Freak wave hits cruise ship

Freak wave hits cruise ship

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Two people were killed and 14 injured when massive waves slammed into a cruise ship carrying some 2000 people in the western Mediterranean on Wednesday, the ship's owners said.
The freak waves smashed windows in the Louis Majesty, the ship's Cypriot owners, Louis Cruises, said in a statement.

"Louis Cruises regrets to announce that its Maltese-flagged cruise ship, MV Louis Majesty, while sailing from Barcelona to Genoa was hit by abnormal waves.

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I have heard of these freak waves (or rogue waves) but I was suprised to hear of one in the Mediteranean - and killing two people as well.
How high was this wave? It must have been huge!

They have been blamed as the potential cause of several mysterious dissapearences of ships in the past.

This is a 200 metre long cruise ship with 10 passenger decks ... the wave smashed windows in the lounge area .... frightening.

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reply to post by deltaalphanovember


This is weird - the Med is one of the calmest seas.

Maybe it was a wake up call to the people on board, saying something like "Stop spending your millions on pointless cruises when you should be helping starving people!"

OK, that is something I truly believe in. People with excess money should be helping the rest of the world.

reply to post by kawacat


You sense of karmic justice is a little warped - you are saying that people who go on holiday have too much money and should die? Who is to say these people are not great supporters of charities? Anyway, all this is besides the point.

Rogue waves are rare and incrediblly frightening acts of nature. Once dismissed as myth, they have now been documented but not fully explained. To have one in the Med is somewhat surprising.

reply to post by deltaalphanovember


If my sense of karmic justice is a little warped, I would say your understanding of my post was a little warped.

These people were not in danger and I do not think they should die - just spread their wealth around a little bit.

According to the Wikipedia site link quoted above the wave was 26 feet high:

Louis Majesty, (Gulf of Marseille, Mediterranean Sea, March 2010). An unexpected wave of 26 feet hit the ship while on a cruise between Carthagena and Marseille. Two passengers were killed in a lounge by flying glass from a shattered window. [27] While this wave was much lower than freak waves appearing in open oceans, published evidence indicates that its behaviour was similar to that of freak waves.

I have yet to find colloboration of this.

Imagine encountering a wave like this:

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory ocean-floor pressure sensors detected a freak wave caused by Hurricane Ivan in the Gulf of Mexico, 2004. The wave was around 27.7 meters (91 ft) high from peak to trough, and around 200 meters (660 ft) long.[24]

Once again another "natural" phenomenon, like so many eartquakes and natural disasters of late....rogue waves i heard about in the North Sea, the Atlantic and Bearing Straights etc etc, but the Med???

Maybe caused by tectonic plate movements, caused by the eartquake in Chile...stay tuned...i think were gonna see a whole lot more disasters and "freak" occurences in the following weeks and months...

reply to post by deltaalphanovember


26 feet is amazingly huge - I challenge ocean scientists to explain it in any sea, especially the Med.

I still say it was a message from God.

There's a huge storm raging in the Med at the moment the Ship was hit by this Hurricane thats what CNN are calling it!

reply to post by DCDAVECLARKE


That never happens there - so there you go.

Times have changed and I think we should all have a good look at ourselves.

Originally posted by kawacat
reply to post by DCDAVECLARKE

 

That never happens there - so there you go.

Times have changed and I think we should all have a good look at ourselves.

Im an old an wise Hippie an iv been watching mySelf for 45 years

It was a large wave folks ... they are not supernatural or karmic justice or a sign of the end of the world.

They happen naturally in all oceans (whether due to hurricanes or not). The Med has large storms but rogue waves are more infrequent, hence my interest in this powerful rare phenomena (like lightning on a clear day or fish falling from the sky).

These sort of rogue waves are a possible sign of polar shift, along with earthquakes and weather of incresed extremity, sound like 2010 so far to anyone?

count up all of the 5.1 or higher earthquakes we have had since january 1st, have the USGS ever seen such high seismic activity, the entire northern hemisphere suffered an unusually cold winter, with high snow falls, now storms hit france, fish fall from the sky in australia.

3 months into 2010, and the earth does appear to be under going extreme changes.

reply to post by la2


Yes, counting down...

I am not an apocolypse preacher but...

There have been a lot of freak things happen lately.

But it could just be go about your boring lives tomorrow and don't realise you are lucky to be alive, as usual.

What I am trying to say here is - You are lucky to be alive!

Appreciate your loved ones!

And thank God you are still here.

Here is the cause of the rogue wave, along with all the other events happening.

Really - THIS IS THE SMOKING GUN of what's going on!!

11,000 year Solar Cycles and Carbon - 14

It's my honest opinion that everyone should at least take a look at what is being stated by these scientists - then figure it out in your own mind if what they told us back in 2004 is happening?...

[edit on 4-3-2010 by DarkspARCS]

Originally posted by kawacat
These people were not in danger and ......

WHAT?

NO REALLY, WHAT?

2 people die, windows are smashed - a 26 foot wave could have washed people off decks into the sea and you say "they were not in danger"?

How do you figure that?

WHAT?

Dorian Soran

The wondering doctor

reply to post by Dorian Soran


Do you think I care - that these creeps were in danger? No, why should I care about them?

They care about themselves - full stop.

reply to post by kawacat


Just for the record, you do consider yourself a Christian, right? From what I can remember from Church back when i was a youngster, aren't Christians supposed to be a little more ... umm ... caring?

The largest rogue wave ever recorded by scientific instruments was off the west coast of Scotland in 2000.
The boat was sailing in an area known as the Rockall Trough.

It was a British oceanographic research vessel and recorded SWH (significant wave heights) of 18.5 metres and individual waves heights of upto 29.1 metres.

Now if thats not enough to make you baton down the hatches...i dont know what is.

www.youtube.com...

Heres the real footage of the incident , taken from inside the cruise ships dining area , you see people backing away from the windows as they see one of the on coming waves approaching , then BAM !! Water comes screaming through ,Warning...scary as $hit!!!!!!

Below is the news article with details ,and stating that footage was taken by a passenger showing the fleeing people and water crashing through the windows .

p.s.Took me awhile ,but i managed to find the real Footage

www.france24.com...

[edit on 4-3-2010 by StaceyWilson]