Cruise passengers released from ship that ran aground: It is a freaking madhouse

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• Norwegian safety body criticizes cruise ship that nearly ran aground in 2019 storm
• Four days after a Norwegian Cruise Line ship got stuck in the Dominican Republic, passengers were offloaded
• Norwegian cruise ship with 206 people onboard runs aground in Greenland
• Luxury Cruise Ship Runs Aground While Leaving Caribbean Port
• Cruise ship with thousands on board runs aground in Caribbean
• Cruise Ship Collides With Dock at Turkish Port

The primary mission of the Joint Arctic Command is to ensure Danish sovereignty by monitoring the area around the Faeroe Islands and Greenland, including the Arctic Ocean in the north. Greenland is a semi-independent territory that is part of the Danish realm, as are the Faeroe Islands. The elderly passenger who was concussed was returned to the US, where she has made a "safe return," a spokesperson for Norwegian Cruise Line said. The Norwegian Cruise Line said in a statement provided to BI by email that eight guests on the tour missed the last tender back to the vessel.

Norwegian safety body criticizes cruise ship that nearly ran aground in 2019 storm

The letter told guests who had booked their own flights to work with airlines to make any updates home from Orlando, and directed them to contact travel insurance for reimbursement. The ship got stuck Monday in a remote part of the world's largest and most northerly national park known for its icebergs and roaming musk oxen. (Bloomberg) -- A Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. luxury liner has run aground while trying to leave a port in the Dominican Republic. The ship’s operator is now looking to free the vessel, which at the moment doesn’t have any reports of damage. Norwegian Escape is currently on a seven-night Caribbean cruise that departed Port Canaveral in Florida on March 12. The scheduled call to Puerto plate on March 14 was the first call during the voyage, and now the ship is spending a second day there due to the grounding.

Four days after a Norwegian Cruise Line ship got stuck in the Dominican Republic, passengers were offloaded

The Bahamas-flagged cruise ship has passengers from Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States. It has an inverted bow, shaped like the one on a submarine, 77 cabins, 151 passenger beds and 99 beds for crew, and several restaurants. The cruise line said the passengers missed the "all aboard time of 3 p.m. local time." It said it was a "very unfortunate situation" but that passengers were responsible for being on time.

Norwegian cruise ship with 206 people onboard runs aground in Greenland

The São Tomé and Príncipe Coast Guard even took the passengers to the ship, but they weren't able to get on and had to turn back, WPDE reported. Norwegian authorities immediately launched a probe into the accident, which concluded Tuesday that the ship was unprepared to sail in rough seas. Smith said passengers were stuck on the ship with nothing to do for days as crews worked to free it.

Luxury Cruise Ship Runs Aground While Leaving Caribbean Port

Tugs had been employed to free it most of the afternoon and evening, according to social media posts. Passengers posted the cruise ship, one of Norwegian Cruise Line’s biggest liners at 1,069 feet, was refloated after midnight, local time. On Monday afternoon, the Norwegian Escape cruise ship ran aground while departing its port of call in the Dominican Republic. The vessel has so far been unable to get free even with the help of two tug boats. It said the cruise ship and its passengers will now travel to a port where the damage to the vessel's bottom can be assessed, and the passengers will be taken to a location from where they can be flown home.

A scientific fishing vessel owned by the Greenland government was scheduled to arrive later Wednesday and together with the high tide would attempt to pull the 104.4-meter (343-foot) long and 18-meter (60 foot) wide MV Ocean Explorer free. The next Western Caribbean cruise scheduled for March 19 has also been canceled. Norwegian Cruise Line said it would be refunding 100 percent of the cruise’s cost to the original form of payment within five business days. If the voyage was paid for with a Future Cruise Credit, the amount will be applied to the guest’s latitudes account. The line is also giving guests an additional 100 percent Future Cruise Credit, regardless of how the fare was paid.

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The ship’s hull had sustained minor damage after it “made contact with the channel bed” during its departure from Puerto Plata, Norwegian Cruise Line said in a statement. Authorities said Wednesday that a fishery vessel will attempt to use the high tide to pull free a Bahamas-flagged Norwegian cruise ship carrying 206 people that ran aground in northwestern Greenland. As we first reported last night, the ship’s ordeal began when a combination of winds and shallows found the bow of the large ship digging into the sandy bottom of the ocean. Despite tugs attempting to assist Escape, the ship remained firmly lodged in place, forcing the ship to spend an unexpected night off the coast. It was hoped that the morning’s rising tides would allow the ship to break free and resume her regularly scheduled voyage.

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All services onboard are working as normal and there is no change to the activity scheduled confirmed NCL. There is a follow-up to this post, with the ship now safely docked back at Taino Bay while damage is being assessed. The ship's owner said several other vessels had rushed to the scene "and offered their assistance, which however, was not needed." It said it had also "arranged additional tug assistance in case it was needed, however, this has now been canceled." "Now it is exciting to find out what the condition of the ship is," Jensen was quoted as saying by KNR. "They are in the process of investigating whether the ship is intact and seaworthy and ready to sail on." Paul Foran, a marine consultant and former captain and instructor, said investigators would look at the ship’s draft — the distance between the waterline and the bottom of the hull — in comparison with the water depth in the channel.

Madsen said the passengers were “a mix” of tourists from Australia, New Zealand, Britain, the United States and South Korea. The Norwegian Escape, operated by Norwegian Cruise Line runs aground in the Dominican Republic while departing. Local media said The Norwegian Escape was on its way to the US Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands. Wild for the Cruise Lines International Association, there were 13 minor incidents involving stranding or grounding between 2009 and 2019. The incident was a reminder of the cruise woes — fires, rough weather, overboard cases and norovirus outbreaks — that dominated headlines before the pandemic moored the global fleet in March 2020. Cruise lines have been sailing again from the United States since last summer with coronavirus precautions in place.

The most high-profile, the grounding and capsizing of the Costa Concordia in Italy 10 years ago, killed 32 people on board. The ship left Port Canaveral, east of Orlando, on March 12 with stops planned in Puerto Plata, St. Thomas, Tortola and the Bahamas. It was supposed to return to Florida on Saturday.Instead, Norwegian canceled the remainder of the voyage and chartered flights to take people to Orlando; the first left Wednesday, with the rest on Thursday and Friday. And last November, passengers were stranded at a Brisbane port after a Royal Caribbean ship was overbooked. In total, WPDE said that nine passengers were not allowed to reenter the ship, including four elderly people and one person who is a paraplegic.

Norwegian did not respond to questions about what caused the ship to run aground.

On Monday, Norwegian Escape, which ran aground in Puerto Plata, the Dominican Republic, was finally freed. Passengers posted pictures of the incident on social media, showing tug boats alongside the ship. Cruise Hive was established back in 2008 and among the earliest blogs in the industry.

Norwegian Cruise Line has confirmed that all passengers and crew are safe and it’s working on a solution for a safe departure. The ship was freed by a fisheries research vessel at high tide, said the cruise ship’s owner, Copenhagen-based SunStone Ships, and the Joint Arctic Command, which coordinated the operation. COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The luxury cruise ship MV Ocean Explorer was successfully pulled free on Thursday, three days after running aground in Greenland with 206 people on board, authorities and the ship’s owner said. On Monday, the Norwegian Escape cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line ran aground while departing Taino Bay in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. Two tug boats were involved in helping the large Breakaway-plus class vessel free.

Cmdr. Brian Jensen of the Joint Arctic Command told Greenland broadcaster KNR that the ship is likely to go to Iceland, the closest place with large ports. A TikTok video showed the couple waving and begging the crew to wait for them, even though the gangway appeared to have already been removed. According to WPDE, the group flew to Gambia on Sunday, hoping to rejoin the ship at another port. It added that the deadline to return was "communicated broadly" over the ship's intercom, in printed communications, and on posts shown at the exits of the ship. They were refused entry to the ship upon their return, according to WPDE, even though they could still see the ship from the shore. The Campbells said they were frequent cruisers, embarking on Norwegian Dawn on March 20 for their third voyage with the cruise line in a year.

The cruise ship ran aground Monday above the Arctic Circle in Alpefjord in Northeast Greenland National Park, the world's northernmost national park. Alpefjord is about 240 kilometers (150 miles) from the closest settlement, Ittoqqortoormiit, which is nearly 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) from the country's capital, Nuuk. Operations and services on board are continuing as scheduled while the company works on a solution to free the liner and ready it for a safe departure. With close to 2,000 guests being stuck in the Dominican Republic, and over 800 miles from the ship’s home port, the cruise line is in the process of arranging charter flights to get stranded passengers to Orlando, Florida. The line is also arranging transportation for guests that drove to get from the Orlando International Airport to Port Canaveral to pick up their vehicle. First the massive cruise ship ran aground in the Dominican Republic on Monday afternoon.