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Carnival Cruise Ship Stranded After Fire - Carnival's 113,000-ton cruise ship, Splendor, has been dead in the water since early morning, when a fire in the engine room left it stranded. The cruise line announced that tugboats were en route to the scene and that the Coast Guard had sent cutters and aircraft 200 miles south of San Diego, where the vessel is located. Still, the 3,299 guests and 1,167 crew members can't be very happy. Carnival said air conditioning is off and guests only have access to cold water and cold food. That much Gerry Cahill, president and CEO of Carnival Cruise Lines, admitted in a statement. "Conditions on board the ship are very challenging," he said. "And we sincerely apologize for the discomfort and inconvenience our guests are currently enduring." We haven't been able to locate any reports from inside the cruise liner. The Navy did release a photograph of the ship out at sea. Carnival Cruise Ship Stranded After Fi...

Carnival Splendor Fire - The crew of a Mexico-bound cruise ship battled an engine room fire for three hours which left the vessel adrift, officials said. According to a statement from Carnival Cruise Lines, the blaze aboard the Carnival Splendor broke out Monday around 6 a.m. as the ship was about 55 miles off of the northern Baja coast. The ship is carrying 3,299 guests and 1,167 crew members. The fire was extinguished by 9:10 a.m., the firm said. No one was hurt. "Currently several key hotel systems, including air conditioning, hot food service, flushing toilets and telephones are not available," according to the statement on the cruise line's website. "The ship's crew is actively working to restore partial services." Officials decided to terminate the cruise when power couldn't be fully restored. The ship's crew first asked guests to move to the ship's upper deck, but later provided them with bottled water and food and allowed them ...