Things you don't see every day:
unbelievable! A huge cargo ship stranded outside the city of Trondheim today, only a few meters from a house where people slept pic.twitter.com/UvhOhtxdB5
— Jørgen Dalen (@JorgenDalen) May 22, 2025
Here's the Associated Press via the New York Post:
Norwegian man wakes up to find a grounded cargo ship right outside his home
A Norwegian man awoke to find that a cargo ship had run aground and narrowly missed crashing into his home along the Trondheim Fjord’s coast.
Johan Helberg told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that he’d slept through the whole thing and only woke up when a neighbor started ringing his doorbell.
Images show the ship’s red and green bow just meters (yards) from Helberg’s house. He told NRK the only damage was to a heating pump’s wire....
....MUCH MORE
I should sleep that soundly.
Bringing to mind a 2018 post:
In Which FT Alphaville Takes On Sailing Yachts, Admiralty (Maritime) Law, and Dinghy Davits
....It's a knotty problem, in essence unchanged for the last thousand years. Abandoned or sunken vessels and their cargo have value. But salvage — recovery — is expensive. So every marine salvage law since the Maritime Ordinances of Trani in 1063 has had to balance the rights of the owner against the costs incurred by the salvor and the state, which needs to get abandoned vessels out of marine channels, where they obstruct passage and therefore commerce....Like Ravel's Bolero it just keeps building and building until the tension becomes almost unbearable, only to be relieved by.... (not the dinghy davits)....
