Police have given an replace on the investigation into the demise of a girl from America who died when a Viking ship reproduction capsized off Noway’s coast.
The picket reproduction, referred to as Naddodd, was crossing the North Atlantic from the Faeroe Islands to Norway with a global workforce of six individuals. The ten-meter (33-feet) double-masted vessel constructed on the Faeroes had departed the islands positioned midway between Scotland and Iceland on Saturday.
A powerful wave was doubtless accountable for the capsizing, police mentioned on Thursday, describing it as a “tragic accident” that didn’t represent a legal matter.
On Tuesday, it sailed into robust winds and excessive waves and late that night time, the ship capsized off the coastal city of Stad, about 346 kilometers (215 miles) from the capital of Oslo.
Survivors informed police that the climate “all of a sudden turned considerably worse than predicted with very excessive waves.” Rescuers mentioned a number of the waves had been as much as 5 meters (16 ft) excessive on the time.
The 5 survivors had managed to get into an inflatable life raft and had been later airlifted to security by helicopter. A sixth particular person, who had been trapped beneath the vessel, drowned, police mentioned. The sufferer’s physique was discovered on Wednesday.
Police haven’t launched the title of the sufferer however Norwegian and Faeroese media recognized her as 29-year-old archaeologist Karla Dana, from Florida.
“Thrilled to be part of this crew, fearlessly embarking on this Nordic voyage on a Viking ship reproduction throughout the North Sea, pushing by way of bodily and psychological limits to sail into historical past,” Dana had posted on her LinkedIn profile earlier than the journey.
Her web page describes her as an Archeologist & Discipline Researcher.
Including: “I’m an ethnographic area researcher, having carried out area analysis with the Ngöbe indigenous tribe in Costa Rica. “I’ve lived and studied in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Spain, England, Germany, Morocco, China and Taiwan. “At present I’m pursuing archeological research and runology, with a concentrate on the Viking Period.”
On her web page she not too long ago shared a put up about her journey saying explorers will set sail from the Faroe Islands to Trondheim, Norway aboard Naddoddur, a duplicate Viking ship, retracing the historic route of navigator Naddodd and retaining Viking tradition and navigational prowess alive.
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