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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But people are conditioned to think we humans are really in charge. We are not.
One woman’s cruise experience is National News to CBS now. Awesome.
Oceanic meteorology is fairly advanced. This cruise line could have easily routed around this storm, albeit at cost. This outcome was easily predictable, not something that came out of the blue.
Don’t tell Algore but the storm was a standard, run of the mill Nor’easter.
‘Bomb cyclone ‘ is just an attempt to frighten people into believing GorBull Worming
Any destroyer sailor could tell her that.
>>”Water started leaking and then it became so cold we had popsicles inside our room,”
The visuals
>>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)
Sounds like good preparation for college life.
2nd best post of the day!
She clearly has never crossed the Drake Passage. These are normal conditions.
I spent a lot of time sleeping on the floor, eating cold food, and being soaking wet on mine...
...but then, I was only paying with my duty, not dollars, so I didn’t get the luxury cabin.
It’s not every day a cruise vacation includes a roller coaster ride. And she got it for free.
This cruise was an at sea version of Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride!
And, if the ship went around the storm and they got home a day later she would be whining about that.
Been there done that....splish splash,I was takin a bath, I slippin and a sliding....movin and a grooving..
Evidently “Norwegian” didn’t opt for the radar and weather packages on their newer ships.
Hah....good one.
That’s why they make foul weather jackets :)
One woman’s cruise experience is National News to CBS now. Awesome.
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Really. Someone goes on a cruise knowing the weather is bad, and the weather is bad. She’s angry!
Cry me a (frozen) river, lady.
Lol. Too funny.
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