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Cruise Ship Runs Aground Weeks After Passenger Left Behind on Remote Island

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Key Aspects: Coral Adventurer ran aground just east of Papua New Guinea early on Saturday, December 27. More than 120 guests and crew members are aboard but there are no injuries reported. This is the ship’s first sailing since a guest was left behind on Lizard Island and died while hiking. It’s been rough sailing for Coral Adventurer for the past few weeks. Now the ship has run aground off the east coast of Papua New Guinea at Dreghafen Point between Nussing Island and Kumbam Island, approximately 60 miles from the city of Lae, the country’s second-largest city. According...