Passengers were heading home after the MV Clipper Adventurer ran aground on a voyage from Port Epworth to Kugluktuk, Nunavut. (Courtesy of Adventure Canada)

A Winnipeg folk musician is home after being on an Arctic cruise ship that ran aground last week.

Nathan Rogers was aboard the MV Clipper Adventurer bound for the Northwest Passage when it ran aground Friday on an uncharted rock off the Nunavut coast.

No passengers were hurt, but they were forced to stay on the ship until Sunday, when a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker arrived to ferry them to Kugluktuk. The coast guard said there were 128 passengers aboard.

Rogers, who was providing entertainment on the ship, was on deck talking to people about music when the boat hit the rock.

"There was this absolutely resounding shuddering crash followed by a grinding … a really, really deep low grinding that lasted for oh, about five seconds and then there was a shuddering and the ship tilted to its left," he said.

Musician Nathan Rogers said the crew of the MV Clipper Adventurer kept panicked passengers calm. (nathanrogers.ca)

Rogers has nothing but high praise for the crew of the ship and how they handled the incident.

He said a number of people on board started to panic but the crew did everything they were supposed to in order to keep them safe.

"The passengers … were fearful as to what was going on but the crew wasn't. They were at their stations. They were doing what needed to be done," Rogers said.

The crew told passengers exactly what the condition of the ship was in and that they weren't in danger of sinking, he said, crediting them with keeping everyone calm.

The ship remains stuck off the Nunavut coast and its owners have sent in a crew to assess the situation, according to Cedar Bradley-Swan, co-owner of the vacation company Adventure Canada, which charters the ship from a private owner.