Capture from video clip shpws helicopter preparing to remove guests
Viking Cruises deals with a course activity legal action asserting compensatory damages complying with the March 24 case in which some 479 guests were left by helicopter from the cruise liner Viking Sky when it shed power in windstorm pressure winds off the Norwegian shore (see earlier tale).
The fit has actually been submitted in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles, by Miami law office Lipcon, Margulies, Alsina & & Winkleman in support of complainants Axel as well as Lauren Freudmann, standing for a possible course of approximately 1,000 complainants.
In its grievance, the law office insists that Viking “negligently sailed through notoriously perilous waters into the path of a Bomb Cyclone where, due to the Defendant’s negligence, the vessel lost power leaving the vessel adrift to be battered by high seas and winds as it drifted towards dangerous reefs.”
The grievance insists that the cruise liner left on its trip “despite the consensus by numerous weather forecasting agencies’ warning of extremely severe winds of Storm 10 gale force capabilities expected in the vessel’s intended and actual path.”
“As forecasted by numerous weather forecasting agencies,” claims the grievance, “by the early morning of Saturday, March 23, 2019, the Storm 10 gale force winds and rough seas were battering the vessel so severely that passengers were unable to stand in their staterooms and were being thrown out of their beds; causing various injuries to passengers, including Plaintiffs FREUDMANN.”
“Hundreds of passengers, including Plaintiffs FREUDMANN, were subjected to hours of terror, unsanitary conditions, lack of ventilation, and trauma as they feared for their lives a result of the cruise traveling through extremely severe – all of which could have been easily avoided if Defendants VIKING simply waited to sail until after the severe winter storm passed or rerouted the ship so that the passengers were not exposed to the dangerous weather conditions,” insists the grievance.” As an outcome of Defendant’s VIKING’s oversight, guests suffered physical as well as psychological injuries”
“Tellingly,” claims the grievance, “two Hurtigruten cruise ships delayed their departure from their respective port of calls on March 22, 2019, in order to avoid sailing through the worst of the bomb cyclone the Viking Sky sailed through.”
Read the grievance HERE
