Viking Sky Cruise Ship Engine Failure

According to the maritime rescue service Viking Sky with around 1300 passengers and crew onboard had sent out a mayday signal as she had been drifting towards land.

Viking sky cruise ship engine failure. After investigating the incident Norwegian Maritime Authority announced today that the cruise ship Viking Sky motors failed because of relatively low oil levels in the engines. The ship was reportedly minutes. Rescue helicopters have been evacuating people from a Viking Ocean Cruises ship that suffered engine failure on Saturday March 23 in windy.

One of the rescue. The Viking Cruises ship - which had 1300 people on board 200 of them British - suffered engine failure and had to be evacuated. Probe opened into engine failure aboard Viking Sky cruise ship 2019-03-26 mediabest Travel Norway breathed a collective sigh of relief on Monday after the dramatic rescue of a stricken cruise ship off its coast but questions mounted about why the vessel chose to sail into notoriously perilous waters in.

On 23 March Viking Sky lost power to engines in bad weather off the coast of Norway. Viking Sky is equipped with four MAN 3244CR engines and manufacturer MAN Energy Solutions has already dispatched a. Rescue helicopters battled severe winds on Saturday in an attempt to airlift more than 1300 people off a Viking Cruises ship that issued a distressed.

It was very nearly a disaster. An investigation being carried out into the loss of propulsion onboard the Viking Sky cruise ship on March 23 2019 has determined the direct cause of engine failure to be low oil pressure. Lars Alvestad the head of Norways Maritime Authority said that low oil levels were the direct cause of the engine failure that stranded Viking Sky over.

Passengers Evacuated from Viking Sky Due to Engine Failure. Rescue helicopters have been evacuating people from a Viking Ocean Cruises ship that suffered engine failure on Saturday March 23 in windy conditions off Norways west coast. The power-plant shutdown was caused by a low level of lubrication oil in the tanks.

On 23 March 2019 the Viking Sky experienced a blackout and loss of propulsion in the Hustadvika area Norway and the ship started to dangerously drift towards shore. Viking Sky cruise ship design and features. The Norwegian Maritime Authority NMA has released a statement on the Viking Sky engine failure saying that the engine failure was directly caused by low oil pressure.