Ship aground in garden near Trondheim, Norway

[ombugge]

A container feeder on her way in to Orkanger run aground early this morning.
Reason for the grounding is not yet known:

Photo: nrk.no

Here is video of the event:

Fanget dramtikken på video: Her krasjer containerskipet - VGTV

Captured the drama on video: Here the container ship crashes
“Absurd situation,” says Johan about the incident. He ended up with a 135-meter-long container ship in his yard.

Her står skipet fast - VGTV

House with fjord view;

Photo: Joanne Fielde

Beside the normal complications, like possibility for pollution etc. in this case they also face another problem; landslide.

– A house with three people evacuated on the recommendation of a geologist until we get a full overview. The area is known for a lot of clay and this landslide can now be linked to tremors when the vessel ran aground, the police reported earlier Thursday.
The landslide is approximately 100 meters wide and eight to ten meters up from the shore.

In an update, they write that geotechnical engineers have finished at the site and that the evacuees can move back.
– It is considered safe as long as the ship is at rest. More surveys of the seabed will be conducted before salvage of the ship begins.

Source: Johan våknet med et 135 meter langt containerskip i hagen: – Vi har hatt veldig flaks
Update:

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– It is very unlikely that we will be able to tow the ship today, says Anette Bonnevie Wollebæk from the Norwegian Coastal Administration to NRK at 7 p.m.
The police and the municipality have asked the salvage company to await the geological assessments.

Police say it is difficult to say when the salvage of the ship can begin. More investigations need to be done.
– Geotechnicians have been requested to conduct further investigations, especially around the boat and out at sea, says incident commander Tone Kristin Reitan.
Surveys have already been conducted in the coastal zone and on land. They consider it safe to live and travel in the area, as long as the ship is at rest.
The evacuees were allowed to move back in at 6:30 p.m. Thursday evening.

The Norwegian Coastal Administration says that there has been some damage to the ship.
There are holes in the forepeak, which is the space at the very front of the ship. There is also damage to some ballast tanks.
There is only seawater in these tanks, which means they do not pose a pollution risk.

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Source: Planlegger berging av containerskip som gikk på land på Byneset i Trondheim – NRK Trøndelag – Lokale nyheter, TV og radio

This grounding has already made it into world news, although there are no casualities and no pollution (so far):

‘It was so unreal’: Norwegian man wakes to cargo ship in his garden

Ncl Salten

Looks like she missed the turn into Orkdalsfjorden and went strait on at abt.16 kts.:

Another case of an overworked OOW on a container feed on a tight schedule?:

Schedule table

Three ports of call yesterday; Svelgen, Ålesund, Averøya.
She left last port (Averøya) just before midnight, with ETA Orkanger 0500

PS> This is a regular along the Norwegian coast, with pilot exemption for the inshore fairway. Crew complement; There were 16 crew members, among them Norwegians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians and Russians, on board the Cyprus-registered ship.

[Jughead]

@ombugge

Reason for the grounding is not yet known:

We can guess.

[Sand_Pebble]

@Jughead

We can guess

??

[Ausmariner]

@ombugge

Three ports of call yesterday; Svelgen, Ålesund, Averøya.
She left last port (Averøya) just before midnight, with ETA Orkanger 0500

I think we can take an educated guess. Poor bastards.

[float]

@Ausmariner

Poor bastards

Propably “human error” indeed, albeit on a fundamental systemic level, not confined to the bridge… Considering the true working hours on feeders with frequent port calls, it is amazing that accidents like this are not much more common.

[Of course, all of this innuendo currently is based on pure speculation, there might have been a technical failure involved after all]

[spowiednick]

You mean Russians ?

[spowiednick]

And technical failure is caused by……..???

The only accident w/o human interventiion was grounding of the Noahs Ark.

Although some claim she could have smaller draft by having wider beam. And that of course is the ship architect job

Not Gods. Just saying

[spowiednick]

Wet dreams You dirty weird man. ?

edited.

do You now know why sometimes you can not make separate comment ???

Now back to what I wanted to post in separate comment but could not.

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Latvian , Ukrainian, Russian mix is a typical Columbia Ship Management dish. They were supposed to separate them in one of their 2022 webinars. Looks they did not.

Speculating : Russian was master and the rest go figure

Switching off conspiracy mode and to historical mode:

The captain was checking on his wife . No all ladies can be Penelopes. Only some

[ombugge]

@spowiednick

Speculating : Russian was master and the rest go figure

The Captain was Norwegian.

Bente Hetland, CEO of the shipping company NCL

• The ship has a crew of 16, and a Norwegian captain. The crew is a mix of Norwegians, Russians and Ukrainians. The ship is loaded with containers containing goods of various kinds, the shipping company says.

Source: Skip gikk på grunn i Trondheimsfjorden - har tidligere gått på grunn i Hadsel - vol.no

From vg,no today:

Photos: Ole Martin Wold / VG
The person on bridge watch has explained that he fell asleep before the grounding.

• Oscar Strom Korsnes
• Stella Bugge
• Ole Martin Wold (photo)

– The explanation of those involved on board is that he probably fell asleep, confirms prosecutor Kjetil Bruland Sørensen to VG.
Sørensen says that the man, who has the status of a suspect, has explained that he was alone on board the bridge when the grounding took place.
– He himself assumes that he fell asleep. We have no indication that he discovered that anything was wrong before he stood on land.
The suspect is in his 30s and is a foreign citizen. However, he was not the captain of the ship, Sørensen confirms. The suspect also has the rank of officer.

The police still have no suspicion that the suspect was under the influence of drugs, or that he had anything to do with it prior to the incident. They will now obtain both rest and work lists.
– According to the information we have, he went on duty at midnight on Thursday night.
Sørensen says that the police are investigating whether the ship is allowed to have only one person on the bridge, and whether a bridge guard alarm has been triggered.

– We note that the police say they suspect a person after yesterday’s incident, and we are still assisting the police in their work. We are also conducting internal investigations, but do not want to speculate on the cause until the authorities have concluded, writes the shipping company North Sea Container Line in a press release.

The graphic shows the journey of the NCL Salten in the last half hour before it grounded. Video: Marine Traffic

The ship ended up in Johan Helberg’s garden:

Photo: Ole Martin Wold / VG

[Chief_Seadog]

Looks like that garden just grows rocks.

[Kennebec_Captain]

Rock garden.

[Hogsnort]

I would think that the next thing they are going to come up with is an electronic monitoring system that detects lack of eye movement or some other outward sign of the watch keeper drifting off (snoring?). No movement out of the chair or maybe no chairs like some of us old fossils remember.
These days some benevolent shipowners would probably propose a device that shocks the watch keeper into wakefulness.

[Meme.Lord]

Dont say it too loudly but a camera with AI would work best.

[ombugge]

She is not new to touching solid Norwegian pocks:

Same ship ran aground at Ålesund last year – suffered a six-meter tear

The land-based cargo ship at Byneset in Trondheim also ran aground in the port of Ålesund last year.
The container ship NCL Salten ran aground in the Trondheimsfjord on Thursday, but this is far from the first time the ship has had close contact with Norwegian bedrock.
The grounding at Byneset is the fourth accident involving the ship in less than three years.

Several accidents

The cargo ship was actually on its way to Orkanger early Thursday morning, but with the wrong course, it instead ran aground on the rocks at Byneset, a few meters from the wall of Johan Helberg’s house.

The same ship has run aground twice before. The last time was on April 13th last year when it had a so-called grounding in the port area of ​​Ålesund.
– The incident occurred in connection with maneuvering at the quay in Ålesund. The ship got away on its own and suffered a gash of about six meters, but there was no pollution, says communications advisor Kristin Ballantine at the Norwegian Coastal Administration.

In October 2023, the ship also ran aground in Hadsel in Nordland, and in January of the same year it was in operation outside Stavanger due to engine problems, according to VG.

Source: Same skip grunnstøytte ved Ålesund i fjor – fekk flenge på seks meter - smp.no

[ombugge]

He has become world famouse:

Photo: Jan Langhaug / NTB

The whole globe in the garden

Eventually, he was contacted by various media houses around the world.
“Help! I have a container ship in my garden,” wrote the German newspaper Bild . Articles were also written in the New York Times, The Guardian, BBC and so on.

“No unannounced visits, please: Container ships appear in the yard,” writes TradeWinds .

– And then there was a friend who posted on Facebook that this had been reported in France, in Bangkok, in Vietnam, he says and continues:
– I also received a message from the states that: “ now you are big on cable TV in the states.”

Historien om Johan og skipet går verden rundt

A salvage contract has been signed:
May 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM News Center Trøndelag

The tugboat company was given the job of freeing the container ship.

The tugboat company has been given the job of towing the NCL Salten, which ran aground at Byneset in Trondheim on Thursday morning.
– We will start work immediately tomorrow. There are many preparations that need to be made, says Ole T. Bjørnevik, general manager of Taubåtkompaniet.
He says they will probably have to spend a week preparing before they can tow away the 135-meter container ship that is parked in Johan Helberg’s yard . The story of the ship has gone around the world .

Photo: Bjarte M. Johannesen / NRK

Among other things, they must unload some containers to lighten the ship. In addition, they must investigate the ground conditions around the ship.
– It’s not a difficult process, but it requires planning and a lot of work, says Bjørnevik, who says that this is a type of job they have done many times before.
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Source: Taubåtkompaniet fikk jobben med å få løs containerskipet – NRK Trøndelag – Lokale nyheter, TV og radio

[spowiednick]

This is simply fascinating

[KemalPamouk]

I hope the cabin owner is charging for moorage.

[freighterman1]

[Sand_Pebble]

@KemalPamouk

I hope the cabin owner is charging for moorage

Then he’d have to post his MARSEC Level on a little sign in his front yard?

[KemalPamouk]

And I suppose get a TWIC card reader.