The owner of Norway wakes up to find a 440 -foot ship failed at his door: “He is a new very large neighbor”

A man in Norway woke up early Thursday to discover that a huge ship container had failed a stone throw from his house on the fjord side – and he had slept through the bustle.

For a still unknown reason, the 443 -foot NCL Salten sailed on the shore just meters from Johan Helberg’s house in a fjord near Trondheim, in the center of Norway.

Helberg only discovered the unexpected visitor when a panicked neighbor who had repeatedly covered his doorbell in vain abandoned and called him on the phone.

“The doorbell rang at one point of the day I don’t like to open,” Helberg told TV2 TV channel.

His neighbor, Jostein Jorgensen, said he was woken up around 5 a.m. local time by the sound of a ship at full speed towards the ground and immediately ran to Helberg’s.

“I was sure he was already outside, but no, there was no sign of life. I called the doorbell on several occasions and nothing … And it was only when I called him on the phone that I managed to contact him,” Jorgensen told TV2.

Several hours later, the container in solid red and green was still stuck near the wooden house, waiting to be bailed out.

“He is a very large new neighbor, but he will disappear soon,” said Helberg.

The ship would have caused damage to a heating pipe in the Helberg cabin, TV2 reported, but the owner told the station that it could have been much worse.

“If the ship had struck the rocky cliff right next to it, it would have lifted and hit the house,” he told TV2. “It was not many meters.”

None of the 16 crew members were injured in the incident, the cause of which is under investigation by the Norwegian police.

Bente Hetland, the CEO of the Maritime Company who owns the NCL Salten, told TV2 that the same ship has failed twice before – once in 2023 in Hadsel and once in 2024, in Ålesund.