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The Viking Sky is a cruise ship owned by the Viking Ocean Cruises company that entered service in 2017.
history
Construction and commissioning
In April 2012, agreed Fincantieri and Viking Ocean Cruises, a memorandum of understanding on the construction of two ships with delivery end 2014 and end 2015. The ship was in July 2012 together with the Viking Star ordered with delivery beginning in 2016 and should under the name Viking Sea are gaining momentum . In May 2015, delays became known, among other things due to delays at the Koningsdam , which was also under construction . Therefore it was decided to finish the ship as Viking Sky .
First the hull of the ship was built in Marghera and transferred to Ancona .
The ship was undocked on March 23, 2016 and delivered on January 26, 2017. On June 22, 2017 was in Tromso in the name Viking Sky baptized .
Average on March 23, 2019
On March 23, 2019, the ship was with 1,373 people on board (915 passengers, 458 crew members ) off the Norwegian west coast on the way between Tromsø in northern Norway and Stavanger in southern Norway, where it got caught in a storm. According to the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, the wind force was sometimes up to wind force 9, the waves were up to eight meters high. Across from Hustadvika between Kristiansund and Molde the drive motors failed at around 2:00 p.m. The ship was not far from the coast and was starting to drift towards them. An emergency signal was then sent. The ship was able to anchor shortly before the coast.
Rescue workers made their way to the scene of the accident with tugs , rescue helicopters and lifeboats . The poor weather conditions made it difficult to tow the ship and also to rescue the passengers who came from the United Kingdom , the United States and fourteen other states. According to the police, there were also two women with German citizenship among the passengers.
In order to help with the ongoing rescue operation, the cargo ship Hagland Captain had also made its way to the crashed Viking Sky after the emergency call . Before the Hagland Captain reached Viking Sky , her engine also failed. Two of the rescue helicopters that were on their way to Viking Sky were then diverted to the Hagland Captain and evacuated the nine crew members of this ship.
With the help of the helicopters, passengers were rescued and flown to the mainland. This turned out to be very difficult and protracted due to the storm and the movement of the ships. The passengers were individually winched from the upper deck of the ship into the helicopter hovering above the ship. In addition, there was the limited capacity of the helicopter, although reinforcements had been sent from Denmark. The next morning at 8:00 a.m., around 400 of the almost 1,400 people had been evacuated from the ship. After around 460 people had been rescued, the evacuation by helicopter was ended. Seventeen of the rescued were taken to hospital, three of them were seriously injured.
On the evening of March 23, it was reported that one of the Viking Sky's four propulsion engines could be started.
The next morning the weather conditions had also improved. At noon it was reported that three out of four engines were working again and that the ship was continuing its journey on its own. To be on the safe side, it was accompanied by tugs. In the afternoon the ship arrived in Molde.
The following trip was canceled. The ship was repaired in Kristiansund until April 3, 2019.
The Norwegian Maritime Authority stated that the cause of the engine failure was that the lubricating oil pumps had failed due to the rough sea and that the engines were then automatically switched off because the oil pressure was too low. In an interim report from November 2019, the investigating authority found that the lubricating oil tanks were only 28-40% full and not, as planned by the manufacturer ( MAN ), 68-70%.
Web links
- Viking Sky cruise ship , data on the ship , accessed March 24, 2019
- Viking Sky at faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish), accessed March 24, 2019
Individual evidence
- ^ Viking Sky launched at Ancona, Hagen sees South America, Asia and expedition cruises as new destinations. March 24, 2016. Retrieved March 28, 2016 .
- ^ Cruise Ship Orderbook. Retrieved September 13, 2017 .
- ↑ FINCANTIERI AND VIKING SIGNED AN MOA FOR TWO NEW OCEAN CRUISE SHIPS. April 19, 2012. Retrieved September 13, 2017 .
- ↑ FINCANTIERI AND VIKING SIGN A CONTRACT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF TWO CRUISE SHIPS. July 12, 2012, accessed September 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Viking Oceans: Viking Sky® Hull Transport to Ancona Shipyard. October 1, 2015, accessed December 15, 2017 .
- ^ Rescue services prepare to tow stricken cruise-ship of Norway to port. Reuters news service March 24, 2019.
- ↑ Cruise ship gets into distress off Norway's coast (Video 00:21) , tagesschau.de, March 23, 2019, accessed March 24, 2019.
- ↑ Evacuation suspended for the time being. In: tagesschau.de. March 24, 2019, accessed March 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Before Norway: After the cruise ship now another ship in distress. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger , March 23, 2019.
- ↑ Section Dramatic: Cruise Ship and Freighter in Distress. ESYS sailing information system - current emergencies at sea, March 24, 2019.
- ↑ “Viking Sky” in distress: evacuation suspended for the time being. In: tagesschau.de , March 24, 2019.
- ↑ Helicopters rush to evacuate 1300 passengers onboard Norwegian cruise ship. In: euronews.com , March 24, 2019.
- ↑ Viking Sky Update. Viking Cruises, accessed March 24, 2019 .
- ↑ "Viking Sky" is up and running again. April 4, 2019, accessed April 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Why the “Viking Sky” got into distress. Die Welt , March 28, 2019, accessed April 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Interim report of the State Transport Accident Commission of November 13, 2019 , accessed on November 28, 2019 (English)
- ↑ Message on ESYS.org from November 25, 2019 , accessed on November 28, 2019 (German)