NAIROBI, Kenya — An Italian cruise liner carrying more than 1,000 people was adrift without power in the pirate-infested Indian Ocean on Monday after a fire erupted in its generator room. The blaze was extinguished without causing any injuries, an official said.
Tug boats from the island nation of Seychelles were steaming toward the drifting Costa Allegra, which had 636 passengers papers need to travel to canada and 413 crew members on board, but they were not expected to arrive until Tuesday afternoon at the earliest.
Monday's fire on the Costa Allegra immediately raised fears, since it occurred only six weeks after one of its sister papers need to travel to canada ships, the Costa Concordia, hit a reef and capsized off Italy, killing 25 people and leaving seven missing and presumed dead. Both ships are operated by Costa Crociere SpA, which is owned by the Florida-based Carnival Corp.
The Costa Allegra is adrift "and being pushed by the current. It is stable and upright," papers need to travel to canada Costa Crociere SpA official Giorgio Moretti told reporters in a conference call late Monday from company headquarters in Genoa, Italy.
No one was injured in the fire in the generator room and the cause of the fire was under investigation, Moretti said. The fire knocked out power to the ship's engines as well as to its lights and air conditioning.
Italian Coast Guard officials said emergency generators were keeping the ship's control room illuminated and communications equipment such as radios running. Officials said the cruise liner was holding steady, despite 5-foot (1.5 meter) waves in the area and passengers were being kept in the ship's big communal rooms, not in their cabins.
Costa Crociere SpA said in a statement the ship was about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Alphonse Island, one of the atolls in the Seychelles, a nation of islands and atolls that is a popular tourist destination.
The Allegra had left northern Madagascar, off Africa's southeast coast, on Saturday and was cruising toward the port of Victoria, Seychelles' capital, when the fire erupted. Costa said the Allegra papers need to travel to canada had been due in Victoria on Tuesday.
A cargo ship was due to reach the Costa Allegra early Tuesday, papers need to travel to canada and Moretti said it would bring batteries and otherwise help with communications. On Tuesday morning, a helicopter is expected to arrive, papers need to travel to canada ferrying in "fresh food, cell phones and walkie talkies."
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