What might be Strike Three for Costa Cruise Lines?

[Stinky The Clown]

Seems another Costa ship is in trouble. Not as bad - yet - as the Concordia, but not a good thing, either.

The Costa Allegra suffered an engine room fire that knocked out its propulsion system, The ship is now adrift in pirate infested waters off the coast of Africa.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2107175/Costa-Allegra-Ship-run-company-Concordia-adrift-Indian-Ocean-Seychelles.html

I've always avoided the possibility of a strike three by walking away from *anything* at a Strike Two. To assume I'll never again cross the gangway of a Costa ship is an understatement. I'll be I'm not alone.

The Love Boat never suffered this shit.

[customerserviceguy]

1. Anyone stupid enough to book on Carnival

or its partner cruise lines deserves whatever hell awaits them on that ship. I had already resolved to never have a damn thing to do with them forever, recent events have simply confirmed my opinion.

[csziggy]

2. Some kind of epidemic?

It looks as though Carnival was hit by some illness in December on two of their ships.
http://www.cruisejunkie.com/outbreaks2011.html

[Canuckistanian]

3. Rupert Murdoch buys the cruise line

That would put a spike through it's heart.

[unionworks]

4. one of their ships

...hits a stray iceberg in the med. And seriously? This is starting to look like sabotage. Wonder how much interest the mafia has in an Italian cruise line?