Cruise Ship Adrift, Carnival Cruise Lines said Sunday an engine room fire had disabled the cruise sh

Cruise Ship Adrift, Carnival Cruise Lines said Sunday an engine room fire had disabled the cruise ship Triumph about 150 miles off the Yucatan Peninsula with 3,143 passengers and 1,086 crew members on board.A statement on Carnival's website said nobody was hurt and automatic extinguishers put out the fire before it could spread from the aft engine room. The company said the U.S. Coast Guard had been notified and was monitoring cheap airfares online airline ticket search the situation.
Triumph cruises from Galveston, Texas, to the Caribbean.The cruise line said another of its ships, the Carnival Elation, responded to the scene and transferred provisions to the disabled boat. Carnival says a tugboat will tow the Triumph to Progreso, Mexico, where passengers cheap airfares online airline ticket search will be flown back to the United States....csmonitor.
Carnival says all passengers will get a full refund, cheap airfares online airline ticket search plus an equal credit for a future cruise. cheap airfares online airline ticket search That's a fairly standard industry response. In fact, it's what Carnival did the last time one of its Cruise ships was towed back to port in November 2010. Then, as now, an engine fire disabled Carnival's cruise ship Splendor just 14 hours into a seven-day cruise.
"So as a cruise ship company, what do you offer your 3,299 customers who have gone more than two days with no air conditioning, electricity, hot running water, hot food service, or telephones, who have limited running water and bathroom facilities, and who are being towed back to port by tugboats at an average four miles per hour?