Sreypov Dussauze (39) sits on the hospital bed. The shock from yesterday still hasn’t subsided.
Strong winds caused the cabin she and three others were staying in to be blown out to sea.
All that remains of the cabin now are some bricks and a sewer pipe.
ON THE SEA: This is all that is left of the cabin. Photo: Tobias Eskeland
Dussauze says that they returned to the cabin around 4pm in the afternoon.
– Then I felt the cabin shake a little, but I thought it was normal. Then we ate dinner and went to bed, she says and continues:
– Around five to ten minutes later, the cabin really starts to shake. Then it fell into the water. I was terrified, Sreypov, who usually lives in Paris, tells TV 2.
INJURED: Both Sreypov and her husband Vincent Dussauze are bruised after the dramatic incident. Photo: Roy Arne Salater / TV 2
She and three others were on holiday in Lofoten and had rented a small cabin right by the sea.
– The first thing I thought was that I’m going to die, she says of the dramatic minutes.
Prohibition of use
She says that she rolled around inside the cabin after it ended up in the lake. She heard her husband asking where she was and tried to get her out of the water.
Eventually she got ashore and went to one of the other cabins to get help.
– I don’t understand how the cabin could end up in the water so easily. I don’t understand, she says.
INJURED: Dussauze Vincent shows his hands after the dramatic incident. Photo: Roy Arne Salater / TV 2
The cabin is one of five newly built cabins that stand at the very end of Å and right down to the sea.
Ketil Finstad-Steira, police station chief at Svolvær police station, says that it is luck that it went well.
– We have banned the use of the five cabins. We have started an investigation and will see if the correct use permit has been submitted and if they have been built according to the regulations.
All guests staying in the other cabins were evacuated. Later that night they were taken to hospital at Gravdal in Lofoten.
TV 2 has tried to get in touch with the owner of the cabins, Vidar Femdal Røe, without success.
In a text message to VG he writes:
– This has been a shocking event for both our guests and us. Fortunately, fire and rescue crews arrived quickly on the scene and all the guests have been evacuated and taken good care of.
REMAINS OF WRECK: In the background you can see what remains of the cabin. The other cabin is roped up. Photo: Tobias Eskeland
Didn’t sleep
The night in the hospital turned out to be anything but good for Dussauze. She worried about her husband and the friends who were with them.
– I haven’t slept at all. I have cried and thought about my family, she says.
The day after the dramatic incident, she is left with a broken finger and is bruised.
Her husband has multiple wounds.
The other two who were with them both have broken backs.
When Dussauze sees a picture of what the cabin looks like now, she shakes her head.
– It’s so scary. I’m still alive and I’m glad about it.
IN SHOCK: Sreypov and her husband Vincent Dussauze are sitting together in the hospital in Lofoten. Both are bruised. Photo: Roy Arne Salater / TV 2
She doesn’t quite know what will happen next.
– Lofoten is a place I have long wanted to see. I don’t know if I want to come back because I’m so scared.
