A Cruise Ship In Heavy Seas

Light as a feather.

A cruise ship in heavy seas. Heavy seas battered an Antarctic cruise ship for 36 hours shattering a bridge window knocking out electronic equipment and causing a minor injury to a crewmember. There is no word from the cruise line how many passengers were sick from the rough seas. And Why Mega Cruise Ships Are Unsafe.

What keeps them from rolling is ceaseless active stability control under continual hydraulic and electrical power from diesel generators. Also the higher the deck you are on the more motion will be exaggerated. The 290-foot Clelia II was crossing the Drake Passage when it sailed into heavy weather Dec.

The bow front of a ship can be uncomfortable for some people because in heavy seas there can be a lot of vertical motion. I might feel safer in those seas in my Montauk than in that barge. The Oriana is a 69000 gross ton cruise ship that can hold up to 1900 passengers and nearly 800 crew.

Their main problem would be that the big cruise ships are all very tall and narrow and slab-sided fundamentally designed to roll in a heavy sea. In addition many modern cruise ships are built so that the structure of the upper parts of the ship is not as heavy as the structure of the lower part of the ship. The thickness of the hull at the waterline is much thicker than in the upper levels.

You can reduce the odds of running into heavy seas cruise holidays with a little research and planning. A cruise ship could probably do the route for a 7-day cruise in like 4-days if they sailed in straight lines at full speed but they leave lots of extra time so they can sail in sunny skies or divert for emergencies etc. The Princess Grand class ships at 110000 GT plus are notorious bouncers in heavy seas.

Inside the worlds largest cruise ship Harmony of the Seas -13 May 2016. At night awoke and felt like giant hand pushing me hard down into mattress then I got light as a feather. Largest cruise ship - world record set by Oasis of the Seas.