Cruise ship undergoes emergency evacuation

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Cruise ship undergoes emergency evacuation

May 07, 2008
By Talis Saule Archdeacon

SAVING MONA LISA: The coast guard evacuated hundreds of passengers and crew from the Mona Lisa cruise ship, which ran aground off the coast of Latvia on May 4.

RIGA - More than 660 people, mostly older German tourists, were evacuated from a massive cruise ship that ran aground not far from Latvia’s northwestern coast. The Bahamas-registered Mona Lisa got stuck in a sand bank in the Irbe Strait, which runs between the Latvian coast and the Estonian island of Saaremaa, approximately 18 kilometers from Ventspils on May 4. None of the 984 people on board were injured in the incident. The captain of the Mona Lisa, a Greek national, gave the order ...

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