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All passengers and crew, including the captain of the M/S Explorer, are completely safe uninjured and in very good spirits as G.A.P Adventures, owners of the expedition ship, the M/S Explorer stated in a release on Friday 23 November 2007.
They have been evacuated to another vessel, the NordNorge, which transported them to King George Island where the NordNorge docked after 17:00 GMT.
There were 100 passengers (including G.A.P Adventures expedition staff) and 54 crew aboard The M/S Explorer when it hit submerged ice off its port side in the Bransfield Strait off King George Island, Antarctica (05.24 GMT, Friday 23 November 2007) creating a hole reported to be the size of a fist.
The passengers onboard at the time were 2 Argentines, 10 Australians, 2 Belgians, 24 British nationals, 12 Canadians, 1 Chinese national, 3 Danes, 17 Dutch, 1 French, 1 German, 2 from Hong Kong, 4 Irish, 1 Japanese, 4 Swiss, 14 Americans, 1 Colombian and 1 Swede. The captain of the ship is Swedish and the majority of the crew are understood to be from the Philippines.
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