They have also made possible the development of totally integrated power systems, which make energy fungible: instead of having one engine dedicated to driving the ship and another one devoted to generating shipboard power, electricity from multiple sources can simply be routed to wherever it is needed at the time.
Its disruptive technology is a novel air-breathing and rocket engine that would enable the ship to go to space in one leap.
An engine room fire left the cruise ship crippled and adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4, 200 people aboard.
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Just after Discovery's engines fired, launch controllers noticed a small rectangular object drop from the bottom of the ship, carom off an engine bell and vanish into the exhaust flames.
The Triumph has been at BAE Shipyard in the Port of Mobile since an engine fire in February left the cruise ship crippled and adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4, 200 people aboard.
After lunch, a pair of engineers took me to see their laboratory: a drab eight-story concrete building, crammed with so many pipes and ducts that it felt like the engine room of a ship.
"They said they had carried food and water for only one month and they had been in the sea for two months after the ship engine stalled, " police spokesman Prishantha Jayakody told the Reuters news agency.
In 2010, the IMO adopted rules that require any large cruise ship built after July 1 of that year to have a separate, redundant system able to maintain the ship's propulsion, steering and so forth in case one engine is disabled by fire.
Some passengers report sewage sloshing around in hallways, flooded rooms and trouble getting enough to eat after a fire in the ship's engine room Sunday left it drifting in the Gulf of Mexico.
Some on the ship reported sewage sloshing around in hallways, flooded rooms and trouble getting enough to eat after a fire in the ship's engine room Sunday left it drifting in the Gulf of Mexico.
That was followed less than two months later by an engine-room fire aboard the Costa Allegra, another Costa Crociere ship, which left it adrift and without power in the Indian Ocean.
Passengers and crew members on a cruise ship stranded in the Gulf of Mexico have limited access to food and bathrooms after a engine fire.
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