Luxury cruise passengers stuck in Arctic after ship runs aground
More than 200 passengers onboard a luxury cruise liner are stranded in the Arctic after their ship ran aground.
Aurora Expeditions’ 104-metre-long Ocean Explorer vessel became stuck in the remote area of Greenland on Monday (11 September) afternoon, with the earliest rescue not possible until Friday (15 September).
“On Monday afternoon West Greenlandic time, the Arctic Command received a message that the cruise ship Ocean Explorer was grounded in the Alpefjord in Northeast Greenland, and that the ship is not immediately able to be freed by its own help,” Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command (JAC) said in a statement.
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