{"id":12915,"date":"2013-03-11T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/another-small-ship-runs-aground\/"},"modified":"2013-03-11T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T20:43:00","slug":"another-small-ship-runs-aground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/03\/another-small-ship-runs-aground\/","title":{"rendered":"Another small ship runs aground"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/c3270052.r52.cf0.rackcdn.com\/reviews\/ships\/marcopolomain1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/c3270052.r52.cf0.rackcdn.com\/reviews\/ships\/marcopolomain1.jpg\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ms Marco Polo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A Cruise &#038; Maritime Voyages ship ran aground in a remote Norwegian fjord north of the Arctic Circle last night, suffering damage to its hull.<\/p>\n<p>The 22,080-ton, 800-passenger <i>Marco Polo<\/i> was leaving Sortland, Norway, under the command of a local pilot when the ship struck a previously uncharted rock.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported in the incident, and <i>Marco Polo<\/i> immediately returned to the port for a damage assessment. Following inspection, preliminary repairs were made to the hull, and the ship was cleared to carry on with the remainder of its 14-night cruise.<\/p>\n<p>This grounding follows recent grounding events with Hurtigruten <i>Kong Harald<\/i> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expeditioncruising.com\/2013\/03\/lindblads-sea-lion-strikes-rock-near.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ExpeditionCruisingAdventureCruisingSmallShipCruises+%28Expedition+Cruising+%7C+Adventure+Cruising+%7C+Small+Ship+Cruises%29\" target=\"_blank\">Lindblad&#8217;s <\/a><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expeditioncruising.com\/2013\/03\/lindblads-sea-lion-strikes-rock-near.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ExpeditionCruisingAdventureCruisingSmallShipCruises+%28Expedition+Cruising+%7C+Adventure+Cruising+%7C+Small+Ship+Cruises%29\" target=\"_blank\">National Geographic Sea Lion<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read full report at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruisecritic.co.uk\/news\/news.cfm?ID=5250\" target=\"_blank\">Cruise Critic <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ms Marco Polo A Cruise &#038; Maritime Voyages ship ran aground in a remote Norwegian fjord north of the Arctic Circle last night, suffering damage to its hull. The 22,080-ton, 800-passenger Marco Polo was leaving Sortland, Norway, under the command of a local pilot when the ship struck a previously uncharted rock. No injuries were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}