on Sunday afternoon could the cruise ship ‘Viking Sky’ long sail safely into port, after a 26-hour-long drama on the high seas around the Hustadvika, where the ship’s four engines stalled in the middle of a storm.
The strong wind pushed the ship and its more than 1300 passengers, who on Saturday was a mere 100 metres from that encounter because near dangerous rocks.
the Whole of Denmark sejlerfamilie also have experience with the area off the coast of Norway, where the ‘Viking Sky’ was in trouble. It tells Mikkel Beha Ericsen, who along with his wife, Marian Midé-Andersen, sailed in the water as late as in the autumn.
– As we sailed exactly where he (the captain, red.) lay at anchor, it was my wife and I and talked about what we would do if the engine went out.
– It was really nerve-racking. I stood with butterflies in my stomach, when I sailed around the area. I thought: ‘Oh!’, says Mikkel Beha Ericsen for tv2.dk.
Mikkel Beha Ericsen. Photo: TV2
He stresses that the area is anything but harmless.
– It is an area where you will sail with the utmost caution. It is an area, which through 1000 years has been known for lots of accidents at sea. The inserts stand up there and testify that it is not an easy place to sail, says Mikkel Beha Erichsen.
He tells that the couple had decided that it would throw the anchor, if the accident was out. Exactly as the captain of the ‘Viking Sky’ did.
Mikkel Beha Ericsen and Marian Midé-Andersen escaped, however, with the terror, and their trip along the coast of Norway will be seen this spring in the program ‘Heading north’.
Ekstra Bladet has tried in vain to get a comment from Mikkel Beha Ericsen.
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In all there were about 500 of 1373 passengers rescued from the ship over the night. Of the evacuees were 13 hospitalized.
on Sunday, the ship was towed by tugs from the port of Molde, where passengers were received with applause and the Norwegian flag.
Late Sunday, said the Norwegian accident investigation board to investigate the background of the ship’s problems.
the Background that we will study this case is based on maritime law. We could see that there was a great risk for the passengers, says Day Lisbeth: director of the aib to VG.
