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WORLD NEWSThursday 21 May 2015
Cruise ship freed from reef off Bermuda departs for Boston
DANICA COTO water. scheduled departure later aground. nient, but not the worst
Associated Press Norwegian Cruise Line that day for a return to Ber- “We definitely felt it,” she thing that could have hap-
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico said a temporary malfunc- muda, the company said. told The Associated Press pened,” he said. “There
(AP) — A cruise ship that tion in the steering system “We sincerely apologize by telephone. “We were are worse places you
ran aground on a reef had forced it off course for the inconvenience and in the middle of eating could be shipwrecked.”
near Bermuda departed as the ship departed Ber- greatly appreciate our dinner. ... There was a The problem with the
for Boston on Wednesday muda, where it had spent guests’ understanding,” a shudder for maybe 30 sec- Norwegian Dawn forced
after repairs were made to three days in port as part company statement said. onds to a minute and then another cruise ship, the
its steering system, officials of a seven-day roundtrip The ship’s 2,443 passen- there was a sudden stop.” Norwegian Breakaway,
said. to the island. gers will receive a 15 per- Passengers were allowed to drop anchor offshore
The Norwegian Dawn The company said cent credit for a future to disembark during the when it reached Bermuda
carrying nearly 3,500 pas- Wednesday a team of ex- cruise. delay, but were asked to on Wednesday. Passen-
sengers and crew hit the perts had inspected the Rachel Hansen, a pas- stay close to the ship, said gers, however, still were
reef late Tuesday and was ship and found it safe to senger from Londonderry, Mitchell Walker, a 33-year- able to enjoy the island,
stuck for more than six operate. It was expected New Hampshire, said the old passenger from New with ferries brought in to
hours before a rising tide to reach Boston on Friday ship was about 3 miles York state. carry them ashore, the
helped push it into deeper and be ready to make its from Bermuda when it ran “It’s been a bit inconve- government said.q
Colombians celebrate baby’s miracle survival from mudslide
CESAR GARCIA Jesus Antonio Guisao told were stabilized, he was erwise recovering well. quake.
Associated Press The Associated Press on transferred to a hospital The heart-warming tale of Authorities told the AP
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) Wednesday as details of in Medellin. Doctors said survival contrasted with there was no chance of
— Colombians are cel- finding any more survivors,
ebrating the rescue of an An overflooded ravine cuts through Salgar, in Colombia’s northwestern state of Antioquia. even as a team of 300 res-
11-month-old baby who Colombians are celebrating the rescue of an 11-month-old baby who survived the huge cuers continued to search
survived a huge mudslide mudslide that killed at least 78 people, including the child’s mother and 11 other relatives. home by home the neigh-
that killed at least 78 peo- borhoods ravaged by the
ple, including the child’s (AP Photo/Luis Benavides) mudslide. Between 50 and
mother and 11 other rela- 80 people were believed
tives, but officials held out the baby’s saga emerged Wednesday that the baby the still-emerging picture missing, the Red Cross said.
no hope Wednesday for on the front pages of Co- suffered multiple abrasions of devastation in Colom- Among those killed were
finding more survivors. lombia’s newspapers. and light bruises as well as bia’s most-deadly natural 12 of the baby’s relatives,
Jhosep Diaz was found including his mother. Four
buried face-down in the After the baby’s vital signs a broken rib, but was oth- disaster since a 1999 earth- other four family members
mud Monday, more than were still missing but pre-
a mile (almost 2 kilometer) sumed dead, said Alvaro
from where he had been Hernandez, the boy’s pa-
sleeping when a flash flood ternal grandfather.
swept away dozens of Hernandez, who is expect-
homes before dawn in the ed to assume custody of
mountain town of Salgar. the child in absence of the
The doctor who first treated father, who was killed a
him said he was very cold year ago, told the AP that
and nearing hypothermia, the boy and his 22-year-old
but appeared to have mother lived in a nearby
avoided greater damages town but were visiting rela-
because he was nestled tives in Salgar when the
in a padded crib when he tragedy struck.
was carried away by the “Amid so much bad news
current. concerning the death of 16
“He was unconscious and of our relatives, my grand-
didn’t open his little eyes son’s survival is a miracle,”
but was breathing,” Dr. Henandez told the AP.q
Exxon Mobil says oil discovery off Guyana is ‘significant’
GEORGETOWN, Guyana said May 7 that the explo- phen M. Greenlee, presi- (1,743 meters) of water. drilling in March.
(AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp. ration was showing prom- dent of ExxonMobil Explo- This would be the first sig- In October 2013, the Ven-
confirmed Wednesday ise but provided no details. ration Co. nificant oil discovery fol- ezuelan navy detained an
that it has made what it Exxon Mobil now says it is still The company says it en- lowing decades of explo- oil research vessel operat-
calls a “significant” oil dis- working to determine the countered more than 295 ration within the territory of ing under contract for U.S.-
covery off Guyana in wa- commercial viability of the feet (90 meters) of high- Guyana, a largely unde- based Anadarko Petro-
ters also claimed by Ven- find at a site within the 6.6 quality oil-bearing sand- veloped country of about leum Corp. Guyana Foreign
ezuela as part of a long- million-acre area known as stone reservoirs in the drill- 800,000 people. Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-
running border dispute be- the Stabroek Block but has ing site about 120 miles Venezuela has long Birkett said in March that
tween the South American reasons to be optimistic. (193 kilometers) off Guy- claimed about two-thirds her country would push
countries. “I am encouraged by the ana. It said the well was of Guyana’s territory as ahead with exploration in
The company and Guy- results of the first well on the safely drilled to 17,825 feet well as the offshore area the area despite protests
ana’s government had Stabroek Block,” said Ste- (5,433 meters) in 5,719 feet where Exxon Mobil began by Venezuela.q
