200 People Stranded After Luxury Cruise Ran Aground in Greenland

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• Passengers stuck at sea after Norwegian cancels cruise mid-voyage
• The Ocean Explorer became stuck at about noon on Monday roughly 870 miles northeast of Greenland’s capital.
• Cruise Ship Rescues 14 People Stranded at Sea for 8 Days as Passengers Look on in 'Shock': WATCH
• Terrifying video shows passengers hanging on for dear life after massive wave stranded cruise ship

The cruise liner began its latest trip on Sept. 2 in Kirkenes, in Arctic Norway, and was due to return to Bergen, Norway, on Sept. 22, according to SunStone Ships. The owner also had "arranged additional tug assistance in case it was needed, however, this has now been canceled." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned that cruising right now carries a risk of getting and spreading the virus, regardless of vaccination status. According to Cruise Industry News, all passengers on the Gem will receive a full refund. "We are actively engaged in efforts to free the MV Ocean Explorer, from its grounding," the representative said.

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They visited on Tuesday and reported that everyone on board was fine and no damage to the vessel had been reported. Before the rescue, the JAC had sent its larger inspection vessel, Knud Rasmussen, to the site, which was expected to arrive on Friday evening. In a statement posted online, Royal Caribbean said it expected Mariner of the Seas to be back in Port Canaveral on Friday, a day later than scheduled.

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“The arrival in Brisbane of Coral Princess, which was scheduled to return today (Friday) after a seven-night cruise to Queensland ports, Airlie Beach, Cairns and Port Douglas, will be delayed 24 hours to tomorrow. A passenger’s seasickness-inducing footage supplied to 7NEWS, seen in the video above, shows the ship being rocked and water from its pool spouting skyward from the resulting momentum. The group was stuck on a rustic vessel out at sea when a Carnival Paradise ship was passing by. Norwegian said it helped the passengers by facilitating their visas, and would pay them back for the trip from Gambia to Senegal. As a result, the guests had to chase the ship to Dakar, Senegal — a distance of some 100 miles further — for another attempt to re-embark on Tuesday.

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The luxury cruise ship MV Ocean Explorer was successfully pulled free on Thursday, three days after running aground in Greenland with 206 people on board, authorities and the ship's owner said. The cruise, which began in Miami, was headed for Honduras when the rescue happened, passengers said. Passengers captured video of the crew using a small vessel to ferry the group to the safety of the cruise ship.

Troops from Denmark’s Arctic Special Forces elite unit Sirius, which patrols the vast area by dog sled, have now visited the ship and confirmed that all passengers are safe, Denmark’s military’s Joint Arctic Command said on Wednesday. In neighboring Iceland, the coast guard is on standby with a vessel if needed, local authorities said. Terrifying footage has emerged of panicked passengers bracing aboard a Norwegian cruise ship that lost power when it was hit by a rogue wave in the North Sea. The entertainment staff will schedule more sea-day activities, just as they did when Castaway Cay got canceled. As that announcement was made, audible cheers confirmed that most guests were thrilled that their vacation was just extended indefinitely. "The general sentiment is that people are content and happy about the extra day(s)," Roseboom said.

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Passengers on Disney Wish posted video on Twitter of cheers erupting through the ship when they were told they might be getting an extra day or two at sea. Carnival Paradise "is now scheduled to depart from Cozumel on Wednesday," Carnival said in the statement. "The ship will then begin heading back to Tampa, but remaining a safe distance from the storm as the company determines when Carnival Paradise can return to the Port of Tampa after the U.S. Coast Guard assesses conditions." All three of the ports are expected to remain closed through at least Friday morning. "The ship’s crew immediately launched a rescue operation, safely bringing 14 people onboard," the spokesperson said.

It added that "the vessel and its passengers will now be positioned to a port where the vessel's bottom damages can be assessed, and the passengers will be taken to a port from which they can be flown back home." Royal Caribbean Cruises also called off its Spectrum of the Seas cruise that was to leave Jan. 6 after nine passengers on an earlier sailing were exposed to Covid. "Tomorrow will really be the only nice day to enjoy the outdoors and after that, we will be stuck inside. With limited shows, small crowds, and nothing to do. I’m upset," Focaraccio told the news outlet. "I really can’t imagine four more sea days back to back without much to do,” she said, calling it "extremely unsettling." Aimee Focaraccio told USA Today that she boarded the ship on Sunday for her birthday cruise. But what was supposed to be a fun celebration has now turned into a "nightmare," she said.

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The Ocean Explorer - which has 206 passengers on board - got stuck in mud and silt on Monday in Alpefjord, a national park 870 miles (1,400km) northeast of Greenland's capital Nuuk, the Danish military's Joint Arctic Command (JAC) said. In a statement sent to TPG, Carnival said the Tampa-based Carnival Paradise had extended its Tuesday visit to Cozumel, Mexico, into Wednesday — giving passengers an extra day at the port. The voyages that are being extended include this week's four-night sailings of Carnival Cruise Line's 2,052-passenger Carnival Paradise and 2,052-passenger Carnival Elation out of Port Tampa Bay and JAXPort, respectively. Both of the sailings, which began on Sunday and had been scheduled to end Thursday morning, are now morphing into cruises that will last at least five nights.

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Among the passengers were Brian Launder, 75, and his wife, Carole, who was celebrating her 70th birthday with their first-ever cruise, according to the outlet. Even once the airport reopens after the storm has passed, it will take some time for planes and crews to get back into position, and longer still to accommodate all of the passengers who have been temporarily stranded in the Central Florida area. The Norwegian Dawn was scheduled to arrive in Port Louis on Feb. 25, but after the boat skipped its Reunion Island stop it arrived earlier at Port Louis, where authorities said the ship could not dock, the Mauritius Ports Authority said Sunday.

The couple had considered not rejoining the ship, believing that Norwegian Cruise Line had fallen short in a '"basic duty of care," Campbell told NBC News. He shared a video of a woman displaying a smiling elf puppet as she sat on the floor on the debris-strewn deck, where she was surrounded by other passengers wearing orange survival gear. Meanwhile, another video captured some passengers who enjoyed some humor during the scary incident. The couple planned to travel back to Hamburg for an early morning flight to Frankfurt and then finally back to the UK, where they expected to arrive in London on Christmas Eve. On Sunday, he said, a rescue ship was alongside the Maud to provide navigation aid after the ship was diverted to Bremerhaven, Germany. Before he could even complete the announcement, cheers erupted through the ship, as seen in the below video.

Mr Fraser said he was one of a number of passengers who had tested positive for COVID, but there is a doctor on board. Earlier on Thursday, the retired couple from Australia told the Sydney Morning Herald that "everyone's in good spirits". The delayed returns mean that nearly 20,000 cruisers this week are getting an extension of their vacations — whether they want one or not. The cruise liner began its current trip on Sept. 2 in Kirkenes in Arctic Norway and was due to return to Bergen, Norway, on Sept. 22, according to SunStone Ships. "Now it is exciting to find out what the condition of the ship is," Jensen was quoted as saying by KNR.

Along with the world’s largest pool and water park at sea, Icon also boasts eight "neighborhoods" to explore and an open-air "Central Park." "We weren’t told by the captain or crew what happened to them," Amodio added of the rescued individuals. The ship was on its first full day of sailing and it was between Cozumel, Mexico and western Cuba when the incident happened. Another traveler, Anthony Bivona, said last-minute changes to the itinerary were expected, given the pandemic.