These are the weather conditions at sea, you do NOT see in the cruise line commercials
A warning sign of danger above due to high winds?
If you get sea sick easily, don't watch this video of a cruise ship sailing through a category 8 typhoon.
Breakfast chatter by passengers after a wild night at sea of 60mph hour winds, and 18 foot waves. Very well done video.
Awesome footage of the beast as she plowed ashore. Hurricane Katrina
Carnival Cruise Line, Fascination cruise during Hurricane Wilma
Norwegian Cruise Lines, windy decks with passengers struggling to stay onboard.
Thinking of taking that cruise around Cape Horn? See if you have the stomach for it.
The orange juice sea sickness test. If you can watch this video and not get sick, and if you could drink this orange juice, and not get sick, you are ready to cruise.
You can see the waves crashing on the ship, you can see the man trying to paint the ship, you can see the man swinging in the wind, unable to paint the ship. What is wrong with this picture?
This is not a wave pool, this is ROUGH seas on the Veendam October 2005 in the Pacific Ocean between Long Beach and Acapulco, dodging Hurricane Stan.
Explorer 55 Foot Waves.After seeing our video of ships rolling onto their side in a storm, did you wonder how the passengers were making out onboard? This answers that question.
Rough seas on the Maasdam
It is not a cruise ship, but it is most definitely ROUGH seas. English Channel rescue. Excellent video
Monster wave hitting Voyager, in cyclone Valentina, middle Mediterranean Sea, February 14, .2005, head-on and smashing through the bridge windows. Awesome footage. There is a second video, that is much more shocking HERE
Gulf Of Alaska rough seas.
Baltic Sea, rough seas. listing at 35 to 40 degrees
Storm in north Atlantic on January 2005. On board M/T Cap Diamant VLCC. I was 28 meter high (on the bridge) and the wave was higher than me.
A 300 meter long 4500TEU Container vessel 200 nautical miles northeast of Japan in the Tropical Zyklon Banjan 2005
As long as we are terrifying you with these awesome storm at sea videos, how this one? Imagine being on a cruise ship during these high seas.
Northlink Ferry MV Hamnavoe leaving Hoy Sound on a 'routine' crossing to Scrabster in rough seas
60 Foot Rogue Wave slams ship in the Bering Sea. And . . . Get this. They will let you take a voyage on the ship, just like the cruise ships. Their website says, "The ALEUTIAN BALLAD is the only genuine Bering Sea Crab fishing vessel licensed to carry leisure passengers. Completely remodeled to provide the comfort and safety you expect in a top-notch excursion."
Thinking of doing an Transatlantic crossing cruise. See this video made on a Canadian Navy ship. Ohhhh Canada! We love the music on this video.
Rough seas for this crew. This video was taken on Waitangi Day 2002 off the coast of Wellington, New Zealand. The ship is called "Suilven".
Twin tornados taunt the Queen Elizabeth II at sea
This video was taken on board a Russian vessel crossing the Drake Passage between Ushuaia (Argentina) and the Antarctic Peninsula. The Drake Passage is known as the roughest sea on earth with severe storms almost at any times and extremely huge waves. We were hit by a storm sailing north that lasted two days with 14 meter waves. You know the seas are rough when the berth curtains open and close by themselves with the pitch of the sea.
This video was taken on an Alaskan cruise. The normally calm swimming pool turns into a strong wave pool, as passengers go from floating in the pool, to jumping waves.