Monster Wave Hits Cruise Ship

The Video is Short but a Powerful Statement as to What a Rogue Wave Can Do to a Cruise Ship in Seconds Given the relative number of cameras cell phones with cameras and video cameras that people take with them on vacation it is a bit surprising that there werent more videos taken of the rogue waves that hit the Louis Majesty cruise ship just off the coast of Spain Wednesday.

Monster wave hits cruise ship. Terrifying moment huge ship is hit by 100ft mega wave during monster storm VIDEO has captured the moment a ship was hit by a 100ft wave. Warwick had given the order confining passengers to quarters. Digitally manipulatedGetty Images At 420 pm the ship ran without warning into a wall of water 8 metres or more in height.

Two days ago 12072010 a cruise ship lost an engine after encountering monster waves near the South Shetland Islands north of the Antarctic peninsula. As far as events can. During a patrol search against illegal fishing of tooth-fish poachers this royal navy warship got smashed frontally by a huge monster wave.

In 1996 the Queen Elizabeth 2 encountered a rogue wave of twenty-nine meters which the Captain said came out of the darkness and looked like the White Cliffs of Dover London newspapers said that the captain situated the vessel to surf the wave to avoid being sunk. Monster Waves CAUGHT ON CAMERASubscribe to Viral Now. Doesnt look big to start but when it hits.

No survivors were ever found. Monster Waves Hit Louis Majesty Cruise Ship. Two videos of the waves are here and here.

Oh man it is big. Monster wave slams into cruise ship 0232. CNNs Tom Foreman takes a closer look at the type of monster.

In 1966 the Italian cruise ship Michelangelo was traveling to New York when it was hit by a wave estimated to be 24 meters 80 feet high. It is now believed that a rogue wave hit the ship causing it to capsize and sink. 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.