{"id":8380,"date":"2023-09-13T13:50:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T13:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/13\/cruise-ship-carrying-206-people-runs-aground-in-greenland\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T13:50:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T13:50:17","slug":"cruise-ship-carrying-206-people-runs-aground-in-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/13\/cruise-ship-carrying-206-people-runs-aground-in-greenland\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise ship carrying 206 people runs aground in Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      A cruise ship carrying 206 passengers and crew has run aground on a remote stretch of Greenland and could potentially be stuck for days waiting for the nearest ship to arrive to help.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Ocean Explorer got into trouble on Monday in Alpefjord, a dramatic and rugged stretch of Northeast Greenland National Park, and has not been able to free itself, according to a statement from Denmark\u2019s Joint Arctic Command (JAC).  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThis means that the tide \u2013 which came during the day, local time \u2013 did not give the desired help to sail on,\u201d a JAC statement said. There were no reported injuries or risk of damage to the environment as a result of the grounding.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Following the incident, the closest inspection vessel, the Knud Rasmussen, was disptached to assist, according to the statement, but faced a journey of 1,200 nautical miles (around 2,222 kilometers) to reach the cruise ship,   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The earliest the vessel is expected to reach the Ocean Explorer is Friday morning local time, depending on weather.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related-content_without-image related-content_without-image--article\">\n<p class=\"related-content_without-image__headline\">            <span class=\"related-content_without-image__headline-text\">Wind-powered cargo ship sets sail in a move to make shipping greener<\/span>    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cAs soon as we realized that the Ocean Explorer could not get free on its own, we sent a ship towards the wreck,\u201d Arctic Commander Brian Jensen said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cAs soon as possible, we will also fly over the site to get fresh images to help us assess the situation on site,\u201d he continued.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Arctic Command say they are in contact with relevant ships in the area that could help.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Jensen said the Ocean Explorer could still re-float on a high tide, but failing that, the Knud Rasmussen would assist.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cNo matter what, the most important thing for us is that everyone is safe,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      According to the statement, the Government of Greenland, the Danish Maritime Authority and the Danish Accident Investigation Board have been informed of the incident.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cruise ship carrying 206 passengers and crew has run aground on a remote stretch of Greenland and could potentially be stuck for days waiting for the nearest ship to arrive to help. The Ocean Explorer got into trouble on Monday in Alpefjord, a dramatic and rugged stretch of Northeast Greenland National Park, and has <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}