Norway cruise ship evacuated after engine problems - Can you Imagine Being Onboard?

[mnocket]

It's the Viking Sky and it's pretty scary.

 

 

It was later able to restart one engine and is now anchored about 1.5 miles from land and no longer adrift.

It seems they were actually airlifting passengers to safety.

Edited March 23, 2019 by mnocket

[XBGuy]

Wow.  Thanks for posting.  It will be interesting to follow this.

[mnocket]

Looks like it is now able to move away from coast after coming very close to land.

[Essiesmom]

This is being well covered on the Viking Ocean board

 

 

[babs135]

https://news.sky.com/story/cruise-ships-1-300-passengers-to-be-evacuated-after-engine-failure-11673395

 

Some rather scary videos here.  She was certainly listing

[Markanddonna]

I feel very sorry for everyone going through that experience but wonder: who goes on a cruise to Norway in March?  I would have guessed small cruises serving those countries more like a ferry system, but for Viking to have a cruise there seems like an accident waiting to happen.

[babs135]

7 minutes ago, Markanddonna said:

I feel very sorry for everyone going through that experience but wonder: who goes on a cruise to Norway in March?  I would have guessed small cruises serving those countries more like a ferry system, but for Viking to have a cruise there seems like an accident waiting to happen.

It was a Northern Lights cruise.  

[K32682]

I can imagine being on board.  It would be a grand adventure you could tell all your friends about. 

Edited March 24, 2019 by K32682

[celebrity]

3 minutes ago, K32682 said:

I can imagine being on board.  It would be a grand adventure you could tell all your friends about. 

 

I don’t think the passengers that were seriously injured and in the hospital would call it a grand adventure. 😡

[Nebr.cruiser]

It would be a grand adventure--as long as everything turned out all right; re safety.

[K32682]

51 minutes ago, celebrity said:

 

I don’t think the passengers that were seriously injured and in the hospital would call it a grand adventure. 😡

There are according to reports three seriously injured.  Two of them are a 90 year old man and his 70 year old wife and rough waters do present a greater threat to the brittle and unstable.  Everyone else seems to have survived quite nicely and now have a great story to tell.  

[celebrity]

Oh I see, since they were elderly it’s ok. 

Wow, just wow!!!! 😡

[Aplmac]

37 minutes ago, K32682 said:

There are according to reports three seriously injured. 

Two of them are a 90 year old man and his 70 year old wife

and rough waters do present a greater threat to the brittle and unstable.  

.

Sliding furniture items that aren't bolted down

are one of the greater dangers to personnel.

 

When something weighing 100 pounds

and travelling at about 15 mph slams into you...

that'll be broken/fractured bones (if you're over 70)

or at the very least contusions.

 

If this nightmare ever happens to you, keep a sharp eye out for SFI!

- Sliding Furniture Items

[klfrodo]

22 minutes ago, celebrity said:

Oh I see, since they were elderly it’s ok. 

Wow, just wow!!!! 😡

 No bullying or shaming required.

Poster is entitled to their opinion. I would find it to be a great adventure also.

Sky diving, roller coasters, white water rafting, rappelling from a helicopter are all great adventures.

You can have empathy for those who are injured during these events but still see the adventurous side of things.

[celebrity]

No intent to bully anyone but please don’t compare roller coasters, rappelling, etc to this event. 

Those adrenalin laden activities are by choice. These passengers nor crew didn’t choose this. 

[Bizmark'sMom]

The expedition ships I have been on do have the furniture strapped to the floor. They string hand lines up so people always have something to grab if necessary.  When you see the staff putting all of wine and liquor bottles on the floor in trays - that's your cue to put all of your own electronics on the floor and take some extra bonine.

 

If Viking are going into these seas, they would do well to take a note from Hurtigruten and Lindblad, and modify their ships so that items can be secured quickly.

[K32682]

5 hours ago, klfrodo said:

 I would find it to be a great adventure also.

Sky diving, roller coasters, white water rafting, rappelling from a helicopter are all great adventures.

You can have empathy for those who are injured during these events but still see the adventurous side of things.

 

Being rescued from the heaving deck of a disabled cruise ship by helicopter, slung underneath in the driving rain and high winds until you were lowered ashore?  It would be awesome and a story you would dine out on for the rest of your life.  Imagine telling that story at the MDR table on your next cruise.  LOL. 

 

[Corby114]

Latest report stated that the ship was able to restart three of the four engines and were being escorted back to Molde, Norway by three seagoing tugs. The next scheduled sailing on March 27th is canceled and they hope to make all necessary repairs as soon as possible. Company is also refunding all passenger fares on this sailing and the March 27th scheduled voyage. Captain must have thought that there was a possibility that the ship would have hit the rocks along the shoreline and be a total loss. Thankfully the ship makes it way back to Molde soon and the injured passengers and crew are taken care of.

[Kartgv]

For anyone wanting more information, there's a thread with at least 29 pages of posts on the Viking Ocean board.    Posters include people who monitored online reports all night long, as well as actual passengers onboard and other CC regulars who had relatives onboard.    

[lisiamc]

10 hours ago, celebrity said:

 

I don’t think the passengers that were seriously injured and in the hospital would call it a grand adventure. 😡

 

About 20 people were injured, according to the last news report I read, and it didn’t say how many of those required hospitalisation.  That’s not as bad as it might have been, thankfully.  For the rest, it will certainly make quite a story to tell!

[hallux]

Not shaming anyone, but I had to laugh at the guy who was on the ship on the news talking about how a wave crashed through a window and a bulkhead and said "it was like the Titanic".  Dude looked GREAT for being 117+ years old!

[4x4bob]

Wonder how many on that ship did not want to go to the muster drill,  at the drill talked to their neighbor, played games on the their I-Phone, took a little nap?  

[SRF]

On 3/24/2019 at 9:41 AM, celebrity said:

No intent to bully anyone but please don’t compare roller coasters, rappelling, etc to this event. 

Those adrenalin laden activities are by choice. These passengers nor crew didn’t choose this. 

 

You don't know why the poster rappelled out of a helicopter.  It might not been by choice (other the overall choice of profession).

 

I agree it would a great adventure to tell stories about for years.