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Sixteen cruise ship passengers are looking to make holiday accident claims after the vessel they were travelling on hit an iceberg.
The special cruise ship was in the Arctic Sea when it was hit by ice and huge waves after a glacier 'calved' an iceberg which created huge, dramatic shockwaves and pelted the deck with slabs of ice.
Of the injured, a 31-year-old bank director suffered a fractured skull, a doctor suffered fractured ribs and a law firm director suffered a fractured clavicle and scapula.
Photos taken shortly before and after the incident show passengers standing on the deck of the ship as the iceberg fell. Enquiries are being made into the proximity of the vessel to the glacier.
The tourists are launching cruise ship compensation claims from a Surrey-based tour operator who sold the passengers the £2,495 cruise.
The firm is denying liability for the incident and decisions over the holiday accident compensation amounts will be delayed until liability has been decided at London's High Court in the next few weeks.
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