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A Royal Caribbean cruise ship ran into high winds and rough seas in the Atlantic Ocean, forcing the Florida-bound vessel to retreat back to its home port in Cape Liberty, New Jersey.
The wave was reported to be at least 50 feet (15 m) high and struck the ship on the port side. The wave carried away part of the forebridge and smashed the guardrail stanchions. There were a number of first-class passengers sitting in deck chairs close to the bridge and they caught the full force of the water.
MS Chinese Taishan (Chinese: 中华泰山号) is a cruise ship that was formerly owned by Royal Olympic Cruises and Carnival Corporation & plc, sailing for Carnival subsidiaries Costa Crociere and Ibero Cruises as Grand Voyager. On 14 February 2005, the MV Grand Voyager was struck by a freak wave during a mistral storm while operating in the ...
A Norwegian cruise ship with more than 250 passengers on board lost power on Thursday, Dec. 21, after the vessel encountered a rogue wave during a storm, the cruise company HX said.
MS Seaventure, formerly Bremen, is a cruise ship operated by Hapag-Lloyd Cruises GmbH since 1993. She was built as Frontier Spirit at the Mitsubishi Shipyard, Kobe, Japan, in 1990. During a storm in the Southern Atlantic in March 2001, a rogue wave caused heavy damage, even breaking a window on the bridge.
An expedition cruise ship operated by HX temporarily lost power after being hit by a rogue wave.
In December 2023, the ship was caught in a severe storm in the North Sea, resulting in damage from a rogue wave. The wave broke the bridge windows, flooded the bridge, and caused a temporary loss of power, leaving the ship without navigational systems and radar, necessitating manual steering from the engine room.
The ship took a hit from a wave that sounded like the ship split in two," said Tutrone. "The Carnival Sunshine is finally in Charleston." "The Carnival Sunshine is finally in Charleston."