{"id":3103,"date":"2007-11-24T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2007-11-24T05:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T05:00:01","slug":"icy_rescue_as_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3103","title":{"rendered":"Icy Rescue as Seas Claim a Cruise Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"



Graham Bowley & Andrew Revkin<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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.
\nBut sometime early yesterday, the Explorer, fondly known in the maritime world as \u201cthe little red ship,\u201d quietly struck ice.
\nThere were the alarms, then the captain\u2019s voice on the public address system calling the 100 passengers and the crew of about 50 to the lecture hall, according to passengers\u2019 accounts on the radio and others relayed from rescuers and the tour operator.
\nIn the lecture hall, they were told that water was creeping in through a fist-size hole punched into the ship\u2019s starboard. As it flooded the grinding engine room, the power failed. The ship ceased responding.
\n\u201cWe all got a little nervous when the ship began to list sharply, and the lifeboats still hadn\u2019t been lowered,\u201d John Cartwright, a Canadian, told CBC radio.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"



Graham Bowley & Andrew Revkin<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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.
\nBut sometime early yesterday, the Explorer, fondly known in the maritime world as \u201cthe little red ship,\u201d quietly struck ice.
\nThere were the alarms, then the captain\u2019s voice on the public address system calling the 100 passengers and the crew of about 50 to the lecture hall, according to passengers\u2019 accounts on the radio and others relayed from rescuers and the tour operator.
\nIn the lecture hall, they were told that water was creeping in through a fist-size hole punched into the ship\u2019s starboard. As it flooded the grinding engine room, the power failed. The ship ceased responding.
\n\u201cWe all got a little nervous when the ship began to list sharply, and the lifeboats still hadn\u2019t been lowered,\u201d John Cartwright, a Canadian, told CBC radio.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}