15 Foot Waves Cruise Ship

Cruise ship battered by nine-metre waves video.

15 foot waves cruise ship. April 17 - A seven-story-high wave damaged a cruise ship returning from the Bahamas over the weekend smashing windows flooding more than 60 cabins and injuring four passengers. On the QM2 we were in 15 foot waves following a hurricane and you could sense movement but it was never unpleasant. Non-primary source needed The trimaran Rose-Noëlle capsized on 4 June 1989 when she was struck by a rogue wave in the southern Pacific Ocean off the coast of New Zealand.

Cruise ships are surprisingly well prepared for all the bad weather one can expect out at sea. Coast collided with the ship forcing 6000 passengers and crew to hunker down while the ship was battered by 100mph winds. Its not uncommon for a cruise ship to routinely travel through areas with waves of 10 or 15 feet and large modern cruise ships handle wave like this without incident.

Plus cruise ships are built to withstand 50 foot 15 metres waves. The Fastnet Lighthouse off the south coast of Ireland was struck by a 47-meter-high 154-foot-high wave in 1985. It is normally a small room with sparse.

Fourteen others were injured. Terrifying new passenger footage shows giant waves crashing into cruise ship window. But in reality such huge waves are a rarity and a typical ship is unlikely to come across one of those during his career.

The video shows the moment the cruise ship faces down a huge storm. March 13 2017 Accidents. According to Harry Bolton retired captain of the training ship Golden Bear at the California Maritime Academy a modern cruise ship could hypothetically be capsized by a 70 to 100-foot wave if it took it directly on the beam.

On a 2 week cruise through the celtic nations on the Holland America-Prinsendam we hit 40 ft waves going into the North Sea. The video shows a cruise passenger looking out the window as 30ft waves submerged the vessel during the hurricane force storm. Erica Hill reports two people died and.