Indeed, but the number is certainly wrong. It's probably a translation error from 120 kph, which is wind force 12 on the Beaufort scale. 120mph is wind force 16 on the extended scale. It's only seen in Typhoons and nobody takes a cruise ship through one of those.
The last time I saw this posted, somebody claimed this was the Drake passage, which would make sense. I've been there in conditions like this and 120kph fits.
Actually I just went to the YouTube video and I was on this boat when this happened! It was fucking crazy. We were in it for 8+ hours. Things were thrown all over the ship. Parts of it looked like scenes from the titanic when furniture was flying everywhere. Glass was shattered in all the bars, casinos chips went flying everywhere, and they eventually told everyone to stay in their rooms. People were screaming and crying because it was tilting so bad many thought we were going down. I was on the 9th deck and it was crazy bad. I just went back and watched the captain say after the experience at the worst it was about 150-160 knots of wind but then said that’s about 170-180mph so im not sure what it actually was but I can tell you it was the craziest thing I’ve ever experienced.
Third from the bottom, not the top. Still at least 7-8 full decks and a few half decks above this for even a modest 2500 passenger ship. View actually appears to be a deck 3 oceanview cabin on an older RCL or Celebrity ship. Cabin is only 20 feet or so above the waterline. On some of the HAL ships this would be deck 1 (with a couple sub-decks, such as A and B, below).
If you have social anxiety, a cruise is not the place to be. They stack you in like rats and herd you around like cattle so that you can pig out at the same buffet for a week straight.
Cruises suuuuck too, even if you dont have anxiety. Eat, drink, sleep, sit by an overcrowded pool, and waste money in a tiny interior casino. That is all there is to do. And it will be fucking hot outside because all cruises go somewhere tropical. All that for the price of a foreign luxury vacation.
I got drug onto a cruise by my in-laws and I will never go on another. All I could think about during the Towel Folding "Event" (yes, really) was....I could be touring the Louvre and eating pastries right now. Or climbing Matchu Pitchu. Or laying on the beach in Ibiza. Or literally anything else right now for the same price.
That's why we have the crew bar! Dollar beers, three dollar double measures. And a calming ciggie for just under 4 bucks a pack.
I work on cruise ships. As others have said, there's no way this is 120mph winds. Probably 120kph. It can get fruity out there. Recently in the Tasman sea we had 5-7 metre waves for a couple of days. I enjoy it, but many people get seasick. A contractor then told me that he'd had it so bad on some ships that he had to tie himself to the floor of his cabin. When he eventually made his way to the bridge (I think it was a cargo ship), he told me he knew it was bad because the captain looked terrified.
Didn’t the Costa Concordia run aground in the Mediterranean? Pretty sure it sank halfway in shallow water and was later salvaged. Not sure about the whole Beirut thing unless you got the wrong ship.
Yes , the crew was being idiots by not following protocol and the captain was distracted by his “mistress”. By the time they realize they were closer to shore than initially thought it was too late to correct corse. They ended up hitting rocks on the shallow water which caused the ship to sink. The captain and crew all abandoned ship.
I’m remembering that whole event more clearly now that you mention those details. I remember a phone call was posted on the news, between the captain and whoever was in charge of the rescue. When they found out the captain was already on land shortly after the crash, they demanded him get back on the sinking ship until everyone else was off lmao.
Whats crazier is the guy he was talking to on the phone actually drove out there, got on one of the boats rescuing people, and got on the Concordia to help evacuate any remaining passengers. Forgot to mention the ship was already listing at this point as well. Homie was a true hero that day.
Sadly there were still many casualties from that accident. All were people who got trapped in lower levels on the listing side. Horrifically, many were passengers trapped in elevators, most likely from when the power to the ship went out early on in the accident. As the ship then slowly began listing, the elevators filled with water.
I love that shit like this was codified in law and is backed by actual punishment
We should do more shit like that, like a nice general “don’t be a dick”
[Look, Schettino, you may have saved yourself from the sea, but I will really hurt you… I will cause you a boatload of trouble.](https://youtu.be/WX_08zcCmx8?si=IGQ5OR9Sc28L2PKX)
Vehicle ferries are a notoriously dangerous niche in maritime shipping and their design is not really comparable to a cruise ship regardless of their nominally-similar purpose.
Overloading and poor cargo lashing (primary causes of the Sewol accident) are not factors in pleasure cruising, and cruise ships benefit from not needing huge doors near the water line for the vehicles to drive in. In open ocean, modern cruise ships are more likely to kill you with a stomach bug than to sink around you.
They didn't really say that either, there's barely any evidence from that time of anyone saying it was completely unsinkable, the only thing even close was the captain saying it was nigh Unthinkable that she could sink because of how many safety measures she had
I built smaller custom boats for quite a while and the second to last boat they built was for a guy that fly fished for marlin and it was an odd duck compared to what we normally built by having the controls in the main house of the boat instead of on top in a bridge. Anyways the 3 front windows were designed to take a wave over the bow and they were 3 inch thick and bullet proof. So id imagine these are fairly stout on this big of a ship. The one i was apart of was 50 foot.
Cruise ships are incredibly stable and safe because they're under different regulations as passenger carrying vessel.
Container ships and other commercial ships are more dangerous.
There are cruises around Antarctica where this sort of weather is pretty common.
But cruise ships (all ships actually) tend to at least attempt to avoid weather like this.
You would have to spend enough to make up for the other 99% of customers who very much want to avoid this in their cruise.
More importantly, no insurance is going to cover a trip like that. You'd have premiums higher than those swells.
If anyone is curious, because I didn't know... Deck 3 is usually 2 stories above water level, with each story typically being 3.5m - 3.8m... So, these are likely nearly 10m waves. (I realise that this is not exactly how it works, as the level of the ship changes with the chop etc... I don't know, just ballpark figures.)
10m waves from the *normal waterline*. That means these waves can be upwards of 20m from trough to crest... the vertical distance a boat will travel while going through them.
10mtr swell isn’t actually that huge. These look much bigger than that. I’ve been out in 14mtr swell in a trailer boat, which was a pretty fucked situation at the time, but this looks a lot worse
I made that journey once for up helly aa. Obvious who the locals are as they were eating dinner and drinking while the ship went all which ways. The rest of us were struggling to keep our lunch down. Got a lot of respect for folk that live up there
I never understood cruise ships. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of going to a resort-like area for a week to have fun but why does it need to be on a giant boat in the middle of the ocean?
Multiple port stops allow you to visit many different countries in one trip, while having your mobile resort as home base.
I thought they were pretty stupid until I went on one.
My parents like to tell about their honeymoon cruise. They were on the final leg of the trip and a big storm was brewing just as their ship was starting to leave port. They remember watching out the window as a US navy carrier taskgroup was heading into port to take shelter as their cruise liner was leaving....
IIRC they were on the 4th deck up from the bottom of the passenger decks and still had green water cover their porthole window multiple times. They spent something like 18 hours in the storm, like you said the whole ship was sick and their was vomit everywhere. But on the last day the storm cleared up and everything was pretty however nobody had the energy to enjoy it at that point.
It was a tewwible torm. Da boat wocked and wocked. Up one wave and down anudder, wocking da boat. Wocking. Wocking... Wassa matta puddy tat, you look dween.
I worked for Norwegian when hurricane sandy hit new York. We left port and headed down the coast and it was like this. Water past the deck 3 /4 windows, the buffet had tons of smashed plates , people's stuff everywhere in their rooms. Was pretty fun though.
I love it when the plates in the dining room start smashing, everything's flying around the Lido, glass doors smashing etc. I don't get seasick, but after a couple days of it I just get pretty tired. Fun watching the oldsters swaying around the ship.
I used to have nightmares about this when I worked on drill ships. Except in my dreams, the water broke through the window, and I was trying to avoid drowning.
This is highly unusual for a cruise. They make great efforts to avoid storms like this, often cancelling some ports of call if the weather is too bad. It's likely they were in an area of the world where they didn't have many options for re-routing the ship.
how much does it cost to get a cabin on the first floor?
i have never wanted to be on a cruise ship before, but now that i realize that you can ask for "3-5 days of existential thalassophobia" on the secret menu i might actually have money for them
I have video exactly like that from my first cruise. I was on the infamous first sailing with paying passengers of the Royal Caribbean Quantum of the Seas. That actually looks very much like it might even be from my cruise as that window looks very like the one I had in my third deck oceanview. It was a transatlantic out of Southampton in November. The first night out of Southampton we hit a storm. The Captain said it was stronger than expected. Breakfast the next morning there were dozens of people with slings from the upper decks from having been thrown from their beds unexpectedly in the middle of the night.
They closed all access to the outside decks due to high winds and canceled the shows due to the danger to performers from the rocking of the ship. In some of the pictures and video I have you are looking almost straight up from our third deck oceanview to see the sky because of the height of the waves. Somewhere on youtube there is video someone on one of the upper decks got out on their balcony of waves washing over the top of the part of the helm area that sticks out beyond the rest of the ship.
Loads of people who had cruised tons and had never been ill were very seasick. I was told by someone who'd bought them on other Royal cruises usually they sell packs of those prescription pads that go behind the ear in the medical office. Instead they were giving them out one-at-a-time but weren't charging as they needed to ration them.
We ended up going south for an unscheduled stop near one of the islands in the Azores to let off a passenger for medical reasons which took us to much calmer waters up until we got almost to New York. The scuttlebutt I heard was it was possibly a result of him being thrown from his bed the first night but of course I don't know for certain. Only that the course change came fairly early the next morning after we hit the storm. The captain said if not for that change in course for medical reasons we would have battled on through the storm when I ran into him by the elevators and asked about it.
3rd deck!!! That's the deck where you hear "all passengers please find the nearest exit, and make your way to the nearest lifeboat", but then you hear
your cabin door automatically lock..
For those interested… _Anthem of the Seas_, the Royal Caribbean cruise ship caught in a storm off Cape Hatteras in 2016.
Original (full) link [here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o9waSshoWOc).
This [video](https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/anthem-captain-explains-storm-development) explains how quickly the storm developed.
And [damage](https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/anthem-of-the-seas-suffered-propulsion-damage-in-storm) sustained.
Anyone know how much pressure these windows are rated for? Depending how far under water those windows are going, they could be taking thousands of pounds of force there. Crazy that they're not even leaking let alone exploding.
the lower you go the less movement there is. I worked on ships for 10 years and I *loved* hurricane season. it rocks you to sleep like a baby in a cradle. the higher up you go the worse it is, like the top deck moves a hundred feet left to right and the bottom decks move 10, you know, like a wheel
finally one sea/ocean vid without the damn viking style soundtrack in the background, it reached the cringe level now
That will be added by the next ai Reddit repost bot
Why do those exist?
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Alllllllll Haaaaands
Hoist the colors high!
Heeeeaavve Hoooooo Thieves and beggars Neevvverrrr shalll we dieeeee!!
BOOBALEE
Indeed, but the number is certainly wrong. It's probably a translation error from 120 kph, which is wind force 12 on the Beaufort scale. 120mph is wind force 16 on the extended scale. It's only seen in Typhoons and nobody takes a cruise ship through one of those. The last time I saw this posted, somebody claimed this was the Drake passage, which would make sense. I've been there in conditions like this and 120kph fits.
120kph wind from Drake’s back passage?
Ah so that’s why his songs sound like that
Actually I just went to the YouTube video and I was on this boat when this happened! It was fucking crazy. We were in it for 8+ hours. Things were thrown all over the ship. Parts of it looked like scenes from the titanic when furniture was flying everywhere. Glass was shattered in all the bars, casinos chips went flying everywhere, and they eventually told everyone to stay in their rooms. People were screaming and crying because it was tilting so bad many thought we were going down. I was on the 9th deck and it was crazy bad. I just went back and watched the captain say after the experience at the worst it was about 150-160 knots of wind but then said that’s about 170-180mph so im not sure what it actually was but I can tell you it was the craziest thing I’ve ever experienced.
How would you be sure that you weren't cruising into a typhoon? Does it take an eternity for them to build up?
I've gone crazy, I thought I heard the first few seconds of it at the start and was waiting for the rest
I thought I kinda liked that, until it was overused...
Just wait for one of the 20 inevitable reposts
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Meanwhile lower deck people seeing sea creatures from the deep
Right?! If this is the third deck, where are the videos of the first deck? Or were they all hiding?
This will be the third deck from the top, most likely. The first few are for crew and maintenance, usually the cabins are on decks 6 and upward.
Third from the bottom, not the top. Still at least 7-8 full decks and a few half decks above this for even a modest 2500 passenger ship. View actually appears to be a deck 3 oceanview cabin on an older RCL or Celebrity ship. Cabin is only 20 feet or so above the waterline. On some of the HAL ships this would be deck 1 (with a couple sub-decks, such as A and B, below).
The first deck would be crew and they were probably working all day.
I would need several drinks and possibly some benzos in this situation.
Nah, I'm straight up going to find a chaplain, and I'm not even religious.
*Insert Beni Gabor scene from "The Mummy" where he pulls out every religious icon he can fit around his neck
I’m looking for life jackets and getting off at the next stop. F that
I'd need that as a calm-seas baseline just to spend several days cooped up on a ship with all the other passengers.
Guess you've never actually been on a ship then. You can go a decent amount of time walking around without actually having to get through a crowd.
Amen to that.
If you have social anxiety, a cruise is not the place to be. They stack you in like rats and herd you around like cattle so that you can pig out at the same buffet for a week straight. Cruises suuuuck too, even if you dont have anxiety. Eat, drink, sleep, sit by an overcrowded pool, and waste money in a tiny interior casino. That is all there is to do. And it will be fucking hot outside because all cruises go somewhere tropical. All that for the price of a foreign luxury vacation. I got drug onto a cruise by my in-laws and I will never go on another. All I could think about during the Towel Folding "Event" (yes, really) was....I could be touring the Louvre and eating pastries right now. Or climbing Matchu Pitchu. Or laying on the beach in Ibiza. Or literally anything else right now for the same price.
*alcoholics
I’ll take the liberty of saying that most of us alcoholics prefer having solid ground lol
That's why we have the crew bar! Dollar beers, three dollar double measures. And a calming ciggie for just under 4 bucks a pack. I work on cruise ships. As others have said, there's no way this is 120mph winds. Probably 120kph. It can get fruity out there. Recently in the Tasman sea we had 5-7 metre waves for a couple of days. I enjoy it, but many people get seasick. A contractor then told me that he'd had it so bad on some ships that he had to tie himself to the floor of his cabin. When he eventually made his way to the bridge (I think it was a cargo ship), he told me he knew it was bad because the captain looked terrified.
Oh, if this pressure on these windows continues… you’re getting a drink alright.
This would rock me to sleep like a baby. I love this shit about ships. It feels *so* comfy
they probably stopped serving alcohol.. better get your secret stash
Or they break a vial of Norovirus to take everyone's mind off it.
So vomiting and shitting yourself from seasickness or shitting and vomiting yourself from being sick at sea, decisions... decisions
I'm gonna need like fiftyeleven Xanax for this shit because I could neverrrrr
Donnie! Get the luuudes!
I WILL NOT DIE SOBER!!
How tf could you relax
The ship will be moving, but it's way within tolerances... Just go about your day, and hold onto the railings when you use the steps.
Wouldn’t most people get seasick? or am I not getting something
I was throwing up just watching this.
Modern cruise ships have very sophisticated anti-roll technology. https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/16kzd1f/cruise_ship_stabilizers/
Dramamine doors wonders to avoid sea sickness
The ship is absolutely ridiculously enormous, it’s not gonna capsize. So why worry about it
Well the front usually doesnt fall off when a wave hits it
NGL, that's pretty cool to watch if it weren't for a risk of capsizing. I do wonder what those windows are rated for. Lol
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Didn’t the Costa Concordia run aground in the Mediterranean? Pretty sure it sank halfway in shallow water and was later salvaged. Not sure about the whole Beirut thing unless you got the wrong ship.
Yes , the crew was being idiots by not following protocol and the captain was distracted by his “mistress”. By the time they realize they were closer to shore than initially thought it was too late to correct corse. They ended up hitting rocks on the shallow water which caused the ship to sink. The captain and crew all abandoned ship.
I’m remembering that whole event more clearly now that you mention those details. I remember a phone call was posted on the news, between the captain and whoever was in charge of the rescue. When they found out the captain was already on land shortly after the crash, they demanded him get back on the sinking ship until everyone else was off lmao.
Whats crazier is the guy he was talking to on the phone actually drove out there, got on one of the boats rescuing people, and got on the Concordia to help evacuate any remaining passengers. Forgot to mention the ship was already listing at this point as well. Homie was a true hero that day.
Sadly there were still many casualties from that accident. All were people who got trapped in lower levels on the listing side. Horrifically, many were passengers trapped in elevators, most likely from when the power to the ship went out early on in the accident. As the ship then slowly began listing, the elevators filled with water.
Good to know to always take the stairs
It's apparently law, captain off last
I love that shit like this was codified in law and is backed by actual punishment We should do more shit like that, like a nice general “don’t be a dick”
"Go back to your class room and ***walk*** to your locker like everybody else!"
[Look, Schettino, you may have saved yourself from the sea, but I will really hurt you… I will cause you a boatload of trouble.](https://youtu.be/WX_08zcCmx8?si=IGQ5OR9Sc28L2PKX)
[Costa Concordia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh9KBwqGxTI) - Internet Historian did a great video on it.
Yea the Captain was an idiot otherwise that ship would have been fine
She’s made of iron, sir. I assure you, she can sink.
He's not saying it's unsinkable. Just that it will take significant catastrophe to accomplish it, more than simply stormswell.
Also that Korean ferry carrying those kids.
Vehicle ferries are a notoriously dangerous niche in maritime shipping and their design is not really comparable to a cruise ship regardless of their nominally-similar purpose. Overloading and poor cargo lashing (primary causes of the Sewol accident) are not factors in pleasure cruising, and cruise ships benefit from not needing huge doors near the water line for the vehicles to drive in. In open ocean, modern cruise ships are more likely to kill you with a stomach bug than to sink around you.
His name is Bobby, and he's harmless.
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The titanic sailed 112 years ago. There's been a little bit of advancement since then...
It also hit a massive solid object. The advancement is not driving your boat into shit.
Yeah in 1911 Modern cruise boats are 4x the size and have been sailing around the world for decades.
They didn't really say that either, there's barely any evidence from that time of anyone saying it was completely unsinkable, the only thing even close was the captain saying it was nigh Unthinkable that she could sink because of how many safety measures she had
You forgot about the ship where the front fell off. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
Ah yes the MS Estonia
Actually I was referring to this one. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
Yeah, that's not very typical. I'd like to make that point.
I built smaller custom boats for quite a while and the second to last boat they built was for a guy that fly fished for marlin and it was an odd duck compared to what we normally built by having the controls in the main house of the boat instead of on top in a bridge. Anyways the 3 front windows were designed to take a wave over the bow and they were 3 inch thick and bullet proof. So id imagine these are fairly stout on this big of a ship. The one i was apart of was 50 foot.
Fk me a 50” boat to go fly fishing. Old mate had cash
It was a wildly expensive boat. 4 million 15 years or so ago. I believe it held a world record for a while also.
What world record?
Women’s fly fishing record for marlin. Edit:I just looked and I dont believe they hold that record any more.
Cruise ships are incredibly stable and safe because they're under different regulations as passenger carrying vessel. Container ships and other commercial ships are more dangerous.
Rated E, for everyone.
No risk of capsizing unless the captain drives it into some rocks.
Are there cruises that specifically go to these kinds of storms? I'd be willing to spend good money if there were.
There are cruises around Antarctica where this sort of weather is pretty common. But cruise ships (all ships actually) tend to at least attempt to avoid weather like this.
You would have to spend enough to make up for the other 99% of customers who very much want to avoid this in their cruise. More importantly, no insurance is going to cover a trip like that. You'd have premiums higher than those swells.
I did a trip to the Nordic fjords from Southampton ended up like this…
If anyone is curious, because I didn't know... Deck 3 is usually 2 stories above water level, with each story typically being 3.5m - 3.8m... So, these are likely nearly 10m waves. (I realise that this is not exactly how it works, as the level of the ship changes with the chop etc... I don't know, just ballpark figures.)
10m waves from the *normal waterline*. That means these waves can be upwards of 20m from trough to crest... the vertical distance a boat will travel while going through them.
Deck 1 says hi to U-571
Deck 1 found the Titans Submersible debris
10mtr swell isn’t actually that huge. These look much bigger than that. I’ve been out in 14mtr swell in a trailer boat, which was a pretty fucked situation at the time, but this looks a lot worse
"Haha cool I can see under the water." "...wait why isn't it going back down." "...why is it getting darker."
Oh no
Ah this comment got me
They should have used this bit of the video.... [https://youtu.be/o9waSshoWOc?t=187](https://youtu.be/o9waSshoWOc?t=187)
Normal commute to or from home (Shetland).
I immediately thought they must be on the North Sea.
I made that journey once for up helly aa. Obvious who the locals are as they were eating dinner and drinking while the ship went all which ways. The rest of us were struggling to keep our lunch down. Got a lot of respect for folk that live up there
I feel for you, worked up there for 9 years, I’ve spent many days in the lee of Foula, nice view!
Feces all up my back... .... immediately
I never understood cruise ships. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of going to a resort-like area for a week to have fun but why does it need to be on a giant boat in the middle of the ocean?
boats are cool. and you can travel and stay in one place at the same time. priceless <3
What is the alternative?
How about (and bear with me on this) you just don't go? Maybe instead of whining and bitching boats you'd do something else with your time?
Multiple port stops allow you to visit many different countries in one trip, while having your mobile resort as home base. I thought they were pretty stupid until I went on one.
The only cruise I’ve ever taken was like this. The whole ship was sick and there was vomit on the elevator. Never took another cruise
My parents like to tell about their honeymoon cruise. They were on the final leg of the trip and a big storm was brewing just as their ship was starting to leave port. They remember watching out the window as a US navy carrier taskgroup was heading into port to take shelter as their cruise liner was leaving.... IIRC they were on the 4th deck up from the bottom of the passenger decks and still had green water cover their porthole window multiple times. They spent something like 18 hours in the storm, like you said the whole ship was sick and their was vomit everywhere. But on the last day the storm cleared up and everything was pretty however nobody had the energy to enjoy it at that point.
It was a tewwible torm. Da boat wocked and wocked. Up one wave and down anudder, wocking da boat. Wocking. Wocking... Wassa matta puddy tat, you look dween.
[Here's the video](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3c4qkr)
Mel Blanc, fucking legend
Toilets are working overtime with a large number of the guests getting sea sick.
Angry water 💧
Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
The sea was angry that day, my friends!!
I just said this out loud before I saw this, have an up vote!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9waSshoWOc original video.
I worked for Norwegian when hurricane sandy hit new York. We left port and headed down the coast and it was like this. Water past the deck 3 /4 windows, the buffet had tons of smashed plates , people's stuff everywhere in their rooms. Was pretty fun though.
I love it when the plates in the dining room start smashing, everything's flying around the Lido, glass doors smashing etc. I don't get seasick, but after a couple days of it I just get pretty tired. Fun watching the oldsters swaying around the ship.
How bad does the motion feel? And how long would it last typically? What if someone has to use the restroom??
Lasted about 7 or 8 hours until we got far enough away. Bathrooms are small on the ships you just put ur hands on the walls and hold on
There's few things I trust less than cruise ships. I just don't see the appeal at all.
My God that's scary just watching
Hell no
Um, nope
I used to have nightmares about this when I worked on drill ships. Except in my dreams, the water broke through the window, and I was trying to avoid drowning.
I’d be scared shitless
I'm sure you'd be completely evacuated by this time
If you think that's crazy, just wait til you see what happens.... Below Deck
I would not stand that close to the window, they do break...
Look! Now we're a submarine!
Get the ludes!!
"The sea was angry that day, my friends."
Anybody want my pickled Eggs & Rhubarb crumble it's all yours in about 3 minutes
Looks like something out of the Perfect Storm Movie! Sound the alarm…
Nopenopenopenopenope
the ship's gyros are doing a great job of keeping it stable vertically, the up-down can't be avoided though
This is likely a ship crossing to Antarctica on the Drake Passage. This is more common than you think!
Would really suck to be chilling watching the waves hit the windows and then see an errant cargo container come crashing in.
any cruise where you get to have a unique individual memorable experience is a 10/10 in my book
Nightmare fuel..
This is seriously good footage.
Am I the only one that was waiting to see a scary sea monster suddenly appear?
How do people have vacations on cruise ships? this looks scary af.
This is highly unusual for a cruise. They make great efforts to avoid storms like this, often cancelling some ports of call if the weather is too bad. It's likely they were in an area of the world where they didn't have many options for re-routing the ship.
Looks dope AF to me
Ronaldo noooo! Watchout!
Yooooo hoooooo
lol Let's sit in front of this window and take some chances.
He is laughing but it is not his laughter
Nope
Take me to the second deck!
Damn. Definitely scary and cool at the same time.
NO
That is the ONLY cruise I would pay to be on! I smell a business opportunity: A cruise around the Horn.
If I ever go on a boat I want the room right at the water line that’s probably the best place to see cool shit.
i read this comment and thought "omg yes this is exactly how i feel" and then i read your username and i gotta reflect
how much does it cost to get a cabin on the first floor? i have never wanted to be on a cruise ship before, but now that i realize that you can ask for "3-5 days of existential thalassophobia" on the secret menu i might actually have money for them
And my extended family still has no idea why I never ever want to go on a cruise ship.
I wanna see what the lower deck was seeing. Actually. Nvm. I don't wanna see cause just seein this scares the shit out of me
That window is the only thing between luxury and horrendously terrifying death…I’ll pass on that experience after about 60sec
If that is third deck? What is first and second deck?
I left Mexico a week before that hurricane hit couple years ago. the cruise was perfect. so glad too.. was my first vacation on 10 years
F7ck that!!
I have video exactly like that from my first cruise. I was on the infamous first sailing with paying passengers of the Royal Caribbean Quantum of the Seas. That actually looks very much like it might even be from my cruise as that window looks very like the one I had in my third deck oceanview. It was a transatlantic out of Southampton in November. The first night out of Southampton we hit a storm. The Captain said it was stronger than expected. Breakfast the next morning there were dozens of people with slings from the upper decks from having been thrown from their beds unexpectedly in the middle of the night. They closed all access to the outside decks due to high winds and canceled the shows due to the danger to performers from the rocking of the ship. In some of the pictures and video I have you are looking almost straight up from our third deck oceanview to see the sky because of the height of the waves. Somewhere on youtube there is video someone on one of the upper decks got out on their balcony of waves washing over the top of the part of the helm area that sticks out beyond the rest of the ship. Loads of people who had cruised tons and had never been ill were very seasick. I was told by someone who'd bought them on other Royal cruises usually they sell packs of those prescription pads that go behind the ear in the medical office. Instead they were giving them out one-at-a-time but weren't charging as they needed to ration them. We ended up going south for an unscheduled stop near one of the islands in the Azores to let off a passenger for medical reasons which took us to much calmer waters up until we got almost to New York. The scuttlebutt I heard was it was possibly a result of him being thrown from his bed the first night but of course I don't know for certain. Only that the course change came fairly early the next morning after we hit the storm. The captain said if not for that change in course for medical reasons we would have battled on through the storm when I ran into him by the elevators and asked about it.
That looks awesome! Always wanted to go on a cruise and now even more so if I had the money 😕
3rd deck!!! That's the deck where you hear "all passengers please find the nearest exit, and make your way to the nearest lifeboat", but then you hear your cabin door automatically lock..
That's a lot of trust in window sealing. That thing blows and poof! He's gone.
They're designed for much worse than this
I've been in this exact situation. My daughter was hoping a shark would look in our window.
r/thalassophobia
I'd be headed for the bird's nest
I've been in this exact situation. My daughter was hoping a shark would look in our window.
For those interested… _Anthem of the Seas_, the Royal Caribbean cruise ship caught in a storm off Cape Hatteras in 2016. Original (full) link [here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o9waSshoWOc). This [video](https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/anthem-captain-explains-storm-development) explains how quickly the storm developed. And [damage](https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/anthem-of-the-seas-suffered-propulsion-damage-in-storm) sustained.
/r/HeavySeas
F that
8 doobies to the face...
you will never catch me in the ocean
Panic attack ENGAGE
Anyone know how much pressure these windows are rated for? Depending how far under water those windows are going, they could be taking thousands of pounds of force there. Crazy that they're not even leaking let alone exploding.
I’d pay for this sort of experience
I went on a cruise once. Once!
Yohohohoho
I'd need diapers
How are they not terrified - it’s my biggest fear
I would be having an actual panic attack
How long till it’s reposted with that stupid music? It’d be fun to see one with Christopher Cross’s Sailing as the music
my anxiety would impload
Lower decks must be horrendous!
the lower you go the less movement there is. I worked on ships for 10 years and I *loved* hurricane season. it rocks you to sleep like a baby in a cradle. the higher up you go the worse it is, like the top deck moves a hundred feet left to right and the bottom decks move 10, you know, like a wheel
Lol, at least they can see how much the boat is moving!
😀 *ship