Container Ship Runs Aground in Norwegian Homeowner's Garden

A man in Norway woke up to find a 135m container ship in his front garden after it ran aground near his home in Byneset, near Trondheim. The ship, NCL Salten, had 16 people on board and was travelling through the Trondheim Fjord when it went off course, missing the man's house by metres. No one was injured, but the cause of the crash is being investigated by Norwegian police.

A Norwegian homeowner, Johan Helberg, woke up to find a 443-foot container ship, NCL Salten, had run aground near his fjord-side house, just meters away. The ship's arrival went unnoticed by Helberg until a neighbor, Jostein Jorgensen, who had been awoken by the sound, called him after failing to rouse him with the doorbell. The incident damaged a heating pipe at Helberg's cabin but left the 16 crew members unharmed. The cause is under investigation, with the shipping company's CEO noting the ship had run aground twice before, in 2023 and 2024.

A man in Norway, Johan Helber, was not woken up when a 135m long container ship ran aground in his front garden, missing his home by just a few metres. He was later woken by a neighbour checking on him and was shocked to see the ship outside his window.