{"id":14511,"date":"2010-09-06T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/british-passengers-sue-after-iceberg-incident-2\/"},"modified":"2010-09-06T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T20:08:00","slug":"british-passengers-sue-after-iceberg-incident-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/09\/british-passengers-sue-after-iceberg-incident-2\/","title":{"rendered":"British passengers sue after iceberg incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor, a bank director and the chairman of a law firm are spearheading a seven-figure High Court battle with a British cruise operator after their luxury liner was hit by a glacier.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2010\/09\/03\/article-1308704-015FA648000004B0-803_468x403.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"171\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2010\/09\/03\/article-1308704-015FA648000004B0-803_468x403.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The MV <i>Alexy Maryshev<\/i> was on a ten-day sightseeing cruise in the Arctic around the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen when a glacier &#8216;calved&#8217; an iceberg, creating massive shockwaves and littering the deck of the ship with slabs of ice.<\/p>\n<p>The ship, which was carrying 48 British passengers had stopped near the glacier on August 8 2007 for passengers to take photographs when the ice and waves struck, London&#8217;s High Court heard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1308704\/Sixteen-British-cruise-ship-passengers-sue-luxury-liner-firm-iceberg-crash.html#ixzz0ymXVzKTD\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor, a bank director and the chairman of a law firm are spearheading a seven-figure High Court battle with a British cruise operator after their luxury liner was hit by a glacier. The MV Alexy Maryshev was on a ten-day sightseeing cruise in the Arctic around the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen when a glacier [&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-14511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511","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=14511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}