Storms At Sea On Cruise Ships

Watch Cruise Ship Forced to Ride Out Wild Storm at Sea April 21 2015 814 AM The Carnival Spirit was stranded at sea with several thousand passengers aboard because fierce storms forced the closure of the Sydney Harbour port in Australia.

Storms at sea on cruise ships. On this video you see water breaking the window and filling. The reality is many storms never impact land and few have a direct impact on places cruise ships will visit. When seas get rough modern cruise ships have onboard technology that helps stabilize them.

Thats where it can cause all the damage. If the captain decides its too dangerous. It would not do any harm to ships at sea regardless of size.

Storms at sea are harrowing experiences. Assuming of course the ship is in open water. People on the upper decks can be shifted around quite a bit.

When faced with a hurricane or other storm in its path a cruise ship will try to sail around the bad weather which was the case with Anthem of the Seas. When the Viking Sky encountered difficulty and an engine shut down in the storm off the Norwegian coast on Saturday the freight ship that sailed to. Towering walls of water driven by powerful winds slam into the ship.

The front of the ship was completely submerged by a monster wave. Tropical Storm Isaias is heading for the Bahamas and the Florida east coast as cruise ships head for calmer waters. It would take an epic storm to threaten a ships ability to stay afloat.

However large cruise ships are amongst the least vulnerable with their high sides and low centre of gravity. Many passengers had been dreaming of sandy shores and a much needed vacation. And theyre an.