The Ocean Explorer ran aground at about midday on Monday above the Arctic Circle in Alpefjord.

A luxurious cruise ship with 206 folks on board has remained caught in a distant Greenland location after working aground earlier this week.

The Ocean Explorer ran aground on Monday above the Arctic Circle in Alpefjord, within the Northeast Greenland Nationwide Park. The park covers 972,000 sq. kilometres (375,000 sq. miles), virtually as a lot land as France and Spain mixed, and roughly 80 p.c is completely lined by an ice sheet, in accordance with the Go to Greenland tourism board.

The Ocean Explorer’s crew made two failed makes an attempt to get the ship to drift free by itself throughout excessive tide.

The Danish navy’s Joint Arctic Command (JAC) stated the tide had didn’t raise the 104-metre (341-foot) Ocean Explorer sufficient to free it. A fish trawler’s try to free the ship additionally failed.

Armed forces personnel stationed in Greenland have inspected the Ocean Explorer and spoken to these on board, concluding that they had been in good situation.

The Danish navy’s Knud Rasmussen patrol vessel was anticipated to reach on the Alpefjord website on Friday afternoon.

“If the whole lot goes properly, they’ll assist the ship get out of this emergency that they’re in at this second. Nevertheless it depends upon how the whole lot appears to be like after they arrive on Friday so we have to see the way it goes,” a JAC spokesperson stated.

The JAC additionally stated there have been different ships within the neighborhood of the stranded cruise liner and “if the necessity arises, personnel from the Sirius Canine Sled Patrol may be on the accident website inside an hour and a half”.

Passengers and crew members ‘secure and properly’

In a press release, Australia-based Aurora Expeditions, which operates the ship, stated the passengers and crew members had been secure and properly and that there was “no instant hazard to themselves, the vessel, or the encircling atmosphere”.

Dozens of cruise ships sail alongside Greenland’s coast yearly so passengers can admire the picturesque mountainous panorama with fjords, musk oxen, and waterways full of icebergs of various sizes and glaciers jutting out into the ocean.

Captain Flemming Madsen of Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command, stated the passengers on the Ocean Explorer had been “a combination” of vacationers from Australia, New Zealand, Britain, the USA and South Korea.

Greenland is a semi-independent territory that’s a part of the Danish realm, as are the Faroe islands.

The climate within the area on Wednesday featured solar, a transparent blue sky and a temperature of about 5 levels Celsius (41 levels Fahrenheit), in accordance with the Danish Meteorological Institute.

The Ocean Explorer was in-built 2021 and is owned by Copenhagen SunStone Ships, which is a part of Denmark’s SunStone Group. It has an inverted bow, formed just like the one on a submarine.

It has 77 cabins, 151 passenger beds and 99 beds for crew, and several other eating places, in accordance with the Sunstone Group web site.