Thick black smoke can be seen in the first video pouring from Hurtigruten’s Nordlys due to an engine room fire as it sailed along the Norwegian coast today. Passengers were evacuated safely.
Later in the process, with the fire nearly out, the ship was brought alongside a pier in Alesund (Norway) this afternoon, which can be seen in the second video. The ship was listing about ten degrees to the port but was later stabilized.
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The complete story was carried in the September 15, 2011, edition of Cruise News Daily.
