Monster Wave Hits Cruise Ship

An oil tanker heads into a monster wave.

Monster wave hits cruise ship. Oh man it is big. CBS News reports on a large wave which hit the Louis Majesty Cruise Ship killing two passengers and injurying fourteen others. Terrifying moment huge ship is hit by 100ft mega wave during monster storm VIDEO has captured the moment a ship was hit by a 100ft wave.

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. Two days ago 12072010 a cruise ship lost an engine after encountering monster waves near the South Shetland Islands north of the Antarctic peninsula. Digitally manipulatedGetty Images At 420 pm the ship ran without warning into a wall of water 8 metres or more in height.

Two videos of the waves are here and here. Nerve-wracking moment cruise ship gets battered by MONSTER wave in storm CRUISE ships regularly get hit by huge waves and storms. Even the bridge is not safe.

Warwick had given the order confining passengers to quarters. It is now believed that a rogue wave hit the ship causing it to capsize and sink. The Video is Short but a Powerful Statement as to What a Rogue Wave Can Do to a Cruise Ship in Seconds Given the relative number of cameras cell phones with cameras and video cameras that people take with them on vacation it is a bit surprising that there werent more videos taken of the rogue waves that hit the Louis Majesty cruise ship just off the coast of Spain Wednesday.

Monster wave slams into cruise ship 0232. Three 30 foot waves crashed into the Louis Majesty cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday. A passenger aboard the UK-based cruise ship MS Marco Polo was killed after the ship was hit by a freak wave the cruise line said Friday.

The three waves that struck the Cypriot-owned ship Wednesday claimed two lives off the coast of northeast Spain. Suddenly a huge wave loomed off the bow huge even for a ship the size of the QE2 at nearly 1000 feet long. During a patrol search against illegal fishing of tooth-fish poachers this royal navy warship got smashed frontally by a huge monster wave.