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A fire broke out on board Carnival's Tropicale Sunday evening leaving the 36,674 ton cruise ship and 1,096 passengers adrift in the Gulf of Mexico. The fire was first reported at 6:15 PM and was confined to the engine-room area. While the blaze was extinguished quickly, it did enough damage to force the shut down of the ship's engines. Early today, the crew was able to re-start the starboard engine for a while and began heading slowly towards Tampa.
After consulting with the National Hurricane Center about the track of hurricane Harvey, a decision was made to change direction and actually head away from Tampa in a big loop towards the West until the ship could rendezvous with an ocean-going tug boat. According to Tim Gallagher a spokesman for carnival, "Basically we are going to do a big loop in the Gulf and turn around, with a very safe distance between us and Harvey, and follow the storm back in to Tampa". The ship is currently awaiting the arrival of the Beverly Anderson, an ocean-going tug boat which was expected to stand by and help tow the ship the remaining 100 miles to Tampa if necessary. The Tropicale is expected to reach Tampa late Tuesday afternoon.
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