FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin The livestock carrier Blue Ocean A, with 33 crew members on board, suffered an engine failure on the night of 28 January while navigating off the southwest coast of Italy. The vessel, en route to Cartagena, Spain, began drifting dangerously toward the southwest coast of San Pietro Island, near Punta Spalmatore di Fuori off Carloforte, risking grounding on the rocks due to strong winds gusting up to 40 knots and wave heights of around five metres. RelatedNews UK MAIB Investigation: Engine failure and subsequent fire on board USCG conducts extensive search for six missing crew off Saipan var jnews_module_21364023_0_6a03cee1ab4d1 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21364023","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"145,474,421,3099","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_image_tablet":"","ads_image_phone":"","ads_image_link":"","ads_image_alt":"","ads_image_new_tab":"","google_publisher_i