Crippled Cruise Ship left adrift with no power

The powerless ship was pulled into port at 8:40 a.m. after an engine fire on Monday left it drifting without electricity 200 miles off the Mexican coast. All of the passengers were off the ship four hours later.

As for the rest of the 3,300 passengers, they dragged heavy suitcases from the ship into a port terminal, where they were given the option to board a chartered bus for an extended weekend at a San Diego hotel or transportation to the ship's point of origin, Long Beach, outside Los Angeles.
Passengers were told of a "flameless" fire in the engine room. Around 6 a.m. Monday, the ship shuddered violently and the lower level near the engine room filled with smoke. Those rooms were evacuated and passengers spent the rest of the cruise on higher decks, sleeping in lounge chairs at night.

No power meant no hot food or refrigeration. On Tuesday the U.S. military airlifted nonperishable food -- described as Spam, Pop Tarts, canned crab meat and other items -- onto the ship.

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