Viking Sky Cruise Ship Rescue

Rescue teams were sent to evacuate the cruise ship under extremely difficult circumstances.

Viking sky cruise ship rescue. Accompanied by tug boats the Viking Sky cruise ship has limped into the Norwegian port of Molde more than a day after issuing a mayday call that led to. When the Viking Sky with 1373 people on board sent out a mayday Saturday afternoon after engine trouble stranded the cruise ship in stormy waters off the western coast of Norway rescue services were quickly activated. A cruise ship with engine problems sent a mayday call off Norways western coast on Saturday then began evacuating its 1300 passengers and crew amid stormy seas and heavy winds in a high-risk helicopter rescue operation.

1373 passengers and crew are being rescued from the Norway cruise ship Viking Sky which is stranded in stormy seas. The Norway team quickly deployed search-and-rescue teams who safely airlifted 470 people including 17 wounded even as the ship was tossed amid 25-foot waves and was in. Updated at 212 pm.

Investigators from three countries are today continuing to piece together the weekend events that led up to the dramatic rescue of 1300 passengers and crew from the Viking Sky which was hit by huge storms in Norway and lost power in all four engines. Passengers are helped from a rescue helicopter in Norway after being rescued from the Viking Sky cruise ship. Over the weekend Viking Sky a cruise liner off the coast of Norway issued a mayday distress signal after losing power during a brutal storm stranding 1373 people aboard the embattled ship.

Cruise ship rescue. A cruise ship Viking Sky drifts towards land after an engine failure Hustadvika Norway March 23. The Norway team quickly deployed search-and-rescue teams who safely airlifted 460 people including 17 wounded even as the ship was tossed amid 25-foot waves and was in danger of.

The Norwegian public broadcaster NRK said the Viking Skys evacuation was a slow and dangerous process as passengers needed to be hoisted one by one from the cruise ship. Britons tell of FRIGHTENING airlift from Viking Sky off Norway coast TWO Britons have described the frightening experience of being airlifted from a cruise ship. Svein Ove Ekornesvag Norways Joint Rescue Coordination Centre stepped up.

Regarding the helicopter rescue operation the Norwegian Search and Rescue SAR contacted the company CHC at 1400 immediately upon receiving the mayday from Viking Sky. Passengers rescued from the Viking Sky cruise ship are helped by emergency services in Hustadvika Norway Saturday March 23 2019. The 2017-built MS Viking Sky cruise ship is the third in a series of 10 identical vessels built for Viking Ocean CruisesThe sisterships are named Viking Star 2015 Viking Sea 2016 Viking Sun 2017 Viking Orion 2018 Viking Jupiter 2019 Tellus and Venus 2021 Neptune and Mars 2022.