"They said they had carried food and water for only one month and they had been in the sea for two months after the shipengine stalled, " police spokesman Prishantha Jayakody told the Reuters news agency.
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.
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.