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February 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The incident comes just six weeks after the Concordia ran aground and then
capsized off the Italian island of Giglio, with the loss of at least 25
lives. Both ships are owned by the Genoa-based company, Costa Cruises.
The smaller, 29,000-tonne Costa Allegra had left the port of Diego Suarez in
Madagascar on Saturday and had been due to dock in Victoria, the capital of
the Seychelles, on Tuesday.
The Costa Allegra is commanded by Capt Nicolo Alba, 48, from Monopoli, Puglia,
in south-eastern Italy.
He has worked for Costa Cruises for 19 years but only became a captain last
June.
This was his second cruise as captain of a ship.
Officials said there were no injuries from the fire, which was believed to
have been caused by an electrical fault.
But the ship was left without power and adrift about 20 miles off Alphonse
Island, a far-flung atoll which is part of the Seychelles, forcing the
captain to send out a distress signal.
“The shipboard fire-extinguishing system and procedures were promptly
activated and special fire-fighting squads intervened to extinguish the
fire,” Costa Cruises said in a statement.
“As a precaution, the general emergency alarm was given and all passengers and
crew members not engaged in the management of the emergency were assembled
at muster stations with the relevant safety equipment.”
Two French-flagged fishing trawlers were sent to the aid of the ship, with the
first expected to arrive around 11pm GMT on Monday night. Two tugboats and a
navy vessel from the Seychelles were also on their way.
Joel Morgan, the Seychelles’ home affairs and transport minister, told The
Daily Telegraph last night that the ship was not only without propulsion,
but light and power.
“What we understand is that there’s been an engine fire and the entire ship is
disabled, she’s paralysed and adrift, there’re no lights, no water, no
communications,” he said.
“In the meantime, there are other vessels in the area who are expected to
rendez-vous with her very soon. They will provide back-up, in terms of
helping to provide stand-by power for lights and communications, until our
tugs get there.
“The idea then is that she would be towed into Port Victoria [the capital of
the Seychelles] by the two tugs, with a military escort. That could take
some time, we’re not expecting her to Victoria before Wednesday. We are also
making provisions to put up the 1,000 people on board once they get to
shore.”
On board the ship were around 630 passengers and 413 crew members of various
nationalities.
There were understood to be 122 Italian tourists, about 130 from France, 100
from Austria and 90 from Switzerland.
Costa Cruises said there were 31 Britons on board the ship.
A detachment of Italian marines were on board the ship to provide security
because its route would have taken it through areas of the Indian Ocean
where pirate attacks have been rife.
The 615ft-long ship was built in Genoa in 1969 and acquired by Costa Cruises
in 1992, when it was given a full re-fit.
It has eight passenger decks and 400 cabins and can carry up to 1,400 people.
The accident comes six
weeks after the 950ft-long Costa Concordia rammed into rocks off Giglio,
forcing the night-time evacuation of 4,200 passengers and crew.
The
death toll from the disaster stands at 25, with seven people still missing.
The captain of the ship, Francesco Schettino, apparently misjudged a
‘salute’ to the island, sailing far too close to its rocky shore. There have
also been claims that he was distracted by a young Moldovan woman, a former
dancer and passenger rep, whom he wined and dined on the night of the
disaster.
Capt Schettino is under house arrest at his home near Naples, accused of
manslaughter and abandoning his ship.
The first pre-trial hearing will take place on Saturday.
The Costa Allegra was on a month-long cruise of the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea
and the Mediterranean.
After leaving from Port Louis in Mauritius it made its way to Madagascar.
It was then due to head to the Seychelles, Oman, Egypt and Jordan before
ending its voyage in Savona near Genoa in Italy next month.
News of the accident caused shares in Carnival, the American company that owns
Costa Cruises, to fall on the New York and London Stock Exchanges.
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