hey everybody its Bruce here with traveling of Bruce got some breaking
news here passengers on board the ovation of the seas were involved in a
violent volcanic eruption on white island in New Zealand a very sad story
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you updates as best I can here is a map of where this island is
where this volcano erupted in the northern part of New Zealand on the
North Island there's Auckland on the on the left you can see white island there
on that black dot the good news is the ship is nowhere near the islands not on
the island not affected directly but unfortunately passengers were on tours
these there are companies that give you tours to this area you can helicopter in
you can fly in here is devastation that that happen there's a helicopter
completely destroyed many injuries the the eruption was violent these pictures
I'm giving you are in no particular order so please bear with me while I try
to tell you what you're looking at here is a shot of one of the rescue boats
coming off and the ala copter in the background people are in real distress
we're getting reports so far these are early reports but five dead 18 injuries
reported many of severe burns these people here you can see they're in real
distress and I hate to show you this but you need to know what's really going on
here 20 are still missing or approximately there were apparently 50
people on the island early reports were a hundred the the other stories coming
out is that most of the people on board the island were from the ship itself
from the ovation of the Seas reports I've seen were up to 30 passengers were
on the island of these tours just so you can see some of these photos that you
get right up and close and personal to this volcano here's a typical shot of
how you're brought into the island everyone is given hard
hats all are given gas masks to protect against particulates this is a shot of
the moment of the eruption anyone nearby here would have been in real trouble
there was apparently virtually no warning the the ash went as high as
forty thousand feet there's reports of poisonous gas in the area these boats
that were nearby bringing either additional tourists in or evacuating
existing tourists were of course immediately turning around to get the
hell out of there and some passengers were were taking photos to to show what
was happening here's a sort of a time sequence of what happened from a great
distance you can see the plume going way up into the end of the sky the ship has
been retained it's not going to leave this port at this time rel Caribbean is
sending in care teams to to help out is a real mess here
that ship is in a place known as the port of Teranga it's safe it's nowhere
near the volcano all passengers are completely safe while here on the cruise
ship they'll have no issues whatsoever but again you can see the violent
explosion as the ash just shot up into the sky at unbelievable speed and you
can see here the plume was chasing this one boat as it was a you know fleeing
the area the ash was coming across the ash cloud coming across the water
ambulances everywhere as as people were ferried out of here
it's a real tragedy I wish I could give you more details but this is all I know
these photos are absolutely devastating I'll try to stay on top of the story all
day and bring you updates as I get more thanks for watching and we'll talk to
everybody we'll see you bye for now