Explorer (ship, 1969)
 The explorer between loose pack ice and ice shelf parts in front of the Antarctic ice shelf.
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The Explorer was a cruise ship that was used by the Canadian tour operator GAP Adventures for expedition cruises. She sank in Antarctic waters on November 23, 2007 after allegedly ramming an iceberg .
History of the ship
The Explorer was built in 1969 on the Nystads Varv in Nystad , Finland , and entered service as the Lindblad Explorer under the flag of Norway . The cruise ship was one of the first to be specially built for travel to remote areas of the world, especially the polar regions. It had a controllable pitch propeller and a bow thruster and was equipped with stabilizers . The range of the ship was at least 5300 nautical miles .
After the ship had been sold several times, it came in 1985 to the former, the World Discoverer operated Bremer Discoverer shipping company, was chartered to the tour operator Society Expeditions (Seattle) and Society Explorer renamed. Since 1992 the ship has been called Explorer and since the end of 2004 it has been sailing for GAP Adventures under the Liberian flag .
In February 1972, the ship ran aground in Antarctica near La Plaza Point , but was able to be towed free again by the deep-sea tug Arctic . In 1989 it was involved in a rescue operation for an Argentine supply ship that ran aground off Anvers Island .
The ship, which was also affectionately known as the “little red ship” because of its color, was the first cruise ship to sail the Northwest Passage in 1984 . It was also the first cruise ship that went to Antarctica in 1970 and partially circumnavigated it from New Zealand to Argentina in 1973, sailing the Amazon from Brazil to Perú and calling at Prowidenija in Siberia in 1988 . South Georgia dedicated a stamp motif to the ship.
Accident in Antarctica in 2007
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On the morning of November 23, 2007 at 5:24 PM UTC collided Explorer , relying on a cruise from the Argentine Ushuaia to the Antarctic Peninsula was located about 26 nautical miles east of the South Shetland Islands belonging to King George Island probably an iceberg and There was a leak ( 62 ° 24 ′ S , 57 ° 16 ′ W ). About 15 hours after the collision, according to GAP Adventures at around 7 p.m. UTC, it sank to a depth of around 1,100 meters.
91 passengers , nine expedition leaders and lecturers as well as 52 crew members boarded the lifeboats and were picked up by the nearby Northern Norway, a ship of the Norwegian shipping company Hurtigruten AS that was also used for cruises to the Antarctic in the summer months of the southern hemisphere . The master and the first officer stayed on board and tried to keep the ship buoyant, but gave up during the day. The northern norge brought the castaways to the Chilean Antarctic station Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva on King George Island. From there they were flown to the Punta Arenas base in a Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft of the Chilean Air Force over the next two days .
The sinking of the ship caused about 185,000 liters of fuel to flow into the sea. Argentina announced that they want to campaign for a restriction of Antarctic tourism.
Scientists also called for fewer tourists to travel to the sensitive Antarctic habitat in order to reduce the risk of such accidents.
In January 2008, the wreck of the Explorer was found by the British research vessel Endurance at the northwest end of Bransfieldstrasse at position 62 ° 24 ′ 17.6 ″ S , 57 ° 11 ′ 46.5 ″ W and thus around four kilometers from the location of Setting distant located at a depth of 1,130 m.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Lindblad Explorer (1969) , Fakta om Fartyg (Swedish), accessed December 18, 2010.
- ↑ Jan Mordhorst: Tug. Use in port and on the high seas. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft , Hamburg 2008, p. 65, ISBN 978-3-7822-0974-8
- ↑ a b Accident in the ice: Captain gives up passenger ship , Spiegel-Online , 23 November 2007.
- ^ Accident in Antarctica: cruise ship rams iceberg - leak in hull , Spiegel-Online, 23 November 2007.
- ^ Information about the M / S EXPLORER ( Memento of November 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , GAP Adventures.
- ^ M / S Explorer ( Memento from November 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , Eagle-Eye Tours.
- ↑ Explorer News ( Memento of 25 November 2007 at the Internet Archive ) , GAP Adventures.
- ↑ Cruise ship sunk after iceberg collision , Die Welt , November 23, 2007.
- Jump up ↑ Knitting Antarctic ship evacuated , BBC News , Nov. 24, 2007.
- ↑ Drama in the Antarctic: “Explorer” rams block of ice , n-tv , November 23, 2007.
- ↑ "Explorer" -Unglück: Military flies out shipwrecked , Spiegel Online, November 25 of 2007.
- ↑ Happy ending after drama in the Eismeer ( memento from November 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , Lübecker Nachrichten , November 25, 2007.
- ↑ The sinking of the “Explorer”: Drama in the Arctic Ocean finds a happy ending , Spiegel-Online, November 25, 2007.
- ↑ The number of Adelie penguins has fallen sharply , Die Welt, March 11, 2008.
- ↑ HMS Endurance finds sunken Little Red Ship, MV Explorer , BYM Marine & Maritime News, January 28, 2008 (English).