Viking Sky Cruise Ship Disaster

There were about 20 injuries reported.

Viking sky cruise ship disaster. 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. Unfortunately it got itself into hot water recently. 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.

Viking Sky cruise ship arrives in port after near disaster at sea. The blackout of the Viking Sky cruise ship in March 2019 Hustadvika Norway has indicated the vulnerability of ships in harsh environmental conditions the far reaching potential safety implications and tremendous challenges linked with an Arctic emergency response. 500 passengers on board luxury cruise ship Viking Sky airlifted to safety after disaster averted.

This is a longer version of the video that went viral. 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.

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. Almost 500 passengers on board a luxury cruise ship were airlifted to safety after engines failed during stormy conditions. The Viking Sky en route to Norway had almost 1400 passengers and crew on board when it arrived at a port in Norway.

The Viking Sky incident A wake-up call for the Arctic cruise industry. The Aiviq engines were OK but suffered from bad fuel causing all 4 engines to stall. Things were going bad very quickly.

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. It was taken at 158 pm just 5 minutes after the first one. The 227-meter Viking Sky was delivered to Viking Ocean Cruises in 2017.