Norwegian man wakes to find cargo ship in his garden along Trondheim Fjord coast

Published on 23/05/2025 - 15:08 GMT+2

A Norwegian man awoke to find that a cargo vessel had tally aground and narrowly missed crashing into his location on nan Trondheim Fjord's coast.

Johan Helberg told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that he'd slept done nan full point and only woke up erstwhile a neighbour started ringing his doorbell aft seeing nan vessel approaching nan statement connected Thursday morning.

Images show nan ship's reddish and greenish front conscionable metres from Helberg's house. He told NRK nan only harm was to a heating pump's wire.

"Five metres further southbound and it would person entered nan bedroom," he told NRK. "I didn't perceive anything."

Authorities opportunity they received reports that nan Cypriot-flagged NCL Salten travelling to Orkanger successful Norway's Trøndelag region had tally aground soon earlier 6 americium connected Thursday.

No injuries aliases lipid spills were reported. Later efforts to refloat nan vessel astatine precocious tide were unsuccessful.

Shipping institution NCL said successful a connection it was alert of nan incident and was cooperating pinch nan constabulary investigation.