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Loud Ship Horn Wakes Reykjavik Residents After Human Error

From Morgunblaðið · () Icelandic

Translated from Icelandic and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

News Named sources Outcome reported
  • The Polar Amaroq’s horn woke residents in parts of Reykjavik at about 6 a.m.
  • A warning system aboard the vessel was connected to the horn, and crew members failed to disconnect it in port.
  • Faxafloahafnir’s chief harbor master called the incident human error.

A ship’s horn jolted many Reykjavik residents awake at around six in the morning after a warning system aboard the Greenlandic pelagic vessel Polar Amaroq activated it.

The ship was docked at Grandabryggja. Gísli Jóhann Hallsson, chief harbor master of Faxafloahafnir, said the warning system was connected to the horn, which the crew presumably uses at sea.

This was because a warning system went off aboard the vessel and it is connected to the horn, which they presumably use at sea.

· Gísli Jóhann HallssonThe chief harbor master explained why the ship’s horn sounded in port.

Residents in the Vesturbær district and central Reykjavik woke to the noise, and some turned to social media to ask what had caused it. The crew normally disconnects the horn when arriving in port, Hallsson said, but failed to do so on this occasion.

“This was human error,” Hallsson said.

This was human error. They always disconnect it when they arrive in port, but it failed there.

· Gísli Jóhann HallssonHallsson described the crew’s failure to disconnect the horn as a mistake.
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Originally published by Morgunblaðið in Icelandic. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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