The captain radioed for assistance, and before long all passengers were shuttled off the MS World Discoverer by local ferries.Ĭaptain Oliver Kruess managed to nurse the ship into nearby Roderick Bay where she began to list until settling into her final resting place, where she still sits today. During inclement weather the ship struck a reef just off the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The World Discoverer Cruise Ship during her primeīut in April of 2000 things would go drastically wrong. During this time the ship served a long-term charter with Society Expeditions. In 1990, she was registered in Liberia six years later she was refurbished to like new condition. While at Adventure Cruises, it was renamed the World Discoverer. Two years later it was sold again, this time in July of 1976, to Adventure Cruises, Inc. The vessel was known as the BEWA Discoverer when it was first sold to the Danish company BEWA Cruises in 1974. In April of 2000, the ship struck an uncharted reef formation just off the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Built in 1974, it served multiple owners faithfully for over 25 years.
Hidden in a remote bay of the Solomon Islands, the beached wreck of the German-built Liberian Cruise ship MS World Discoverer slowly rusts.
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