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Viking Amorella ran aground in the Finnish archipelago near Åland Islands on Sunday carrying around 200 passengers and crew. All passengers were evacuated from the ship to a local school in Mariehamn. Volunteers from the Finnish Red Cross were deployed to help the local authorities to receive the passengers.
The West Finland Coast Guard did not detected any oil leaks in the surrounding waters.
ARCSAR will follow closely the lessons learned and experiences from this incident.
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Passengers evacuated after Viking Line's Amorella runs aground
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Rescue workers have evacuated passengers from a ship which ran aground in the Åland archipelago on Sunday afternoon.Just like everyone else, the ARCSAR network is affected by the Covid-pandemic. But we are working on virtual solutions to host our planned activity and upcoming excercises. Hopefully we will soon be able to excercise in real life as well, as in this photo from the SARex-excercise in Svalbard 📷: Oda Iden, Sjøforsvaret
Just like everyone else, the ARCSAR network is affected by the Covid-pandemic. But we are working on virtual solutions to host our planned activity and upcoming excercises. Hopefully we will soon be able to excercise in real life as well, as in this photo from the SARex-excercise in Svalbard 📷: Oda Iden, Sjøforsvaret
