More than 150 passengers and crew, including 14 Americans, took to lifeboats in Antarctic waters on Friday after their cruise ship apparently hit an iceberg and began taking on water through a hole in the hull, Britain's Coast Guard said. No injuries were reported."Latest reports are that all persons are safe and accounted for," said Coast Guard spokesman Fred Caygill.
Evacuees from the Liberian-flagged Explorer were boarding another cruise ship, Endeavor, near the South Shetland Islands and were expected to be transferred later to a larger ship, said Henry Purbrick, watch officer at the Coast Guard center in Falmouth, England.
"We believed it has been hulled, it has a hole the size of a fist and some cracking in the hull of the ship, it's taking water and it's listing about 21 degrees," Caygill told AP Radio.
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