The Cruise ship Viking Sky with engine problems near the coast at Hustadvika being evacuated by helicopter: [image] Passengers airlifted from Norway cruise ship Hundreds are being airlifted from the cruise ship, which suffered engine problems in choppy seas. N…

My guess is in this situation using the engine just to keep the head in the wind would be sufficent to reduce the strain on the ground tackle. One risk on a rocky bottom is breaking a fluke. Having diesel/electric in this situation instead of a low-speed diesel with limited starts would be very ben…

The conditions on board the two small vessels that was first on the scene and stayed until the end must have been horrendous. Here the tug Vivax: [Vivax-0002-790x526] And Coast Guard vessel KV Njord: [image] The Njord sustained minor damages due to being hit by a freak wave during the operatio…

Latest re: Viking Sky: Nothing about their destination yet.

[image] Pilot16: So my thought is, was this ship in such dramatically rough weather, ALL her engines failed for the same reason at the same time? [image] Pilot16: I can’t comprehend that this is the real reason, given the well publicized causation after the El Faro event. Or did everyone …

[image] Dutchie: This is all theory. It all depends on the prevailing conditions during an emergency such as the weather and sea condition, in case of flooding the list of the ship which could prevent life boats from being lowered, fire, black outs and not to forget panic. It is probably for thi…

[image] ombugge: Nothing about their destination yet. As per the website: All scheduled sailings for the Viking Sky will be operating as planned from April 6. https://www.vikingcruises.com/oceans/my-trip/current-sailings/index.html So that I would think this is Copenhagen to Amsterdam as p…

Topic is the Viking Sky incident and it is suggested that there was a lubrication oil problem. All engines stopped, ship drifted, nobody died, etc. The proximate cause of the incident is still not known. Design fault that could not have been spotted by due diligence? Crew negligence? Heavy weather?…

Thanks for that. Excellent clarification. Ive read a lot of conflicting comments since the event. I have NEVER seen this installation on such a ship, usually this kind of thing is “media worthy” and I have seen nothing. Especially since she is relatively new. However, maybe this sheds some light on…

Excellent technical response, I appreciate the time in noting all your questions , too. Many are the same I have rolling around in my head. As you imply, this could not have happened so ‘suddenly’ and without warning or at least a history of happening before (alarms going, yes, ok, hit the “ack” but…

[image] Pilot16: The manual you refer to, is obviously going to be scrutinised (I would think) by so called regulating authorities and to see whether the watch engineers onboard were attending to engines “in accordance to the instructions”…at least as much as the instructions told them what to d…

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