NOVATO (KRON) — Novato residents Susan and Allen Dollberg say when disaster hit on board the Viking Sky Cruise Ship, they didn’t hesitate to follow orders.
“We looked at each other and said, ‘this is really happening, right?” Susan Dollberg said.
They were just two of 960 passengers on board when the ship got caught in a bomb cyclone saturday
“We were in the cabin, really being tossed around,” she said.
Once they made their way to the evacuation area, things sgot worse.
“They gave us life jackets, so everybody was sitting there or rolling back and forth,” she said. “Dishes were flying, things were breaking, glasses were breaking.”
The Dollbergs consider themselves very lucky — because the rescue helicopters could only take 20 people at a time.
“When it was our turn, they had us together and we were hooked onto a cable and whisked up together and it was still daylight, so we were really really fortunate,” Susan Dollberg said.
You would think such a disaster would have ruined the trip entirely.
“No, no, no. Of course it was unexpected, but mother nature is going to do what mother nature wants to do,” she said.
As for going on another cruise someday, they are not opposed.
“Hey, you know we might, if Viking provides, ha,” Susan Dollberg said.
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