Icy Rescue as Seas Claim a Cruise Ship
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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.
But the vessel did not have a double hull, a complete second steel sheath, the kind developed after the Titanic sank.
And so the 154 people who survived a modern Titanic have fallen into that strange category of luck the kind that would not be necessary had not horrendous bad fortune preceded it
Slide show http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/11/23/world/1123-...
But sometime early yesterday, the Explorer, fondly known in the maritime world as the little red ship, quietly struck ice.
But the vessel did not have a double hull, a complete second steel sheath, the kind developed after the Titanic sank.
And so the 154 people who survived a modern Titanic have fallen into that strange category of luck the kind that would not be necessary had not horrendous bad fortune preceded it
Slide show http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/11/23/world/1123-...
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