Cruise Ship Hit By Wave

An NCL ship was hit by a 70-plus foot wave a couple of years ago and.

Cruise ship hit by wave. The Carnival Pride cruise ship was travelling through rough seas when it partially submerged. Cruise ship hit by deadly wave Posted Mar. Filming from an ocean view cabin the dangerous waves.

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. Smaller vessels and container ships have been destroyed by. 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 was sailing through the English Channel.

The captain detected the wave on radar and was able to turn the ship to face the wave and little damage occurs. 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. It was a far different fate for the German container ship Munchen which sank in the middle of the.

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. 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. 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.

No one was injured. 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. 4 - A Mediterranean pleasure ship pulls into Barcelona harbour with dead and injured after being struck by a giant wave.

Theres precedent for cruise ships dealing with huge waves. MS Rotterdam In April 2000 during a Pacific Ocean crossing cruise the ship was hit by a rogue wave and sustained serious interior damages. Cruise-ship sinkings are much rarer but in recent years some cruise liners have been hit by rogue waves including.