Cruise ship stranded in Australia due to fungal infection

Tourists enjoying a cruise vacation were stranded on the shores of Australia after mold spread on board.

‘Al Viking Orion’, a 14-decker 980-capacity luxury cruise ship built in 2018, has been denied entry at several ports. It is also reported that the ship has been stuck in the sea for five days due to the spread of fungus on the top of the ship. Daily Express.

The ship was originally scheduled to sail from Sydney to Auckland and then to New Zealand’s capital Wellington, but was blocked from entering Wellington and then Christchurch, New Zealand.

The ship then proceeded to Hobart on the island of Tasmania, but was also prevented from entering that port.

The ship now heads to Adelaide on Australia’s south coast, but passengers will not stop there, instead anchoring 17 miles away.

Once anchored, divers will be dispatched to clean the ship’s hull in the hope the ship can stay in Melbourne.

“They have told us that we will be compensated. At present, it is 50 per cent. But we think the offer will improve in the future,” passenger John Davidson told 10 News First.

Earlier this month, a Viking cruise ship was hit by a “rogue wave” in Antarctica, killing one passenger.

They found one dead person and three others rescued from a shipwreck in California

In other incidents, one person died and three others were rescued after a boat capsized off the coast of California’s Santa Catalina Island in the early hours of Saturday, September 3, they said. Officers.

Lifeguards from the Los Angeles County Fire Department were dispatched to the area just after 4 a.m., according to Fire Department Supervisor Bernard Peters.

Rescuers found a woman in her 50s to 60s. One injured person was taken to Catalina Hospital, and two other people in the boat were uninjured, Peters said.

Jodi Mack, who was sleeping on a nearby sailboat, said she and her husband woke up early Saturday to screaming and acted quickly.

“They shout the dead person’s name and then shout for help. That’s when we jumped in and got to his boat as fast as we could in our boat.” Mack said.

Her husband rowed the overturned boat about 30 yards away, where boaters in three other boats also tried to help before authorities arrived.

“Two women were rescued from boats, while a third woman was partially trapped inside the sinking boat. A fourth woman is believed to still be in the boat, Mack said.

Also, a man from a nearby boat with flippers and a mask tried to search for the woman by diving into the sinking boat. “It’s rare for a boat to sink on a mooring ball,” Mack said.

Until now, Authorities have not yet determined the woman’s cause of death. Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Grace Medrano said.

“The 40-foot recreational boat was underwater when sheriff’s deputies arrived,” Medrano said. But the cause of the ship’s sinking is not known.

For its part, the Sheriff’s Department will continue to investigate the cause of the incident.