(AP Photo/Chile's Navy)
The MV Explorer cruise ship is sinking after it hit an unknown object in Antarctic waters, Friday, Nov. 23, 2007, 880 kilometers southeast of Ushuaia, the southernmost Argentine city and near the Southern Shetland Islands.
(Image map obtained via Google Earth®)
Luckily a new Titanic-like tragedy has been avoided and the more than 150 passengers and crew has been succesfully brought to lifeboats after the ship hit an object and began taking on water through a hole in the hull.
pic via The Sun (London)
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