A Canadian Cruise Ship Struck Submerged Ice Off Antarctica A
BUENOS AIRES Argentina AP A Canadian cruise ship struck submerged ice off Antarctica and began sinking but all 154 passengers.
A canadian cruise ship struck submerged ice off antarctica a. 23 that it struck submerged ice sprung a fist-sized leak and was doomed by uncontrollable flooding doesnt hold water for. Passengers from the Explorer arrive on King George Island Antarctica after their ship hit ice and started to sink. High winds and poor visibility kept the shipwrecked passengers stuck in barracks on bases in Antarctica on Saturday a day after their cruise ship struck ice and sank.
154 safe after ship hits ice sinks in Antarctic The Liberian-flagged cruise ship is seen sinking after it hit an object in Antarctic waters some 880 kilometers southeast of Ushuaia. Ship accidents in Antarctica raise ecological and safety concerns. Indeed the initial explanation of the ships sinking on Nov.
A Canadian cruise ship struck submerged ice off Antarctica and began taking on water but all 154 passengers and crew Americans and Britons. Within the last four years six cruise ships have hit ice or rocks in Antarctica. An American on board the MS Enterprise when it hit an iceberg off Antarctica last week tells TODAY she thought was going to die and wanted a.
In one incident a cruise ship. All passengers and crew took to lifeboats and were carried to safety by a passing cruise ship. The red-hulled Explorer struck ice taking on water as 154 passengers and.
Gap Adventures which owns the ship said 91 passengers nine guides and 54 crew members were safely evacuated to lifeboats and. The first cruise ship built to ply the frigid waters off Antarctica became the first to sink there Friday. The MS Explorer is now lying on its side close to the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic Ocean.
154 rescued from sinking ship near Antarctica. The MS Explorer sank in the Bransfield Strait off King George Island Antarctica on Friday November 23. All the passengers and crew were safely evacuated to life boats and later picked up by the cruise ship MS Nordange.
