Cruise Line Tourists Recover From Hitting Iceberg
(Buenos Aires) -- Tourists from America, Argentina, Australia, Canada, England, Japan and the Netherlands are safe after their cruise ship hit an iceberg and began sinking.
A Norwegian ship picked up more than 150 passengers and crew near King George Island in Antarctica.
Susan Hayes of Gap Adventures, which owns the M/S Explorer, says some 100 passengers and 54 crew members were evacuated to lifeboats. The ship was traveling from Ushuaia in Argentina toward Antarctica.
Hayes says the ship was taking on water and pumps are being used to stop it from sinking.
She added that the Explorer travels to the Antarctic for two-week cruises that cost about eight-thousand-dollars per cabin because it can enter narrower bays off the barren continent.
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