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Headlines: Elderly lady dies after cruise ship ‘leaves without her’ · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. She was in the first days
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  Speaker 1: of a glorious adventure, but an elderly lady has died
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  Speaker 1: on tropical Lizard Island after allegedly being left behind by
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  Speaker 1: her cruise ship. Queensland Police and the coroner are investigating
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  Speaker 1: the death over the weekend of a woman aged in
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  Speaker 1: her eighties who apparently failed to board her cruise ship,
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  Speaker 1: the one hundred and twenty berth Coral Adventurer. She was
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  Speaker 1: on the first stop of a sixty day adventure that
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  Speaker 1: costs eighty thousand dollars per ticket. Operator Coral Expeditions, which
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  Speaker 1: runs trips to Lizard Island as part of its Cape
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  Speaker 1: York and Arnam Land adventures out of Cairns, reported the
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  Speaker 1: woman missing on Saturday night after the vessel had left
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  Speaker 1: Lizard Island without her. A search and rescue operation was
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  Speaker 1: started on land and sea, and the woman's body was
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  Speaker 1: found on Lizard Island. Coral Expedition's chief executive Mark Fifield
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  Speaker 1: said the death was a tragedy, saying the company was
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  Speaker 1: deeply sorry that this has occurred and was offering its
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  Speaker 1: full support to the passenger's family. The Australian's Queensland reporters
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Elks, Mackenzie Scott and Michael McKenna are reporting unconfirmed
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  Speaker 1: suggestions the lady fell down a cliff. They've also reported
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  Speaker 1: she was on a walk known as Cook's Look when
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  Speaker 1: she told the group she needed to stop. The vessel
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  Speaker 1: apparently then departed without her. Lizard Island's website says the walk,
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  Speaker 1: which is four kilometers three hours return, very steep and
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  Speaker 1: requires medium to hire fitness and agility, was named after
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  Speaker 1: Captain James Cook, who as a lieutenant hiked to the
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  Speaker 1: top of the mountain to establish safe passage for his
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  Speaker 1: ship the Endeavor through the Great Barrier Reef in August
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  Speaker 1: seventeen seventy. Coral Expeditions is owned by NRAMA and is
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  Speaker 1: based in cans We'll have the very latest on that
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  Speaker 1: story as it develops at the Australian dot Com and
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  Speaker 1: allegations of trading sex for business advice, is now facing
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  Speaker 1: and Wise Tech have denied any wrongdoing.