70 Foot Wave Hits Cruise Ship

A freak wave more than 70 feet high slammed a luxury cruise ship steaming for New York yesterday flooding cabins injuring passengers and forcing the liner to stop for emergency repairs.

70 foot wave hits cruise ship. Huge wave turnscruise-shipholiday to horror. The NCL ship was hit by a 70 foot wave breaking cabin windows and flooding over 60 cabins. An NCL ship was hit by a 70-plus foot wave a couple of years ago and sustained only minor damage and some flooding.

Passengers on a cruise ship that was struck by a freak seven-story-high wave said Monday that the stormy weather that smashed windows and sent. A cruise ships voyage to New York was interrupted by a 70-foot-high wave that forced the vessel into a southern port for emergency repairs. They offered 50 off to all guests on the ship and free drinks.

And a 26-foot wave wouldnt even break above the hull on most big cruise ships. The ships hull was damaged but the vessel was not taking on water said Keith Moore of the Coast Guard Group Charleston. In February students in a Semester at Sea program aboard the MV Explorer were hit by a 50-foot wave south of Alaska that injured two crew members and damaged ship equipment.

A wave about 70 feet high slammed The Norwegian Dawn. Susan Robison a spokeswoman for Norwegian Cruise Lines told the New York Daily News the Norwegian Dawn had survived a bad storm and the ocean had calmed when the wave hit the ship. The wave reached as high as deck 10 on the ship company spokeswoman Susan Robison said Sunday.

CBS News reports on a large wave which hit the Louis Majesty Cruise Ship killing two passengers and injurying fourteen others. It said 62 cabins flooded and four passengers had cuts and bruises. For a moment the entire sea disappears as the ship is brought crashing down.

Caught on Tape. On a 2 week cruise through the celtic nations on the Holland America-Prinsendam we hit 40 ft waves going into the North Sea. Its not the first time that a cruise ship has been caught on camera battling dangerous storms.