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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Crew members of a cruise ship that hit a charted rock said they were trying to correct course when the bottom raked across a rocky shoal, federal investigators said Wednesday.
The Empress of the North then drifted about two miles from the shoal, called Rocky Island, to Hanus Reef, where the crew and passengers were evacuated, said Kitty Higgins, a spokeswoman for the National Transportation Safety Board.
The riverboat-style cruise ship struck the rock early Monday about 50 nautical miles — or 25 miles as the crow flies — southwest of Juneau as the ship was traveling from Skagway to Glacier Bay.
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