One passenger was killed and 4 injured when a "rogue wave" hit their cruise ship throughout a storm earlier this week.
The passengers had been taking an Antarctic cruise aboard the Viking Polaris when it was hit by the storm because it sailed in direction of Ushuaia, Argentina, late on Tuesday night.
The storm brought about an enormous wave that broke a number of panes of glass on the cruise ship and these fell onto and killed an American lady.
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Viking Cruises confirmed in a assertion issued Saturday that the ship had been hit by a "rogue wave" - a kind of wave the US Nationwide Ocean Service describes as being "higher than twice the dimensions of surrounding waves."
"It's with nice disappointment that we confirmed a visitor handed away following the incident," Viking Cruises mentioned.
It didn't reveal the passenger's identify or nationality.
Nevertheless, the Argentine state information company Telam mentioned the useless passenger was an American lady who "obtained blows from a glass floor that collapsed in the midst of the storm."
"4 different visitors sustained non-life-threatening accidents in the course of the incident and had been handled by the ship's onboard physician and medical employees," Viking mentioned.
The cruise line mentioned it's investigating and has canceled the Viking Polaris' subsequent journey scheduled for December 5 to 17.
The boat arrived in Argentina Wednesday and had sustained "restricted injury" in the course of the incident, Viking Cruises mentioned.
The US Nationwide Ocean Service describes rogue waves as being "very unpredictable" and says they typically come unexpectedly from instructions apart from prevailing wind and waves."