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The Independent
26-05-2025
- The Independent
Crew member charged after massive container ship ploughed into Norwegian man's front garden
Norwegian prosecutors have charged a cargo ship's second officer with negligent navigation after he allegedly fell asleep on duty and the vessel ran aground, narrowly missing crashing into a home. The ship, the NCL Salten, ran aground shortly before 6am on Thursday. No oil spills were reported, and none of the 16 people aboard was injured. Johan Helberg told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that he'd slept through the whole thing and only woke up when a neighbor started ringing his doorbell. Images show the ship's red and green bow just meters (yards) from Helberg's house along the Trondheim Fjord's coast. 'I didn't hear anything. I was sleeping seven metres from the bow,' he told Norwegian media NRK. 'It was lucky that it went ashore there. Five metres further south, and it would have entered the bedroom. And that wouldn't have been particularly pleasant.' Mr Helberg's neighbour Jostein Jorgensen said he woke up to the sound of a ship on the fjord. 'I looked out the window and saw a boat heading straight for shore,' he told NRK. 'I went out and cawed and shouted and whistled without anything happening.' Mr Jorgensen said he then rushed over to Mr Helberg's house to try to wake him up. 'We woke up to the neighbour loudly ringing the doorbell. 'Haven't you seen the ship?'' Mr Helberg said. The second officer, whose name was not made public, was the navigator on duty at the time of the grounding, prosecutor Kjetil Bruland Sørensen said in a statement. The cargo ship had 16 people on board when it ran aground, NRK reports, and no injuries were reported. Crews on Monday continued to take containers off the ship so it could be more easily removed from the area. NCL, the shipping company, said it was cooperating with investigators.
Arab News
23-05-2025
- General
- Arab News
Helmsman of cargo ship run aground in Norway ‘was likely asleep'
OSLO: The helmsman of a huge container ship that ran aground in Norway just a stone's throw away from a cabin as its owner slept was probably asleep as well at the time of the accident, Norwegian media reported on Friday. 'Only one person was on the bridge at the time. He was steering the vessel, but did not change course when entering the Trondheim fjord as he should have,' the news agency NTB reported. 'Police have received information from others who were on board that he was asleep,' police official Kjetil Bruland Sorensen told NTB. The 135-meter NCL Salten sailed up onto shore just meters from Johan Helberg's wooden cabin around dawn on Thursday. Helberg discovered the unexpected visitor only when a panicked neighbor who had rung his doorbell repeatedly to no avail gave up and called him on the phone. It's a very bulky new neighbor but it will soon go away. Johan Helberg 'The doorbell rang at a time of day when I don't like to open,' Helberg told television channel TV2. His neighbor, Jostein Jorgensen, said he was roused at around 5 a.m. by the sound of a ship heading at full speed toward land and immediately ran to Helberg's house. None of the cargo's 16 crew members were injured, and Norwegian police have opened an investigation. 'We are aware of the police stating that they have one suspect, and we continue to assist the police and authorities in their ongoing investigation,' the NCL shipping group said on Friday. 'We are also conducting internal inquiries but prefer not to speculate further,' it added. Efforts to refloat the ship have failed so far, and the massive red and green container ship remained stuck, looming over the small cabin.
ABC News
23-05-2025
- General
- ABC News
'Bulky new neighbour': Norwegian man wakes to find cargo ship in his backyard
It is not yet known why the ship ended up in the backyard of Mr Helberg. ( Reuters: Jan Langhaug ) A man in Norway awoke to discover a huge container ship had run aground just metres from his fjord-side house — and he had slept through the commotion. For an as-yet unknown reason, the 135-metre NCL Salten sailed up onto shore just metres from Johan Helberg's house in a fjord near Trondheim in central Norway. Mr Helberg only discovered the unexpected visitor when a panicked neighbour who had rung his doorbell repeatedly to no avail gave up and called him on the phone. The 135-metre unexpected visitor came close to striking Mr Helberg's home. ( AP: Jan Langhaug ) "The doorbell rang at a time of day when I don't like to open," Mr Helberg told a local television channel. His neighbour, Jostein Jorgensen, said he was awoken at around 5am local time by the sound of a ship heading at full speed toward land and immediately ran to Mr Helberg's house. Mr Helberg said he got the fright of his life after he woke up. ( AFP: Jan Langhaug ) "I was sure that he was already outside, but no, there was no sign of life," Mr Jorgensen told TV2. "I rang the doorbell many times and nothing… And it was only when I called him on the phone that I managed to contact him." Neighbours came to inspect the new 'bulky neighbour'. Several hours later, the massive red and green container ship was still stuck near the wooden house, waiting to be refloated. "It's a very bulky new neighbour but it will soon go away," an amused Mr Helberg said. None of the 16 crew members were injured in the incident, the cause of which is being investigated by Norwegian police. The sound of a ship heading toward land at full speed woke up a neighbour. ( AP: Jan Langhaug ) AFP Posted 20m ago 20 minutes ago Fri 23 May 2025 at 11:41am
Times
23-05-2025
- General
- Times
Norwegian man wakes to find cargo ship beached in his garden
A Norwegian man woke on Thursday morning to find something blocking his usual scenic view of fjords. Johan Helberg had been asleep when an 135-metre container ship ran aground, narrowly missing his house. The first he knew of it was at about 5am, when a neighbour rang his doorbell after seeing the vessel beach itself in the garden. 'I didn't hear anything,' Helberg, who lives in Byneset, near Trondheim in central Norway, told the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. 'The doorbell rang at a time of day when I don't like to open.' Jostein Jorgensen said the sound of the ship woke him up and that he ran to Helberg's house expecting the noise to have raised his neighbour. 'I was sure that he was already outside,
The Independent
23-05-2025
- The Independent
Norwegian man sleeps through massive container ship ploughing into his garden
A Norwegian man woke up to discover a massive container ship had run aground just metres from his bedroom. The 135-metre container ship ran aground around 5am local time on Thursday in Byneset, west of Trondheim. But Johan Helberg had no idea how close his house had come to disaster until he was woken by a neighbour. 'I didn't hear anything. I was sleeping seven meters from the bow,' he told Norwegian media NRK. 'It was lucky that it went ashore there. Five metres further south, and it would have entered the bedroom. And that wouldn't have been particularly pleasant.' Mr Helberg's neighbour Jostein Jorgensen said he woke up to the sound of a ship on the fjord. 'I looked out the window and saw a boat heading straight for shore,' he told NRK. 'I went out and cawed and shouted and whistled without anything happening.' Mr Jorgensen said he then rushed over to Mr Helberg's house to try to wake him up. 'We woke up to the neighbour loudly ringing the doorbell. He said, 'haven't you seen the ship?'' Mr Helberg said. 'I went to the window and was quite astonished to see a big ship,' he told the Guardian. 'I had to bend my neck to see the top of it. It was so unreal.' The cargo ship had 16 people on board when it ran aground, NRK reports, and no injuries were reported. Local police have started an investigation into the incident, and they told the news outlet there was one suspect. Police have conducted initial interviews with the ship's crew, and on Friday two Norwegian media outlets are reporting the possible reason for the crash was that a person fell asleep. Police had previously ruled out drugs or alcohol as factors in the crash. While the investigation continues, so too does work to move the ship. An attempt on Thursday morning to refloat the ship was unsuccessful, and a second attempt was planned for Thursday evening at the next high tide. Bente Hetland, CEO of the shipping company North Sea Container Line, told NRK that the ship had been in incidents before, but it has been sailing the Norwegian coast for 15 years. Ms Hetland said there had been no previous major incidents that had harmed the crew or the environment. Mr Helberg said he believed it would take some time for the ship to be refloated. 'I am very excited to see how they are going to get this ship off, it will probably require a lot of effort,' he said. "It's a very bulky new neighbour but it will soon go away," he added, the BBC reports.
