An engine fire on Le Boreal, a luxury cruise yacht owned by Ponant, caused hundreds of passengers to be evacuated early Wednesday morning while the vessel was traveling on an Antarctica cruise.
According to British broadcaster ITV, the 264-passenger ship issued a distress call just after 2 a.m. while it was near Cape Dolphin, north of the Falkland Islands. The news agency reported that 90 of the ship's 347 passengers and crew were air lifted to safety from life rafts, while the rest were transferred to another ship.
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