For young buna (couldn't resist) LOL

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by 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

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.