I don't know about you, but I'd find opening my curtains in the morning to be confronted with this quite alarming...

I'd certainly be viewing the contents of my coffee with suspicion.

Ok, so there's footage available, and although we don't generally laugh at foreign languages here let me tell you the containerskipet comes i full fart all right.

Doesn't let up on the fart right up until it follows through, in fact...

https://tv.vg.no/nyheter/her-krasjer-containerskipet?id=332906

The livestream is back up!

https://play.adressa.no/video/3018234/direkte-containserskip-pa-grunn-utenfor-byneset

The latest dit is that NCL Salten is PROPERLY aground from bow to arse. The coastguard vessel KV Njord can be seen in the background, making sure it doesn't try anything funny.

@DreadShips EDIT: I incorrectly thought I spotted an absence of both anchors […]. That invalidates my suggestion that attempts were made to stop.

Ignore the below speculation:
[…]
(or stay anchored? Dutch NOS mentions that it got adrift, but they’re insufficiently clear on whether that’s “from anchored” or NUC), and further speculation then leads me to “but the engine(s) were and kept running”, without control.

If so, maybe beaching was a last-ditch attempt at stopping.

[…]

@argonaut @DreadShips Single watch keeper, overworked and underslept, falling asleep during their watch? That never happens!

(I’m a faithful reader of pretty much all MAIB investigations. Started as a “let’s raise my marine hazard awareness” when I became a tall ships/sail training volunteer, and now I continue for the gripping reads and the wider relevance in risks and systems and safety barriers and whatnot.

MAIB & RAIB reports are much better than NL’s OVV’s.)

@bellinghman @happydisciple @argonaut it didn't slow at all though, so you're either looking at a cascading set of problems all at once, or the usual problem of somebody literally or metaphorically asleep at the wheel.

And I'm pretty sure they'd be screaming about the former by now if it exculpated them.

The question as to why nobody reacted is a more interesting one though, and more might emerge. Somebody crashed into Lands End via a trouser malfunction once!