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		</div><p>Norwegian officials have opened an investigation into why a cruise ship carrying more than 1,300 people set sail despite storm warnings, forcing a major evacuation after a mayday call had been issued.</p>
<p>Dag S. Liseth of Norway’s Accident Investigations Board said: <em>“The high risk which the ship, its passengers and crew were exposed to made us decide to investigate the incident.”</em></p>
<p>The Viking Sky is now docked in the port city of Molde, which it eventually managed to reach on its own engines after a daring rescue operation in which 479 passengers were airlifted to land.</p>
<p>The Viking Sky had engine trouble on Saturday afternoon off Hustadvika, just north of Molde, and sent out a mayday call.</p>
<p>The ship was drifting toward the rocky coast.</p>
<p>Many shipwrecks have occurred in the area through the years.</p>
<p>The airlift evacuation went all through Saturday night and into Sunday morning, slowing for a bit when two of the five rescue helicopters had to be diverted to save nine crew members from a nearby ailing cargo ship.</p>
<p>Mr Liseth said investigators were heading to Molde on Monday and declined to speculate as to why the Viking Sky captain had decided to sail despite the weather warning.</p>
<p>He could not immediately say how long the ship would remain in Molde.</p>
<p>Yngve Skovly of the police in Molde’s Moere and Romsdal district, said there was no suspicion of a criminal offence.</p>
<p>The Viking Sky is a relatively new ship, delivered in 2017 to operator Viking Ocean Cruises.</p>
<p>The ship was on a 12-day cruise along Norway’s coast before its scheduled arrival on Tuesday in the British port of Tilbury, on the River Thames.</p>
<p>The passengers were mostly an English-speaking mix of American, British, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian citizens.</p>
<p>On Sunday, the operator said the ship’s next scheduled trip, to Scandinavia and Germany, that was to leave on Wednesday, was cancelled.</p>
<p>Calls to Viking Ocean Cruises on Monday were not immediately returned.</p>
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