[BuckeyeTexan]

Video from cruise ship during rogue wave.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni05h-jSTQk&feature=youtube_gdata

[crazydad]

OH NOOOOS Just like on 2012.

[beaversmom]

Just watched about killer waves the other night—think it was on The Science Channel.

[bsf2009]

Gives me an idea - “Titanic cruises”, complete with iceberg and rushing for the lifeboats.

[SkyPilot]

Aye Carumba!

[Tennessee Nana]

Shades of The Posiden Adventure...

[Tammy8]

My neighbor was telling me about this incident this morning. She just returned from the same cruise a couple of months ago, she said they ran into a storm on that cruise and many of the passenges got soaked. She was really happy she wasn’t on this ship.

[BluH2o]

Did two 6 month Med cruises when I was a young lad in the USMC. The Med can put up some pretty impressive seas, they also trend to short interval or steep seas in strong blows.
From what I understand seas were moderate when the three rogue waves hit this cruise ship. The waves were reported to be about 30 feet in height ... if they hit in a short sequence pattern the ship would tend to plunge thru them which seems to be the case in this instance.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

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[cricket]

Was this a tag along from earthquake?

(Thought it strange they were worried about 7ft waves last week; figured even surfers are challenged with better than that - though probably missing another equasion here.)

Well, with respect to those injured; traumatized and those who did not survive; I guess you can only say. . ."good it was not worse".

Never even heard of a 'rogue wave' until a few years ago. . .could be one's worst nightmare if traveling 'oer the ocean'. . .or if you just tend to think about it. . .

[bboop]

I read, too, that this is an area of the Mediterranean Sea that is known for rough currents and waves. Means to me there are winds coming off the land — Pyrenees, Massif Central, etc.?

[bboop]

I googled ‘storms on the Mediterranean’ and found a scientific paper discussing the huge storms/ winds/ waves in this very area. It talks about the Mistral pouring down off the Massif Central/ Pyrenees in France/ northern Spain and out across the Mediterranean to Algeria. The paper discusses the huge storms in that area and whether there are rogue waves there.