Fishing vessel in Greenland will try to free cruise ship that ran aground

The Ocean Explorer is a Bahamas-flagged cruise ship with 206 passengers and crew (SIRIUS/Joint Arctic Command via AP)

A fishing vessel owned by Greenland’s government will attempt to use a high tide to pull free a Bahamas-flagged luxury cruise ship carrying 206 people that ran aground in the world’s northern-most national park, authorities said.

Captain Flemming Madsen, of the Danish Joint Arctic Command, said the passengers and crew on the ship stranded in north-western Greenland were doing fine and “all I can say is that they got a lifetime experience”.