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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) - Offsite (ferrell{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Mon Apr 18 2005 - 09:56:37 EDT
If anyone is not convinced of the power of that subtropical storm off the
Carolina coast this weekend, check this out:
All Stories:
<http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=storm+ship>
Video from ABC7:
<http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_041805_cruiseAM.html>
Newsday Story:
<http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usship184223044apr18,0,4195592.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines>
Quotes:
"Seven-story wave slams into Norwegian cruise ship off Virginia, flooding
62 cabins and injuring 4 passengers
It was the first vacation in years that Caren Hogan had taken with her
husband and two children, and she was looking forward to swimming with
dolphins. Instead, the four found themselves trapped in monstrous weather,
watching funnel clouds form in the sea, as the Norwegian Dawn cruise ship
pushed through a storm and was slammed by a seven-story wave that injured
four passengers.
The water was high enough to flood cabins on the ninth and 10th decks of
the 14-deck ship, Robison said, adding that the ship's captain was creeping
along at 4 to 5 knots, instead of the usual 21 to 25 knots, at the time
because of the choppy conditions.
Maritime experts say so-called "rogue waves" are not that unusual, and
several cruise liners have been hit by them in recent years. In fact,
Robison said another Norwegian Cruise Lines ship, the Norwegian Majesty,
was hit by a huge wave last year while traveling from Bermuda to Boston. A
window was damaged, but nobody was injured, she said. Cunard's Queen
Elizabeth 2 encountered a wave estimated at 95 feet high in February 1995
in the North Atlantic, but nobody was injured.
Four years ago, waves of similar sizes hit two cruise ships, Hapag-Lloyd's
Bremen and the Caledonian Star of Lindblad Expeditions, within one week in
the South Atlantic, smashing windows."
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