70 Foot Wave Hits Cruise Ship

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70 foot wave hits cruise ship. The video shows the moment the cruise ship faces down a huge storm. 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. And a 26-foot wave wouldnt even break above the hull on most big cruise ships.

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. It sways through the waves before the huge 100-foot waves rushes above the ship. There were around 40 injuries with some.

Wave Strikes Cruise Ship Amateur video shows the moment a giant wave pounds a Mediterranean ship. In February students in a Semester at Sea program aboard the MV Explorer were hit by a 50-foot wave south of Alaska that injured two crew members and damaged ship equipment. On a 2 week cruise through the celtic nations on the Holland America-Prinsendam we hit 40 ft waves going into the North Sea.

Caught on Tape. The cruise ship is then battered as the wave reaches 70 feet. This cruiseship got hit by a 70ft wave which shattered two cabin windows on 9th and 10th floors thats HIGH flooded 60 cabins and threw 2 jacuzzi tubs on the roof clear off the ship.

An incredible shudder went through the ship followed a few minutes later by two smaller shudders Warwick recalled in a 1996 article in Marine Observer. Passengers on a cruise ship that was struck by a freak seven-story-high wave said Monday that the stormy weather that smashed windows and sent. Even the bridge is not safe.

A cruise ships voyage to New York was interrupted by a 70-foot-high wave that forced the vessel into a southern port for emergency repairs. Susan Robison a spokeswoman for Norwegian Cruise Lines told the New York Daily News the Norwegian Dawn had survived a bad storm and the ocean had calmed when the wave hit the ship. The wave reached as high as deck 10 on the ship company spokeswoman Susan Robison said Sunday.