Cruise Ship Doomed by Iceberg
Passengers aboard a cruise ship to the Antarctic were roused from their beds and hustled into lifeboats early today, when an iceberg punched a small hole in the ship’s side.All 100 people aboard the Explorer were pulled safely from the frigid seas by a passing ship, but the Explorer was listing badly and its Canadian owners feared it would sink.
“The passengers are absolutely fine,” Susan Hayes, vice president of marketing for GAP Adventures, the Canadian company that owns the Explorer, told The Associated Press. “They’re all accounted for, no injuries whatsoever.”
Not the sort of thing one expects to see in our modern world.
