Killer waves caused panic on cruise ship

AFP ^ | 03/04/2010 | AFP

[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.

[beaversmom]

Wonder how the two passengers died.

[Dixie Yooper]

Wonder how the two passengers died.

Their hearts stopped beating.

[null and void]

Broken glass and other debris.

[SkyPilot]

Aye Carumba!

[Tennessee Nana]

Shades of The Posiden Adventure...

[beaversmom]

That’ll do it.

[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.

[colorado tanker]

The History Channel has done a program on rogue waves, too. For centuries scientists thought the sailor tales were fake or exaggerated, but they’ve finally come to believe they really exist.

[beaversmom]

Maybe it was the History Channel I saw the program—one of those stations.

[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. . .

[cricket]

OK . . .a LOL here. . .with all due respect. . .

[colorado tanker]

The whole idea of a rogue wave scares the heck out of me. Those things can come on so quick a ship doesn't have time to turn into the wave, and if a really big one hits amidships it could be really bad news.

Fortunately, they're rare.

[beaversmom]

They are scary. Frankly, the whole big ocean scares me. Luckily, not too many big waves here in CO.