Fuse-Wire
11-24-2007, 03:19 AM
This one should crack a few of you up. Thanks to Spud107 who pointed it out on the news earlier:
Stricken Antarctic ship evacuated
The M/S Explorer has been listing for hours
More than 150 passengers and crew have been rescued from a stricken tourist ship after it hit ice off Antarctica.
The M/S Explorer is now lying on its side close to the South Shetland Islands, in the Antarctic Ocean.
Gap Adventures, which owns the ship, said 91 passengers, nine guides and 54 crew members were safely evacuated to lifeboats and then to another ship.
After staying the night at a base on a Chilean island, they are expected to fly to Chile's mainland on Saturday.
Gap Adventures said 23 Britons, 17 Dutch, 10 Australians, 13 Americans and 10 Canadians were among the 154 on board.
The remaining nationalities of the rescued tourists are Irish, Danish, Swiss, Belgian, Japanese, French, German and Chinese, said the Toronto-based tour company.
Source:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7108835.stm
HAHA MS Explorer crashes, never seen that one coming!! :roll:
Stricken Antarctic ship evacuated
The M/S Explorer has been listing for hours
More than 150 passengers and crew have been rescued from a stricken tourist ship after it hit ice off Antarctica.
The M/S Explorer is now lying on its side close to the South Shetland Islands, in the Antarctic Ocean.
Gap Adventures, which owns the ship, said 91 passengers, nine guides and 54 crew members were safely evacuated to lifeboats and then to another ship.
After staying the night at a base on a Chilean island, they are expected to fly to Chile's mainland on Saturday.
Gap Adventures said 23 Britons, 17 Dutch, 10 Australians, 13 Americans and 10 Canadians were among the 154 on board.
The remaining nationalities of the rescued tourists are Irish, Danish, Swiss, Belgian, Japanese, French, German and Chinese, said the Toronto-based tour company.
Source:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7108835.stm
HAHA MS Explorer crashes, never seen that one coming!! :roll: