A cruise ship yesterday in a storm in the problems come for the coast of Norway after the engines out. A large, difficult rescue operation has been launched and is still underway. Over 300 people were in the meantime with a helicopter evacuated. Seventeen of them were injured. Three people are even seriously wounded. Meanwhile, the ship sails again, though very slowly. The nine crew of a second stranded ship near the cruise ship is brought to safety.

According to Norwegian media, three of the four engines of the cruise ship Viking Sky again. The ship with a speed of a few knots course to Molde in Norway. It gets the assistance of two tugs. Three search and rescue helicopters convert meanwhile the evacuations uninterrupted on.

The ship with 1. 373 passengers, among whom were 915 passengers and 458 crew members, came in the problems for Hustadvika, a 20-kilometer-long rocky area for the Norwegian coast known as the most dangerous of the country. In the area of the earth, a storm that creates strong wind and high waves. It is dangerous to engine problems to have in these waters, where many reefs are, said the rescue services.

Injuries

The police of the province of More og Romsdal, in the far north of Norway, said that the Viking Sky yesterday afternoon, a distress signal transmitted. All the crew of the ship, but that might take a long time. The police said earlier that to 01.45 hours the first 230 passengers were on land. They were housed in an emergency centre in the city Brynhallen, about 500 kilometers north of Oslo. Now, at seven o’clock this morning, 338 people have been evacuated, according to the newspaper Verdens Gang (VG). Seventeen of them were injured and were transported to the hospital. Three of them would be serious.

The evacuation of the mainly British and American passengers will be hampered by the bad weather. The waves are six to eight metres high and the wind is blowing hard. On social media images that show how the furniture on the deck from one side to the other scroll and a piece of ceiling on the heads of a few passengers.