{"id":278,"date":"2019-03-25T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimejournal.nfdtesting.uk\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2019\/03\/25\/stricken-viking-sky-rescued-off-norway\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:12:40","slug":"stricken-viking-sky-rescued-off-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2019\/03\/25\/stricken-viking-sky-rescued-off-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Stricken Viking Sky rescued off Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 228.2m long Viking Ocean Cruises vessel, which was enroute to Stavanger from Tromso, sent out a distress signal after losing power and drifting towards land, reported the <em>BBC<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Viking Sky<\/em> has four MAN 32\/44CR series main diesel generators: two 9-cylinder engines rated at 5,040 kW (6,760 hp) and two 12-cylinder engines producing 6,720 kW (9,010 hp) each.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>AirMed&amp;Rescue<\/em>, rescuers from CHC Helicopter working on behalf of the Norwegian Coast Guard successfully carried out the evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>Five helicopters were dispatched to rescue nearly 500 people amidst waves 6-8m high, according to the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, said <em>The Maritime Executive<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Several lifeboats also attended but were forced to turn back due to the poor weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Two helicopters were diverted to rescue the crew of the cargo ship <em>Hagland Captain<\/em>, which had been going to the aid of <em>Viking Sky<\/em> but also suffered an engine failure.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 100m from shallow water near the shore, crew managed to restart at least one of the engines and move the vessel further out before anchoring.<\/p>\n<p>With just under 1000 more passengers and crew onboard, the vessel was taken under tow to the Port of Molde using several tug boats.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor English, an engineer and technical author, told the <em>BBC<\/em> that while vessels such as the Viking Sky have four engines, &#8220;it&#8217;s possible for components to break that could cause the entire power system to fail&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWhat makes this event unique is the storms. In many cases, if engines are lost, they can be restored quickly with no issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While one engine on the Viking Sky was soon restored, the storms made the lack of propulsion especially dire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By Rebecca Jeffrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cruise ship Viking Sky has been evacuated by helicopter off the Norwegian coast after suffering engine problems alongside high seas caused by a storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-key-deals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}