Greenland cruise ship rescued from mud after three days of being trapped

A fancy ship that got stuck in the mud in Greenland since Monday has been pulled out.

The Ocean Explorer and the people on board were saved by a Greenland research ship after getting stuck in the Northeast Greenland National Park.

The person who owns the boat, called SunStone, said that nobody on the boat got hurt.

However, the travel company Aurora Expeditions said that a few people have contracted Covid-19.

The Ocean Explorer got stuck in thick mud and dirt above the Arctic Circle in a place called Alpefjord, which is 1,400 km (870 miles) northeast of the capital of Greenland, Nuuk. Several tries were made to release the ship when the water level was high, but they were not successful.

The Danish military’s Arctic Command said a ship was supposed to come to the area on Friday to check things.

The ship was eventually moved by a government-owned trawler from Greenland called Tarajoq, which means “salt” in the Greenlandic language. The ship also used its own power to be dislodged.

SunStone mentioned that the ship and the people on it will be taken to a port to check the damage at the bottom of the ship. The passengers will also be taken to a port from where they can be flown home.

It said that the environment was not harmed and the ship was not damaged.

There were 112 people on the cruise ship, including 94 crew members. The cruise was organized by an Australian holiday company called Aurora Expeditions. They left Norway on 2 September and were supposed to come back on 22 September.

A lot of the people on the plane were from Australia, also from New Zealand, the UK, South Korea, and the US. Steven Fraser and Gina Hill, who are no longer working and are travelling on the Ocean Explorer, said that even though they were stuck, the passengers were in good moods.

Mr Fraser, who got Covid during the trip, said to The Sydney Morning Herald: “It’s a little bit annoying, but we’re in a really nice place. ” We are sitting close to the glacier and we open our window.

Aurora Expeditions recently announced that three individuals have gotten the virus, but they are currently being kept separate from others.

The Northeast Greenland National Park is a really big place, about as big as France and Spain combined. It is known for having fjords, big chunks of ice called icebergs, and tall mountains.

It is also where polar bears, muskoxen, and the mysterious narwhal live.