"Rogue wave" kills American woman, injures four others on Antarctic cruise ship

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In 2019, a study published in the journal Scientific Reports predicted that rogue waves could become less frequent but more extreme in the future due to the effects of human-caused climate change. There's a thread on the Norwegian board about the Dawn being hit by a freak wave that broke windows on the 9th and 10th decks. The ship was diverted to Charleston for repairs and will then proceed to New York City. A freak wave hit the MSC Divina on Thursday evening and two passengers were not seriously injured.

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This is the terrifying moment a UK-bound cruise ship was smashed by a wave strong enough to knock its power out and send passengers sliding around. Viking said in a statement on its website that it's investigating the wave incident and is committed to the safety and security of all guests and crew. "Our focus remains on the safety and wellbeing of our guests and crew, and we are working directly with them to arrange return travel," the company added in a statement issued on Friday.

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The exact mechanisms behind the rogue waves are still unknown, but researchers think the freakish crests are formed when smaller waves merge into larger ones, either due to high surface winds or changes in ocean currents caused by storms, according to NOAA. Rogue waves are freak waves that are at least twice as high as the surrounding sea state — the average height of the waves for a given area at a given time, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The massive walls of water come from seemingly out of nowhere and without warning.

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That may well have been Golden Princess' 8-02 trans-Atlantic, when we hit two different storms out of the Azores. It was a bumpy crossing, but no "rogue waves" were involved, to my knowledge. The spatiotemporal focusing seen in the NLS equation can also occur when the non-linearity is removed. In this case, focusing is primarily due to different waves coming into phase rather than any energy-transfer processes.

'Freak wave' kills cruise ship passenger

Neither the Viking statement nor the Argentine Naval Prefecture identified the woman or her hometown.

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Tour operator Thorsten Hansen shared a video of the foamy waves battering the hull of the MS Maud, which made headlines Thursday when its electricity failed mid-voyage. The victim was a US woman who died after being struck by shattered glass, Argentinian media report. He studied marine biology at the University of Exeter before training to become a journalist. He covers a wide range of topics including space exploration, planetary science, space weather, climate change, animal behavior, evolution and paleontology.

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These rare killer waves were once seen as a myth reported by mariners or explorers. The polar explorer Ernest Shackleton wrote in his book of a "gigantic" freak wave he encountered in Antarctica in 1916. "One elderly passenger has died and a further passenger has been airlifted for further shore-side medical assistance," the cruise line's statement reads.

A storm was raging when the wave hit, CNN reported, which could have provided the necessary conditions for a rogue wave to form. But the Drake Passage is also a notoriously treacherous part of the Southern Ocean, with deep waters that are fed by the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which makes it capable of producing very large non-rogue waves as well, according to Britannica. The force of the massive wall of water sent passengers flying and smashed several exterior windows, which flooded some rooms and caused further structural damage inside.

A rogue wave caused a cruise ship tragedy. They occur more often than you think.

Cruise Hive reported that the crew spotted a raft as they made their way through the Straits of Florida, and the ship turned hard to avoid a collision. The MS Maud, which is run by the cruise company HX, a unit of Norway’s Hurtigruten Group, left Floroe in Norway on Thursday and was scheduled to arrive in Tilbury in Great Britain on Friday. Another clip shared on X showed the view of the terrifying swells from the glamorous windows of an on-board suit, which tilted precariously toward the water between each wave. Four other tourists "sustained non-life-threatening injuries" and were treated onboard.

Every time we move we nearly go flying,” one passenger commented under Hansen’s post. The company has decided to cancel its scheduled voyage, which would have seen the ship sail towards Antarctica from 5-17 December. Viking said it was investigating the incident and offered its "deepest sympathies" to the passenger's family. The Viking Polaris was launched in 2022 and is the newest ship in the company's fleet. "We wondered if we hit an iceberg," Suzie Gooding, a passenger from North Carolina, told WRAL-TV. State Department spokesperson confirmed the death and offered condolences to the family.

One of the Grand class ships had windows broken out after a rough transatlantic cruise a few years ago. The army rescued 30 people from a seafront restaurant in Hampshire, southwest of London, after high winds blew a shingle through its windows, allowing floodwaters in. De Alfonso said there was in fact a big storm in the area at the time and the waves might have been stirred up by fierce winds. "It was three waves, one after the other. The damage was done by the second and the third waves. We are talking about waves that exceeded 10 meters in height. This was unforeseen and unpredicted because the weather was not really that bad," Maratheftis said. "It broke all the windows and I was rolling and rolling and did not stop calling out for my husband." Unusual waves have been studied scientifically for many years (for example, John Scott Russell's wave of translation, an 1834 study of a soliton wave).

The ship's owner and operator, Louis Cruise Lines, said the vessel was struck Wednesday by three "abnormally high" waves more than 33 feet high that broke glass windshields in the forward section on deck five, which is one of 10 used by passengers. One person died and four others were injured after a "rogue wave" hit the Viking Polaris cruise ship while it was sailing toward Ushuaia, Argentina, on Tuesday night, officials said. The Trusdales were passengers on the Viking Polaris cruise ship sailing toward Ushuaia, Argentina, when it was hit by a "rogue wave" last week, killing an American passenger, Sheri Zhu, and injuring four others. In 2019, a study revealed that rogue waves are occurring less often but becoming more extreme, posing an increased risk to global shipping.