenger who had her injured&nbsp;arm in a sling.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">&ldquo;A lot of people got hurt, there was people with heart attacks, there was people that was cut all in their face and arms, so it was a very scary situation,&rdquo; says passenger Minerva Barrera, who said she hurt her leg in the incident.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">In a phone interview Wednesday immediately after the incident, cruise passenger Patrice Edwards described the moments following the maneuver, saying the boat rocked to one side and tilted for several minutes.<br /><br />&ldquo;We go to sleep, the next thing we know, [my husband] rolled and hit the floor, I rolled and hit the floor&mdash;the whole boat is going to the side,&rdquo; Edwards said. &ldquo;Everything you can hear, everybody&rsquo;s cabin is just falling and crashing to the floor.&rdquo;<br /><br />Edwards said at first, she didn&rsquo;t know what to think.<br /><br />&ldquo;We get up, and I look out the door and everyone is running back to their rooms to get their life rafts. I mean the whole boat just shifted,&rdquo; Edwards said. &ldquo;Everyone had their life rafts and that&rsquo;s when they were running with people on stretchers.&rdquo;<br /><br />The cruise line spokesperson said none of the injured passengers required hospitalization upon arrival.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">They also reported only minor damage to some merchandise and unsecured objects.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">A video, purportedly shot just after the ship tilted, showed startled passengers around a pool, walking and sloshing water amid scattered deck chairs.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">In a statement released Thursday, the cruise line apologized to passengers:</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">&ldquo;Carnival sincerely apologizes for the distress and discomfort this occurrence has caused our guests.&nbsp; The safety, comfort and care of our guests and crew is our top priority.&rdquo;<br /><br />Carnival said the U.S. Coast Guard was notified about the incident.</div>