Monster Wave Hits Cruise Ship

Terrifying moment huge ship is hit by 100ft mega wave during monster storm VIDEO has captured the moment a ship was hit by a 100ft wave.

Monster wave hits cruise ship. The ship The Clelia II a 5-deck ship is apparently safe and heading to Ushuia Argentina accompanied by an Argentinian naval vessel. It is now believed that a rogue wave hit the ship causing it to capsize and sink. Two days ago 12072010 a cruise ship lost an engine after encountering monster waves near the South Shetland Islands north of the Antarctic peninsula.

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No survivors were ever found. Two videos of the waves are here and here. Digitally manipulatedGetty Images At 420 pm the ship ran without warning into a wall of water 8 metres or more in height.

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 Video is Short but a Powerful Statement as to What a Rogue Wave Can Do to a Cruise Ship in Seconds Given the relative number of cameras cell phones with cameras and video cameras that people take with them on vacation it is a bit surprising that there werent more videos taken of the rogue waves that hit the Louis Majesty cruise ship just off the coast of Spain Wednesday. Oh man it is big.

Monster Waves Hit Louis Majesty Cruise Ship. In 1996 the Queen Elizabeth 2 encountered a rogue wave of twenty-nine meters which the Captain said came out of the darkness and looked like the White Cliffs of Dover London newspapers said that the captain situated the vessel to surf the wave to avoid being sunk. CNNs Tom Foreman takes a closer look at the type of monster.

Three 30 foot waves crashed into the Louis Majesty cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday. Suddenly a huge wave loomed off the bow huge even for a ship the size of the QE2 at nearly 1000 feet long. Clip taken off Australia on the PO Adonia which is now the Sea PrincessIf you have ever had any thing to do with Cruis.