MV World Discoverer

I was surprised when I stumbled upon an article in Google image which showed a wreck of the World Discoverer. I followed the site and I came up with this information:

MV World Discoverer aground in the Solomon Reefs

On April 30, 2000, the ship struck a large uncharted rock or reef on the Sandfly Passage, Solomon Islands. A passenger ferry was dispatched to the ship where all passengers were then transported to safety. The captain then brought the ship into Roderick Bay after the ship began to list 20 degrees and grounded the ship to avoid sinking. The ship has remained in Roderick Bay ever since. The World Discoverer still sits in Roderick Bay on Nggela Island with a 46 degree list."
Having served on board MV World Discoverer as a navigation officer for 12 months, I had mixed emotions when I learned of the vessel’s fate. I cannot imagine that we had gone through dangerous and countless adventures in the Amazon River, the Antarctic Peninsula; wondrous cruises through Halifax and Nova Scotia, soft-sailing through Maine and Rhode Island, a challenge in the Greenland Passage and the Norwegian fjords; only to learn that MV World Discoverer is now a victim of one of those reefs in the Solomon Islands.
There she lay, the once great adventurer, the fearless cruiser…dead and rotting.

This writer as Navigation Officer