November 24, 2007
Icy Rescue as Seas Claim a Cruise Ship
By
GRAHAM BOWLEY and
ANDREW C. REVKIN
They were modern adventure travelers, following the doomed route of Sir
Ernest Shackleton to the frozen ends of the earth. They paid $7,000 to $16,000 to cruise on a ship that had proudly plowed the Antarctic for 40 years.
But sometime early yesterday, the Explorer, fondly known in the maritime world as “the little red ship,” quietly struck ice.
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