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17 reported hurt after river cruise ship hits a concrete passageway on the Danube in Austria

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Seventeen passengers were hurt when a Bulgarian river cruise ship lost steering and hit the sides of a lock on the Danube in Austria, the apa news agency reported Saturday. Eleven of the injured were taken to hospitals.

The ship with 142 passengers aboard, most of them from Germany, temporarily lost power to its electronics system and became unsteerable as it passed through narrow locks at 9:45 p.m. Friday, apa reported.

The ship’s power was restored but not before the bow and stern struck the concrete sides of the lock passage near the town of Aschach, a few miles upriver from Linz.

The ship sustained minor damage and continued to its next port. The cause of the loss of electrical power was under investigation.

'Rogue wave' hits Viking cruise ship, killing 1 passenger and injuring 4 others

One person died and four others were injured after a "rogue wave" hit the Viking Polaris cruise ship while it was sailing toward Ushuaia, Argentina, on Tuesday night, officials said.

“It is with great sadness that we confirmed a guest passed away following the incident,” Viking said in a statement Thursday. “We have notified the guest’s family and shared our deepest sympathies. We will continue to offer our full support to the family in the hours and days ahead.”

The name and hometown of the passenger was not released, but Argentine authorities identified her as a 62-year-old American who was hit by broken glass when the wave broke cabin windows, according to The Associated Press .

The four other guests had non-life-threatening injuries and received treatment from doctors and medical staff onboard.

Rogue waves, or extreme storm waves, are uncommon, unpredictable and "greater than twice the size of surrounding waves," according to the National Ocean Service . They are described as "walls of water" in most reports.

Suzie Gooding, who was on the ship when the incident happened, recalled feeling like they'd hit an iceberg, according to NBC affiliate WRAL of Raleigh, North Carolina.

“Everything was fine until the rogue wave hit, and it was just sudden. Shocking,” Gooding told the news station. “We didn’t know if we should get our gear ready for abandoning ship.”

The ship "sustained limited damage during the incident" and arrived in Ushuaia Wednesday afternoon, Viking said in its statement.

"We are investigating the facts surrounding this incident and will offer our support to the relevant authorities," the company said. "Our focus remains on the safety and wellbeing of our guests and crew, and we are working directly with them to arrange return travel."

The Viking Polaris’ next departure, the Antarctic Explorer cruise scheduled for Dec. 5-17, was canceled due to the incident.

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Evacuation of passengers has ended as cruise ship travels to Norway port

By Eliza Mackintosh and Kendall Trammell , CNN

What we know about the Viking Sky cruise ship

Here's what we know so far about the Viking Sky cruise ship that is evacuating 1,300 passengers and crew:

• It's owned by Viking Ocean Cruises
• It was built in 2017
• It can hold maximum of 1,443 passengers and crew
• It has six engines, four diesel and two electric

Here are the phone numbers for questions about any passengers

The Joint Rescue Centre says the evacuation from the Viking Sky cruise ship is proceeding with caution.

Rescuers are facing waves of about 6-8 meters (roughly 19-26 feet) high, a spokesperson said .

If you're trying to reach someone on the ship, here are the phone numbers:

• US/AU booked guests: 1-888-889-8837
• UK booked guests: 07585 779 853 or 0208 780 7900

This is the scene onboard after a wave crashed into the ship

Passenger Ryan Flynn shared a video on Twitter showing the aftermath of a door being blown in on the Viking Sky.

The Viking Sky ship, owned by Viking Ocean Cruises, was built in 2017 and can hold 930 guests, according to the company's  website .

Norway's Red Cross is starting a "massive" operation to help evacuees

From CNN's Susanna Capelouto

Norway’s Red Cross has started a "massive" operation and mobilized all units in the region to an area close to where a cruise ship is being evacuated, a spokesperson told CNN.

The spokesperson said more than a hundred Red Cross volunteers are working with evacuees. The Red Cross has counselors and other staff available at a gym in the community of Fraena where the evacuees are being taken by helicopter.

He said volunteers are there “for a shoulder to cry on” or for “hand holding” for people from the cruise ship after the evacuations.

From there, the evacuees are being transferred to hotels in nearby towns, the spokesperson said. 

Passenger says she's been waiting almost 6 hours to be evacuated

From CNN's Kay Guerrero

Passenger Alexus Sheppard from Northern California says she has been waiting almost six hours to be evacuated. Most people were fairly calm, she said, and they were being served food and water.

Passengers are getting airlifted one by one

From CNN's Nicole Chavez

Helicopters are airlifting passengers and crew members one person at a time, and the process could continue overnight and through Sunday. 

"We can't say how long it would take," said Borghild Eldoen, a spokeswoman for the Joint Rescue Centre for Southern Norway.

The cruise ship was flooding as passengers waited to be evacuated

People on board the stranded cruise ship tell CNN the evacuation has been slow. Passengers have waited for hours to get off the boat as it was taking on water from the rough sea.  

"Crew is doing a good job. Evacuation is slow. Seas rough," tweeted David Hernandez, who is a passenger on the ship. "One muster station had a door blow in, injure pax and flood. Moved to midship."

Rough sea winds are making the rescue difficult

The ship is in rough seas in the Hustadvika area on the western coast of Norway. The Joint Rescue Centre said on Twitter it is working to get more than one of the ship's engines running.

Flightradar24 is tracking the helicopter rescues.

Five helicopters and a number of vessels are included in the rescue operation.

Rescuers are trying to ensure the ship stays secure and doesn't drift as they try to get the engines working again. Right now, the ship is secured with one anchor.

115 people have been rescued so far

Norwegian rescue officials said 115 passengers have so far been rescued by helicopter from a stranded Viking cruise ship off the coast of Norway.

The Joint Rescue Centre for Southern Norway told CNN the rescue operations will continue throughout the night and into Sunday as the ship had 1,300 people on board when it first sent a distress signal due to “engine problems in bad weather.”

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Cruise Ship Collides With Another Vessel After Getting Caught in Heavy Fog

River cruise passengers and crew were hurt when their ship was involved in a collision with another boat in thick fog early on Sunday morning, according to reports.

Photographs show rooms littered with broken glass and extensive damage to the front of the Viking Kvasir after the incident on Germany's Rhine River, near the western city of Wesel. The other boat involved has not yet been publicly identified.

Shaken guests shared images of the aftermath of the crash online and described how several people had sustained cuts and bruises, while a crew member cooking breakfast in the kitchen reportedly needed medical treatment after he burned himself as the vessel was suddenly shunted by the impact at around 6:50 a.m.

Most of the 190 passengers, who were enjoying a cruise vacation from Antwerp in Belgium to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, had been sleeping as the two boats crashed.

A Florida-based maritime lawyer, who runs the Cruise Law News blog about the shipping industry with the tagline "everything cruise lines don't want you to know," uploaded a detailed account of the incident later on Sunday. Jim Walker, of legal firm Walker and O'Neill, said he received a description of what unfolded from a passenger on the ship who requested anonymity. Newsweek has reached out to Walker.

The guest told the blog: "The first officer was piloting the ship this morning in heavy fog and there was another barge/ship that was apparently sideways (you can see this from the photo taken from one of the balconies) on the Rhine that we hit... Most of the passengers were still in bed and we could feel the ship engines in full reverse for 3-5 seconds and then a massive crash and the sound of breaking glass in our room.

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"There was very limited visibility and shortly after we collided, we saw the other ship perpendicular to our ship and then it disappeared into the fog. One crew member was taken to a doctor for burns (the chefs were preparing breakfast service). Others had minor cuts (mainly from picking up LOTS of broken glassware) including in the state rooms. A couple of passengers had minor injuries because they were standing when the ships collided."

Later that morning, the ship's crew hosted a meeting with all the passengers, and the guest described how an official "said it was the other ship's fault, and the Viking ship has video proof of it." The ship's first officer was "overcome with emotion and was applauded by all of the passengers for doing everything she could to minimize and avert the collision," the passenger added.

Don't look under the cover! @VikingCruises covers up the damage to the Viking Kvasir #cruise ship on the Rhine this morning: pic.twitter.com/sO2pkaYBCE — James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) September 11, 2022

Police and port authorities were investigating, still according to the passenger, while the captain and technicians assessed the damage to the front of the boat, which, pictures show, was covered by a tarp to hide the unsightly crushed front and scraped-off paintwork. No water was taken on.

The CruiseMapper website, which tracks ships and reports on maritime accidents, reported the collision "resulted in minor hull damages (at the bow/forward, above the waterline), interior damages (broken windows, tablewares, glassware) and minor injuries sustained by two passengers and several crew members. The riverboat was cruising in limited visibility/heavy fog."

A Viking Cruises spokesperson told Newsweek : "We can confirm that the Viking Kvasir collided with a cargo ship in heavy fog near Wesel, Germany, the morning of September 11, 2022. There were no significant injuries among guests or crew. The ship was cleared by authorities the evening of September 11 and has now continued its voyage without further delay."

Cruise crashes are rare, but they can be deadly. In December 2021, a man who had been a passenger on the Costa Concordia cruise ship that crashed back in 2012, killing 32 people, was awarded compensation for his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Ernesto Carusotti was awarded the equivalent of $105,000. The captain, Francesco Schettino, is still serving a 16-year prison sentence for manslaughter, after he brought the ship too close to Giglio Island off the coast of Tuscany, causing it to crash into a reef and tip over.

Update, 9/13/22, 3:03 a.m. ET: This article has been updated with a comment from Viking Cruises.

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‘Wall of seawater’: Viking cruise passengers describe rogue wave that killed one onboard

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Passengers who were on the Viking Polaris cruise ship have described the moments high waves hit the vessel, resulting in the death of one person onboard.

The cruise ship guests spoke to ABC News about the incident, which occured on Saturday 3 December at around 10.40pm local time.

A “rogue wave” is said to have cause the death of one American woman, who was later named as 62-year-old Sheri Zhu.

Tamarah Castenada, who was amongst those on board, told ABC’s Good Morning America : "If somebody had told me we had hit an iceberg I would have believed them.”

She explained: “The windows came crashing in, there was this wall of seawater that came in. Beds were being shoved up against the doors so that they were not able to get out of their rooms."

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Another passenger on board during the incident, Beverly Spiker, from California, told presenters that she was in her cabin with her husband when they saw a “huge smash” against the window.

The window was cracked from the impact, she continued, and "a lot of water came shooting in”. She said that they were “lucky” their windows held, and that others nearby were “washed out”.

The cruise ship was sailing to the port of Ushuaia in southern Argentina when the crash occurred, which left four further people injured.

Viking Cruises said in a statement on Thursday : “It is with great sadness that we confirmed a guest passed away following the incident. We have notified the guest’s family and shared our deepest sympathies.”

“We are investigating the facts surrounding this incident and will offer our support to the relevant authorities,” it continued. “Our focus remains on the safety and wellbeing of our guests and crew, and we are working directly with them to arrange return travel.”

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The ship itself had minimal damage, and was able to continue the journey. Other passengers sustained non-serious injuries, said the cruise line.

An investigation was launched by a federal court in Argentina after the crash.

The wave has been referred to as a “rogue wave”, meaning it was abnormally large, and wasn’t predicted in line with usual weather patterns.

The Viking Polaris ship, which is equipped to host up to 378 passengers and 256 crew members, is custom built to withstand weather conditions in the Antarctic, according to the company.

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Rogue Wave Strikes Cruise Ship, Killing a Passenger and Injuring 4 Others

The passengers were hurt after a large, unpredictable wave hit the ship, which was traveling toward the Antarctic, Viking Cruises said.

By Amanda Holpuch

A passenger died and four others were injured after a large, unexpected wave hit a cruise ship traveling toward a popular launching point for expeditions to Antarctica, Viking Cruises said.

The ship, the Viking Polaris, was struck by a “rogue wave” on Tuesday at 10:40 p.m. local time while traveling toward Ushuaia, Argentina, which is on the southern tip of South America, Viking Cruises said in a statement .

Viking Cruises did not say how the passenger was killed or provide the passenger’s name. The four passengers who were injured were treated by onboard medical staff and had non-life-threatening injuries, Viking Cruises said.

A State Department official said that a U.S. citizen died and that the department was offering consular assistance to the person’s family.

Rogue waves are unpredictable, typically twice the size of surrounding waves and often come from a different direction than the surrounding wind and waves, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . Scientists are still trying to figure out how and when these uncommon waves form.

Ann Mah, of Topeka, Kan., told the news station WIBW that she and her husband were on the ship when it was hit by the wave and that it was “just like your whole house got shook really hard.”

“I mean, it was just a thud,” Ms. Mah said.

The Viking Polaris was launched this year and was designed for travel to remote destinations such as the Antarctic Peninsula. The ship is 665 feet long and can carry 378 passengers and 256 crew members.

The ship sustained “limited damage” from the wave and arrived in Ushuaia the day after it was struck, Viking Cruises said.

The cruise company canceled the Viking Polaris’s next scheduled trip, a 13-day cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula.

“We are investigating the facts surrounding this incident and will offer our support to the relevant authorities,” the company said.

Tourism to the Antarctic has steadily increased in the last 30 years, with 74,401 people traveling there in the 2019-20 season, according to the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators. Roughly 6,700 people traveled there in the 1992-93 season, according to the association.

In recent years, some observers have warned that the increase in tourism may not be sustainable and that it could threaten visitor safety or disrupt the fragile environment, which is already straining under the effects of climate change.

It is the beginning of the Antarctic tourism season, which coincides with its summer, beginning in late October or early November and usually lasting until March.

The death on the Viking Cruises ship this week comes after the death of two other cruise ship passengers in the Antarctic last month. Two Quark Expeditions cruise ship passengers died after one of the ship’s heavy duty inflatable Zodiac boats overturned near shore, Seatrade Cruise News reported .

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Cruise ship crashes into bridge in Germany, killing two crew

A n investigation is underway to find out why a Viking Cruises river ship crashed into a bridge in Germany.

The accident, on the Viking Freya, occurred in darkness on Sunday morning, on the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal. Two Hungarian crew who were in the wheelhouse at the time of the collision, were killed.

Freya, one of Viking's fleet of Longships, was built with a retractable wheelhouse to allow it to sail under low bridges. 

Apparently the wheelhouse was not retracted at the time of the incident.

“Freya’s wheelhouse collided with the bridge in Erlangen. Two crew members of the ship were in the wheelhouse and died as a result of injuries sustained during the collision,” said a statement from Viking Cruises.

It went on to say “We are heartbroken.”

The company has launched an enquiry to find out what happened and is working with authorities at the scene. 

The ship's 181 passengers were transported to local hotels and no other crew members or passengers were injured.

Freya had embarked on a sailing the previous day and will now be moved for repairs. Passengers were given the option to continue cruising on a modified itinerary, embarking on the Bestla in Passau, or to return home.

The Rhine-Main-Danube Canal, which runs between the German towns of Bamburg and Kelheim transports thousands of river-cruise passengers annually between the Rhine, Main and Danube rivers, was closed yesterday but has now re-opened.

No future sailings are expected to be impacted.

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Passengers on Antarctic cruise ship hit by deadly 'rogue wave' speak out

The Trusdales were passengers on the Viking Polaris cruise ship last week.

Tom and Pam Trusdale were enjoying a bucket list trip to Antarctica , until their trip of a lifetime turned into a deadly disaster.

"It was going real smoothly, and we were only anticipating nothing but smooth going forward," Tom Trusdale told ABC News.

The Trusdales were passengers on the Viking Polaris cruise ship sailing toward Ushuaia, Argentina, when it was hit by a "rogue wave" last week , killing an American passenger, Sheri Zhu, and injuring four others.

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The Trusdales said the wave wasn't the only disaster. The Trusdales and ABC News later confirmed that a day before the accident, another passenger was seriously injured during a Zodiac boat excursion.

"It was a real loud, it was a boom, and I flew up in the air, and the passenger across from me flew up in the air. She came down and hit hard," Pam Trusdale said.

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Tom Trusdale said he saw two passengers tossed into the air from what seemed to be an apparent explosion.

"I saw the woman go, probably about 3 feet in the air, and then the gentleman straight across from me go up in the air, and then roll over into the sea," Tom Trusdale said. "So I went across and leaned over the pontoon, and I just grabbed on to the life jacket. He was face up, so he was stabilized, and I reassured him that, 'Hey, you're safe.'"

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Tom Trusdale said he and another passenger were able to quickly pull the man back on the boat, but the woman's leg was severely injured.

"She said, 'I hurt my legs. I can't feel my leg,'" Pam Trusdale said. " And then I could hear her kind of straining that, you know, I could tell that she was in a lot of pain."

The passenger's leg required surgery, which led the ship's captain to turn back to Argentina. During the trip back toward Argentina, through a known turbulent stretch of ocean, was when the "rogue wave" crashed into the cruise ship.

"This wave hit it and came over and literally broke through windows and just washed into these rooms, and not only did it wash into the rooms, but it broke walls down, and once some walls went into the next room," Tom Trusdale said.

Viking said in a statement on its website that it's investigating the wave incident and is committed to the safety and security of all guests and crew.

Viking issued a second statement about the Zodiac boat incident, saying: "On November 28, the Viking Polaris deployed a small boat with six guests and one crew member near Damoy Point, Antarctica. On this trip a guest sustained a serious but non-life-threatening leg injury while on board the small boat and was taken to the medical center on the Viking Polaris."

"Following a detailed diagnosis by the ship's medical team, the decision was taken for the ship to immediately sail to Ushuaia so that the guest could receive additional medical care from a shore-based hospital," it continued. "The guest is now recovering shoreside in Ushuaia and will then return home; Viking is continuing to support them during this period. We are committed to the safety and security of all our guests and crew, and we are investigating the cause of the incident."

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Passengers with battered bodies and crew members yelling in code sent passengers aboard the Viking Polaris cruise ship into a frenzy in the moments after the liner was smashed by a killer rogue wave, a witness to the chaos said.

“I saw people banged up, bandaged and bruised. One man had stitches across his forehead, another woman had a bandage across her head. Another had a huge lump on their head that looked like he had been beaten up with a baseball bat,” Tamarah Castaneda, a retired firefighter, told the DailyMail.

The ship was traveling in stormy weather through the notoriously treacherous Drakes Passage between South America and Antarctica when a rogue wave hit the boat at 10:40 p.m., shattering several cabin windows.

Castaneda said the wave was so strong that she initially thought there was an internal explosion on the ship. She described the powerful noise as two cars crashing into one another.

Her wife, Deborah Terry said the wave was a “horrendous jolt like the ship had ran into a brick wall.”

The crash was followed by chaos and yelling. Terry said she overheard crew members saying the ship was taking on water. A “Code Delta” announcement was made ordering passengers to stay in their cabins.

Terry and Castaneda were so nervous that the ship was sinking that they began packing a drybag of essential items until an announcement was made that the ship was going to continue moving.

The following day, it was revealed that Sheri Zhu, 62, died after she was struck by the broken glass from a shattered window. Other passengers were battered by the wave, but survived the terrifying ordeal.

The cruise ship had been making its second voyage of the trip through Drakes Passage in order to bring another passenger to a hospital. An unidentified woman had been injured during an excursion in Antarctica earlier in the day, Terry said.

Groups of passengers had been returning to the ship in Zodiac Inflatable Rescue Boats after exploring a landmass on the continent when the weather began to sour. A woman shattered her leg, the couple overheard on a crewmember’s radio, and her injuries were so severe that she required surgery.

“A helicopter couldn’t come in because of the weather and there were no other ships close to us so,” Terry said. “We were told all the other activities were canceled. My wife and I understood but we were disappointed.”

The Viking crew opted to travel back to Argentina, where the liner set sail from, despite the worsening weather. The journey through Drakes Passage had been daunting the first time through, Terry said, but was noticeably more formidable upon the second trip.

The passengers carried on with their vacations, however, confident that the cruise ship could withstand the storm.

“We went to dinner and our glass of wine slid right off the table and shattered,” Terry recalled. “People were dancing and eating and there was no thought there was a catastrophe happening.”

Castaneda and Terry had filmed the massive swells engulfing the cruise ship from their room on the third floor of the luxury liner in the hours before the chaos.

Another video taken by the couple from the ship’s yoga studio shows plenty of white water as the waves churn around the moving boat. Terry estimated that the waves, which were breaking at their window, were approximately 40 feet high.

A passenger who had been in a cabin near Zhu’s told the couple he thought he was going to die when the rogue wave struck.

“The ceiling and walls were collapsing, furniture was flying everywhere,” the man reportedly said.

Viking is still investigating the incident, it said in a statement last week.

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US Citizen Killed When ‘Rogue' Wave Hit Viking Cruise Ship in Antarctic

The 62-year-old woman was hit by broken glass when the wave broke cabin windows late tuesday during a storm, argentine authorities said, by ap and staff • published december 2, 2022 • updated on december 4, 2022 at 10:34 am.

A U.S. woman was killed and four other passengers injured when a massive wave struck the Viking Polaris cruise ship while it was sailing toward the port of Ushuaia in southern Argentina on an Antarctic cruise, authorities said.

The 62-year-old woman was hit by broken glass when the wave broke cabin windows late Tuesday during a storm, Argentine authorities said. The ship suffered limited damage and arrived in Ushuaia, 1,926 miles south of Buenos Aires, the next day.

“It is with great sadness that we confirmed a guest passed away following the incident," Viking said in a statement. “We have notified the guest’s family and shared our deepest sympathies.”

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Neither the statement nor the Argentine Naval Prefecture identified the woman or her hometown.

Viking called it a “rogue wave incident” and said the four other passengers' injuries were non-life threatening.

A North Carolina couple aboard the ship told NBC affiliate WRAL that they thought "we hit an iceberg" when the wave crashed into the cruise ship.

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"There are no icebergs out here, but that's how it felt," Suzie Gooding said.

Gooding told the news station that the impact was "shocking" because it happened so suddenly.

"We didn't know if we should get our gear ready for abandoning ship," she added.

The cruise ship was anchored near Ushuaia, where a federal court has opened a case to determine what happened.

NOAA's National Ocean Service describes these "rogue" waves as "walls of water" that are often steep-sided with unusually deep troughs.

"Rogues, called 'extreme storm waves' by scientists, are those waves which are greater than twice the size of surrounding waves, are very unpredictable, and often come unexpectedly from directions other than prevailing wind and waves," the agency explains.

The company indicated on its website that to explore remote regions of the world they have “two purpose-built, state-of-the-art small expedition-class ships: Viking Octantis and Viking Polaris.”

The Viking Polaris, a vessel that has luxury facilities and was built in 2022, has capacity for 378 passengers and 256 crew members.

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A 443-foot long Viking cruise ship collided with cargo ship with 'no significant injuries'

A Viking cruise ship collided with another vessel over the weekend, the cruise line said.

The Viking Kvasir  – a 443-foot long ship that can accommodate 190 passengers and 50 crew members – collided with a cargo ship in heavy fog on Sunday morning, a Viking spokesperson told USA TODAY in an email. The incident took place near Wesel, Germany.

"There were no significant injuries among guests or crew," the spokesperson said. "The ship was cleared by authorities the evening of September 11 and has now continued its voyage without further delay."

Viking did not say whether passengers aboard the ship would be compensated following the collision.

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The incident is not the first of its kind for Viking. Twenty-eight were killed in a collision  on the Danube River involving the Viking Sigyn ship in May 2019. Another Viking ship, Viking Freya, previously struck a bridge in southern Germany in 2016, killing two crew members, CBS News  reported.

Viking launched its first river ship based in North America earlier this month, welcoming passengers aboard the Viking Mississippi in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on Sept. 3. The ship will sail itineraries on the Upper and Lower Mississippi River between St. Paul and New Orleans.

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Viking Kvasir Collides with Ship On the Rhine River Near Wesel, Germany

“The first officer was piloting the ship this morning in heavy fog and there was another barge/ship that was apparently sideways (you can see this from the photo taken from one of the balconies) on the Rhine that we hit.  It was at 6:50 a.m. this morning Wesel Germany time.  Most of the passengers were still in bed and we could feel the ship engines in full reverse for 3-5 seconds and then a massive crash and the sound of breaking glass in our room.

After things started to settle down, they held a shipwide meeting in the lounge and the Hotel Manager said it was the other ship’s fault, and the Viking ship has video proof of it.

The collision happened about a mile from Viking’s privately owned dock in Wesel.  Damage was above the waterline and no water was taken on.  They removed the tarp that covers the glass roof of the Aquavit terrace and have used it to cover up the damage (as in the earlier accidents this year shown on your site).

Breakfast and lunch services were cancelled. Not sure how much dishware is left. Morning excursions carried on and the ship is being resupplied as scheduled. It appears there is at least one Viking executive on the ship.  He wasn’t a member of the crew and was wearing a suit jacket with a Viking name tag.

There are a few police officers interviewing the First Officer right now, as well as someone from the port authority.  The captain and two land based technicians examining the extent of the damage.”

Photos taken by a #cruise guest – @VikingCruises Viking Kvasir collides with unidentified ship on the Rhine river near Wesel, Germany . . . pic.twitter.com/9ofGlfYJ8N — James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) September 11, 2022

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Don't look under the cover! @VikingCruises covers up the damage to the Viking Kvasir #cruise ship on the Rhine this morning: pic.twitter.com/sO2pkaYBCE — James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) September 11, 2022

September 12, 2022 Update:

Newsweek covered the collision in an article titled: Cruise Ship Collides With Another Vessel After Getting Caught in Heavy Fog

September 13, 2022 Update:

NZ Herald reported on the collision: Viking river cruise collides with ship on the Rhine

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Norway launches probe as Viking Sky cruise passengers recount harrowing rescue

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Everyone who had been on board a stranded cruise ship, including many Americans, was safe Monday morning after a terrifying voyage off the coast of Norway . The Viking Sky was carrying just over 1,300 passengers and crew when it sent a distress signal on Saturday.

The vessel had lost power and started drifting toward land while rocking violently. The heavily-listing ship became stranded in a notoriously rough stretch of water in the Norwegian Sea. On Monday, Norway's government announced an investigation into why the ship had left port in the first place despite storm warnings.

"The high risk which the ship, its passengers and crew were exposed to made us decide to investigate the incident," Dag S. Liseth, who heads the Norwegian Accident Investigations Board, said on Monday.

As CBS News correspondent Roxana Saberi reported, video from inside the Viking Sky showed passengers dodging furniture as it flew across the floor and panels falling from the ceiling on Saturday. Outside, heavy winds and 26-foot waves whipped the luxury cruise ship that lost power for reasons remained unclear two days later.

As the ship see-sawed, a passenger filmed the icy waters gushing across the floor. Rodney Horgen of Minnesota said he was terrified.

"I thought this was it, at that time. The water is going to rush in, and this is it," he recalled of the vacation-gone-wrong.

At risk of crashing onto the nearby rocky coast of Norway, the ship dropped anchor and started to evacuate. For several hours, Norwegian rescue helicopters air-lifted more than half of the roughly 900 passengers off the stricken vessel, including Susan and Allan Dullberg, to safety.

"I am 71, he is 74 -- well, they took us up together and we got hooked in, and lifted up, that was quite a jolt," Susan said.

As the seas calmed on Sunday, the ship managed to restart three of its four engines, but tug-boats still towed the Viking Sky back to port.

Hospitals in Norway said nine people from the cruise remained hospitalized on Monday, including one in critical condition. The Red Cross said many others had been left traumatized.

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Dense Fog Causes Viking Cruise Ship Crash In Germany [PHOTOS]

A Viking cruise ship hit another vessel on the Rhine River in Germany in the early morning hours Sunday, causing minor injuries to passengers and crew members.

The accident happened close to Wesel, Germany, with the Viking Kvasir ship that was on an Antwerpen-to-Amsterdam river cruise, the blog Cruise Law News reported.

Dense fog was initially blamed for the accident, as the Viking Kvasir collided with another vessel that was sideways in the river, the report said. Passengers told the blog that the ship's engines went full reserve for a few seconds before an "enormous crash" was felt.

Photos taken by a #cruise guest - @VikingCruises Viking Kvasir collides with unidentified ship on the Rhine river near Wesel, Germany . . . pic.twitter.com/9ofGlfYJ8N — James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) September 11, 2022

Viking Kvasir crew said the accident was the other ship's fault as there was very restricted visibility that caused the other vessel to disappear in the fog. There was no immediate word on the other ship's damage or the condition of its crew and passengers.

Some minor injuries were reported among cruise passengers and crew members. One crew member received treatment for burns as breakfast was being prepared at the time of the accident, while others had minor cuts from damaged glassware, Cruise Law News said. A few passengers also sustained injuries as they were standing during the impact.

The report from Cruise Line News also indicated that no water was taken on by the cruise ship, and a tarp had been used to cover up the damage.

Don't look under the cover! @VikingCruises covers up the damage to the Viking Kvasir #cruise ship on the Rhine this morning: pic.twitter.com/sO2pkaYBCE — James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) September 11, 2022

The ship was resupplied, and morning excursions resumed as normal, according to Cruise Law News.

Officials were also seen interviewing the Viking Kvasir's first officer while the damage on the ship was being inspected.

This is not the first accident involving a Viking ship on the Rhine River. In July, the Viking Hermod ship collided with a cargo ship, injuring two passengers. The cruise ship had damage to its bow, while the cargo ship ended up running aground.

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Accident on the Danube - Viking

By notamermaid , May 6, 2022 in River Cruising

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There has been an accident with a Viking river cruise ship on the Danube at Komarno. Sadly, Bratislava police reports 11 injured people. German news reports excursion boat, but Slovak news confirms it is a Viking ship. Apparently, the ship hit a railway bridge. For those wishing to translate: https://domov.sme.sk/c/22903338/komarno-nehoda-vyletna-lod-dunaj.html

All the best to the injured, I hope recovery is fast and complete.

Bit of a shock this...

Only a few days ago, the Excellence Coral had her wheelhouse badly damaged - a bridge... Luckily no one was hurt.

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Managed to get the cookies sorted. Now I can read the name. It is the Viking Aegir.

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Oh not another one so upset for all those cruisers. Keep well all!

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Yikes, thanks for posting this news.

Hope everyone is okay-

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Another report, this time in German. Reads, like the injuries are not too heavy.

https://www.cruisetricks.de/viking-aegir-rammt-brueckenpfeiler-elf-verletzte/

Hope all injured will get well soon.

The Viking Aegir is sailing, although there is supposedly damage to the radar system. A positive sign that the damage to the ship is manageable, I guess. Currently logged in is destination Amsterdam. Sounds like she is on the Grand European itinerary.

The guys from Binnenschifferforum have spotted the Viking Aegir in Linz in the shipyard. It is not possible to photograph the damage, says the photographer, she is docked at an unfavourable angle for that. Can confirm she is there, and nearby is the Crystal Mozart signalling. A screenshot:

Perhaps not looking as good as I thought?

This is the shipyard: https://www.oeswag-werft.at/

With the Aegir still in the shipyard, it is obvious that her next cruise from Amsterdam will be done by a different vessel. According to this website, the passengers were to be bussed to Vienna and another ship would come (not clear from where that would be and when) on which they would continue to Amsterdam. Not all ships by Viking were already out of the harbour at Cologne Niehl last week so I can imagine one being sent towards the Danube. Kind of would be interesting to find out how it was handled in the end. Interestingly and oddly, a passenger is reported as having said "we do not know what happened to the captain". "A sudden medical problem" can mean a lot so I hope the man is okay. Nighttime sailing is obviously more dangerous than daytime sailing. I dare say "it could have been worse" as the ship was going upstream so usually more slowly than downstream. However, I do not know what adjustments in speed are made for nighttime sailing. The crash was bad enough, it was no scraping of a pillar, but a "head-on collision" with concrete. Said article with a photo of the pillar and its crash markings: https://www.cas.sk/fotogaleria/2649403/kapitan-vyletnej-lode-na-dunaji-skolaboval-strasne-co-nasledovalo-panika-a-strach-o-zivot/6/

Elsewhere, I saw a photo of a steel door having been dented. Definitely a major job for the shipyard with what appears to be some structural damage to the front of the hull. Wonder how long something like that takes?

I hope all people are well now and have the confidence and trust to sail on a river cruise ship again.

ethelouise2

We were to cruise the Grand European Tour (Amsterdam to Budapest) departing 15 June on Viking Aegir.  We received the following email from Viking earlier this week:  

Dear Viking Guest,

Thank you for choosing Viking for your upcoming voyage. This message is to let you know that due to maintenance requirements for   Viking Aegir , your ship has been changed to an identical sister ship,  Viking Odin .

Like  Viking Aegir ,  Viking Odin   is a state-of-the-art Longship, featuring all the same comforts and style as the rest of the Viking Longship fleet. She will be ready to greet you at the same time and place and also has a warm and welcoming staff who will be delighted to have you as a guest.

Despite this change, all other aspects of your trip, including your stateroom selection, itinerary, and any extensions you may have booked with us, will remain the same. If you have any questions regarding this adjustment, please call Reservations at 1-855-300-3970, Sunday through Saturday, 5:00 AM to 7:00 PM, PT.  We look forward to welcoming you to Europe. Sincerely, Viking

Thank you for your post. A major job then, as I suspected.

On 5/13/2022 at 3:11 AM, ethelouise2 said: maintenance requirements

Certainly a nice (yet standard, I mean to be expected) circumscription of accident with major damage to the bow.

I am sure you will have a splendid time traversing Europe on the Odin instead.

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Cruise operator Viking targets $11 billion valuation as IPO market stays hot

Viking Holdings, the European cruise line operator, is seeking to raise more than $1 billion in a public offering next week that could become the second-biggest IPO of 2024.

Viking is scheduled to price on April 30 and trade the next day, a person familiar with the deal told Fortune . The Pembroke, Bermuda–based company plans to sell 44 million shares at $21 to $25 each, according to a regulatory filing dated April 22. Viking will be offering 11 million shares with the remainder coming from shareholders, according to a statement . BofA Securities and JPMorgan are lead underwriters on the deal, which could end up valuing Viking—slated to trade under VIK on the New York Stock Exchange—at almost $11 billion.

Torstein Hagen, Viking’s chairman and CEO, founded the company in 1997. It has a fleet of 92 vessels that travel to all seven continents, including special expeditions to Antarctica and to the Arctic North.

“Looking toward the future, we believe there are a number of opportunities for growing Viking,” Hagen wrote in a letter accompanying the filing. “We have 24 new ships on order, with options for 12 more. We have also started to enter new markets, such as China and elsewhere in Asia, where we see significant growth potential over the long term.”

Revenue for Viking rose 48% to $4.7 billion in 2023. The company was profitable in 2022 but posted $1.86 billion in losses last year, and it’s highly leveraged, reporting $5.4 billion in total debt as of Dec. 31.

“We have substantial indebtedness and we may not be able to generate sufficient cash to service all of our indebtedness or to obtain additional financing if necessary,” Viking said in the regulatory filing.

The company is also backed by private equity. Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and TPG likely will each have nearly 5% of the firm’s voting power after the IPO.

The IPO market is bouncing back. Last week, Ibotta rose 17% during its first day of trading after pricing at $88. Rubrik, a Microsoft-backed cloud data security provider, is scheduled to list shares on Thursday and could raise as much as $713 million . Also on Thursday, Marex Group, a U.K.-based financial services platform, is expected to trade, according to IPOScoop.com.

The year’s biggest IPO still belongs to Amer Sport, the maker of Wilson tennis racquets, which raised $1.37 billion in February, according to data from Dealogic. Viking, if it prices at the top of its range, could raise as much as $1.1 billion.

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‘Doesn’t sit right’: Cruise line raises price by thousands after consumer confirms booking

ORLANDO, Fla. — A retired schoolteacher thought she and her friend had booked the trip of a lifetime. She turned to Action 9 after she claims Viking Cruises jacked-up the price of their voyage by nearly $9000 about a week after they booked it.

Elizabeth Gehron loves to travel.

“I always said when I retired, I wanted to do Australia and New Zealand,” Gehron said.

And that’s what she set out to do. Gehron and a friend found a deal with Viking Cruises for around $6,100 a piece to check out those two countries. They also added more days for the “Best of Australia” pre-excursion. It was advertised at a special starting at $899.

She said, “That allowed us to go into Australia, because the cruise just you see Melbourne and Sydney, we wanted to go into Australia and see more of it.”

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After their travel agent confirmed the price with Viking for their exact dates in December it was booked. The $899 add-on was listed in their original guest statement.

Gehron told Action 9, “We get the invoice from them. Everything is good, exactly what we were promised… what it showed and advertised online.”

But eight days later, they received an unwelcome surprise. A new statement arrived showing Viking had hiked the price of their add-on to $5,299. That’s $4,400 more than they each originally agreed to pay.

After calling for an explanation, they said this was Viking’s explanation:

“There was a price mismatch issue, and that they couldn’t honor that price that we had booked it for,” Gehron said recalling her conversation with a Viking representative.

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Tammy Levent, who runs Elite Travel points out, if this was some kind of advertising or other mistake, most cruise lines have insurance for what are called “errors and omissions” that should cover Viking if the cruise company honors this price.

And even though fine print in its policy shows the carrier isn’t responsible for errors and has the right to make corrections, Levent can’t understand why a giant company like Viking won’t make good on the deal.

Levent said, “The hundreds of thousands of people that are going to see this understand that hey, you know what, this is not good business on Viking’s part and I may reconsider booking with them because they didn’t honor this.”

Action 9 reached out to Viking asking if hiking the price after someone books is a typical business practice and why it happened in this case. So far, Viking hasn’t responded.

Gehron believes the company should honor the price of the original agreement.

She said, “Just surprised me. And I’ve traveled with Viking before on several cruises and always been very pleased with them felt they were reputable and trustworthy. This just doesn’t sit right.”

After Action 9 reached out, Gehron said Viking contacted her and offered to only charge each of them $2,200 extra instead of $4,400. The two women are now trying to decide what to do. They have until the end of the month to cancel or pay the higher fare.

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