“Everything was breaking, furniture, glassware. The closet doors were banging back and forth. When we got the signal to evacuate, there was no time to think about getting important things like passports,' Susan Dollberg, a passenger on the Viking Sky, said.
A day after two rescue missions were mounted to assist a stranded cruise ship and a cargo freighter off Norway's western coast, passengers on board the Viking Sky have told of the experience being caught in a storm that generated waves measuring up to 26-feet in height and wind gusts of up to 43 mph.
Horgen was one of approximately 479 passengers airlifted from the deck of the ship when the swells proved too dangerous for smaller vessels to reach the luxury liner. One by one, passengers were lifted by a wire into waiting helicopters that carried them to shore. “Everything was breaking, furniture, glassware. The closet doors were banging back and forth. When we got the signal to evacuate, there was no time to think about getting important things like passports," passenger Susan Dollberg of Novato, Calif. told Norweigan broadcaster NKR, The New York Times reported.
In a video filmed by California author Alexus Sheppard, ceiling tiles fell from the roof and struck at least one passenger. Sheppard told the AP that individuals with disabilities or injuries were evacuated from the ship first. The cruise ship Viking Sky, that ran into trouble in stormy seas off Norway, reaches the port of Molde under its own steam on March 24, 2019. - Escorted by tugboats, the Viking Sky arrived at the port of Molde. Nearly a third of its 1,373 passengers and crew had already been airlifted off the ship after it lost power along a stretch of Norwegian coastline notorious for shipwrecks.
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