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It was “unreal”, but it really happened. Inhabitant of a Norway Fjord saw a ship with stranded containers in his garden.
“I went to the window and was very surprised to see a large ship,” Norwegian Johan Helberg told. “I had to bend my neck to see the top of the ship. It was so unreal.”
The NCL Salten cargo ship was running away just before 5 am on Thursday, after entering the Trondheim Fjord on the way to Orkanger’s western city. When Helberg looked out the window, he saw a 135 meter freighter penetrating your garden at a speed of 30 km/h.
There were 16 crew members, including Norwegian, Lithuanians, Ukrainians and Russians, aboard the ship registered in Cyprus, but no one was injured, nor was oil spill.
What caused this accident? No one knows. Authorities claim that nothing points to it to a proposed episode, and several scenarios are being considered, since Technical Failure to Human Error. There is, however, a suspect identified in the crew.
“Normally, ships turn left or right on the fjord. But it has always been ahead,” added Helberg, who has lived in that place for 25 years. “It was very close to the house.”
Navigation Company Director Bente Hetland said that “incidents like this should not happen and we started an investigation into the causes. Today we are relieved for not being injured, and our main focus is those close to the ship and our crew.” In the late afternoon, the ship had not yet been removed.
