Cruise line CEO apologizes after Viking Sky’s engines fail in rough seas

40 thoughts on “Cruise line CEO apologizes after Viking Sky’s engines fail in rough seas”

1. Every body got a free ticket on another cruise for a week on a bigger boat

2. American ship American company.

3. The funny thing here is some of those helicopters involved in the rescue had to go rescue another ship that also suffered engine failure. Why the Engineers fail to do their checks is beyond me. I guess these companies are more interested in saving $$$ instead of worrying about quality.

4. People think humans are not subject to the sea and what it can do. What a bunch of morons.

5. People, this is quite normal weather in the northern North Sea. The question is not why the decision was taken to sail but how it is possible on a diesel electric vessel with a very high grade of redundancy that three out of the four power generating engines shut down due to having not enough oil in the sump tanks. Especially when the fourth engine is out of service due to maintenance of the turbo charger. To me it seems that keeping the oil volume in the sump that low is a commercial decision. Any engineer knows that a low volume of oil is not smart technically and that sloshing will occur. Sloshing at a low oil volume will very easily cause a loss of oil pressure in the engines due to a loss of suction of the lubricating pumps. Unfortunately we see more and more of these decisions in the shipping industry. Captains, Chief engineers and officers are overruled by managers and even class bureaus can't be taken seriously anymore.

6. Official weather station nearby tells of windgusts up to almost 90 mph that day. Significant waves of 44 feet. (Heidrun offshore oil rig) The largest waves an additional 10 – 15 feet. (wind: https://www.yr.no/en/statistics/graph/5-62480/Norway/M%C3%B8re%20og%20Romsdal/Sand%C3%B8y/Ona?q=2019-03-23 )

7. The oil reservoirs for the four engines were as low as 28% of capacity (no doubt to save weight an thus cost). As the oil sloshed in reservoirs, the outlets were uncovered the oil pressures dropped and the engines automatically shutdown sequentially each for the same reason. Engineers transferred oil from one engine’s reservoir and a replenishment reservoir and divided to the other three engines which resulted in the eventual restart of three engines. The Viking Sky came within a ship’s length of the rocks and passed within meters of submerged shoals.

8. Why did they cancel the next trip ? I mean the ship works just fine

9. The major question should be this: What on god's green earth promted the captain to pass hustadvika in bad weather?
   Rule #1 at sea: NEVER pass over Hustadvika in bad Weather.
   Rule#2 If you MUST be stupid and pass Hustadvika in bad weather for god's sake hold on to your beer.

10. k man k man k man k man k man

11. They were confident to sail even the weather was very bad because the cruiser is recently built but guess what! No one can beat Mother Nature.

12. Am I the only one that heard that they are from Nevada, California ?😂 at 1:10

13. Mother nature bitch – mother nature

14. They wanted that money at any cost. Cruise line money to them is more important then passengers lives. They wait until it breaks to do something about it. Sorry isn’t good enough CEO. These people make it possible for you to have a cruise ship in the first place. Safety should have been cruise lines first concern and not the money.

15. What was the point including those two old peoplein this segment? what did they say that had any importance whatso ever?

16. Such good management judgement!
    $'s or common sense……….what could go wrong………humm?

17. And that’s why I will never go on a cruise because there is always a fire 🔥 or the engines not working!!! I’m not drowning in the sea 🌊!! Glad the coast guard helped but I am not taking that chance!

18. Check the oil!!!!

19. Americans love to over dramatize things.. Make things appear so dramatic and life threatening, when they weren't at all. You lot survived? Well there ya go. Stop ya bitching. All of you will end up going on another one, so stop complaining.. 🙄🙄🙄

20. 36 bruised and fractured on the Viking sky. 1500 dead on the titanic. That was the real doomed voyage. R.i.p to the people who lost their lives on the r.m.s titanic.

21. 600 Americans who cares the other 600 must be irrelevant 😂😂😂😂

22. New ship. 😂

23. Not everyone was panicking and losing their mind. I'm sure many found it to be an interesting experience. Knowledgeable people would have know the chance of dying was pretty slim. Then again, I'm an adrenaline junkie. Glad everyone is ok though

24. Welcome to Norway…

25. It was not a "doomed" ship. A doomed ship was the Titanic, not the Viking Sky. ABC once again needs to make bad news even worse.

26. I mean you can’t do anything about that though. Besides checking the weather beforehand. Hopefully nobody got sued behind this cause thats tuff.

27. Youll never get me on a boat

28. Can I buy that ship in an auction due to water damage?

29. The liars club of Tel Aviv would like to thank all of you for your participation. Unfortunately, they can not. I can not either. Go blow a menorah.

30. People think like the Captain can choose not to sail the ship.
    Technically, correct.
    But it's not easy. The people from Viking higher up most likely put pressure on captains to keep everything on time and scheduled, to avoid fees like rebooking excursions at ports and port fees, all of which would be costly at this scale.

31. They are rebuilding and giving it a new name….Titanic….

32. Would rather be on a cruise ship when the engines fail than on a Boeing 737-800 Max !!!!!

33. 1:07 😂🤣 Nevada California

34. Only in Norway moments

35. Who gives a rats ass how the fuck old you are. Why does that matter?

36. 36 passengers were sent to hospital with bruises and fractures.
    The reason why the ship experienced engine failure was due to the fact that the oil pressure became to low among the heavy waves.

37. All these people saying the captain shouldn't have taken off. Weather moves fast and changes fast sure there was a slight risk but it's either that or hundreds of pissed of passengers waiting to take off. Shit happens people, it's nobody's fault.

38. “How could this happen to a new cruise ship?”…uhhh, water is the most powerful thing on this planet…and Mother Nature does NOT play 😳

39. The next titanic

40. The power of Almighty God of Adam and Eve…..Allah….saved the people and the ship…..when I cried for help…..but I see that no one has thanked God of Adam and Eve…..Aĺlah for saving their lives.

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