The Coast Guard says it is maintaining communication with a Carnival cruise ship that is adrift off of Mexico after a fire in an engine room.
The Coast Guard said in a news release that personnel aboard the Carnival Triumph extinguished the fire and no one was injured. The ship is now operating on emergency power about 150 miles off southern Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
Tug boats have been dispatched to tow the ship to port in Progreso, Mexico, where it is expected to arrive on Wednesday afternoon, Carnival said in a statement on its Facebook page. The ship's 3,143 guests will then be flown from Progreso back to the U.S.
"Another Carnival ship, the Carnival Elation, is currently on scene and transferring additional food and beverage provisions to the Carnival Triumph," the statement said. There are 1,086 crew members on board the Triumph.
The Carnival Triumph set sail from Galveston, Texas, on Thursday, and was due back on Monday Feb. 11. Carnival said all passengers would receive a refund and "cruise credit equal to the amount paid for this voyage."?Guests will also be refunded their transportation expenses and all purchases made on the ship.
The Carnival Triumph's next two voyages, which were scheduled for departure next week on Feb. 11 and Feb. 16 have been canceled. Carnival said guests who were scheduled to go on those voyages will receive a full refund, reimbursement for non-refundable travel expenses and a 25 percent discount on a future 3-5 day cruise.
In January last year, the Costa Concordia, a luxury cruise ship operated by the Carnival-owned Costa Cruises, capsized and sank off the Tuscan island of Giglio in Italy, killing 32 people. Italian investigators are looking into the vessel owner's potential responsibility for the shipwreck, Reuters reports.
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