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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Andrew Messenger

Australian cruise ship stuck off PNG ‘detained’ amid investigation into why it ran aground

Coral Adventurer.
The Coral Adventurer cruise ship ran aground off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea on Saturday. Photograph: imageBROKER.com/Alamy

A cruise ship that ran aground off Papua New Guinea has been “detained” out of concern it’s unseaworthy “due to potential damage”, amid an investigation into how it became stuck on Saturday morning.

The Coral Adventurer remained stuck on a reef off the north coast of Papua New Guinea, about 30km from PNG’s second-largest city, Lae, on Tuesday, as efforts to refloat it continue.

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