The cargo ship didn't make it to Johan Helberg's doorway, but it came close enough. "Five metres further south, and it would have entered the bedroom," the Norwegian man told BBC News, describing the proximity of the NCL Salten that ran aground outside his home in Byneset, Norway, along the Trondheim fiord, on Thursday morning.

A 440-foot-long cargo ship ran aground beside a house in Byneset, Norway, on Thursday morning, local time. "If the ship had hit the rocky cliff right next to it, it would have lifted up and hit the house hard.

A retiree living along a Norwegian fjord woke up on Thursday morning because his neighbor was pounding on his door, telling him to look outside. The ship just missed his house.