Ocean liner in cyclone Valentina

Passenger cruiser 'Voyager' caught in heavy seas, footage from helicopter. Apparently they weren't directly under the cyclone, but were feeling the effects.
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From Wiki News:


February 14, 2005

A passenger ship, the Voyager enroute between Spain's Balearic Islands to the Italian island of Sardinia, radioed a distress call earlier today after getting into difficulties in heavy seas. A huge wave shattered a bridge window, damaging control systems inside.

The Bahamian-registered ship is carrying 776 passengers and crew, 480 of them Spanish. Some sustained minor injurues when the ship sailed into the storm at 8am UTC today.

French and Spanish tugs have been dispatched to assist the vessel, and the British gas tanker Gimi has diverted to offer help and is relaying radio signals from the stricken ship. Voyager "is in a difficult situation but is not drifting", according to the French coastguard, with only a single propeller still providing force.

The ship was sailing from Tunis to Barcelona when she encountered the storm. The crew have restored power to two of her four engines and she is now diverting to Tunis, and is expected to reach port on Tuesday.


Check this line out again:

A huge wave shattered a bridge window, damaging control systems inside. Wow! That must have looked impressive as the bow dived down into the trough.

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Chaucersays...

When I was 11 or 12, I was on a cruise ship that got stuck in a tropical storm in the carribean. I dont remember much about the cruise other than this horrible storm (and a horrible sunburn I got on treasure island). I remember there was puke EVERYWHERE... in the hallways, the lobbies, everywhere.

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