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Mr Horgen was one of those winched off the ship by helicopter in the dark of night as the wind howled around rescue workers trying to.

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Multiple ships and an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter were involved in the search according to Coast Guard officials. Svein Ove EkornesvagSome 20 injured passengers were taken to hospital Viking. ABC News ABC Norwegian rescue helicopters airlifted passengers from a cruise ship off the coast of Norway after the ship lost engine power amid strong winds and heavy seas.

Port since the coronavirus pandemic sailed away on Saturday with nearly all vaccinated passengers on board. Rescue teams with helicopters and boats were sent to evacuate the cruise ship under extremely difficult circumstances including gusts up to 38 knots 43 mph and waves over 8 meters 26 feet. Rescue helicopters had to airlift more than 1300 people from the distressed ship.

A helicopter rescue mission will be launched today as a last-ditch effort to evacuate passengers from a ship caught in thick ice off the coast of Antarcita for close to a week. The Hunter regions rescue helicopter was dispatched to the Diamond. Norway breathed a collective sigh of relief on Monday after the dramatic rescue of a stricken cruise ship off its coast but questions mounted about why the vessel chose to sail into notoriously perilous waters in a storm.

The most sensational rescue operation of the weekend saw a CareFlight helicopter winch a critically sick man from a cruise ship that was stopped 200 kilometres off the Australian mainland before. Her captain and some of the crew were convicted of negligence for fleeing the ship without helping the passengers who were subsequently rescued thanks to the efforts of the ships entertainers. Disease scare sparks cruise ship rescue.

Rescue workers off Norways western coast rushed to evacuate 1300 passengers and crew from a disabled cruise ship by helicopter on Saturday winching them one-by-one to safety as heaving waves. CRUISE SHIP CHAOS. She and her husband had set out to see the Northern Lights.