🔴 Cruise Ship “Coral Adventurer” Yashoboye kugera ku Nkombe mu Nyanja ya Papua New Guinea nyuma y’urupfu rw’umugenzi mukuru

Lae, Papua New Guinea — Ku wa Gatandatu mu gitondo cyo ku itariki ya 27 Ukuboza 2025, ubwato bwa cruise Coral Adventurer, bwanditswe muri Australia, bwashoboye kugongana n’amabuye ya korali maze bugera ku nkombe ya Papua New Guinea mu gihe cy’urugendo rwacyo rwa mbere nyuma y’akaga gakomeye kagiye kabaho mu kwezi kwa kabiri ubwo umugenzi mukuru w’imyaka 80 y’amavuko yapfaga ku kirwa kitarimo abantu.

Mu gitondo hakirenga saa kumi n’imwe z’ahagana saa kumi z’igitondo (5:30 am) mu karere ka Finschhafen, Coral Adventurer yahuye n’ikibazo ubwo yagongaga ku mabuye ya korali kuri Dreghafen Point, hafi ya Lae muri Morobe Province. �

Abayobozi b’ahitwa Lae Water Police hamwe n’abakozi b’itsinda rishinzwe umutekano ku nyanja baragerageza gusuzuma uko ibintu byifashe ku bwato no kureba niba hariho ibyangiritse ku mubiri w’ubwato cyangwa ku bidukikije. �

Abantu barenga 120 bari mu bwato  harimo abagenzi 80 n’abakozi 43 — ntibagize ikibazo cy’ubuzima cyangwa ngo bahangayikishwe n’imvune.

Urugendo Rwari Ruteganyijwe kandi Ikibazo Kirimo Gutuma Rutinda

Coral Adventurer yari yasohotse Cairns muri Australia ku itariki ya 18 Ukuboza 2025 mu rugendo rw’iminsi 12 rwarangiraga ku itariki ya 30 Ukuboza. Abagenzi bari bategereje kurangiza urugendo rujya no ku nkombe za Madang ndetse no ku kiyaga Sepik mbere yo kugaruka muri Cairns.

Nyamara iyi grounding (kugongana n’inkombe y’amabuye ya korali) byatumye urugendo rutinda, kandi abagenzi bagomba gutegereza kugeza igihe ubwato buzashobora gusubiramo kubasha kwikura mu cyago.

Impamvu y’Ibyiyumviro ku Mutekano w’Abagenzi

Iki gikorwa cyo kugongana n’amabuye ya korali cyaje nyuma y’ibihe bikomeye byabaye ku Coral Adventurer mu kwezi kwa *28 Ukwakira 2025, ubwo umugore w’imyaka 80 y’amavuko, Suzanne Rees, yapfaga ku kirwa cya Lizard Island nyuma y’uko yavuyeyo atarashyira abandi hamwe maze indege izengurutse aho yaherereye iramubona.

Ubwo bwato bwari bukiri mu iperereza ryimbitse nyuma y’icyo kiza cyo ku Lizard Island, aho habaye impaka ku buryo bwo gukurikirana abagenzi no kubika umutekano wabo ku nkombe.

Abashinzwe umutekano wo ku nyanja, harimo Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) na ba polisi bo muri Morobe, barimo gukurikirana neza uko iki kibazo kibyiganirwaho kandi biteganywa ko bazatanga raporo y’uburyo ubwato bwacumbitse ku mabuye no kwemeza ko nta byangiritse bikomeye ku rwego rw’ibidukikije.

Igikorwa cyo gukuraho ubwato ku mabuye yateye ikibazo ariko birateganywa ko bizakorwa igihe cy’uburambe busanzwe kuri ubu bwato, uko amazi azamuka (high tide), kugira ngo hubakwe uburyo bwo gusubira mu mazi neza nta ngaruka ku mico y’amazi cyangwa ku bantu bari aho.

Iyi nkuru yasigiye benshi impungenge ku byerekeranye n’umutekano w’abagenzi ku bwato buto bwo mu bwoko bwa expedition cruises, cyane cyane nyuma y’imenyekanisha ry’uko umugore Suzanne Rees atigeze yitabwaho neza igihe yari ku kirwa maze yitabwa mu butabazi.

Abasesenguzi bagaragaza ko ibibazo nk’ibi bishobora gukurikiranwa mu bucuruzi bugamije gutembera ku nyanja kugira ngo hasuzumwe neza uburyo bwo kurinda abagenzi bari mu bikorwa byo kugenda bajya ku nkombe cyangwa mu bikorwa byo hanze y’ubwato. �

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