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- Police Investigating People 'Behind' Pro-Palestinian Protests
- Frost Weather Warning Issued for 15 States as Temperatures Plummet
- Chilling video shows screaming woman begging for help at stranger's house before she was kidnapped
- Footage shows moment Royal Caribbean cruise ship was flooded during storm in the Gulf of Mexico
- MORE: 3 dead, 600,000 without power after monster storm tears up the East Coast
In another post, he accused the cruise ship's management of putting passengers' lives in danger and said some crew members had been injured. "Our cruise ship last night was literally sideways and slung everything in our room breaking, people in the hallways throwing up and sleeping on the stairs," Whited wrote in the post. Several of them shared videos on social media showing the damage to the Carnival Sunshine as it encountered severe weather on Saturday while returning to Charleston, South Carolina, from The Bahamas at the weekend. Passenger Sharon Tutrone, a professor at Coastal Carolina University, tweeted Friday that the ship was rocking. She said that the only time passengers heard from the captain was in the afternoon, when he told them he had an experienced crew and would do everything he could to minimize discomfort as the ship encountered the storm.
Police Investigating People 'Behind' Pro-Palestinian Protests
Not only do cruise ships avoid the path of a hurricane, they will chart a course with the optimal sea conditions to avoid the worst of any rough seas. While I think most people understand cruise ships don't sail into hurricanes, the most common question I've received during my cruise is something along the lines of, "how bad are the waves?". Depending on the ship’s original itinerary, some changes have been minor, while others are more extensive.
100 Cruise Passengers Injured in Bay of Biscay Storm - The Maritime Executive
100 Cruise Passengers Injured in Bay of Biscay Storm.
Posted: Tue, 07 Nov 2023 08:00:00 GMT [source]
Frost Weather Warning Issued for 15 States as Temperatures Plummet
Carnival Cruise Line brand ambassador John Heald discussed hurricane season and how the cruise line stays aware of developments in a post to his Facebook page. While not a cruise to nowhere, the night before setting sail, passengers onboard MSC Meraviglia's December 16 sailing to The Bahamas were informed that, instead, they'd be cruising to New England. In the days before the cruise, my mind was put at ease that we'd be able to sail thanks to his updates. During the cruise, we got information about what the storm was doing and how our ship was dealing with track changes. Jodi Grundig is a writer for our sister site Cruise.Blog (and she has her own blog at Family Travel Magazine) was on the Disney Wish when the sailing had to be extended by a couple days.
Chilling video shows screaming woman begging for help at stranger's house before she was kidnapped
Because of this, the cruise has now been shortened by two days and will not depart until Monday, December 18. Guests are receiving generous compensation for the dramatic adjustment, which includes cancelling most planned ports of call due to the shortened sailing time. Guests were refunded the port fees and any pre-paid shore excursions for missing the popular destination.
Local media reported that about 200 people disembarked in Norway due to the bad weather before the accident. The video shows the rogue wave ahead of the Otto Sverdrup off the coast of Germany on Friday. The ship is over 450 feet long, 70 feet wide, almost 16,000 tons, and has eight decks, and still, the freak wave dwarfed the ship.
Royal Caribbean cruise ship floods amid rough weather - USA TODAY
Royal Caribbean cruise ship floods amid rough weather.
Posted: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]
"The sound of us crashing into the swells could be heard over the music playing" at the show he was at, he said. "Stage lights mounted on the ceiling began to shake, the disco ball started swinging and the LED wall on the stage… began rolling side by side on its own." "The aftermath aboard Carnival Sunshine after a severe storm," the tweet said. "The crew from Deck 0-4 evacuated to the theater, and anywhere they could rest... the crew bar destroyed." Carnival Sunshine, which was headed from the Bahamas to South Carolina, arrived in Charleston behind schedule, according to the spokesman. Some crew cabins needed to be temporarily taken out of service because of water damage.
MORE: 3 dead, 600,000 without power after monster storm tears up the East Coast
As for the cruise, Montgomery said it's getting "a little depressing because you can imagine as we’re making the most of it, but most people are walking around in coats, gloves and hats." Allen also said they were given such short notice about the decision to change course, saying, "It was beyond short. Yeah, it was unexpected." "[T]his was like, 'Hey, you guys, you got to go to [the] Bahamas.' We're from Chicago, so we wanted to change the weather. I never fathomed that we will be back in cold weather."
Conditions prompted the ship's captain to cancel their next planned stop in Las Palmas, where they were due to travel from the capital of Fuerteventura, another place in the Canary Islands, on Nov. 2. Instead, Spirit of Discovery changed directions to route toward the northwestern tip of mainland Spain, where the captain intended to dock the ship at La Coruña. "We have apologised to all our guests who experienced such difficult weather conditions; we know that this was a very distressing experience for them," Banks said in the statement. Nigel Banks, the CEO of British company Saga Cruises, said Spirit of Discovery had safely returned to the U.K. The ship reportedly arrived safely at Coco Cay, an island used by Royal Caribbean about 55 miles north of Nassau.
"They offered phones for people who needed to make calls and they provided free internet for people to make changes to flights/arrangements." Sailings can be extended or shortened, but Royal Caribbean very rarely cancels an entire sailing. At first, they were flip-flopping her schedule to bypass Mexico and go to Grand Cayman. When Grand Cayman closed, they switched it up again and moved her to Mexico. In our case, when we drove down to Fort Lauderdale from Orlando, the storm was only predicted to be a category 2 and headed for the Florida Panhandle.
"The only alternative would have been to take the more extreme step of canceling the cruise -- and thousands of people's vacations -- outright," MSC said. The Carnival Sunshine is already on its next voyage, the cruise line confirmed. By dinner time, public decks had been closed off, and plates and cups were flying off the buffet areas, he recalled. "People were writing texts to their loved ones in case we capsized," an unnamed passenger told BBC News of the chaotic voyage. “It was shaking us so violently,” RJ Whited, another guest, told Charleston’s WCIV. They packed up their belongings when their floor started to flood and took shelter in a main lobby area.
A dream vacation became a maritime nightmare for those onboard a cruise ship caught in a fierce storm in the Bay of Biscay that left 100 people injured over the weekend, according to media reports. "We operate to the highest health and safety protocols and every decision was made based on advice from the ship's Master and forecasts from our dedicated marine meteorologists," Banks said in his statement. A TikTok posted by @thecruisespotter reveals that Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas didn't sail into port until after Carnival Celebration. Virgin Voyages' Scarlet Lady was delayed, too, arriving just before Carnival Celebration. These three vessels alone can hold around 10,100 passengers at double occupancy.
The last day of Norwegian Cruise Line’s 164,998-gross-ton, Breakaway-Plus-class Norwegian Escape‘s current sailing has been turned into a sea day, with the call on Great Stirrup Cay cancelled. Instead of her original schedule, the ship is instead heading to Costa Maya, Mexico. On Saturday, and Sunday will be another day at sea while the ship heads back to Florida for debarkation as planned on Monday, December 18. "There were about 20 minutes in which I thought the ship might capsize, it was rocking so much and we had no idea what had happened," an American passenger posted on X, formerly Twitter. MSC also said it offered passengers a choice of sailing to the new destinations or canceling for future credit, "which allows them to put the full value paid for this cruise toward another at their convenience." "The complexities involved in obtaining last-minute berths for unplanned stops and provisioning the ship along its new route left sailing to Canada and New England as the only viable option," the cruise line added.
While Walker said passengers should make their complaints known to Carnival, he doesn’t believe filing a lawsuit would be an efficient next step. Instead, impacted passengers can ask Carnival for a refund or a credit for another cruise, although there’s no guarantee the cruise line will grant such requests. “Waves were hitting the boat so hard that it was like an earthquake experience, jarring you like a really rough roller coaster — even in the middle floor,” Branham said. Because the ships were heading back to their homeport, they were not able to adjust their route as significantly as if the incidents happened mid-cruise, when a port of call could be rescheduled or cancelled. The 138,194-gross-ton Voyager of the Seas can welcome 3,602 guests onboard at double occupancy, or as many as 4,000 passengers when fully booked with all berths filled. The storm was likely the same squall line that Carnival Dream also passed through when guests and crew members were advised to stay in their cabins.
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