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Norwegian man wakes to find 443-foot cargo ship grounded in his backyard

Norwegian resident Johan Helberg was stunned to wake and find the 443-foot cargo ship NCL Salten grounded just 16 feet from his waterfront home in Byneset, near Trondheim.

The vessel ran aground early Thursday after the ship’s watch officer, a Ukrainian national in his 30s, reportedly fell asleep on duty, leading to a charge of negligent navigation.

Helberg, who slept through the incident, was alerted by a neighbour and described the surreal scene of the ship towering outside his window.

While the ship caused only minor damage to a heating pump wire, it failed to refloat at high tide and remains stuck as geotechnical assessments are underway. NCL, the ship’s owner, is cooperating with the investigation. The incident marks the Salten’s second grounding in two years.

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  1. Must have been a drunken Ukrainian who is still on the ‘High Seas’ after February 2022…avoiding the kidnapping and draft conscription of white Ukrainian / Eastern Orthodox Christian men by the roving gangs of Ukrainian Army kidnappers doing the bidding of a Talmudic Ukrainian J3wi$h President & porno-clown!
    https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/video-ukraine-kids-beating-and-disarming-ukraine-army-street-round-up-crews
    Almost ranks right up there with the Aratere, Waihine and Mikhail Lermontov…!

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