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Costa Cruises can’t catch a break.
Just 6 weeks after the Costa Concordia ran aground off Italy, another one of their cruise ships, the Costa Allegra has caught fire and is now adrift two hundred miles southwest of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.
The following is the statement from Costa Cruises:
Costa Cruises has been informed that today at 10:39, Italian time, a fire developed on board Costa Allegra in the engine room, the local electric generators located at the
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Fire Breaks Out On Costa Cruise Ship In Indian Ocean
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Costa Cruises can’t catch a break.
Just 6 weeks after the Costa Concordia ran aground off Italy, another one of their cruise ships, the Costa Allegra has caught fire and is now adrift two hundred miles southwest of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.
The following is the statement from Costa Cruises:
Costa Cruises has been informed that today at 10:39, Italian time, a fire developed on board Costa Allegra in the engine room, the local electric generators located at the
Costa Cruises can’t catch a break.
Just 6 weeks after the Costa Concordia ran aground off Italy, another one of their cruise ships, the Costa Allegra has caught fire and is now adrift two hundred miles southwest of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.
The following is the statement from Costa Cruises:
Costa Cruises has been informed that today at 10:39, Italian time, a fire developed on board Costa Allegra in the engine room, the local electric generators located at the
Costa cruise liner adrift in Indian Ocean six weeks after Concordia disaster
The incident comes just six weeks after the Concordia ran aground and then
capsized off the Italian island of Giglio, with the loss of at least 25
lives. Both ships are owned by the Genoa-based company, Costa Cruises.
The smaller, 29,000-tonne Costa Allegra had left the port of Diego Suarez in
Madagascar on Saturday and had been due to dock in Victoria, the capital of
the Seychelles, on Tuesday.
The Costa Allegra is commanded by Capt Nicolo Alba, 48, from Monopoli, Puglia,
capsized off the Italian island of Giglio, with the loss of at least 25
lives. Both ships are owned by the Genoa-based company, Costa Cruises.
The smaller, 29,000-tonne Costa Allegra had left the port of Diego Suarez in
Madagascar on Saturday and had been due to dock in Victoria, the capital of
the Seychelles, on Tuesday.
The Costa Allegra is commanded by Capt Nicolo Alba, 48, from Monopoli, Puglia,
Ship adrift in Indian Ocean after fire
Published: Feb. 27, 2012 at 11:41 AM
VICTORIA, Seychelles, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- A fire set the Italian Costa Allegra cruise liner, sister ship to the doomed Costa Concordia, adrift in the Indian Ocean, officials said Monday.
The ship went adrift about 250 miles off the Seychelles, with no power after fire broke out near the generators, Sky News reported.
The Italian coast guard said the ship's more than 1,000 passengers are safe and that the fire had been put out.
VICTORIA, Seychelles, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- A fire set the Italian Costa Allegra cruise liner, sister ship to the doomed Costa Concordia, adrift in the Indian Ocean, officials said Monday.
The ship went adrift about 250 miles off the Seychelles, with no power after fire broke out near the generators, Sky News reported.
The Italian coast guard said the ship's more than 1,000 passengers are safe and that the fire had been put out.
Italian cruise ship adrift in Indian Ocean after fire
VICTORIA, Seychelles -- A Costa cruise ship carrying more than 1,000 people was adrift off the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean on Monday after a fire on board.All passengers aboard the Costa Allegra were unharmed, and the fire was extinguished, but the ship was without propulsion and was drifting, the ANSA news agency reported.The incident comes just a month after another Costa ship, the Costa Concordia, sank off the Italian coast, killing 32 people.Lloyd's List said the fire broke out
Cruise Ship Adrift
Published on February 27, 2012 by Mark Lowe · No Comments
A fire broke out Monday in the generator room of an Italian cruise ship, the Costa Allegra, leaving it adrift off the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean, but causing no casualties among the passengers or crew, the Italian coast guard and the ship’s owner said.
Coast Guard Cmdr. Cosimo Nicastro told SkyTG24 TV that the ship’s captain told Italian authorities the blaze was quickly extinguished.
“The passengers are fine,”
A fire broke out Monday in the generator room of an Italian cruise ship, the Costa Allegra, leaving it adrift off the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean, but causing no casualties among the passengers or crew, the Italian coast guard and the ship’s owner said.
Coast Guard Cmdr. Cosimo Nicastro told SkyTG24 TV that the ship’s captain told Italian authorities the blaze was quickly extinguished.
“The passengers are fine,”
Rising oil prices fuel piracy
By Susan Njanji
The waters off West Africa's coast, the Gulf of Guinea, are a growing source of oil and have recently seen a spike in piracy for theft of its riches, a development seen to be fuelled partly by rising crude prices.
Attacks on vessels have grown in number and scope, spreading across a broader region in what is becoming a new piracy hotspot. Vessels carrying petroleum products have been the most targeted.
As oil prices hit nine-month highs this week, the leader of the small
The waters off West Africa's coast, the Gulf of Guinea, are a growing source of oil and have recently seen a spike in piracy for theft of its riches, a development seen to be fuelled partly by rising crude prices.
Attacks on vessels have grown in number and scope, spreading across a broader region in what is becoming a new piracy hotspot. Vessels carrying petroleum products have been the most targeted.
As oil prices hit nine-month highs this week, the leader of the small
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