Bummer when your Antartica Cruise gets hit by a Rogue Wave

try the bering sea in winter , that will wake you up in the morning boy-o.

Oh hell, no! My late uncle would cuss a blue stream while recounting his time spent in that locale.

I'd love to take a cruise up that way also but would have to go in summer. Freakin' hate cold weather.

Tour operator that regularly runs trips to Antarctica.

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Oh cool, thx!! The Alaska trip looks excellent and that's another place I'd like to visit.

And bless the Mod who pinned this!

Am still trying to wrap my brian around how I'd react to being on a ship gettin' smacked by big-ass wave. And a rogue wave is not exclusive to being in a bad squall either. Those suckers just pop up with no warning.

That was fucking awesome.

I love how the guy was laughing.

Thrilling.

Then again, potentially lethal.

I had a similar dream where this happened except it ended in death. The ocean is a serious force of Nature!

Oh, I'd be green in the face and tossin' my cookies if I was on that roller coaster ride....

Seriously FIERCE force of nature at times.

A YouTube comment:

"First off its not a cruise ship. Its a 55 meter IMT 755 style hull offshore support vessel owned by Vroon Offshore working in the North Sea.
Second that wave is nowhere close to 100 feet. 40 feet max. Eye level standing on the bridge of these is around 45 feet above sea level and at most the wave is somewhere around there if not slightly below.
Yes its a big wave, and fairly extreme weather but its really not unusual to see this weather in the North Sea in winter. You could definitely expect to see it like this a few times each year.
How do I know this? Because I worked for this company for around 10 years most of which was on ships identical to the one in the video, I could have even been on this one and don't remember."

No joke! Dude is just LOL, colleague chuckling in background. Must be part of their norm in that part of the seas.

I've been on a big cruise ship in a squall. Hated that shit since I was so hung over and had a hard time adjusting to the ship's tilt while having coffee.

This is an experience I've yet to have. I've been on a few ferries in the PNW, never "out to sea".

Well, if this dude commenting on video worked in that kind of shit, he must have ice water in his veins and a cast iron stomach. Geeze, I'd be dry heaving below decks.

Damn straight. Spent a few years sailing from Cordova-kodiak-Adak-nome and back. Can confirm you learn to sleep with one foot planted on your bunk post.

Adak is the coolest fucking island ever. They live right under a volcano there.

Last Edited by H. Rorschach on 12/02/2022 09:36 AM

Yup. I will never take a cruise

Do they have seat belted seats to sit in while they're rockin' and rollin'?....jeebus.


I've never, ever wanted to go on a cruise ship.....

Good question! Yikes!

I've never, ever wanted to go on a cruise ship either!

A sail boat, maybe.. A smaller boat, maybe..

OK, that would totally suck if that's how you gotta' get any shut eye in those seas. I have no sea legs whatsoever.

Cruises don't bother me but it's based upon the size of the vessel going thru' whatever level of bad weather that determines whether I stand, sit or just lie down w/ waste basket by the bed.

Hey Stella, river cruises are actually very cool, so look into those.

Well, maybe not the ones running the Mississippi right now.

Well, I've been on sail boats....but this film is a whole 'nother something else, compared to how our sails went.

I had to take Dramamine before going on them, though.

Green, I get literally green in the face when my sense of balance gets thrown out of whack.

That is something you'd never know until/unless experienced...

My body would surely get sick. People must get used it.

better than "rouge" wave

Hehe, I see what you did there!

Hmmm, and that would actually be one of those really nasty algae bloom covered waters doing that.

Why is this pinned? That's not a cruise ship, that's not a 100 ft wave, and the video has nothing to do with the story.

Helmsman on large ships don't know how to steer properly in heavy weather.

They should all be forced to learn on small boats first.

Hitting waves pretty much head on is the most punishing course to take.

Approach those waves at a 30 degree offset and the ship will ride nice and smooth. You may zig zag your course a bit, but the people, equipment, hull and helm will not be punished by the pounding of taking the waves head on.

Last Edited by JustmeTX on 12/02/2022 10:23 AM

Guess one of the Mods thought this was worthy (thx again!) given all the other news of the day is of same similar bent.

I did say in my orig post that the video referenced was just featured giving some context of the story. Of course, I'd love to see any real passenger or crew video but pretty sure it'd be punctuated w/ some colorful language.

Good to know. Seems cruise ship I was on decades ago took that approach but just stay tilted to one side. That was a very hateful hungover morning (sigh). Lost like 3 cups of coffee due to imbalance and shaky legs.

A rouge wave by nature is unexpected and can come from any direction which makes them extremely dangerous.

I don't think this is a rouge wave because they've positioned themselves to head into the wave the way a large ship should.

just the video is enough

We should be considered lucky to have Cruiseship technology to be able to handle this type of wave. You should have seen the past with wooden ships. SHIPWRECKED AND EVERYONE DROWNS IN COLD!

Yeah, I was thinking about what kind of 'tech' our ancestors across the globe who were seafarers used. Like astrolabes.