The tropical paradise of the Solomon Islands is a familiar place for sightseeing. But now, visitors are rushing to the island for very unusual reasons.
The Cruise Ship MS World Discoverer was stranded in the Solomon Islands of the South Pacific in 2000, near the golden sandy beach, which is still popular with excursions. Since then, the ship has been rusted and rotten in the shallow waters of Rodelick, and has become an eerie sight popular with so -called “dark tourists”.
Dark tourism includes visiting places related to death, tragedy, and other miserable events. It may look eerie, but many destinations, such as the former Auschwitz concentration camps in Poland and the 9/11 monument in New York City, have given the opportunity to learn and think about historical tragedies.
The MS World Discoverer was built by 40 million pounds and was built in 1973 by the German shipyard Shitchau Untervezer. The ship spent almost 30 years on sailing to destinations, including the Antarctic, Chile, Argentina, Falkland Islands, Alaska, and the United States. And Canada.
The ship boasted an observatory lounge, library, auditorium, swimming pool, sundeck, and fitness center, and was built to break through the ice sheet and withstand the iceberg. However, on April 30, 2000, the captain was told that he had sent a rescue signal, and a catastrophe collided with a large rock or reef in the sand fly in the Solomon Islands, causing a catastrophe.
“The ship just rushed into the coast and broken the forest trees,” said the British David Light, who was on the boat at the time.
“It was very spectacular,” he continued. “When I arrived at the coast, I saw a tree hanging on the ship of the ship.”
Thankfully, all passengers and crew were rescued safely, but could not rescue the regular ships.
Currently, this huge ship stands as a local landmark, rusts severely and tilts on one side, from which trees and plants grow.
It is possible to arrange tours, and some of the excursions look at regular ships from the sandy beach of Rodelic Bay, but others look at the ship nearby.
