Antarctica Cruise Ship In Trouble

Updated My friend Jon Bowermaster a peripatetic kayaking filmmaker and travel writer alerted me overnight to a post he wrote on an unfolding maritime emergency as the cruise ship Clelia II struggled with limited power in extraordinarily violent seas halfway between the Antarctic Peninsula and Cape Horn.

Antarctica cruise ship in trouble. The cruise ship Ushuaia sails in Antarctic waters in March 2008. Cruise ship with 165 souls on board limps into port at four knots An Antarctic cruise ship with 88 American passengers and 77 crew members aboard sustained damage after. The number of tourists visiting the continent has more than trebled in the last decade from about 4000 to 14000 according to Scott Altman of the Antarctica Project.

Macquarie University respiratory physician Professor Alvin Ing was on the MV Greg Mortimer Antarctic cruise ship when COVID-19 struck the passengers and crew in March. In November the ms Explorer hit an iceberg and sank. There is also concern about the impact of the increasing number of visitors - more than 1000 on the larger ships compared with about 100 on the smaller ones.

During a major refit in 2005 the vessel was modified to include comfortable accommodations for 12 passengers while retaining its rugged seaworthiness. As a small exploration boat it boasts the unique ability to reach special out of the ordinary destinations that are. Anyone considering an Arctic or Antarctic cruise should be aware of the new IMO Polar Code that comes into full force on 1st Jan.

New buildings are built to the. In November 2007 another expedition cruise ship the Explorer photo below right sank in Antarctica and the passengers bobbed around in lifeboats. When Lonely Planet contributor Edwina Hart boarded a ship in Chiles southernmost city Punta Arenas she knew she was in for an adventure a voyage to Antarctica.

Officials say an Antarctic cruise ship with 160 people aboard has lost an engine in high seas but is limping safely to its scheduled port the Argentine Navy said Wednesday. Though a very brief discovery it was a 14-day cruise with only about one days time on Antarctic waters often at foggy. We discussed these events in.

We review all the Antarctic tours for you and take the time to get to know you and your travel preferences so we can book the best Antarctica trip for you. The 73m-long Ocean Nova ran into trouble in. His subsequent research findings raise an alarm about how we.