Norway Cruise Ship Rescue
As Seas and High Winds Cripple the small sail boat.
Norway cruise ship rescue. 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. Janet Jacob among the first group. Get the latest updates on the rescue op.
The rescue operation took place on July 23 2021 in the Mediterranean after the boat was found in distress. 1373 passengers and crew are being rescued from the Norway cruise ship Viking Sky which is stranded in stormy seas. Rescue workers off Norways western coast rushed to evacuate 1300 passengers and crew from the disabled cruise ship by helicopter on Saturday winching them one-by-one to safety as heaving waves.
Norway cruise ship rescue Media caption Footage from on board showed furniture crashing and sliding as the vessel tilted Rescuers have airlifted hundreds of people stranded on a cruise ship off. On the way back from the Caribbean to Tampa on 3312 the Norwegian cruise ship Star was called to rescue a sail boat from the Gulf of Mexico. Passenger Alexus Sheppard told the AP that people with injuries or disabilities were winched off the cruise ship first.
The Viking Sky cruise ship is expected to dock at 430 pm. It was frightening at first. Local time in Molde a port town in western Norway the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre of Southern Norway.
Ntb ScanpixReuters Evacuations were halted while the ship. Some 200 Britons are among those rescued from a cruise ship stranded off the Norwegian coast. Watch the rescue and dan.
They boarded the ship and were provided with medical care and food. Rescue helicopters took more than 475 passengers from a cruise ship that got stranded off Norways western coast in bad weather before the vessel departed for a nearby port under escort and with. Alexus Sheppard a California writer and activist on board the ship shared terrifying footage from on board showing furniture sliding across the floors as the vessel listed from side to side in rough seas.
