according to a report in the Boston Globe newspaper this week.

The newspaper said the daughter of the ship's master, Capt. Nicholas Aslanis, said he had called her from the ship on Sunday morning and "blamed the accident on human errors in navigation''.

However, the US Coast Guard said the grounding was still under investigation.

The Globe, which featured news of the shipping accident on its front page on Monday, went on to quote a navigation specialist as saying that despite the "sophistication of modern satellite-based navigational systems you still need to have people observing the conditions around them''. The expert added that "people can get electronically fixated and they don't practice the art of navigation anymore, which can be very dangerous''.

The Bermuda-to-Boston cruise ship was refloated late on Sunday night about 24 hours after "inexplicably sailing 17 miles west of the proper shipping lanes and running aground in notoriously dangerous waters off Nantucket''.

There were no injuries to any of the passengers. The $220 million ship was only slightly damaged by the grounding, and there was no immediate danger of an oil spill.

The National Transportation Safety Board, which conducts in-depth investigations of ship groundings, air plane accidents, train derailments, and other such incidents, will be immediately looking into to the incident, the Globe reported. Prompt drug testing of officers and crew members is a basic element in such inquiries, which seek to assess all factors involved and determine probable causes.

GROUNDED -- The Royal Majesty on Sunday after running aground on Saturday night on shoals off Nantucket Island near Boston ---- Boston Globe photo.