1300 People Evacuted From Cruise Ship

200 Brits were onboard the Viking Sky.

1300 people evacuted from cruise ship. If something goes wrong youll be on your own. Rescue helicopters have begun evacuating people from a cruise ship which lost. Cruise ship off Norways coast begins evacuating 1300 people in stormy conditions.

The Viking Sky cruise ship sent an SOS due to engine problems in bad weather while police reported 1300 passengers would be evacuated by helicopter. Rescuers have evacuated 418 people by helicopter from the Viking Sky cruise ship a day after the vessel was stranded in maxresdefault seas off Norway with 1300 passengers and crew on board. The ships 1300 passengers and crew are being evacuated by several helicopters and ships after Norways sea rescue agency received the distress signal.

By Hayley Halpin Saturday 23 Mar 2019 425 PM. Most passengers had to stay in their cabins until the ship docked early in Australia where police removed 23 people. About 1300 people are being evacuated from a cruise ship off the western coast of Norway.

Cruise Ship MAYDAY in a STORM Viking Sky Evacuates 1300 People in Norway - YouTube. Norwegian public broadcaster NRK said the Viking Skys evacuation was likely to be a slow and dangerous process. On March 23 2019 the cruise ship Viking Sky encountered engine failure on the west coast of Norway near Romsdal.

Rescue workers then launched a high-risk evacuation of the ships 1300 passengers and crew winching them one-by-one up to helicopters as heaving waves tossed the ship from side to side. Helicopters have been deployed to rescue about 1300 people from stranded in a cruise ship off Norway. 1300 people are being airlifted from a cruise ship off the coast of Norway which was left stranded by windy conditions and massive waves Callie Ahlgrim 2019-03-23T191842Z.

Norwegian officials say rescue workers have managed to evacuate about. 1300 passengers are to be evacuated from a cruise ship off the countrys west coast after a mayday call was issued in heavy winds. A cruise ship with engine problems sent a mayday call off Norways western coast on Saturday as it desperately tried to avoid being grounded on the rocky coast.