{"id":53835,"date":"2015-01-09T10:56:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/news\/hals-zuiderdam-and-zaandam-rescue-crew-of-sinking-and-stranded-boats\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:43:14","slug":"holland-ship-rescues-sinking-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/whats-new\/holland-ship-rescues-sinking-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"HAL’s Zuiderdam and Zaandam Rescue Crew of Sinking and Stranded Boats"},"content":{"rendered":"

On two recent cruises, both Zuiderdam<\/a> and Zaandam<\/a> were called upon to assist vessels in need of assistance. <\/p>\n

At 2:10 a.m. Jan. 3, 2015, while en route to Oranjestad, Aruba, Zuiderdam answered a distress call from the Bahamian inter-island vessel Excalibur that was sinking with eight crewmembers onboard. Zuiderdam was approximately 15 miles away and the closest ship in the area.<\/p>\n

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The eight crew members of Excalibur were taken onboard after their boat started to sink.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cCongratulations to the officers and crew onboard Zuiderdam for their quick response that saved the lives of eight people,\u201d said Orlando Ashford, president of Holland America Line. \u201cWe are proud to be able to come to the rescue when called upon, and it\u2019s even more gratifying when everything goes as smoothly as this operation did.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Zuiderdam altered course and was able to successfully execute a nighttime rescue of all eight crewmembers at 3:01 a.m. The ship brought them onboard and provided food and accommodations. The rescued crewmembers debarked in Aruba Jan. 5.<\/p>\n

In addition, on Jan. 4 ms Zaandam came to the aid of seven crewmembers from the sailing yacht Polonus that were staying at the Arctowski Polish research station at King George Island in Antarctica. The crew, all Polish nationals, were stranded after their yacht went aground. They are being taken to Buenos Aires<\/a>, Argentina, and will disembark Jan. 11.<\/p>\n

\"Zaandam<\/a>

Zaandam crew members will sail to Buenos Aires with the ship after their yacht ran aground.<\/p><\/div>\n

Kudos to the team members on both ships for successfully completing two rescue operations! Holland America Line is always honored to come to the rescue, like Statendam<\/a> did for the Baranof Wind in Alaska back in 2013. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On two recent cruises, both Zuiderdam and Zaandam were called upon to assist vessels in need of assistance. At 2:10 a.m. Jan. 3, 2015, while en route to Oranjestad, Aruba, Zuiderdam answered a distress call from the Bahamian inter-island vessel Excalibur that was sinking with eight crewmembers onboard. Zuiderdam was approximately 15 miles away and the closest ship in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,40],"tags":[4191],"class_list":["post-53835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ship-crew","category-whats-new","tag-cruise-ship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67855,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53835\/revisions\/67855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}