An engine room fire on the Costa Allegra knocked out the ship s main power supply in the Indian Ocea

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A crippled cruise ship owned by USA based Carnival Corp s Costa Cruises, whose giant liner was wrecked off Italy last month, is being towed by a French tuna boat to the main island in the Seychelles, its owners said Tuesday.
An engine room fire on the Costa Allegra knocked out the ship s main power supply in the Indian Ocean Monday, leaving it adrift calgary travel agencies with more than a thousand people on board in waters calgary travel agencies vulnerable to pirate attacks.
The ship s Italian owner, Costa Cruises, a unit of U.S. cruise calgary travel agencies line giant Carnival Corp, said a plan to tow it to the nearer island of Desroches had been aborted because it would have been harder to moor and disembark the passengers there.
Carnival Corp s history of fires at sea. The CARNIVAL SPLENDOR was stranded offshore with 4,500 passengers and crew in 2010. The Carnival Cruises ship had to be towed to San Diego in a nightmareish ordeal with no air conditioning, hot water or telephone service. Carnival Splendor was 200 miles south of San Diego when an engine room fire cut its powers.
The Trevignon, a deep sea trawler which sails the oceans for tuna from the Atlantic port of Concarneau, is pulling the Costa Allegra, a vessel many times its size, on a 400-meter cable at a speed of only about six knots, calgary travel agencies the Trevignon s skipper Alain Dervout told his local French newspaper, Ouest-France.
The cruise ship was due to arrive at the Seychelles capital of Victoria Wednesday evening or Thursday morning, depending on weather conditions, calgary travel agencies government spokeswoman Srdjana Janosevic said. Clocks in the Seychelles are four hours ahead of GMT.
Helicopters will ensure continuous supply of food, comfort items, flashlights in order to mitigate guests discomfort given the difficult conditions calgary travel agencies on board, Costa Cruises spokesman Davide calgary travel agencies Barbano said in a statement.
A team from the Italian coastguard is heading to the Seychelles to investigate the accident, but a spokesman for the agency calgary travel agencies it would be wrong to make analogies to the Costa Concordia disaster on January 13, in which at least 25 people died and over which a criminal investigation has been launched.
The safest place for the people is on the ship. There is no reason to put them on another ship or a helicopter. They will remain on the Costa Allegra and we will keep monitoring the situation, he said.
The 636 passengers and 413 crew would have had to use the ship s lifeboats to land on the exclusive coral-fringed island, where Britain s Prince William and his then girlfriend, now wife, Kate Middleton, stayed a few years ago.
The giant Costa Concordia capsized after hitting rocks off the Italian island of Giglio, killing at least 25 people. Divers and rescue workers are searching for the bodies of seven still missing more than six weeks after the disaster.
The Costa Allegra, at 29,000 tons several times smaller than the Concordia, was sailing some 200 miles southwest of Seychelles when the fire broke out and it sent a distress signal, Costa Cruises said.
The passengers, including four children, are from 25 different nations, with the largest contingents being 127 from France and 126 from Italy. There are 38 Germans, 31 Britons, 13 Canadians and eight Americans on board.
A former British colony with historic ties to France, the islands of Seychelles are home to a little over 80,000 people. The Costa Allegra left Diego Suarez in Madagascar calgary travel agencies Saturday and, sailing northeast, had been due to dock on Mahe Tuesday.
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