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Just got back from a cruise - It was AWESOME!

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Rubycon said:
I've seen this (video) countless times...

I've experienced weather conditions like this before and (fortunately) it's quite rare.

You can have dangerous seas in sunny skies! A BIG storm can generate swells that can travel 1000 nm. These can interact with currents (like the Gulf Stream) and produce confused seas and even rogue waves. The helicopter was there due to a distress call ordered by the vessel's master when the bow took heavy seas and the bridge windows got knocked out. Partial loss of power/propulsion results in a nearly stopped condition. This renders the stabilizer system useless so the ship bobs like a cork. It does not matter how big the ship is - the size of the wave is what matters. Always!

It's very unfortunate for those people that got caught up in this. It's quite frightening for both experienced/trained crewmembers and pax alike to endure this. This can go on for many hours in the worst case scenario! It's impossible to get sleep as you're hurled from one side of your quarters to the other. EVERYTHING winds up on the floor whether you like it or not. 😱
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So what you're really saying is 'it's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean'?
 
dank69 said:
So what you're really saying is 'it's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean'?
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When you have waves on top of waves you just have to hold on a wait it out. So yes! Granted a small craft is going to definitely be uncomfortable in six foot seas whereas in an ocean liner those conditions are quite tranquil.

Once you get swells over 12+ feet and a local storm brings hurricane force winds whipping up waves on top of that things start to get interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvtwo2ugwU8

😀

Many people that have never been on a ship before will think the ship ran into something and freak out. When you think about what a cubic meter of water weighs and multiply that by thousands even a fifth grader can tell you it's going to be hard and loud. 😉
 
Rubycon said:
I've seen this (video) countless times...

I've experienced weather conditions like this before and (fortunately) it's quite rare.
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When I was on your ship (NCL) in Nov.(?) I got motion sickness (requested the pills and everything) and the swaying was nowhere as bad as this vid.... but the waiters still had to settle themselves every once in a while. 😉 The ship was hauling ass back to NYC.
 
rh71 said:
When I was on your ship (NCL) in Nov.(?) I got motion sickness (requested the pills and everything) and the swaying was nowhere as bad as this vid.... but the waiters still had to settle themselves every once in a while. 😉 The ship was hauling ass back to NYC.
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You were in the Nor'Easter on the week of the 17th of October IIRC. I was not on that cruise (I returned when you disembarked) but I was told about it. Seas were about 14-19 feet on the leg back from Bermuda. Pretty beam heavy sea from the port side due to the Gulf Stream. One thing I liked better about returning to NYC from the Bahamas was that Gulf Stream push. We regularly would see 29 knots on the GPS due to the 3.5 knot current! 😱

The seas in that video are easily 30-40 feet.

rh71 said:
apparently due to 50mph winds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UmpjrvoILk
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Yes it gets breezy at many ports.
 
Man I get sea sick with the boat just sitting in the harbor. I would have probably turned inside out if I was on that ship.
 
Next time I go on a cruise I'm going to try and sneak on liquor every chance I get. I'm not paying $400+ for my alcohol again.
 
Rubycon said:
When you have waves on top of waves you just have to hold on a wait it out.
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My whole body shudders at the thought.
So yes! Granted a small craft is going to definitely be uncomfortable in six foot seas whereas in an ocean liner those conditions are quite tranquil.
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I always thought that is the real story.

Once you get swells over 12+ feet and a local storm brings hurricane force winds whipping up waves on top of that things start to get interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvtwo2ugwU8

😀
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Now you're just bragging. 😉

Many people that have never been on a ship before will think the ship ran into something and freak out. When you think about what a cubic meter of water weighs and multiply that by thousands even a fifth grader can tell you it's going to be hard and loud. 😉
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Yes, sometimes thick walls won't even help.
 
jtvang125 said:
Next time I go on a cruise I'm going to try and sneak on liquor every chance I get. I'm not paying $400+ for my alcohol again.
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Buy those little empty shampoo bottles they sell at Bed, Bath and Beyond. I was able to fill 4 of those with enough Stoli for me for a week cruise on the NCL Pearl last Feb (well at least one -2 drinks a day)

we also had a rough 1st day out of Miami, no where near as bad as those but it did send my free bottle of bubbly across the suite😱
 
Rubycon said:
I' It's impossible to get sleep as you're hurled from one side of your quarters to the other.
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Not true, quite easy to learn to sleep through it. Now if you can't sleep cause you are scared of dying because of it, well that's a problem for the surface types.
 
Went Scuba diving in a tropical depression in Belize a number of years ago. Loads of fun when you're standing on deck looking straight out and all you see is ocean cause the boat is almost on it side, plus half the people barfing from the waves and smell of diesel.....even more encouraging when you find out afterward that the converted fishing trawler you spent the last 2 days on had been sunk twice😱
 
crazy

we are going on another one this summer, probably the 7 day to Mazatlan and Vallarta and stuff out of Long Beach
 
we still have not decided for next Feb. maybe the NCL EPIC out of Miami or possibly the NCL SUN or RCL Explorer of the seas from Orlando.
 
lupi said:
Not true, quite easy to learn to sleep through it. Now if you can't sleep cause you are scared of dying because of it, well that's a problem for the surface types.
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I don't care - I'd roll around in the bowels of the ship covered in heavy fuel oil in a hurricane before spending time in a tin can that goes below the surface. 😱
 
OP - karma's gonna bite you where it hurts when you do actually go on a cruise for posting that video! 😛
 
Rubycon said:
I've seen this (video) countless times...

Partial loss of power/propulsion results in a nearly stopped condition.... 😱
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At least they were able to keep the bow into the wind. I would hate to see the wind and waves hitting that ship broadside.

When the bow is buried in a swell, the stern comes out of the water so much you can almost see the props spinning.
 
I never ran into waves like that, but that one time I told my wife during rough seas that I liked it because it felt like I was being rocked to sleep in my mother's arms I thought she was going to throw me over the rail.
 
Stifko said:
At least they were able to keep the bow into the wind. I would hate to see the wind and waves hitting that ship broadside.

When the bow is buried in a swell, the stern comes out of the water so much you can almost see the props spinning.
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Beam seas are the worst!

While nobody could see the props out of the water we know this happened to us in 2005 because the azipods will trip off line when they overspeed due to a lack of resistance. 😱
 
You haven't lived til you have been in the cargo hold of a 30' fishing boat in the middle of a typhoon.
 
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