High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The MS Explorer was a Liberian-registered cruise ship designed for Arctic and Antarctic service, originally commissioned and operated by the Swedish explorer Lars-Eric Lindblad. Observers point to the Explorer’s 1969 expeditionary cruise to Antarctica as the frontrunner for today’s sea-based tourism in that region. Ownership of the vessel changed several times, the last owner being the Toronto-based travel company G.A.P Adventures which acquired the Explorer in 2004. The vessel was formerly known as the MS Lindblad Explorer (–1985) and the MS Society Explorer (–1992). The Explorer was the first cruise ship designed specifically to sail the icy waters of the Antarctic Ocean, and the first to sink there when she struck an unidentified submerged object on November 23, 2007, reported to be ice, which caused a 10 by 4 inch (25 x 10 cm) gash in the hull. The Explorer was abandoned in the early hours of November 23, 2007 after taking on water near the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean, an area which is usually stormy but calm at the time.

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