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"AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after a boat transferring people from the Portsmouth-based HMS Ark Royal ran aground in the Arctic.
The Royal Navy's fleet flagship launched the probe today after a boat carrying three journalists at high speed hit an outcrop of rock in Arctic waters.
The passengers 'could have been killed' after the boat – carrying a Mail on Sunday photographer, the editor of an aviation magazine and a Press Association reporter – skidded 50ft (15m) after narrowly missing large boulders.
The men were being transported from HMS Ark Royal, anchored in Breivika Bay, Norway, when the boat hit the large area of rock half a mile from the shore at 3am today.
One passenger suffered a minor arm injury.
An Ark Royal spokesman said there was no indication that the boat was travelling too fast for the conditions".
Quoted from pompey news
"AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after a boat transferring people from the Portsmouth-based HMS Ark Royal ran aground in the Arctic.
The Royal Navy's fleet flagship launched the probe today after a boat carrying three journalists at high speed hit an outcrop of rock in Arctic waters.
The passengers 'could have been killed' after the boat – carrying a Mail on Sunday photographer, the editor of an aviation magazine and a Press Association reporter – skidded 50ft (15m) after narrowly missing large boulders.
The men were being transported from HMS Ark Royal, anchored in Breivika Bay, Norway, when the boat hit the large area of rock half a mile from the shore at 3am today.
One passenger suffered a minor arm injury.
An Ark Royal spokesman said there was no indication that the boat was travelling too fast for the conditions".
Quoted from pompey news