For young buna (couldn't resist) LOL

[Jimbuna]

Many of you here will already be aware young buna is following in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and great grandfather (not sure of any before) having chosen a career at sea.

He is currently on a years paid study leave for his Chief Officer ticket and is really missing his time at sea.

I and my father before me have always siad "Nothing is better than travelling on the worlds oceans...the best way to travel".

Come across this two minute video and couldn't resist sending it to him :)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8dd_1305213553

[CCIP]

just looking at that makes me seasick :doh:

[Jimbuna]

Just a small swell really :O:

[TarJak]

A small breeze. Seen that one before and glad I wasn't on that cruise.:ping:

[Wolferz]

:haha:Batten down the furniture!

[Schroeder]

What wonders me is that the helicopter that filmed the ship seemed to be flying perfectly stable in those conditions...:doh:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Iirc that was in the Bay of Biscay.

Imagine trying to dive into the pool!

[Jimbuna]

Young buna reckons there is another video in existence showing the forks of a forklift below decks that pierced the hull of the same vessel and water flooded in.

[Sailor Steve]

I've been in weather like that, and on a ship a whole lot smaller than that one. :O:

[Schroeder]

I've been in weather like that, and on a ship a whole lot smaller than that one. :O:
So how did your stomach contents look like?:O:

(boy, I would surely throw up...:dead:)

[mapuc]

Some thoughts

The way the cruise ship rolled in the sea could mean that the engine was not working

The way the furniture was moving from one side to the other, made me wonder.

I have only been on different ferries and on those the table was bolted onto the floor and so was some of the chairs some of the chairs was lose. Maybe it's different on a cruise ship.

Markus

[fireftr18]

I've been in weather like that, and on a ship a whole lot smaller than that one. :O:
I was in some rough seas on a small boat. Not that rough, but it sure felt like it.
RIP one bottle of wine all over the cabin floor. :wah:

The music for the video was great. :har:

[Rockstar]

that poor women in the black outfit took a header right into the stanchion @ 1:20 or so. Looks too me like it knocked her out cold. Then she and the other get swept away like crumbs blown off a table top.


Bad day all around

[Jimbuna]

Some thoughts

The way the cruise ship rolled in the sea could mean that the engine was not working

The way the furniture was moving from one side to the other, made me wonder.

I have only been on different ferries and on those the table was bolted onto the floor and so was some of the chairs some of the chairs was lose. Maybe it's different on a cruise ship.

Markus

Only furniture and fittings that are heavy enough to cause serious injury are usually bolted down and the area on camera looked like a restaurant which obviously needs tables and seating that can be easily moved to accomodate disabled people in wheelchairs and facilitate the adding of additional tables and chairs for larger groups of people etc.

Most if not all modern cruise ships have stabilisation systems onboard and the Captain has the authority to assess the forthcoming weather situation and divert his vessel away from or into calmer waters if he deems it necessary.

Those weather conditions would have caused problems for anything afloat and I would question what the ship was doing there in the first place.

[vienna]

Hopefully Young Buna won't have many occasions in his future career to encounter such bad weather. Good luck to him in his studies...

My father was in the US Merchant Marines and he once said the really big concern was "rogue waves"; although they are rather infrequent, they can do a lot of damage to a ship in a very short time. He encountered one once that was of a very good size and really put the cargo ship he was on through some very difficult turns. He tended to like the more coastal routes after that, trying to avoid any long-distance ocean crossings if he could...


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[Jimbuna]

Rgr that and cheers.

He informs me that high winds are enough to justify a change of port on the itinerary for berthing reasons as well as the transfer of passengers ashore.

[vienna]

I'd bet the effect is a lot more pronounced on the more recent generations of ships. There are quite a few cruise ship and container ships that berth here in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. The very high and sheer flat sides of the ships when compared to the older pre-1970s craft have often made me wonder about the effect of winds against such a broad expanse of surface. When I was growing up in San Francisco, I would walk down the Embarcadero on windy days and see the "old fashioned" ships rock and roll from the winds and those ships had very low sides...


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[Jimbuna]

Oh precisely, high winds are enough reason alone for counter measures or changes in route to be acted upon.