[Rebelbase]

There's been a low pressure S.E. of Hatteras for a couple of days now. Things should be calming down on the US coastlines by today/tomorrow.

There were reports of 17' surf at Hatteras Saturday morning.

[SheLion]

There's been a low pressure S.E. of Hatteras for a couple of days now. Things should be calming down on the US coastlines by today/tomorrow.

Why are our oceans acting so weird lately?

North Carolina was having a weird wave pattern off the coast the past two days.  The Weather Channel had a weather gal standing on a pier overlooking the ocean at Nag's Head, and the ocean was really high and churning. (Yesterday).

 

It was supposed to get really high winds.  I didn't stay with the Weather Channel so I don't know what happened the rest of the day.  But now this article this morning.

 

I just don't know why our oceans are acting up so weird anymore.

[poobear]

Yep, I've been watching that 'little low' for days now. Very tight spin. People forget these late little northeasters are nothing less than a cat 1 hurricane. Serious surf. They're lucky the ship was as big as it was. Anything else would have sunk.

[George from New England]

"There's been a low pressure S.E. of Hatteras for a couple of days now."

So the ship captain, thinking they can defy God laws of nature, sails right through the storm.

We were one click away from being on this cruise 3 weeks ago. Only because of fraudulent web advertising did we not go. They promoted a price for 3 in a cabin and since our family is 5 we wanted 2 cabins. But phone contacts told us only 5% of the cabins will hold three people and the website allows 3 people in 100% of the quotes. Needless to say we didn't book.

We also found that prices for departure leaving Sunday, April 17th was almost twice as expensive as the returning week. AND WAS SOLD OUT. It doesn't surprise me that Norwegian had one goal in mind and that was keeping a timetable at the expense of safety. Ship was supposed to dock Sunday at 10 AM and leave with a sold out shipload at 4 PM the same day. Sold out at premium prices.

If they had sailed around the extreme low pressure or delayed the return a day, they would have all sorts of $$$ to return to the upcoming week customers. But now, they have 5000 customers on the tail for refunds instead of 2,500. Smart move Norwegian.