The Norwegian Safety Investigation Authority's investigation found the cruise ship should have never left port.
A cruise ship that lost power during a storm off the coast of Norway and nearly ran aground in 2019 avoided becoming 'one of the worst disasters at sea in modern times,' according to a new report looking into the blackout. The Viking Sky was carrying 1,374 passengers when it lost power and became stranded in a notoriously rough stretch of water in the Norwegian Sea.
The agency's investigation 'identified operational, technical, and organisational safety issues that in different ways contributed to the blackout' and called for more than a dozen safety recommendations. Once at sea, the agency said one of the biggest problems was that the ship's crew had never practiced the protocol for how to recover from a full blackout without a standby generator. This meant that engineers 'were not practised in managing' the situation.
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