Crippled cruise liner makes its way to Seychelles
- 12 years ago
A crippled cruise ship, owned by the same company whose giant liner was wrecked off Italy last month, is being towed by a French tuna boat to the main island in the Seychelles.
An engine room fire on the Costa Allegra knocked out the ship's main power supply in the Indian Ocean on Monday (February 27), leaving it adrift with more than a thousand people on board, in waters vulnerable to pirate attacks.
The ship's Italian owner is Costa Cruises, a unit of U.S. cruise line giant Carnival Corp.
Costa Cruises 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 passengers there.
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-metre cable at a speed of only about six knots.
The cruise ship is due to arrive at the Seychelles capital of Victoria on Thursday morning (March 1).
An engine room fire on the Costa Allegra knocked out the ship's main power supply in the Indian Ocean on Monday (February 27), leaving it adrift with more than a thousand people on board, in waters vulnerable to pirate attacks.
The ship's Italian owner is Costa Cruises, a unit of U.S. cruise line giant Carnival Corp.
Costa Cruises 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 passengers there.
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-metre cable at a speed of only about six knots.
The cruise ship is due to arrive at the Seychelles capital of Victoria on Thursday morning (March 1).