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T/I 10:01:00 About 570 tourists from the Royal Viking Sun, a British luxury cruise liner crippled after apparently hitting a reef or rocks in the Red Sea, were brought ashore Friday (5/4) after the liner Viking Sun was towed to Egypt's resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. SHOWS: SHARM EL SHEIKH BAY, EGYPT, 5 APRIL, 1996 DAYLIGHT SHOTS ws sharm el sheikh beach royal Viking Sun at Anchor various royal viking smaller boat tied along side Stern and anchor chain Man gets on board Royal Viking Sun from tender Sign reading Royal Viking and upper deck cabins Passenger walks along deck Sand on beach and tilt up to ship Pan along ship with tug in attendance NIGHT TIME SHOTS Rescue Boat heads to port with passengers on board People wait on quayside Crew getting off boat Luggage being unloaded Passengers helped off boat GV passengers on quayside looking for baggage Interview with passenger Geoff Adams from Palm Springs, California, saying about 10.30 last night the ship gave a big lurch and it looks like we hit a reef. it took on water very quickly and listed badly. we all went to the emergency stations Interview with crew member Jeanette Adams from London saying the captain went straight to the tannoy and we all gave them emergency drills before the trip and they knew what to do Interview with crew member Jerome Dextra saying the ship was off course. there is a big computer on the ship. the ship navigates by one big computer and something went wrong and there is an investigation going on Interview with passenger Bee Rogers from New Jersey saying i was shooting pictures of band playing and when the bump came i am sure it is going to be on my friends tv or my tv i saw them all go down.... nobody was hurt... we didn't know exactly what happened. the captain got up and ran up to the bridge and he kept telling us every few minutes what was going on Interview with Austrian woman passenger in German saying yesterday evening during the show there was a horrible bang all of a sudden and the ship vibrated. we didn't know what was going on. the captain went up to the bridge. we assume that the ship hit a reef. we can't tell exactly. cruise ship at sea listing various cruise ship on reef 3.30 You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/bbdeebd2209a6dc47263fe59a1987db2 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork