Ports across the world are exploring shore-to-ship power capabilities.
We generate enough power in this ship to power the whole of the Shetland Islands.
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As the ship lost power in Hurricane Sandy and began to take on water, the crew evacuated to two large liferafts.
The 17-year-old ship never lost power and was able to sail into port at Freeport, Bahamas.
In 2010, the Carnival's cruise ship Splendor lost power after an engine room fire, leaving it drifting off the Pacific coast of Mexico.
The ship's power is set to come from solar, wind and wave power with biofuel in case nature doesn't cooperate -- when the vessel isn't adrift via ocean currents.
The barges are moored across the river from the Carnival Triumph, the cruise ship that lost power in February and drifted in the Gulf of Mexico for days before being towed to Mobile for repairs.
To power the thrusters and drilling equipment, the ship generates 37 megawatts of power, enough for a city of 35, 000.
Much of the ship's electrical power went down in the fire, causing widespread malfunctions, including taking out sanitary systems.
Technicians aboard the ship were trying to restore power and provide more onboard facilities, Gulliksen said.
This remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is equipped with an HDTV camera and receives power from the ship.
He said investigators are still working on lighting the room because the ship is operating on temporary power from a generator on the dock.
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.
"The entire process is quite involved, given that there are more than 3, 100 passengers and nearly 1, 100 crew, and this is compounded by the ship only operating on emergency power, " he said.
Each of those generators is the size of a bus, so it's unrealistic to think that the ship could have enough backup power on board to run services when the engines die, Herring added.
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.
The ship would use 60% wind power, relying on three computer-operated masts rising 55-meters -- as tall as a 14-storey building.
The ship generates and distributes its own power, provides and maintains sanitation, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, and makes several hundred thousand gallons of water every day from sea water.
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The loss of power not only crippled the ship but also created smelly conditions.
By some estimates, American navy ships spend 80% of their time travelling at half speed, which requires barely one-eighth of the power needed to propel a ship at top speed.
Cuty commended the ship's 1, 086 crew members, saying they went to great lengths to meet passengers' needs -- including redirecting emergency power to certain parts of ship to provide occasional water and toilet service.
Picard realizes they are helpless against the power of the Borg because his ship is completely defenseless.
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.
After losing power on its most recent journey, the ship drifted until Tuesday, when two tugboats began moving it toward shore.
Although power was restored and facilities were functioning again, the ship still can't leave its port.
Though the crew might have been able to restore power to the vessel by firing up the generators in the ship's other engine room, Cuty said the ship's engineers made the right call in not doing so.
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