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A massive cargo ship sailed up onto shore just meters from Johan Helberg's house. He slept through the whole commotoion.
Johan Helberg stands next to his house on Thursday, May 22, with the container ship NCL Salten in the background, after the 135-meter-long ship ran aground in the Trondheimsfjord, outside Byneset, in Trondheim, Norway. (Jan Langhaug/NTB Scanpix via Associated Press) (Jan Langhaug/NTB Scanpix via Associated Press)
A Norwegian man awoke to find that a cargo ship ran aground and narrowly missed crashing into his home along the Trondheim Fjord's coast.
The cargo ship didn't make it to Johan Helberg's doorway, but it came close enough. "Five metres further south, and it would have entered the bedroom," the Norwegian man told BBC News, describing the proximity of the NCL Salten that ran aground outside his home in Byneset, Norway, along the Trondheim fiord, on Thursday morning.
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Asharq Al-Awsat on MSNReports: Helmsman of Cargo Ship Run Aground in Norway Was Likely AsleepThe helmsman of a huge container ship that ran aground in Norway just a stone's throw away from a cabin as its owner slept was probably asleep as well at the time of the accident, Norwegian media reported Friday.
A man in Norway has been left in shock after a container ship ran aground in his backyard; Johan Helberg woke up to the sound of his neighbors alerting him that an NCL ship had cr
Imagine waking up to a boat in your garden. A man in Norway opened his curtains on Thursday morning to find a 135 metre-long container ship had run aground right next to his house. The huge ship missed Johan Helberg's bedroom by just a few metres.
A man has been charged after a cargo ship ran aground in a front garden as the homeowner was sleeping indoors.Remarkable pictures showed just how close the 135m-long vessel came to crashing into Johan Helberg's house near Trondheim,
A 440-foot-long cargo ship ran aground beside a house in Byneset, Norway, on Thursday morning, local time. "If the ship had hit the rocky cliff right next to it, it would have lifted up and hit the house hard. It wasn't many meters off," Johan Helberg, the owner of the house, told local newspaper Nidaros.