Todays video on five cruise ships in heavy se. These are the waves that can be twice as tall as others and come from any direction.

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There were around 40 injuries with some requiring hospitalization.

Rogue waves and cruise ships. In 2009 five people were pulled out to sea by a rogue wave while standing on a beach at Acadia National Park in Maine. In 2010 three rogue waves up to 26 feet 79 meters high killed two people and injured others on the cruise ship Louis-Majesty while it was on a voyage off northeastern Spain. Of course ships can be damaged or even capsize in heavy wind seas.

The danger is rogue waves. A rogue wave is an isolated wave that is larger than the current sea state and can be twice the size of the waves at the time they happen fast and generally with little or no warning. On page 47 of White Hurricane Dave Browns terrific book about the Great Storm of 1913 he describes the Three Sisters as a trio of so-called rogue waves that appear suddenly ravage unsuspecting ships and then disappear As for the Regina she was a small package freighter that had taken on a full load of various cargo before heading out into Lake Huron.

Waves of 30 metres are fairly regularly documented phenomenons. She is a wonderful ship owned by Royal Caribbean with a first class crew. Its actually three waves Mike.

Freshwater Rogues Rogue waves can form in large bodies of freshwater as well as the ocean. Going on a cruise is a great way to spend a family vacation but you better hope you dont get hit by a storm. The ships captain had over 20 years of experience yet said he had never seen anything like it.

Taking such a wave on the beam would cause some damage and a very d. CRUISE SHIP Hit by 80 FOOT HIGH WAVEA freak wave smashed through the windows of a cruise ship on the English Channel reportedly killing an elderly manThe 8. I experienced one of these waves sailing in Explorer Of The Seas in 2014.

The Bee Flanders one of the most powerful tugboats in the world capable of towing a tanker of 550000 tons in load. As for construction of cruise ships Id say that since this ship. Rogue waves are held to be responsible for the disappearance of a considerable number of small and large ships from tiny fishing boats to tankers supertankers and ocean liners.

While this is technically true my understanding of rogue waves is that they arise from a synergistic interaction of existing wave trains and winds meaning you need some sort of sea to generate one. Up until quite recently oceanographers believed that the largest rogue wave could not exceed about 20 metres 60 feet This was disproven when an oil platform recorded a wave 26 metres high. On 1 February 2007 Holland Americas cruise ship MS Prinsendam was hit by two 12-meter 39 ft tall rogue waves near Cape Horn.

Read Entire Article -. Other cruise ships cargo and scientific vessels have been affected by rogue waves over the years. Can a rogue wave really tip over a cruise ship like in the movie Poseidon.

In 2007 a Holland America cruise ship was hit by a 12m rogue wave. And its not wind. Many larger ships than cruise ships have disappeared from rogue waves.

They are designed to survive any kind of storm. However large cruise ships are amongst the least vulnerable with their high sides and low centre of gravity. Ouessant at the tip of Brittany.

In 2005 after the seas had appeared to calm a rogue wave struck the cruise ship Norwegian Dawn. On March 3 a sudden wall of water hit a cruise ship sailing in the Mediterranean Sea off the northeastern coast of Spain killing two people injuring. Rogue waves are formed randomly by clusters of sea waves and swell caused by wind forces.

Excepting tsunamis in shoal water I mean. So buoyancy low centre of gravity and ballast keep a cruise ship stable but there is one natural phenomenon that can still put this vessel at risk. A rogue wave is an extremely rare occurrence but can prove extremely dangerous to cruise ships in the open ocean.

The largest rogue wave seen recorded was in the region of 32 metres high and hit a gas platform in the North Sea. In 2014 a passenger aboard the British-based cruise ship MS Marco Polo was killed after the ship was hit by a freak wave during adverse sea conditions as it made its way into the English Channel. One of the most famous shipwrecks of the 20th century the Edmund Fitzgerald was probably caused by at least one rogue wave on Lake Superior part of the Great Lakes of North AmericaBoth the 222-meter 729-foot ship and its crew of 29 were lost.

1909 The steamship SS Waratah disappears without trace with over 200 people on board off the coast of South Africa a swathe of sea now known for its high incidence of rogue waves. The shark diving boat capsized. Surprisingly experts say that no wind can be strong enough to cause a ship to turn over.

14 April 2008 half a nautical mile off Kleinbaai near Gansbaai South Africa freak wave hit tourists diving to see sharks.