Pacific Sun Cruise liner in very heavy seas. Internal CCTV footage.
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lol can you imagine the workman’s comp?
wow great vid
Funny, but scary too. I hope no-one got hurt.
It amazes me that there seems to be nothing aboard the ship that is anchored down.
I’m not suprised the chairs and tables on the passenger decks weren’t fixed to the floor, but wow, the crew deck took a pasting too.
The music———- BRILLIANT!
Not Monday. Wednesday. That is, *a* Wednesday in July 2008.
[Right. Misread the date posted as being the incident date — UD]
I love watching the busboy (who has serious sea legs) walk casually past the scene.
Would’ve been more fun if they guy were calmly playing the piano as it went to and fro …
When I was a kid I went on a number of school trips to Europe. We crossed the English Channel twice in a Force 10 and once in a Force 12 storm. Each time with the weather looking fine and then “kicking off” about half way across.
The last storm was so severe that the P&O Ferry people started to get the lifeboats ready! Needless to say, as teenagers, we thought it was awesome!
These days I think I would just go gray(er).
And this is why you never go on a small cruise ship.
If the thing is not at least big enough to fill times square and if stood up as tall as the liberty statue, don’t go on it.
Never pay to vacation on a tub.
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They were turning away from a heavy sea. They have stabilizer ballast tanks, but they have limitations. I still wonder if this wasn’t an autopilot or crew error. These ships avoid heavy seas like a plague. Rogue waves can come in double or triplets, they would explain it also.
Pacific Sun is Cursed
You still want to go on that cruise Billy?
I’ve seen worse when I was in the Navy. However, everything was tied down that could move and we didn’t have stuff sliding all over the deck.
#12 said, “They were turning away from a heavy sea. They have stabilizer ballast tanks, but they have limitations. I still wonder if this wasn’t an autopilot or crew error.”
Possibly crew error. If you are caught in heavy seas, you want to head bow first into the storm. A wave hitting on the side of the ship could capsize it.
roll roll roll your boat, violently in the seas, merrily merrily merrily, life is but nightmare…
Maybe some Blue-Tac under the piano was in order?
I posted the top vid, and another of the cargo, in cage match. There is another in the set..
Take a Tall tool chest, and THROW it across the bay.
You think they would at least have procedures in place to strap things down before leaving port. The metal cabinet could have killed somebody.
I can’t imagine what it was like down below or in the galley!!!
On an Alaska trip late in the season we were flipped out of bed like pancakes in a frying pan!
Ocean big! Boat (even a cruise liner) small!
I have pretty-good sea legs but when fork lifts are being thrown around, you’re pretty much screwed.
>> Benjamin said, on September 8th, 2010 at 5:32 am
>> I’ve seen worse when I was in the Navy. However, everything was tied down that could move and we didn’t have stuff sliding all over the deck.
I was wondering the same thing. I’ve experienced worse, too, in small crafts.
But everything was battened down or packed-away. There was always the odd scary thing flying through the air but nothing like a cabinet or table.
I always assumed they did that on cruise ships. Obviously not!
At second 43 there is a woman that crashes face first into the pole. I hope she was OK… looked bad.
All this because of the stupid 1MC (main loudspeaker) announcements:
“- The port buffet is now open…
– Sorry, I meant the starboard buffet is now open…
– Never mind… it’s actually the port buffet…
– It’s the starboard buffet? Oh… whatever…”
Overheard in the elevator, “What time is the midnight buffet?”
or, the mean old guy at the dessert table with 500 different desserts…
‘Is this all you have? I can’t eat this crap!”
#15 is dead on. IMO
What surprises me the most is the number of morons that continue walking around on the upper deck while this is going on. I think I hear Darwin calling.