The fire later was determined to be caused by a mechanical breakdown in the engine room of the ship Cape Trinity, a floating warehouse as long as two football fields.

NPR: Houston Drill Tests Agencies' Preparedness

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.

NEWYORKER: Green Giant

Currently the ship is over 200 miles south-west of the Seychelles and about 20 miles from Alphonse Island, are ongoing checks on the state of the engine room to be able to restart the equipment necessary to reactivate the functionality of ship.

FORBES: Fire Breaks Out on Costa Cruise Ship, Vessel Adrift in Indian Ocean

Cuty's team remains on board the ship cataloging the location of everything in the engine room where the fire started.

CNN: From Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt,

An engine room fire left the cruise ship crippled and adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4, 200 people aboard.

CNN: Passengers report trouble on another Carnival cruise ship

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.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

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.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

An engine-room fire paralyzed the ship early Sunday, leaving it adrift in the Gulf of Mexico.

NPR: No Central Agency Oversees, Inspects Cruise Ships

In 2010, the Carnival's cruise ship Splendor lost power after an engine room fire, leaving it drifting off the Pacific coast of Mexico.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS