Viking Sky Cruise Ship Disaster

The Viking Sky incident A wake-up call for the Arctic cruise industry.

Viking sky cruise ship disaster. In March 2019 while operating in the freezing cold waters of the North Sea coast off of Norway the ship became disabled and a frightful rescue effort took place to lift the passengers to safety via helicopter at. Stranded passenger that were rescued by helicopter from the cruise ship Viking Sky are pictured on March 23 2019 on the west coast of Norway near Romsdal. The Viking Sky cruise ship is a statuesque vessel that was built in 2017.

There were no fatalities but 20 people. The 227-meter Viking Sky was delivered to Viking Ocean Cruises in 2017. The Viking Sky en route to Norway had almost 1400 passengers and crew on board when it arrived at a port in Norway.

Viking Sky cruise ship arrives in port after near disaster at sea. Traumatised passengers on board a cruise ship engulfed by a massive storm have recalled the. Viking Sky cruise ship arrives after problems the ship got in the storm outside of Hustadvika at Molde Norway March 242019.

Reading the current reports about the Viking Sky distress I am reminded about the 2012 incident off Alaska when the drilling rig Kulluk ran ashore after its tug Aiviq suffering engine problems. 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 endanger the 1373 passengers and crew aboard. 500 passengers on board luxury cruise ship Viking Sky airlifted to safety after disaster averted.

The Aiviq engines were OK but suffered from bad fuel causing all 4 engines to stall. 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. It was taken at 158 pm just 5 minutes after the first one.

- Emergency services said on March 23. A stricken luxury cruise ship that set sail with almost 1400 passengers and crew on board has arrived at the port after it narrowly escaped a major disaster when its. The vessel eventually was towed to Molde Norway where it arrived Sunday.