Passengers Hit by Freak Waterfall as Cruise Ship Steers to Avoid Raft Video

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The ship can carry 3,500 passengers at double occupancy and is one of the largest ships in the fleet. “Following ongoing safety checks and technical assessments, given the weather conditions, we decided to amend the planned sailing route. Across the fleet, there are thorough operational protocols in place and we always prioritize the safety of those onboard,” HX said. The ship "sustained limited damage during the incident" and arrived in Ushuaia Wednesday afternoon, Viking said in its statement. ‘Following ongoing safety checks and technical assessments, given the weather conditions, we decided to amend the planned sailing route. Across the fleet, there are thorough operational protocols in place and we always prioritise the safety of those onboard.

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What sets the Black Sea event apart is that it, like the Ucluelet wave, was recorded with a high-precision instrument. The Oceanic rogue waves paper also reports even more extreme waves from a different source, but these were possibly overestimated, as assessed by the data's own authors. From the paper, they infer that in 2006 a 21-metre (69 ft) wave appeared in a sea with a significant wave height of 3.9 metres (13 ft). The factor difference is 5.38, almost twice that of the Ucluelet wave. The paper also reveals the MV Pont-Aven incident as marginally more extreme than the Ucluelet event. The paper also assesses a report of an 11-metre (36 ft) wave in a significant wave height of 1.9 metres (6 ft 3 in), but casts doubt on that claim.

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Tom Trusdale said he saw two passengers tossed into the air from what seemed to be an apparent explosion. The MS Maud’s on-board technology makes her “exceptionally well-suited” to trips through Norway and the British Isles, the company boasted. “I’ll be honest, there was about 20 minutes yesterday where I thought the ship might capsize, it was rolling so heavily and we didn’t have any idea what had happened,” she said. The ship’s main engine is still functioning, so the vessel can be steered from the engine room. Everyone on board was marked safe, and the ship is being towed to Bremerhaven in Germany, officials with the Danish Joint Rescue Coordination Centre said.

Viking Polaris: Passenger killed after 'rogue wave' hits cruise ship

Analysis of scientific papers dealing with rogue wave events since 2005 revealed the claims for the record-setting nature and rarity of the wave to be incorrect. Thorough inspection of the buoy after the recording revealed no malfunction. The authors of the paper that reported the Black Sea event[53] assessed the wave as "anomalous" and suggested several theories on how such an extreme wave may have arisen.

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There was only a little damage to one of the cabins which had a porthole. As a result guests who were staying in the cabin and in nearby cabins were provided alternative rooms. Under international maritime law, cruise ships are legally obliged to offer assistance to any refugee vessels they come across, which can include taking the refugees onboard if their boat or raft looks unstable. A number of refugees, seeking to escape from Cuba to Florida, have been picked up by cruise liners over the past few weeks. One passenger was killed and four more injured after a "rogue wave" hit a cruise ship bound for Antarctica, travel company Viking has said.

Rogue wave hits Norwegian cruise ship - CTV News

Rogue wave hits Norwegian cruise ship.

Posted: Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]

However, the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded was the Ucluelet wave, a 58-foot-tall (17.7 m) wave that was detected by an ocean buoy off the coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia in November 2020. The Ucluelet wave is regarded as the most extreme rogue wave because it was around three times higher than surrounding waves, while the Draupner wave was only around twice as tall compared with the surrounding sea state. The Viking Polaris cruise ship was sailing towards Ushuaia in Argentina -- the main starting point for expeditions to Antarctica -- when there was "a rogue wave incident," a representative of the Viking cruise company said in a statement. The Viking Polaris cruise ship was sailing toward Ushuaia in Argentina — the main starting point for expeditions to Antarctica — when there was "a rogue wave incident," a representative of the Viking cruise company said in a statement.

I agree that no apology is needed from the member who posted this, but we all need to remember that the picture is just a fake. Apart from anything else, it was circulating on the Internet long before Hurricane Isabel was around. We were in a similar sea-state storm on Royal Princess, 8-98, between Greenland and Newfoundland, and she rode it beautifully - just an occasional bump.

Cruise Ship Damaged by Rogue Wave, Loses Power - Cruise Hive

Cruise Ship Damaged by Rogue Wave, Loses Power.

Posted: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 08:00:00 GMT [source]

I wish the the person who shot or was involved in that picture to come forward. The Grand class are not good riders in heavy seas - too flat bottomed, too beamy, and very wind-prone to winds abeam. Louis Cruise Lines' Web site says the ship is 680 feet long, and features 10 passenger decks and 732 staterooms along with various bars, pools, restaurants and shops. Pierre Languillon, also of France, said damage was extensive and he saw many people with superficial injuries. "Suddenly we saw a wave that went up above our level, and I said to my husband, 'tonight we will not have to wash the windows,"' said Claudine Armand of France, who was in her cabin at that point. "Right then we heard we heard a loud noise, and it was the wave that hit us."

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Scientists often refer to rogue waves as extreme storm waves that surge out of nowhere, often in an unpredictable direction, and can look like a steep wall of water, up to twice the size of surrounding waves. Many of these encounters are reported only in the media, and are not examples of open-ocean rogue waves. A U.S. woman died and four other passengers were injured when a massive wave smashed into an Antarctic cruise ship during a storm as it sailed off the southernmost tip of South America, officials said Friday. The 62-year-old woman was hit by broken glass when the wave broke cabin windows late Tuesday, Argentine authorities said. A passenger aboard a British-based cruise ship was killed and another airlifted to shore after the ship was hit by a "freak wave during adverse sea conditions," according to Cruise & Maritime Voyages. The largest rogue wave ever recorded was the Draupner wave, an 84-foot-tall (25.6 meters) wave that was observed near Norway in 1995.

"This wave hit and came over and literally broke through windows and just washed into these rooms," Tom Trusdale, a passenger aboard the Viking Polaris when the incident happened, told ABC News. "Not only did it wash into the rooms, but it [also] broke walls down." Amateur video footage taken by a passenger and aired on Spanish television showed a huge, foamy wave hitting what appeared to be the lounge area, sending water gushing in and people scurrying for safety.

These are not tsunamis or tidal waves, but huge breaking walls of water that come out of the blue. Fourteen others were injured when 80-mph wind gusts kicked up giant waves in the English Channel on Friday afternoon, killing the 85-year-old passenger. Another passenger, Jean Claude Fery, of Marseille, said he was in his cabin looking out the porthole at tremendously turbulent seas. This accident happened in an area of the Mediterranean called the Gulf of Leon, which is known for big waves when storms hit. Large waves are not rare in the Mediterranean, but ones that size occur only once or twice a year, said Marta de Alfonso, an oceanographer with the Spanish government.

H. Gibbs (2005) brings this mode into question, as it is shown that a typical wave group focuses in such a way as to produce a significant wall of water at the cost of a reduced height. The rig was built to withstand a calculated 1-in-10,000-years wave with a predicted height of 20 m (64 ft) and was fitted with state-of-the-art sensors, including a laser rangefinder wave recorder on the platform's underside. At 3 pm on 1 January 1995, the device recorded a rogue wave with a maximum wave height of 25.6 m (84 ft). Peak elevation above still water level was 18.5 m (61 ft).[28] The reading was confirmed by the other sensors.[29] The platform sustained minor damage in the event. The freak wave hit the side of the MSC cruise ship late on Thursday night injuring 2 passengers.