Cruise Ship Hit By Wave

The bow of the ship was breaking through the waves on minute you were looking up at the sky the next a wall of water as the bow came crashing down and water swepted the decks in the morning the ship was a wreck all the dinning room was piled up at one side a piano had broken lose etc.

Cruise ship hit by wave. The Explorer on a semester-at-sea sailing in the North Pacific was. In 2014 a passenger aboard the British-based cruise ship MS Marco Polo was killed after the ship was hit by a freak wave during adverse sea conditions as it made its way into the English Channel. The Carnival Pride cruise ship was travelling through rough seas when it partially submerged.

According to Louis Cruise Lines the owner of the vessel the Louis Majesty was hit by three abnormally high waves each more than 33 ft. The ships bow dropped into a hole of a trough behind the first wave and was hit by a second wave of between 91 and 96 feet high that cleaned a mast right off the foredeck. Even the bridge is not safe.

Smaller vessels and container ships have been destroyed by. We heard a loud noise and it was the wave that hit us Claudine Armand a passenger from France told the Associated Press Television News. In 2014 a passenger aboard the British-based cruise ship MS Marco Polo was killed after the ship was hit by a freak wave during adverse sea conditions.

There were around 40 injuries with some requiring hospitalization. In 1966 the Italian cruise ship Michelangelo was traveling to New York when it was hit by a wave estimated to be 24 meters 80 feet high. On 1 February 2007 Holland Americas cruise ship MS Prinsendam was hit by two 12-meter 39 ft tall rogue waves near Cape Horn.

4 - A Mediterranean pleasure ship pulls into Barcelona harbour with dead and injured after being struck by a giant wave. In 2006 a 70 foot 21 meters high rogue wave smashed into the container ship The Pomona while it was in the Pacific Ocean. Filming from an ocean view cabin the dangerous waves.

It was a far different fate for the German container ship Munchen which sank in the middle of the. In 1998 Cunards Queen Elizabeth was hit by a wave almost 30 metres high. Other cruise ships cargo and scientific vessels have been affected by rogue waves over the years.