When a heavy storm off the coast of New Zealand hit the P&O ship Pacific Sun, 42 people were injured as unsecured furniture careered back and forth across the floor. More than 4,000 other passengers and crew members were safely evacuated. Thirty-two people died and many more were injured when Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground and capsized off the coast of Tuscany in January last year. Illness on the MercuryĪn outbreak of norovirus brought a Caribbean dream to an unpleasant end when over 400 passengers were struck with stomach aches, vomiting and diarrhoea in February 2010, aboard cruise ship Celebrity Mercury. Fortunately, a Norwegian rescue ship was able to bring all on board back alive. The chilly end of the ExplorerĪround 100 holidaymakers were forced into lifeboats in rough and icy water when the MV Explorer took on water and sank 75 miles north of the Antarctic Peninsula in November, 2007. In an incident strikingly similar to the chaos on the Carnival Triumph, an engine fire on the Carnival Splendor in November 2010 left it stranded in the Pacific with overflowing toilets and more than 4,000 hungry and angry passengers. No passengers were injured and the pirates never boarded, but the ship came under machine-gun fire and was struck by rocket-propelled grenades. In 2005, passengers on luxury cruise liner the Seabourn Spirit got a taste of old-fashioned adventure on the high seas when pirates attacked the ship off the coast of Somalia. Here are six of the worst cruises of the past 10 years: Pirates attack the Seabourn Spirit Any holiday, of course, has the potential to turn sour, but few can do so quite as spectacularly as the cruise.
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