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Luxury cruise ship freed in the Arctic after 3 on board test positive for COVID
NY Post ^ | 09/14/2023 | Chris Pandolfo

Posted on 09/14/2023 7:50:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A luxury cruise ship carrying 206 passengers and crew was “successfully” freed Thursday amid fears of a potential COVID-19 outbreak on board.

The owner of the Ocean Explorer, Copenhagen-based SunStone Ships, said a fishing vessel owned by the Greenland government pulled the cruise ship out of the mud and silt that had immobilized it.

“On Thursday early morning the OCEAN EXPLORER was successfully pulled off the grounding in the East Greenland Fjord. This was done based on a pull from the vessel TARAJOQ and the vessel’s own power,” SunStone said in a news release. “There have not been any injuries to any person onboard, no pollution of the environment, and no breach of the hull.”

The company added, “The vessel and its passengers will now be positioned to a port where the vessel’s bottom damages can be assessed, and the passengers will be taken to a port from which they can be flown back home.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: arctic; covid; cruise; positive
Doing this crap AGAIN????? Enough already
1 posted on 09/14/2023 7:50:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What hell does covid and a ship grounding have to do with each other??

These liberal propagandists look like the retards they are reaching for such a connection between anything and covid.


2 posted on 09/14/2023 7:55:27 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pretty sure just about every cruise since 2020 has had multiple cases of COVID. This headline is irrelevant and moronic.


3 posted on 09/14/2023 7:58:00 AM PDT by Go_Raiders (An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? - Axel Oxenstierna)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Time to short cruise 🚢 stocks??


4 posted on 09/14/2023 7:58:00 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: CodeToad

Did they make the obligatory reference to global warming?


5 posted on 09/14/2023 7:58:02 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Bodies everywhere....


6 posted on 09/14/2023 7:58:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: CodeToad

The PCR test just will not go away, even after being denounced by the WHO & CDC.


7 posted on 09/14/2023 7:59:46 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That has to be the all-time best non sequitur.


8 posted on 09/14/2023 8:04:40 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: CodeToad

LOL

My thought too

Whats this about the Wu Hu Flu or the ship getting stuck ???


9 posted on 09/14/2023 8:08:05 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

Quarantine them either to their cabins or sick bay. And what does that have to do with bad seamanship on the part of the bridge crew?


10 posted on 09/14/2023 8:22:03 AM PDT by SCConservative58
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To: CodeToad

who knew that covid could cause a cruise ship to get stuck in the mud!


11 posted on 09/14/2023 8:36:43 AM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Did they make the obligatory reference to global warming?”

They didn’t, so that makes this a very poorly written article, not researched at all!


12 posted on 09/14/2023 8:37:30 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Its next voyage, a 12-day trip set to depart Oct. 30 from Argentina to Antarctica, costs $13,395 per passenger.”

I hope the stuckees are gonna get some $$$ back if the price for this trip is anywhere near the price of the next trip.


13 posted on 09/14/2023 8:40:36 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: CodeToad

That covid is some powerful stuff! It caused a ship to get stuck in the mud!


14 posted on 09/14/2023 8:51:37 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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A look inside the new luxury cruise ship christened in Boston this week (2021)

https://www.boston.com/travel/travel/2021/10/26/ocean-explorer-new-luxury-cruise-ship-christened-in-boston/

Much more reasonable size than most cruise ships these days.


15 posted on 09/14/2023 9:09:23 AM PDT by Rio
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cruise ship? Covid? Have we heard this before?


16 posted on 09/14/2023 9:16:05 AM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist Americ a)
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To: CodeToad

That is one crafty virus!


17 posted on 09/14/2023 9:20:19 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Are they still using the discredited PCR swabs?

Covid, schmovid.


18 posted on 09/14/2023 9:36:14 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: CodeToad

What hell does covid and a ship grounding have to do with each other??
= = =

The Spike Protien stuck it to the sea floor.


19 posted on 09/14/2023 12:36:06 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: CodeToad

The water evaporated due to global warming and the ship ended up stuck in the mud due to low water.....


20 posted on 09/14/2023 8:44:15 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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