Passengers evacuated from Costa Romantica

Around 1,400 passengers and most of the crew aboard Costa’s Costa Romantica were safely evacuated following an engineroom fire onboard the ship last week while on a cruise from Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires. The vessel was a few miles offshore the Uruguayan holiday resort of Punta del Este when a fire started in one of the ship’s four diesel-generators, resulting in a total blackout. Passengers, mostly from Argentina and Brazil, and the crew were safely taken ashore to Punta del Este.  Sphere: Related Content