A cruise company has instructed roughly two hundred passengers on the Odyssey to leave the ship. The vessel had departed from Ireland two years earlier and is now stranded off the coast of Cambodia. The company says the decision is forced by a dramatic rise in fuel prices. It reports that the cost of fuel has increased about threefold since the beginning of the United States conflict with Iran. Passengers are being asked to disembark while the ship remains unable to continue its itinerary. The situation highlights the financial strain that geopolitical tensions can place on long-distance cruise operations.