danajjj Posted September 7, 2007 #26 Share Posted September 7, 2007 No video, and not really a "storm" exactly, but last Fall on Grandeur we hit a lot of high seas and strong headwind heading south from Baltimore. I couldn't take a picture of the ship from afar (since I was on it!) but my album has a section with lots of views from the ship! Several of the crew said it was the worst weather they had ever sailed in. http://albums.tpkeller.com/grandeur2006/Weather/ Theron I really enjoyed your pics. Thanks for posting them, you got some really great shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakinGold Posted September 7, 2007 #27 Share Posted September 7, 2007 I tend to agree here...perhaps an Engineer who has designed seagoing vessels can chime in...based on this picture I would expect a fair bit of damage to the various windows around the ship...likely we would have heard about this ship on the news... The pic didn't look all that bad to me. I went through a storm on the Explorer in which the ship was really rocking and rolling. It was during the night, so I don't know what it looked like. I just know that even the upper decks were coated with salt the next morning. Maybe I'm underestimating that picture or overestimating what that storm I went through must have looked like, but I imagine it be as bad as that picture, if not worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Cruz Chic Posted September 7, 2007 #28 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Here are a couple more. http://youtube.com/watch?v=D_0y7hnDW_U&mode=related&search= *** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrsg324 Posted September 7, 2007 #29 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Our cruise Nov 30 on Splendour had some really rough sean that the captain wouldn't let us out on the deck the last night. I wish I'd thought about taking pictures but everything was being thrown around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prc Posted September 7, 2007 #30 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Taken from the Fantasy. This is the Ecstacy...they were traveling together with no passengers to get away from the hurricanes in 2005. They could not make safe harbor in Mobile Bay, so they had to ride it out on the edge of the storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrysyGT Posted September 7, 2007 #31 Share Posted September 7, 2007 I was just going to say there was a thread on the Carnival boards a while back with some wild pics of the Fantasy riding out a Hurricane at sea! You beat me to it PCR :) The first photo of the Carnival ship has been widely debated on the Carnival boards as a fake. I am apt to believe it is fake, as I don't see how a ship could hit a wave like that and look so level on the sea. Oh well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennbngl Posted September 7, 2007 #32 Share Posted September 7, 2007 I gotta wonder who took that picture..... Maybe a Coast Guard copter making sure it didn't go down???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melba1024 Posted September 7, 2007 #33 Share Posted September 7, 2007 No video, and not really a "storm" exactly, but last Fall on Grandeur we hit a lot of high seas and strong headwind heading south from Baltimore. I couldn't take a picture of the ship from afar (since I was on it!) but my album has a section with lots of views from the ship! Several of the crew said it was the worst weather they had ever sailed in. http://albums.tpkeller.com/grandeur2006/Weather/ Theron Wow! Those pictures are crazy - and thank you for sharing! And those pictures of the Carnival ship, unbelieveable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dremac373 Posted September 7, 2007 #34 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Call me naive, but until these photos are proven as fake I will believe them to be for real. I have been in rough seas on a merchant ship while in the Marine Corps from Diego Garcia to Saudi Arabia so I know it is not impossible for a ship to pitch and roll the way this ship is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nlcentralchmps03 Posted September 7, 2007 #35 Share Posted September 7, 2007 What looks 50 years old? The water? :D Surely not the super tanker? ;)She's real alright according to the site? ;) Who's to know? Here's the link for the story on her I posted under it. "The Shipping Times carries the Wave Ruler’s story in the article: British naval ships assist Belize after Hurricane Dean " Oh no, I believe the picture is real, it is just the picture quality looks older to me :) Crazy stuff though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfer1966 Posted September 7, 2007 #36 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Like this which I got off of a search on Google I remember reading on CC someplace that this was an altered picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FitzLA Posted September 7, 2007 #37 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Like this which I got off of a search on Google That picture is known to be a fake. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue L Posted September 7, 2007 #38 Share Posted September 7, 2007 That picture is known to be a fake. Sorry. I just Googled and that is what came up, I have no idea of it's authenticity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted September 7, 2007 #39 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Oh no, I believe the picture is real, it is just the picture quality looks older to me :) Crazy stuff though. Sorry about that nlcentralchmps03. When I said "What looks 50 years old? The water?" :D I put a smiley. (Not a Meany one) It was meant as tongue in cheek and it was said in jest. Please, I didn't mean my post to offend you at all. :o I must watch my "tone" on here a little better. ;) Seriously, It probably looks that way because I only right clicked on it and copied and posted it on here. On the website it is much shinier. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmf123 Posted September 7, 2007 #40 Share Posted September 7, 2007 'Fatal Storm', the story of the tragic Sydney to Hobart ocean racing (yachts) competition in 1998 was a good read, and contains a dozen or so harrowing photos. A freak, unseasonal storm brought hurricane-strength winds, waves were six stories high, and it was one of the worst sailing disasters in recent history. Of 115 yachts only 44 reached Hobart. The heroic rescues were amazing, and not everyone made it. Maybe not a book to take along on your next cruise, but a good one. Reminded me of 'The Perfect Storm' movie, but this is real. :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonjie Posted September 7, 2007 #41 Share Posted September 7, 2007 I heard the Carnival Triumph photo was not a fake. Search the photo & video board, there was a thread there a while back discussing it and the photo experts there said it was real. You can tell by the Ectasy/Fantansy shots that those bows were going under the same way. (Those short, stubby Carnival bows aren't made for storms.) In a storm I'd want to be on the QM2 or one of the Disney ships! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kathyemma Posted September 7, 2007 #42 Share Posted September 7, 2007 I just searched the carnival sailing on snopes.com (i love that site) and didn't find anything. I uploaded the photo to them to see if they could find out if it is real or not. Kathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David4 Posted September 7, 2007 #43 Share Posted September 7, 2007 I was in the Navy in the early 1980s on the USS Enterprise CVN65 and in one of the storms we went through we were taking water over the flightdeck. All planes were on the hanger deck and no one was allowed on any outside decks. That was a wild ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruznsugs Posted September 7, 2007 #44 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Great pictures and videos everyone. Here is what happens when they don't drain the pool during rough seas, it becomes a wave pool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphakitty Posted September 7, 2007 #45 Share Posted September 7, 2007 I heard the Carnival Triumph photo was not a fake. Search the photo & video board, there was a thread there a while back discussing it and the photo experts there said it was real. You can tell by the Ectasy/Fantansy shots that those bows were going under the same way. (Those short, stubby Carnival bows aren't made for storms.) In a storm I'd want to be on the QM2 or one of the Disney ships! I agree, I don't think that pic a fake. I do believe John Heald mentioned it in his blog a couple of months ago and confirmed it is real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelerThom Posted September 7, 2007 #46 Share Posted September 7, 2007 On my April 2004 crossing from Southampton to NYC on the QE2 we were warned that even though we were detouring 125 miles, we would still be encountering 60-70 foot waves for close to 12 hours. No photos, as I was not about to go out on deck. Not sure what the actual wave heights were, but two windows were lost in the foyer of the Mauretania Restuarant, and there are ocean view passenger cabins six decks below that level. An interesting ride, especially given that we were about to pass over the Titanic - 72 years and 1 week after it went down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KC_fn Posted September 7, 2007 #47 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Here is a link that has that photo, looks real to me. http://www.strangedangers.com/content/item/102022.html Doesn't look real to me. The sea looks choppy, but I don't see any other 50-foot waves, like that one would have to be. BTW, nice link. I hope you run Ad-Aware regularly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reijo Posted September 7, 2007 #48 Share Posted September 7, 2007 I remember reading on CC someplace that this was an altered picture. I've read the same thing. This picture has been around for a while. There was also a picture taken from supposedly a helicopter during a hurricane.........right...........!!!! There was also another picture of a ship in "distress" while a helicopter is hovering with no choppy waters from the blades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixCruiser Posted September 7, 2007 #49 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Here are a couple more. http://youtube.com/watch?v=D_0y7hnDW_U&mode=related&search= *** Great videos!!! I had to stop watching the first one...:D ### Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruising89143 Posted September 7, 2007 #50 Share Posted September 7, 2007 This pic has been on previous posts, and someone said it is not a real picture...some good computer generation and voila! The Triumph photo is a known fake. It has been posted that the Triumph was not in a storm at the time that the photo was taken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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