Ship Docks in the Sand

Kean Wong:
All the way over in Latvia, cruise ship the Mona Lisa has hit some trouble. The ships mostly German passengers were evacuated as the ship ran onto a sandbank. Heres the full story.

From the air the Mona Lisa looks perfectly normal.

But beneath the waterline this cruise ship is stuck fast.

It hit a sandbank, running aground with nearly a thousand passengers and crew onboard 18 kilometres, or 11 miles, off the coast of Latvia.

As passengers photographed the holiday adventure they'd become a part of, rescue crews were lowered onto the Mona Lisa's decks, and reported no injuries.

After an attempt to refloat it failed, Latvian authorities began evacuating the mostly German passengers to ships nearby.

The 40-year-old vessel, which is registered in the Bahamas, had been cruising from Poland to the Latvian capital Riga.

Once evacuated its passengers will be transported to Latvia, where their dream holiday will have to continue on dry land.

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• Latvia
• cruise
• ship
• Mona
• Lisa
• sandbank
• sand

[hellvoid999]

0:33 monolisa's dicks

[zandj710]

no desire to take a cruise, they sure have their unpleasant experiences while vacationing. they can have it. besides, with pirates out there, being poisened, running aground, whats next?

[Konvicted17]

@hellvoid999 actually 0:31

[FlipOrlando]

I blame Sarah Palin, fucking whore!

[oldfart387]

@masluxx

Close! It's Bush's fault!!!

[masluxx]

some how it is the Americans fault

[MojosoftStudio]

@gowdridge Dodger! No argument, so you try to obfuscate. Won't work with me Dodger.

[MojosoftStudio]

@gowdridge I asked why torpedo German passengers and you dodged. I don't think the question needs to be any more specific.

[gowdridge]

@MojosoftStudio Again... why not ??? who is dodging who`s question is the question is it not ???

[MojosoftStudio]

@gowdridge Why are you dodging the question?

[gowdridge]

@MojosoftStudio Why not ???

[MojosoftStudio]

@gowdridge Why?