Cruise Ship Hit By Wave

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.

Cruise ship hit by wave. Even the bridge is not safe. There were around 40 injuries with some requiring hospitalization. Cruise ship hit by deadly wave Posted Mar.

The bow of the ship was breaking through the waves on minute you were looking up at the sky the next a wall of water as the bow came crashing down and water swepted the decks in the morning the ship was a wreck all the dinning room was piled up at one side a piano had broken lose etc. You can add more details on reported here accident or submit new your own Fred Olsen Borealis ship incident Cruise Minus report via CruiseMappers contact form. More recently in 2005 the cruise ship Norwegian Dawn had its ninth and 10th floor windows smashed by a wave that rose to near 21 meters 70 feet high.

In 2006 a 70 foot 21 meters high rogue wave smashed into the container ship The Pomona while it was in the Pacific Ocean. Cruise Hive is sad to report that an 85-year-old male passenger has been killed from a large freak wave that hit the Marco Pol cruise ship while it was sailing through the English Channel. No one was injured.

Filming from an ocean view cabin the dangerous waves. Brittany Ferries MV Pont-Aven was struck by a wave estimated at between 40 feet 12 m and 50 feet 15 m in height during a Force 9 gale in the Bay of Biscay on 21 May 2006. The ships bow dropped into a hole of a trough behind the first wave and was hit by a second wave of between 91 and 96 feet high that cleaned a mast right off the foredeck.

It was a far different fate for the German container ship Munchen which sank in the middle of the. The Carnival Pride cruise ship was travelling through rough seas when it partially submerged. Cruise-ship sinkings are much rarer but in recent years some cruise liners have been hit by rogue waves including.

We heard a loud noise and it was the wave that hit us Claudine Armand a passenger from France told the Associated Press Television News. In 1998 Cunards Queen Elizabeth was hit by a wave almost 30 metres high. Other cruise ships cargo and scientific vessels have been affected by rogue waves over the years.