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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
I woke up for my morning wheel watch to find our cook sitting in the galley pale as a ghost and telling me he wasn't cooking today. I asked him why and he jerked his thumb towards the a porthole. I looked out and saw a wall of black marble so steep I had to press my face against the glass to get a look at the top of that wave.
The view from the wheelhouse was worse. We had 30-foot seas on our starboard quarter (our wheelhouse was 15 feet above the waterline) and the boat was swinging her stern around like Britney Spears in a music video. I spent the next four hours fighting to keep us from broaching and running for my life. When I knocked off my watch, I went to my bunk convinced I was not going to wake up on this plane of existence. Not terror, just past that.
I was pleasantly surprised to wake up still alive. That's a good feeling. I'd sailed for years on larger ships before that voyage and had weathered typhoons and other nasty storms. But when we got to the tug's home port, I signed off that damn boat and swore to God that I would never- I mean never- work a towboat in Alaska again.
This lady doesn't know crap about what real sailing is.
They want to keep everyone in a constant state of fear.
Good book. “State Of Fear”. Michael Crichton tour de force about the BS of the Global Warming crowd. It described how the left is lying about climate change And Crichton died young soon after its release. You wonder why?
All we got in the Navy on a destroyer was crackers and peanut butter for midrats.
I’m convinced Ray Stevens got the inspiration for Guitar-zan from Popsicles/Icicles. It’s where they sing ....
He loves bright stars and guitars and something or other.
They blurred guitars into ‘and,’ giving guitarzan.
Steven’s song came out a year or two later.
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