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The Chilean Navy has rescued 122 passengers and crew from the leaking ship, Ushuaia, which ran aground last week off Antarctica. The ship, built in 1970, ran aground last Thursday and suffered damage in its fuel tanks; according to reports, some fuel has leaked onto the water nearby although the ship doesn’t appear to be sinking.
Last November, [...]
08 December
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- Posted by Anne Campbell
- Posted in Antarctica, Exotic Itineraries
This is the luckiest photo I’ve ever taken, captured on the best cruise of my life to Antarctica a dozen years ago. Our 12-day voyage aboard the 150-passenger Hanseatic, a German ship with ice-strengthened hull, was charted by Radisson Seven Seas Cruises (since renamed Regent Seven Seas Cruises) departed from Ushuaia, Argentina. After departing Ft. Stanley in the Falklands we [...]
02 December
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A Canadian expedition vessel, the Explorer, struck submerged ice today in Antarctica and, at press time, is sinking. Some 154 passengers and 54 crew members abandoned ship as she slowly sank near the Antarctic peninsula. An Argentine rescue center in Ushuaia, the southern most city on the continent, was notified at 11:30 p.m. EST that the [...]
23 November
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