READ MORE:* Stricken cruise ship reaches port* Engines restarting on stricken cruise ship off NorwayCHC HELICOPTERS Helicopters fly over the cruise ship Viking Sky after it sent out a Mayday signal. ASSOCIATED PRESS The stricken Viking Sky cruise ship is battered by rough seas as evacuations by helicopter are undertaken. Passenger Alexus Sheppard told the AP that people with injuries or disabilities were winched off the cruise ship first. FRANK EINAR VATNE/AP The cruise ship Viking Sky lays at anchor in heavy seas. "We saw two people taken off by stretcher," passenger Dereck Brown told Norwegian newspaper Romsdal Budstikke.

Source: Stuff March 24, 2019 22:06 UTC