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In 2010, the Carnival's cruise ship Splendor lost power after an engine room fire, leaving it drifting off the Pacific coast of Mexico.
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More than 1, 000 passengers and crew on the Costa Allegra a sister ship of the Costa Concordia, which capsized last month suffered through three days of being stranded after a fire in the generator room caused the cruise ship to lose power.
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Much of the ship's electrical power went down in the fire, causing widespread malfunctions, including taking out sanitary systems.
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Though never losing power, the ship was diverted to Freeport in the Bahamas, and the fire, which began in a mooring area, was extinguished just before 5 a.m.
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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.
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