brittany ferguson. i m kendall jenkins. reporter: how s it feel to be on land after what you went through? incredible. i ve never felt better. grass, i never thought i was going to see it again. looking out and seeing miles of ocean, it gets kind of frustrating. reporter: was it a frightening experience for you? i know it was a trying experience. was it frightening for you? it was. the first day just they were saying alpha team assemble at 5:30. she s like something s not right. so we d get on our clothes and just we see smoke coming down the halls. and someone s banging with their life vest on. grab your life vest. head to the lifeboats. sop we thought we were going to die. like this is it. we had our life vests. we were ready. reporter: how bad did it get in terms of the hygiene and stuff on the ship? pretty disgusting. we were washing our face and brushing our teeth in the same place they asked us to use the restroom. so i don t know how
0 what has this ordeal been like for you? what will you remember about it? my gosh. well, you got to meet a whole lot of people because you were standing in line waiting for things and worried about things in the hallway. it was really nice to reach out like the olden days and talk to people that you wouldn t normally speak to. i know that sounds strange. and how do you think people handled all of this? i mean, as the days were dragging on and the information coming out and the rumor mill and such stuff as that. earlier tonight jayme lamm said it was like the high school with the rumor mill. how was it to manage all that? you would hear so many things. but you had to put it into perspective and try to figure out truth from fiction. you know. i didn t a lot of people were like oh my gosh this happened, that happened. if i didn t see it, i didn t take much truth in it. if i heard a crew member say anything. kathy, how much did you really know about what happened to the ship?