The Perfect Cruise Vacation (Video)

[Chris_]

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Pacific Sun Cruise liner in very heavy seas. Internal CCTV footage.

The impact of massive waves that struck a cruise ship during a storm off New Zealand have been revealed by CCTV footage posted on the internet.

Pacific Sun Cruise liner, carrying 1732 passengers and 671 crew, was caught in a severe storm on July 30, 2008, encountering seven-metre swells and 50 knot winds.

Passengers who were aboard the journey were offered a 25 per cent reduction in the cost of a future cruise.

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[Thor]

They can come whining to me when they get caught in 50-60 ft seas........

[Chris_]

  That was great.

[JohnnyReb]

Had a friend in the Navy back in the 60's. He was on what was then the largest Aircraft Carrier. They were out in the North Atlantic and the Forrestal(sp?) was pitching about pretty good. He said he could see destroyers going over one wave and under the next. My stomach would never stand that....

[Chris_]

They can come whining to me when they get caught in 50-60 ft seas........

True.....however I presume that the Navy learned a couple of centuries ago to bolt the friggen furnature to the deck........

 

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[thundley4]

True.....however I presume that the Navy learned a couple of centuries ago to bolt the friggen furnature to the deck........

 

doc

We went out in a couple of hurricanes with some scientists on board.  It was those same scientists that were begging to submerge most often.  Submarines are not meant to be on the surface during hurricanes.

[vesta111]

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Sooner or later the sea will get those that go down to it.

Friends of ours saved every penny from over time work to go on a cruse each year and could not understand why we would not be interested in going with them.

My son and his wife's family went on cruses including the Alaska run and also wondered why we had no interest.

We like sailing the bare foot cruses that go up the coast, no sea sickness, really lazy and less then 30 passengers aboard.

 The last cruse my friends went on was a dozy, the Captain trying to get into port to pick up the next load of passengers took a chance to skirt a storm.  My friend tells me that she and Hubby were in their room for 2 days, no hot food and the water shut down.  They slept in life vests as every 2 hours or so the ready to abandon ship alarm would go off, they had to exit their cabin and stand in the hall with their backs to the wall until the all clear was announced.The elevators did not work, a life boat had crashed into the window of the main dining room, the only food to come out of the kitchens was cold food if they  the passengers could navigate the stairs in that weather to find food.

They had an inside cabin and were glad they did. As the ship Yawed from side those with outside cabins had the glass break and their rooms flooded.

Needless to say they have not been on a cruse again.

[Thor]

Late 1977 in the Mediterranean Sea, we were in a storm. The ship's water line was 35' below the main deck and the ship was some 800 ft long. We had water coming OVER the bridge of the ship. The ship was also taking 17°- 18° rolls from side to side (20° would roll us completely over). Aircraft had 16 point tie downs. (Normally, it was 6 ). We weren't supposed to go on the weather decks because it was so bad. Standing on the aft edge of the flight deck, if I kept my eyes straight & level, the waves, from trough to crest TOWERED over the flight deck. They even secured the galley because of the rough seas. It was fun watching people get seasick, though.....