Schlagwort: Viking Expedition

Ein Todesopfer: „Viking Polaris“ von Monsterwelle getroffen

Auf dem Expeditionskreuzfahrtschiff Viking Polaris (BRZ: 30114) der Reederei Viking Expedition Cruises sind auf dem Rückweg von einer Antarktisreise nach Ushuaia am Abend des 29. November durch eine sogenannte „Monsterwelle“ ein Mensch getötet und vier weitere Personen verletzt worden.

Das teilte die Viking-Reedereigruppe am Donnerstag (Ortszeit) mit. Die Welle habe die am Nachmittag des 30. Novembers in Ushuaia eingetroffene Viking Polaris mitten in einem schweren Sturm seitlich getroffen und dabei auch Seeschlagschäden im Passagierbereich hinterlassen, wobei u.a. mehrere Fenster zu Bruch gegangen sein sollen.

Viking Polaris, Foto: Fincantieri (Archiv)

Die 205 m lange, 23,5 m breite und 6 m tiefgehende Viking Polaris, die über 189 Kabinen für 378 Gäste verfügt und mit ihrer dieselelektrischen Motorenanlage über zwei Azipod-Antriebe von je 5500 kW eine Dienstgeschwindigkeit von 16,5 kn erreicht, war erst am 27. September dieses Jahres von der norwegischen Vard-Werft als deren bisher größter Passagierschiffneubau abgeliefert und drei Tage später in Amsterdam getauft worden.

Der unter norwegischer Flagge in Fahrt gekommene rd. 275 Mio. Dollar teure Neubau mit Polar Class 6-Zertifizierung ist nach dem im Dezember 2021 abgelieferten Schwesterschiff Viking Octantis der zweite Expeditionskreuzer der Reederei und wird von der Firma Wilhelmsen Ship Management im norwegischen Lysaker bereedert.

Erst vor zwei Wochen war es bei einer Antarktis-Kreuzfahrt eines anderen Schiffes zu einem tödlichen Unglück gekommen. Dabei starben zwei 76 und 80 Jahre alte Männer, als sie mit einem Zodiac unterwegs waren und dieses kenterte.

Inzwischen hat das Norwegian Accident Investigation Board die Untersuchung des Viking Polaris-Unfalls eingeleitet. JPM

“VIKING POLARIS” DELIVERED

Pressemitteilung

Fincantieri has delivered in Søviknes (Norway) “Viking Polaris”, the second of two expedition vessels for Viking. “Viking Polaris”, as well as her sister ship “Viking Octantis”, delivered last year, can host 378 guests in 189 staterooms.

The ships have the “Polar Class 6” certification for expeditions in the polar regions, and they have the size to navigate remote areas and the St. Lawrence River and provide superior handling and stability in rough seas. Straight bows, longer hulls and state-of-the-art fin stabilizers allow the ships to glide over the waves for the calmest possible journey, ice-strengthened hulls provide the safest way to explore and u-tank stabilizers significantly decrease rolling by up to 50% when the ships are stationary.

Designed by the same experienced nautical architects and engineers that designed Viking’s ocean ships, these new vessels feature modern Scandinavian design, intimate spaces and attention to detail, as well as public spaces that are favorites on Viking’s ocean ships and new spaces created specifically for expeditions.

The collaboration between Fincantieri and Viking counts a total of 18 vessels, including the four announced few weeks ago, confirming the recovery of the cruise sector, which is expected to return to pre-pandemic levels by 2023.

Text: PM Fincantieri

FINCANTIERI: NINTH CRUISE SHIP IN 2021 “VIKING OCTANTIS” DELIVERED

Pressemitteilung

Fincantieri has delivered in Søviknes (Norway) “Viking Octantis”, the first of two expedition vessels for Viking.

 “Viking Octantis”, as well as her sister ship “Viking Polaris”, to be delivered next year, can host 378 guests in 189 staterooms. The ships have the “Polar Class 6” certification for expeditions in the polar regions, and they have the size to navigate remote areas and the St. Lawrence River and provide superior handling and stability in rough seas. Straight bows, longer hulls and state-of-the-art fin stabilizers will allow the ships to glide over the waves for the calmest possible journey, ice-strengthened hulls will provide the safest way to explore and u-tank stabilizers will significantly decrease rolling by up to 50% when the ships are stationary.

Foto: Fincantieri

Designed by the same experienced nautical architects and engineers that designed Viking’s ocean ships, these new vessels feature modern Scandinavian design, intimate spaces and attention to detail, as well as public spaces that are favorites on Viking’s ocean ships and new spaces created specifically for expeditions.

Giuseppe Bono, CEO of Fincantieri, commented: “This result reaffirms our ability to perform very well all over the world even in a situation as complex as the current one. Suffice it to say that “Viking Octantis” is the ninth cruise unit completed in 2021 in our domestic and foreign sites, without forgetting the deliveries for the US Navy, 2 this year, in the American shipyards. Fincantieri is a Group with a global vocation, which consolidates the leadership positions it has acquired and imposes its own successful production model on four continents”.

Fincantieri started its partnership with Viking in 2012, trusting the shipowner who was entering the ocean cruise market as a start-up. Today, the cooperation which first began with an order for two ships, has reached a total of 20 units, including “Viking Octantis” and “Viking Polaris” and the options. This is an all-time record, the largest number of units ordered to a shipbuilder by one sole shipowner.

Other 9 units, options included, will take to the sea from the Group’s Italian yards in the next years.

Text: PM Fincantieri