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A polar bear was shot and killed after attacking a cruise ship employee who was leading tourists off a ship on an Arctic archipelago on Saturday, officials said.


The attack took place after the MS Bremen cruise ship landed on the most northern island of the Svalbard archipelago, a region located between mainland Norway and the North Pole, the Joint Rescue Coordination for Northern Norway said on Twitter.

The German Hapag Lloyd Cruises company, which operates the MS Bremen, told The Associated Press that two polar bear guards from their ship went on the island and one of them "was attacked by a polar bear and injured on his head."


The polar bear was then shot dead "in an act of self-defense" by the second guard, spokeswoman Negar Etminan told the

Authorities search the coastline, Saturday, July 28, 2018, after a polar bear attacked and injured a polar bear guard who was leading tourists off a cruise ship on the Svalbard archipelago archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The polar bear was shot dead by another employee, the cruise company said.

The worker, a designated polar bear guard, suffered a head injury as he led tourists off the ship and was unresponsive when he was airlifted for medical treatment, Sky News reported. Etminan said the victim did not appear to suffer life-threatening injuries.


According to Hapag Lloyd Cruises, all of its cruise ships traveling in the region are obliged to have polar bear guards aboard.

Arctic tourism to the region has risen sharply in the past few years and is now in high season, as people travel to visit the remote terrain, glaciers, reindeer and polar bears. A Longyearbyen port schedule reviewed by the AP showed that 18 cruise ships will be docking at the Arctic port in the next week.


The animals typically prey on seals, and are known to be "masters of their environment" due to having no natural enemies, according to National Geographic.

Film at 11... 😠

When did you join PETA?

Why do you hate polar bears..?? 😟

Going to be hard to keep bringing the tourist in if the guides are shooting the bears for doing what bears do.

Probably should have stayed on the boat, dumbazzes.

This polar bear was not protecting his home... he was trying to eat a person for dinner...

unlike all the other bears out there, polar bears actively hunt humans as prey... not smart...

I say know your place on the food chain or you will be shown your place on the food chain...

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A polar bear rug would be kinda cool to have... 😟

Super warm too... and you know the ladies are gonna dig it...

Ya prolly.. they pretty much dig me anyways tho.. 😟

Polar bears shouldn't be on a cruise ship anyways.


Burgers on the Lido deck and arts and crafts...necklace making on the veranda!

I blame global warming...the melting glaciers and shorelines reduce the area that polar bears can roam, putting them in closer proximity to humans...

Genesis chapter 1, verse 26... Judgment is in favor of the human.

Amen.

They're welcome to inhabit the Coronado Islands... that would greatly reduce our seal problem, but significantly increase our bear problem.

One or two polar bears would be enough to exterminate the seals...and with so few of the bears, we should be able to fish around them...


unless they like what they see on the boat, after eating all the seals..........[gonzo]

I heard the bear thought it was the new Domino's Hotspot Delivery service dropping off lunch...8-[

Good thing it was a Polar bear. If it had been an unarmed brown (Grizzly) or black bear, it would have caused a media frenzy.

David

Polar bears are people too. 😠 😢

David

Too bad it wasn't a tourist instead of the poor slob taking the tourists to visit a remote location. Better yet, the guy in charge of merchandising on the ship. We just returned from a cruise, road and rail trip to Alaska. I was surprised at the level of merchandising on the ship, as well as stores owned by the cruise line in every port.

We had a great time that included landing a helicopter and a fixed wing plane on a glacier. I don't understand the compelling reason to land and walk around. That said, the snow landing and takeoff with skis on a plane was pretty awesome.

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How do you catch a polar bear?

You make a hole in the ice and line it with peas. When the bear goes in to take a pea, you kick him in the ice hole..!!

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=d> =d>

There's only 25,000 polar bears left on the planet. No one will miss just one.

That's their excuse and they are sticking to it.