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The above video was taken from a Navy ship but cruise ship crashes due to adverse weather conditions are not uncommon. Clip taken off Australia on the PO Adonia which is now the Sea PrincessIf you have ever had any thing to do with Cruis.
And a 26-foot wave wouldnt even break above the hull on most big cruise ships.
Cruise ship hits big wave. Even the bridge is not safe. Clip taken off Australia on the PO Adonia which is now the Sea PrincessIf you have ever had any thing to do with Cruis. A big wave from the Bay of Biscay.
And heres some video from a ship hit by a 50 foot wave question-Why werent those people taking a brace position instead of being in position to slide around. The slightly damaged cruise ship has returned to New York. Based on my experience most of the crowd meeting it at the pier consisted of personal injury lawyers.
The accident happened in an area of the Mediterranean called the Gulf of Leon known for big waves when storms hit. The ship was on a 12-day cruise from the ports of Genoa and Marseilles in the. On 1 February 2007 Holland Americas cruise ship MS Prinsendam was hit by two 12-meter 39 ft tall rogue waves near Cape Horn.
There were around 40 injuries with some requiring hospitalization. 14 April 2008 half a nautical mile off Kleinbaai near Gansbaai South Africa freak wave hit tourists diving to see sharks. The shark diving boat capsized.
CRUISE ships regularly get hit by huge waves and storms but one terrifying moment it crashes into one makes for a scary watch. By Kara Godfrey PUBLISHED. 2014 Mon Jul 24 2017 UPDATED.
Tragedy Aboard Cruise Ship Hit By Wave. Massive 26-foot waves slammed into a cruise ship in the Mediterranean yesterday near Barcelona Spain killing two people and injuring several more. The huge waves smashed through windows sending water gushing into the public areas on the forward bow of the Greece-based Louis Cruise Lines ship the Louis.
This accident happened in an area of the Mediterranean called the Gulf of Leon which is known for big waves when storms hit. The ship was on a 12-day cruise from the ports of Genoa and Marseilles in the western Mediterranean calling at Tangiers Casablanca Tenerife Lanzarote Cadiz Cartagena Barcelona and had been due to return to Genoa on Thursday. And a 26-foot wave wouldnt even break above the hull on most big cruise ships.
An NCL ship was hit by a 70-plus foot wave a couple of years ago and sustained only minor damage and some flooding. Theres precedent for cruise ships dealing with huge waves. In 1998 Cunards Queen Elizabeth was hit by a wave almost 30 metres high.
The captain detected the wave on radar and was able to turn the ship to face the wave and little damage occurs. Smaller vessels and container ships have been destroyed by similar waves. The Greece-based Louis Cruise Lines ship was in the Mediterranean north of Barcelona when it was hit by three abnormal waves each about 26 feet 9 meters high cruise line spokesman Michael.
The above video was taken from a Navy ship but cruise ship crashes due to adverse weather conditions are not uncommon. In 2017 a huge ship was captured crashing into a 100ft mega wave during a. Watch Waves Hitting Cruise Ship.
The footage was taken from deck 3 and occurred in February 2016. Only now this has come back into the limelight and been taken notice by the media. Anthem of the.
On March 3 a sudden wall of water hit a cruise ship sailing in the Mediterranean Sea off the northeastern coast of Spain killing two people injuring 14. A smaller expedition cruise ship the Bremen was hit by a similar-sized rogue wave in the South Atlantic in 2001. The wall of water damaged the ship and knocked out power.
The Freak Wave that hit QE2 in 1995. In one prominent rogue-wave encounter Capt. Ronald Warwick who followed in his fathers footsteps to command the British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II was on the bridge at 4 am.
Two hundred miles off Newfoundland headed for New York Warwick had been trying without success to dodge.