Viking Cruise Ship Evacuation

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Viking cruise ship evacuation. After an engine failure and major evacuation efforts the Viking Sky cruise ship safely docked in the port of Molde Norway on Sunday bringing a high-seas nightmare to an end. Local time and stretched through the darkness into the early morning. The evacuation of the ship the Viking Sky began around 2 pm.

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. Norwegian public broadcaster NRK said the Viking Skys evacuation was a slow and dangerous process as passengers needed to be hoisted one. The water is going to rush in and this is it he recalled of the vacation-gone-wrong.

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. Located on the helihoist platform the outside container is built to withstand 100 mph winds for 30 years. Helicopter video from the evacuation of 1300 passengers from the Viking Sky cruise ship off the coast of Norway.

The Viking Sky cruise ship lost power as it sailed toward Stavanger Norway in heavy seas and wind today. 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. VikingSky is now.

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. 0145 I thought this was it at that time. The vessel has been able.

A Viking cruise ship needed to be evacuated over the weekend as engine trouble and stormy weather caused the ship to take on water and. 324 740 AM PT -- The ship has regained some power and. Cruise ship Viking Skys evacuation.