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A 29-year-old American woman died while trying to sail from Norway across the North Sea to the Faroe Islands in a rowing boat. The boat, a replica of a Viking ship, capsized off the Norwegian coast. Five other passengers were rescued.
The woman, Carla Danna, took part in the mission as an archaeologist. The plan was to sail the rowing boat Naddoddur, named after the first Viking to land in Iceland in the ninth century, to the Faroe Islands.
Six people left Norway in a 10-meter-long replica of a Viking ship last weekend on a journey of about 740 kilometers, foreign media reported. The journey on the motorless rowing boat started well, but on Tuesday evening things went wrong due to bad weather. The crew sent out a distress signal.
Images taken by the Norwegian Coast Guard, which searched for the capsized ship, clearly show that the North Sea was very turbulent.
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Five passengers managed to board an inflatable life raft. They were rescued by helicopter. Local media reported that Dana's body was found under the capsized boat.
afraid of high waves
Before the trip, Dana wrote in a blog post that she was afraid of the wild North Sea, the BBC reported. “Excitement quickly turns to fear when you see how the high waves overturn the huge ships without any problem, almost as if they were toys,” she wrote. “But the North Sea and the raw nature are also beautiful at the same time,” she added in her blog post.
The flight had been postponed several times due to bad weather.
“open boat”
There were also four Swiss nationals and a Faroe Islands resident on board the Naddoddur. “It's an open boat, you sleep under the stars and when it rains or the wind blows you feel the elements,” he said before the trip.
