Nothing to do with RCI,

[andrzej5914]

but has anybody experienced a cruise like this?

 

 

WOW!!! Not sure if it would be a fun or scary experience....

[rollie]

Nope, never been on anything close to this. Just wondering, does anyone know what cruise line this is? I heard this video was taken during lunch time. lol

 

Rollie

[houlacruiser]

Sorry folks - nothing fun about that! A couple people alledge that they were on that ship in the comments but nothing about which ship it was.

[Kailyn]

Looks like it is a charter ship run through Iberojet, the Grand Voyager. Formerly the Royal Olympic Voyager.

 

http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Iberojet.html#anchor139855

http://cruises.about.com/b/2007/04/01/fake-or-cruise-nightmare-april-fool-joke-or-the-real-thing.htm

 

"The Video shown above is of the ship MV Olympic Voyager February 15, 2005.

Cyclones do happen in the Med sea although rare.

This was Cyclone Valentina.

The Voyager was en route between Spain’s Balearic Islands to the Italian island of Sardinia, and radioed a distress call after getting into difficulties in the heavy seas. A huge wave some say 40′ -50′ shattered a bridge window, damaging control systems inside.

 

The Bahamian-registered ship was carrying 776 passengers and crew, 480 of them Spanish. Some sustained minor injuries when the ship sailed into the storm."

[Kailyn]

Oh, and it is the sister ship to the one used for the Semester at Sea program, which coincidentally was also hit by huge waves shortly before this one :)

[rollie]

Kailyn, thanks for the information. Very interesting.

 

Rollie

[alicam]

I'm surprised the screws had anything to work with

[kicker]

I've done some minor commercial Ocean fishing and 6 cruises and never gotten seasick. But watching that video - yikes!!

[MAZANDSTEVE]

Yikes!! you would think that with all the technology these days, they would have avoided the area where it was a threat.:eek:

[Arubamoose]

I got seasick just watching the video!!!!

[andrzej5914]

Looks like it is a charter ship run through Iberojet, the Grand Voyager. Formerly the Royal Olympic Voyager.

 

http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Iberojet.html#anchor139855

http://cruises.about.com/b/2007/04/01/fake-or-cruise-nightmare-april-fool-joke-or-the-real-thing.htm

 

"The Video shown above is of the ship MV Olympic Voyager February 15, 2005.

Cyclones do happen in the Med sea although rare.

This was Cyclone Valentina.

The Voyager was en route between Spain’s Balearic Islands to the Italian island of Sardinia, and radioed a distress call after getting into difficulties in the heavy seas. A huge wave some say 40′ -50′ shattered a bridge window, damaging control systems inside.

 

The Bahamian-registered ship was carrying 776 passengers and crew, 480 of them Spanish. Some sustained minor injuries when the ship sailed into the storm."

 

The question I have is, how was the helicopter able to fly? It seemed to do okay. I would think it would be in bigger trouble than the ship :confused:

[smw0621]

Ugh! That made me sick just watching it, I can't imagine what those people on the ship were thinking.

[beardedladies]

I wondered if this was the cruise ship that the Captain and crew cleared off (they said at the time to raise the alarm) and left all the passengers onboard to fend for themselves ?... watch this clip ! :eek: looks scary !

 

http://www.enjoythecruise.com/cruise-ship-sinking/

[andrzej5914]

I wondered if this was the cruise ship that the Captain and crew cleared off (they said at the time to raise the alarm) and left all the passengers onboard to fend for themselves ?... watch this clip ! :eek: looks scary !

 

http://www.enjoythecruise.com/cruise-ship-sinking/

 

No it wasn't. If you look at the hull, the video I posted had a blue hull ship, the one you posted is all white.