Coral Adventurer, being investigated for allegedly leaving behind passenger who died, ran aground with 124 people on board on Saturday
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An Australian cruise ship remains stuck on a reef off Papua New Guinea despite efforts to free it, with passengers set to be flown home early.
The Coral Adventurer, which ran aground on Saturday morning, was already under investigation as a result of an unrelated incident in October, in which a passenger died after being allegedly left behind on an island. It was on its first voyage since the passenger’s death when it ran aground.
The vessel, which had been carrying 80 passengers and 44 crew when it ran aground, remained on reef off the coast of Papua New Guinea, about 30km from PNG’s second-largest city, Lae, on Monday.
