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Ryan Hogg

REVEALED: Luxury cruise passengers stage hunger strike over canceled antarctic trip | Rare Historical Photos

An exterior shot of the SH Diana cruise ship traversing Antarctica. (Credit: Swan Hellenic)

Passengers on a luxury cruise line bound for Antarctica have gone on a hunger strike after engine issues meant their experience would be cut short before they reached their final destination.

Swan Hellenic’s SH Diana was in the midst of a 21-day cruise starting in Cape Town, South Africa on November 13, initially en route for the South Georgian Island capital of Ushuaia when one of its two propulsion electric motors malfunctioned.

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