Ignorance is bliss. . .
Cold fronts moving into the Atlantic are cause for increased wave heights, this is just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Only normal during the winter months when systems move out into the Atlantic. During the late Spring, Summer, and Fall months seas should not be that bad.
Cold fronts moving into the Atlantic are cause for increased wave heights, this is just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Only normal during the winter months when systems move out into the Atlantic. During the late Spring, Summer, and Fall months seas should not be that bad.
meltdown75
Lifer
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Those passengers are weak willed pansies. Why should they get a refund? They're on a ship in the ocean that got hit with a wave. Nobody died. The cruise ship cannot control the weather, why should they lose all that money because a ship got wet?
It bothers me that news reporters choose to interview the most irrational people instead of asking the vast majority of rational people what they thought.
I remember waiting in the airport once for a friend and a flight came back because it had problems with its ventilation system. No big deal really, and most passengers seemed only mildly aggravated that they had to wait for the next flight. But of course you got 5 or 6 distraut morons stumbling out of the plane sobbing, yelling, and just acting like complete idiots. They were saying how they almost died, were thinking about suing, etc.
Over a ventilation system. The plane flew fine, it just had to turn around because its AC stopped working.
I remember waiting in the airport once for a friend and a flight came back because it had problems with its ventilation system. No big deal really, and most passengers seemed only mildly aggravated that they had to wait for the next flight. But of course you got 5 or 6 distraut morons stumbling out of the plane sobbing, yelling, and just acting like complete idiots. They were saying how they almost died, were thinking about suing, etc.
Over a ventilation system. The plane flew fine, it just had to turn around because its AC stopped working.
I like it. . .
If I was on a ship called Fox news I'd jump over and end myself.
The passengers of the ship that were on CNN, the one I saw, sucked at speaking english. All this jibberish jive going on I couldnt understand a thing she said. Nevertheless, here comes her get rich off of a wave hitting my cruiseship scheme she saw on late night TV.
WTF mate?! The company gave them half the price refunded and a voucher for half off their next cruise for something completely outside of their control.. But yeah, they should sue and not only get it free, but a million dollars each, that seems fair...
That's what they want.
Go and have a good time. You are safe trust me. There could be a nuclear war and you are guaranteed to survive. Well at least the shock and awe part anyways.
Your chances of having an incident or death outright are far greater actually getting to the ship!
Kind of like this most unfortunate group of people.
they arnt that big...
put a cruise ship next to USS Ronald Reagan or any other Nimitz Class carrier and you will see cruise ship looks like a tug boat =P
and during my 2 cruises I have seen waves break over the bow of these enormous ships..
it happens all the time in the North Atlantic...
by the same token.. I have seen Navy Destroyers which again are pretty darn large.. completly submerged by large waves in the NA...
the difference is Cruise ships arnt really designed to do what a Warship is.. we dont dodge storms.. we go right through them..
Anubis
No Lifer
the wave is called a rogue wave, the form randomially in the ocean and are compleatly unpredictable, its a chatoic system, and these things just pop up sometimes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/freakwave.shtml
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/257.html
google for rogue wave, tons of stuff out there
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/freakwave.shtml
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/257.html
google for rogue wave, tons of stuff out there
meltdown75
Lifer
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im not too sure about that:
Navigator of the Seas
Gross Tonnage: 138,000
Length: 1020'
Beam: 157.5'
Draft: 29'
here
Nimitz Class
Length, overall 1,092 feet (332.85 meters)
Flight Deck Width 252 feet (76.8 meters)
Beam 134 feet (40.84 meters)
Displacement Approx. 97,000 tons (87,300 metric tons) full load
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/cvn-68.htm
destroyers are really small:
Arleigh Burke class (Flight II)
Length ~510 ft
Beam: max 66ft. waterline, 59ft
draft: 31ft
displacement: ~9200 tons
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/ddg-51.htm
gross tonnage does not actually count becuase it measures space on a vessel. Displacement Tonnage is the actual weight of the vessel and its contents. wiki
so we know that the navigator is wider than the nimitz (not counting the flight deck), and that it is roughly the same length. how tall is the nimitz? if i were to guess, the navigator is taller, and therefore bigger.
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