Norway cabin owner sleeps on as cargo ship runs aground outside
None of the container ship’s 16 crew members were injured in the incident, the cause of which is being investigated by Norwegian police
A man in Norway awoke early on Thursday to discover a huge container ship had run aground a stone’s throw from his fjord-side house – and he had slept through the commotion.
For an as-yet unknown reason, the 135m (443 ft) NCL Salten sailed up onto shore just metres from Johan Helberg’s house in a fjord near Trondheim in central Norway.
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 doorbell rang at a time of day when I don’t like to open,” Helberg told television channel TV2.
His neighbour, Jostein Jorgensen, said he was roused at around 5am by the sound of a ship heading at full speed toward land and immediately ran to Helberg’s house.