![]() And when the general alarm sounded it became VERY real,” she wrote in a text. Passenger Alexus Sheppard told the AP that people with injuries or disabilities were winched off the cruise ship first. Norway’s Joint Rescue Coordination Center stepped in, sending in five helicopters. ![]() The ship was within 300 feet of striking rocks under the water and 2,950 feet from shore when it stopped and anchored in Hustadvika Bay so passengers could be evacuated, Coast Guard official Emil Heggelund told Norway’s VG newspaper. Waves up to 26-feet-high were smacking into the ship, making it impossible to evacuate anyone by boat. That was when hundreds of passengers, including Horgen, were winched off the heaving ship by helicopter, one-by-one as winds howled around them in the dark of night, by rescue workers trying to evacuate everyone on board. “That was very, very frightening.”Īnd yet, the scariest part was yet to come. I knew how cold that water was and where we were and the waves and everything. The hands and faces of fellow passengers were cut and bleeding from the shattered glass, he said.Īn experienced fisherman, Horgen said he had never before encountered such rough boating conditions. ![]() Photos posted on social media showed the ship listing from side to side and furniture smashing violently into the ship’s walls.
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