Monster Wave Hits Cruise Ship

Two days ago 12072010 a cruise ship lost an engine after encountering monster waves near the South Shetland Islands north of the Antarctic peninsula.

Monster wave hits cruise ship. Suddenly a huge wave loomed off the bow huge even for a ship the size of the QE2 at nearly 1000 feet long. Freak Wave Hits Cruise Ship Killing 1 Passenger. Two videos of the waves are here and here.

The vessel was carrying 1350 passengers and 580 crew members from a. Doesnt look big to start but when it hits. 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.

Digitally manipulatedGetty Images At 420 pm the ship ran without warning into a wall of water 8 metres or more in height. It is now believed that a rogue wave hit the ship causing it to capsize and sink. 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.

During a patrol search against illegal fishing of tooth-fish poachers this royal navy warship got smashed frontally by a huge monster wave. No survivors were ever found. Clip taken off Australia on the PO Adonia which is now the Sea PrincessIf you have ever had any thing to do with Cruis.

Nerve-wracking moment cruise ship gets battered by MONSTER wave in storm CRUISE ships regularly get hit by huge waves and storms. CNNs Tom Foreman takes a closer look at the type of monster. Cruise with confidence - Risk-free bookings industry leading health safety policies.

The three waves that struck the Cypriot-owned ship Wednesday claimed two lives off the coast of northeast Spain. 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. The Greece-based Louis Cruise Lines ship was north-east of Barcelona Spain heading east to Genoa Italy when three abnormal waves struck the vessel.