Rogue Wave Hits Cruise Ship

The 136000 gross registered ton ship which carries 3500 people and is owned by MSC Cruises is based in Miami.

Rogue wave hits cruise ship. 1909 The steamship SS Waratah disappears without trace with over 200 people on board off the coast of South Africa a swathe of sea now known for its high incidence of rogue waves. A rogue wave is just what it sounds an abnormally big wave defined as any wave more than twice the height of a significant wave in any given sea state. 26 as the ship sailed between Puerto Rico and the Bahamas TravelMolereports.

Up until quite recently oceanographers believed that the largest rogue wave could not exceed about 20 metres 60 feet This was disproven when an oil platform recorded a wave 26 metres high. The wave reached as high as deck 10 on the ship company spokeswoman Susan Robison said Sunday. CBS News reports on a large wave which hit the Louis Majesty Cruise Ship killing two passengers and injurying fourteen others.

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. 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. In 2010 three rogue waves up to 26 feet 79 meters high killed two people and injured others on the cruise ship Louis-Majesty while it was on a voyage off northeastern Spain.

The Explorer on a semester-at-sea sailing in the North Pacific was damaged. 26 as the ship sailed between Puerto Rico and the Bahamas TravelMole reports. But in a big storm.

The ship was hit by a freak wave that caused two windows to break in two different cabins Norwegian Cruise Line said in a statement. Rogue wave damages cruise ship. The 136000 gross registered ton ship which carries 3500 people and is owned by MSC Cruises is based in Miami.

Even the bridge is not safe. The ship The Norwegian Escape was sailing from New York to Florida with nearly 4000 vacationers on board when it was battered by a rogue 115 mph gust of. Cruise-ship sinkings are much rarer but in recent years some cruise liners have been hit by rogue waves including.