Viking Cruise Ship Evacuation

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Viking cruise ship evacuation. The Viking Sky cruise ship lost power as it sailed toward Stavanger Norway in heavy seas and wind today. 324 940 AM PT -- Viking Sky cruise has finally docked safely in the port of Molde in Norway. Cruise ship Viking Skys evacuation.

Passengers were reportedly being hoisted one-by-one by rescue helicopters from. Local time only 280 of the 1373 people on board. The vessel has been able.

Earlier this year VIKING made a strong market impact with the launch of an all-in-one evacuation kit for technicians working at wind turbine nacelle level once again featuring a special purpose storage unit from JoBird and Skylotec rescue devices. My Mom sent this to me from the ship. In March the Viking Sky cruise ship got caught in a 50mph storm All four of the 47000-tonne ships engines died off the coast of Norway It sparked an emergency evacuation of 500 of its 900.

A study by GP Wild analysing cruise ship operational incidents shows that while worldwide cruise ship capacity grew by more than 415 percent from 2009 to 2016 over that same six-year period the number of operational incidents has trended down with an average of 194 incidents per year prioritising cruise lines safety record ahead of other modes of. Passengers aboard the stricken Viking Sky sat in silence wearing life jackets for nearly 24 hours as emergency officials worked to save the cruise ship from heavy seas an Australian passenger. Located on the helihoist platform the outside container is built to withstand 100 mph winds for 30 years.

324 740 AM PT -- The ship has regained some power and. Hundreds evacuated from cruise ship in Norway. Safety of the passengers not to launch the lifeboats and to keep the passengers onboard and organize a precautionary evacuation by helicopter Lloyd said that.

The evacuation of the ship the Viking Sky began around 2 pm. CRUISE ship Viking Sky had to be evacuated early this morning after it was battered by rough seas off the coast of Norway and suffered engine failure. Odd Roar LangeNTB scanpixAP The Viking Sky cruise ship is seen in rough seas.