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Safe in the end. 1,300 passengers are being rescued from a Norway cruise ship stranded in stormy seas. Get the latest updates on the rescue operation in our LIVE COVERAGE. People were thankful that interactive news is such a thing. They are constantly being updated about the whereabouts of the boat and situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFmz16TrehA

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Passenger Rodney Horgen, a Minnesota resident, told the AP that he was a weathered fisherman and had never experienced anything like the conditions aboard the Viking Sky.
Horgen said a six-foot wall of water broke through a door and windows and swept fellow passengers, including his wife, Judie Lemieux, 30 feet across the floor. “That was the breaker. I said to myself, ‘This is it,’” Horgen told the AP. “I grabbed my wife, but I couldn’t hold on. And she was thrown across the room. And then she got thrown back again by the wave coming back.” Coming to terms with the force and temperature of the water — and what it would do to a person tossed overboard — was “very, very frightening,” Horgen said. “You would not last very long,” he said.
The trip was a pilgrimage of sorts for Horgen, who was looking forward to visiting the home of his ancestors.
The cruise was scheduled to pass through the Norwegian towns of Narvik and Bodo, and the cities of Alta, Tromso and Stavanger, before docking in the British port of Tilbury on the River Thames on Tuesday. Passenger Janet Jacob told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that she was among the first groups of passengers to be evacuated by helicopter. The strong winds were “like a tornado,” she said, and she prayed “for the safety of all aboard.” Experiences like this are terrifying, you have never experienced something like this and you don't know what to expect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/24/passengers-recount-harrowing-hours-aboard-stranded-cruise-ship-facing-foot-swells-off-norway-coast/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b3dc4c36258d

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The weather was so bad during the mayday call that helicopters were the only solution to getting passengers off this cruise ship. They worked hard and efficiently to rescue everybody off the ship, making hundreds of trips. Norway's Joint Rescue Coordination Center stepped in, sending in five helicopters. Passenger Alexus Sheppard told the AP that people with injuries or disabilities were winched off the cruise ship first.  Janet Jacob, among the first group of passengers evacuated to the nearby town of Molde, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that the winds felt "like a tornado" and prompted her to start praying for everyone on the ship.

"I was afraid. I've never experienced anything so scary," she said. "We saw two people taken off by stretcher," passenger Dereck Brown told Norwegian newspaper Romsdal Budstikke. "People were alarmed. Many were frightened but they were calm." Viking Ocean Cruises, the company that owns and operates the ship, said 20 people were injured and received treatment at medical centres.

The airlift evacuation went all through the night and into Sunday morning, slowing for a bit when two of the five rescue helicopters had to be diverted to save nine crewmembers from a nearby ailing cargo ship.

In all, 479 passengers were airlifted to land, leaving 436 passengers and 458 crew members onboard, the company said, when the Viking Sky's captain decided on a new plan.

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The Weather network posted an article abut the incident, talking about how bad the winds were the day of the event. While the evacuation was ongoing, the same difficult weather that worsened the ship's predicament made for a difficult rescue. Rescue teams were forced use helicopters to access the ship making the evacuation process a "slow and harrowing one," as each passenger must be hoisted from the ship aboard one of five rescue helicopters. The evacuation was treated as a race against time, in an area of the famously rocky Norwegian coast that has been called a "shipyard cemetery." One fisherman judged the ship's plight as "just minutes before this could have gone really wrong," the BBC reports. The ship could have hit the rocks "if they had not started the engine and fastened the anchor."
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/norwegian-cruise-ship-viking-sky-evacuates-1300-passengers-in-rough-seas-helicopter-rescues

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Global News put out a report about the incident. It stated, 15 Canadians rescued from stranded Norway cruise ship, 1 injured. Fifteen Canadians were among the roughly 900 passengers and crew who were rescued from a cruise ship stranded in the Norwegian Sea, with one of the Canadians injured in the ordeal. “Global Affairs Canada is closely monitoring the situation off the coast of Norway and is aware of 15 Canadian citizens that were on board at the time of the incident,” a spokesperson for Global Affairs told Global News. “Canadian officials are in contact with local authorities and are providing consular assistance to a Canadian citizen who has been injured.” Its terrifying to think that this is so close around us. Canadians were injured on this boat among 1000 other people.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5090784/norway-cruise-ship-canadians/

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About 1,300 passengers and crew are being evacuated from the Viking Sky cruise ship off Norway after the ship sent a distress signal because of engine problems in bad weather, officials said. There are so many pictures and video circulating, but this one I felt had importance. The reason the ship called mayday is because they were coming to close too shore, and their would have been issues with rocks and the engines were failing, nothing was going according to plans. I want to share this picture because it is surreal how closely you can see the cruise ship from shore and their is islands in the midst before it.
https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1109533370525122561

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Lauren Skipp posted an article saying “It was like the Titanic”: Hundreds airlifted to safety after battered cruise ship issues mayday call - USA TODAY

A passenger from the ship Carolyn Savikas of Pennsylvania described the terror to Norway's VG newspaper, saying she heard a "terrible crash" and the ship rocked. Water raced in.
"We were in the restaurant when a really huge wave came and shattered a door and flooded the entire restaurant," she said. "All I saw were bones, arms, water and tables. It was like the Titanic – just like the pictures you have seen from the Titanic."
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=cruise%20ship&src=typd

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I want to share posts from people on Twitter that weren't actually on the cruise ship, because I think deep down everyone feels the same way about incidents like this happening. Mariah Leonard said "OH MY GOD... The videos of this cruise ship in Norway... I think I would have legitimately died from stress. I have a water/boat phobia (but actually) and everyone is so calm on that boat as it nearly capsizes and I’m TRULY amazed." I couldn't agree more with what she said. After watching a movie like the Titanic and seeing what happened to everyone on such a big boat, going on vacation on a boat doesn't seem like much of a vacation to me. And every word she said is true, the videos that were shown, everyone is sitting patiently to be the next group of people to be taken off the boat. I would be terrified.
https://twitter.com/search?vertical=news&q=norway%20cruise%20ship&src=typd

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This article talks about how Coast guard official Emil Heggelund estimated to newspaper VG that the ship was 100 meters (328 feet) from striking rocks under the water and 900 meters (2,953 feet) from shore when it stopped. No other articles really tell you why the ship called mayday, we know that they were getting close to shore but didn't know why that was such a problem. Police said the crew, fearing the ship would run aground, managed to anchor in Hustadvika Bay so the evacuations could take place. They had helicopters come in to take people as the waves were so bad t was unsafe for people to take boats off the ship.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/03/24/tugs-tow-norway-cruise-ship-after-463-rescued-17-injured/23699291/?fbclid=IwAR0HppfWRLLKZpRg1lhW3rBhqw2HOstSIUHEwuLIUGkim9dFo-dNNe6_UdM

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Video posted on social media shows furniture sliding around inside the ship and debris falling from the ceiling as it is hit by waves on the notorious stretch of water, known as Hustadvika.
“We were having lunch when it began to shake. Window panes were broken and water came in. It was just chaos. The trip on the helicopter, I would rather forget. It was not fun,” American passenger John Curry told NRK on Saturday. A lady that was on the ship actually posted the video herself on her twitter account as she was waiting to be rescued. you can see the ships moving a lot, water is gliding across the floor, furniture is sliding around as well.
https://www.joe.ie/news/norwegian-cruise-ship-663011?fbclid=IwAR2-KZ1GGVdiVh8QjGZ1fY5ReoOL1frJ9p_45R7e7_KMAvpNkviHpmCZYy8

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Still waiting for evacuation. #VikingSky #Mayday

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Still waiting for evacuation. #VikingSky #Mayday https://t.co/6EvcAjf5D2

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Still waiting for evacuation. #VikingSky #Mayday pic.twitter.com/6EvcAjf5D2
— Alexus Sheppard 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (@alexus309) March 23, 2019

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Still waiting for evacuation. #VikingSky #Mayday https://t.co/6EvcAjf5D2

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Norway cruise passengers rescued by helicopter after ship’s engine fails

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Norway cruise passengers rescued by helicopter after ship’s engine fails

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Rescue helicopters evacuated more than 150 people from a luxury cruise ship which suffered engine failure on Saturday in stormy weather off the west coast of Norway. The maritime rescue service said the Viking Sky, with 1,373 passengers and crew on board, had sent out a mayday signal as it had been drifting towards land in the Norwegian Sea. The crew was able to restart one of the ship’s four engines and the vessel was at anchor about 2 km from land and the passengers were considered safe although the evacuation was set to continue throughout the night. Some 155 people had been evacuated by 2140 GMT. The sea was very rough and eight of those pulled from the ship had suffered injuries, with three of those considered severe. Passengers were hoisted one-by-one from the deck of the vessel and airlifted to a village just north of the town of Molde on Norway’s west coast.