A container ship in central Norway ran aground, just missing a man's cabin. The ship's watch officer said he had fallen asleep on duty.

A Norwegian man awoke to discover that a cargo ship had run aground and narrowly missed crashing into his home along the Trondheim Fjord’s coast.

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)

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.

The home owner remarkably slept through the whole ordeal and woke up to find a huge unexpected visitor in his yard.

A Norwegian man was roused by a neighbor in the early morning and alerted to an unusual situation: a cargo ship was in his front yard.

A Norwegian man woke on Thursday morning to find a container ship almost on his door step. The 862-teu NCL Salten (built 2002) had run aground overnight in his front garden on a fjord near Trondheim. And bemused resident Johan Helberg had slept through the whole thing.