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 engineroomofaship.
The fire later was determined to be caused by a mechanical breakdown in the engineroomof the ship Cape Trinity, a floating warehouse as long as two football fields.
Some passengers report sewage sloshing around in hallways, flooded rooms and trouble getting enough to eat after a fire in the ship's engineroom Sunday left it drifting in the Gulf of Mexico.