Ship with 104 passengers runs aground in Antarctica

[miraflores]

Buenos Aires - A ship carrying 74 passengers and a crew of 30 ran aground near an Argentine base in Antarctica Tuesday, although it was expected to move out on its own once the tide came in later in the day. The captain of the Ocean Nova, sailing under a Bahamas flag, said everyone on board was safe and that the ship had suffered no damage, Argentine Navy spokesman Roberto Ulloa told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.The Ocean Nova ran aground early Tuesday just three miles off the Argentine military base San Martin. The Argentine Navy made contact with the ship and with the Spanish vessel Hesperides, which was about 120 kilometres away from the site and was to assist the Ocean Nova. A Navy plane was also deployed to survey the area.
Source: http://www.earthtimes.org

http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/2009/02/17/sos-aus-der-antarktis/kreuzfahrtschiff-ocean-nova-11551616-465x262.jpg

Foto: Bild.de

[Stefan Niederer]

upps... HERE is a picture of the little cruise vessel aground near a glacier in antarctica.

Stefan

[K. Watson]

Photo of Ocean Nova taken at Halifax 2007. Rgds,Ken

http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=508240

[Fred Vloo]

BUENOS AIRES, Feb 18, The seventy-four passengers aboard a  Bahamas-flagged cruise ship stuck in the ice in Antarctica are to be evacuated  Wednesday, the Argentine navy said.

[Stefan Niederer]

Here is a new pic: http://www.fr-online.de/_em_daten/_hermes/2009/02/18/090218_pan_kreuzfahrtschiff_dpa.jpg