Posted on 01/09/2018 5:08:06 AM PST by simpson96
NEW YORK -- So much for a relaxing vacation. Angry passengers on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship, the Breakaway, said last week they dealt with extreme conditions as their boat sailed right through Thursday's winter storm. Now, CBS New York reports another Norwegian ship cut through the whipping winds and turbulent seas of last week's tempest.
Passengers claim it all comes down to the company's bottom line.
With billowing waves and blustery winds, sailing back to Manhattan from the Bahamas was anything but unwinding for passenger Christina Mendez.
"It was hell for me," Mendez told CBS News York. Chaos, flooding at JFK International Airport highlight infrastructure shortfall
Mendez was one of 4,000 passengers aboard the Breakaway, which departed Wednesday afternoon despite the forecasted storm that pummelled the East Coast. A camera at the bow shows just what their ship was sailing in to.
"Water started leaking and then it became so cold we had popsicles inside our room," Mendez said. "Flooding in the bathroom because we were at a tilt. The water just gushed out."(snip)
Norwegian Cruise Line did not wish to appear on camera, but said in a statement that the Breakaway encountered stronger than forecasted weather conditions.(snip)
Mendez says all she's heard from the cruise line since the experience was an email soliciting feedback. Meanwhile, she says her children are still having nightmares.
"They're gonna remember when they saw a lady fall from the ceiling," she said. "They're gonna remember puking everywhere. They're gonna remember everything they heard and saw."(snip)
Norwegian did not immediately reply when asked who makes the final decision to sail when bad weather is forecasted.
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You are a flaming idiot sailing from NYC in January. STFU with your first world problems, fool!
Trump’s/Russians Fault!
This destroyer sailor went through three typhoons in ‘69, ‘70 and ‘71 on a little Gearing class tin can. Personally, I liked the rough ride. I was an underway watch supervisor in a secure air conditioned space and was never seasick in my life. So on mid watches, I would send my fellow watch standers to their racks so I wouldn’t have to hear the bitching, moaning and puking and I would man all the electronic gear myself. I have also sailed the Atlantic and that is a mean piece of water in the best weather. So these northerners think they can leave from NYC in the dead of winter and it’s going to be fair winds and following seas? Absolute morons. I can’t blame the cruise lines because if the dolts will pay, they’ll sail. If I want to go cruising in the winter, I’ll get my butt down to Florida and not worry about it.
#8 - lol.
I know the feeling, rode out 2 typhoons in the South Pacific in 85. Fun most of the time and when most were sick I had the pick of the best chow:)
We were on a cruise and we woke up in the middle of the night to see the drawers on the furniture in the cabin sliding out and sliding back in.
The wife got worried, so I tried to calm her down by telling her it was just ghosts.
That didn’t seem to help. In fact, I think it made it worse.
Oh for heaven’s sake lady, think of what all the sailors went through in the age of sails.
I’ll bet the line for the midnight buffet was short. :-)
“We were on a cruise and we woke up in the middle of the night to see the drawers on the furniture in the cabin sliding out and sliding back in.
The wife got worried, so I tried to calm her down by telling her it was just ghosts.
That didn’t seem to help. In fact, I think it made it worse.”
And then the Chicken Parisienne slid out and stayed out.
Who knew the ocean had waves?!?
How did they manage to blame it on Trump?
Being trapped in close quarters with thousands of loud, obnoxious Tri-State Area harridans wouldn’t be my idea of a vacation. I’d choose the “bomb cyclone.”
Maybe she was eating a popsicle and slipped.
If she was cold, why was she eating popsicles?
Lady, if you wanna sail on water that is flatter than piss on a plate, put a dinghy in a swimming pool. Get off the ocean and leave the real sailing to real sailors.
At the end of WWII we Americans, Brits, New Zealanders, etc were liberated from the Philippine Islands and some of us Americans were sent back to the States on available Liberty ships. My ad, Mom, little brother and I were on the Eberlle (?sp). I remember the trip as hell on the water. Later I was told we ran into a typhoon, (hurricane) that almost sank us. As we listed side to side I remember the horrible smell of vomit mixed with broken perfume bottles, hanging onto my berth as it tried to toss me off and watching an orange go back an forth over the floor, wall to wall, over and over again. I heard later the ship listed 11 degrees. I don’t know if that was true. I was almost 7 yo when we were liberated from the Japanese POW camps.
That is an astonishing story.
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