The November 2007 sinking of the 2,398gt cruise ship Explorer in Antarctica has long been shrouded in mystery. Why did the ice-class vessel go down, who was to blame and what lessons have been learned?rnA new report by the Liberian Registry offers a detailed account of the ship's harrowing final hours and the narrow escape of its 100 passengers and 54 crew. It alleges near disastrous judgment by some and lauds "heroic" life-saving decisions by others.rnBlame is laidsquarely on the ship's master, Capt Bengt Wiman. "He was under the mistaken impression that he was encountering 'first year' ice, when in fact, it was much harder 'land ice'," wrote Liberian investigator Robert Ford.
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