Road Wave Hits Cruise Ship

Even the bridge is not safe.

Road wave hits cruise ship. 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. On 1 February 2007 Holland Americas cruise ship MS Prinsendam was hit by two 12-meter 39 ft tall rogue waves near Cape Horn. A HUGE wave has slammed into a cruise ship carrying almost 2000 people in the Mediterranean leaving two people dead and six injured.

Generally a Massive Cruise ship is considered at risk if struck from the side by a 40ft wave. More recently in 2005 the cruise ship Norwegian Dawn had its ninth and 10th floor windows smashed by a wave that rose to near 21 meters 70 feet high. The ship The Norwegian Escape was sailing from New York to Florida with nearly 4000 vacationers on board when it was battered by a rogue 115 mph gust of.

A large wave slammed into the ship with 88 US passengers and 77 crew members aboard but the crew overcame minor damage and headed safely back to. Cruise Hive is sad to report that an 85-year-old male passenger has been killed from a large freak wave that hit the Marco Pol cruise ship while it. And a 26-foot wave wouldnt even break above the hull on most big cruise ships.

In 2010 three rogue waves up to 26 feet 79 meters high killed two people and injured others on the cruise ship Louis-Majesty while it was on a voyage off northeastern Spain. An NCL ship was hit by a 70-plus foot wave a couple of years ago and. To Book Your Dream Holiday Contact Our Sydney Based Reservations Team.

Ship was sailing on its way to Rotterdam when this huge i. POs Pacific Sun cruise liner was hit with huge waves about 650 kilometres off the coast of New Zealand in July 2008. The Australian cruise liner violently rolled during the incident injuring.

Brittany Ferries MV Pont-Aven was struck by a wave estimated at between 40 feet 12 m and 50 feet 15 m in height during a Force 9 gale in the Bay of Biscay on 21 May 2006. SHOCKING new footage has emerged showing the moment a quiet marina is destroyed by a mini tsunami created by a cruise ships propellers as it sails out of port in Italy. On Wednesday March 3 2010 the cruise ship Louis Majesty encountered a series of three abnormally high waves while sailing in the waters off the northeast coast of Spain.