5 Story wave

[CanadianMAG]

I thought I would be able to find this somewhere... but I am out of luck, unless I am blind :cool:

Anyway this morning on the news they said there was a 5 story wave that hit a cruise ship... I only caught a bit of it.. anyone hear about this? It was a ship on its way to Alaska.

Is this normal? a wave this size?

[Vic The Parrot]

There was a brief article in the AOL news section.

It looks as though the ship was in pretty stormy seas, and
it's small size really made it bounce around.

I'll see if I can find the report.

[01 Cobra]

The MV Explorer was hit by a 50ft wave, it's one of those ships that does a semester at sea for college students. My brother in law went last year.

Read about it at this link....
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?sid=402200&nid=249

[Vic The Parrot]

Updated: 02:34 PM EST
Huge Pacific Wave Damages Student Vessel
By DAN JOLING, AP



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The "Semester at Sea" research ship, Explorer, is seen in Long Beach, Calif., in this April 2004 picture.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Jan. 27) - A 50-foot Pacific wave temporarily disabled a "Semester at Sea" ship filled with hundreds of college students Wednesday, injuring two crew members as it broke windows and damaged the vessel's controls, the Coast Guard said.

Coast Guard vessels and aircraft from Alaska and Hawaii were dispatched to help the 591-foot Explorer, about 650 miles south of the Aleutian Islands and about 1,600 miles from Honolulu.

The ship for a time operated on just one of its four engines and could do little more than keep the bow headed into heavy seas using emergency steering. By Wednesday evening, a second engine had been started and the ship was making headway at a speed of about 10 knots, or about 11.5 mph, said Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Glynn Smith in Alameda, Calif.

Jim Lawrence, a spokesman for V. Ships, the technical managers of the ship, said no one was critically hurt but he did not have details on injuries. He said the ship may head to Midway Island, about 800 miles away.


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The weather in the region has been unsettled recently, with winds gusting to 50 mph or more.

Semester at Sea is a global comparative study-abroad program for undergraduate students, said Paul Watson, director of enrollment management for the Institute for Shipboard Education. The program is academically sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh.

The 100-day voyage began Jan. 18 in Vancouver, British Columbia, with 990 people aboard: 681 students, 113 faculty and staff and 196 crew members.

The ship never lost internal electrical power and maintained good communications with the Coast Guard, Smith said. A medical staff of two doctors and two nurses is on board.


01-27-05 13:54 EST

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[spcl4cs_gal]

It was the MV Explorer and there were 990 passengers onboard according to the article. The US Coast Guard was on their way to lend assistance and should arrive there on Friday. There was something about some of the windows on the bridge being blown out due to this "rogue 50 foot wave" and a crewmember suffered a broken leg.

[kryos]

The MV Explorer was hit by a 50ft wave, it's one of those ships that does a semester at sea for college students. My brother in law went last year.

Oh, dear. That's the same ship I was talking about on another thread ... my "ultimate" dream cruise ... the one I have to wait to retire before I can take.

Hope everyone is okay.

That must have been scarey as hell. :(

Blue skies ...

--rita

[Krazy Kruizers]

The MV Explorer left on Jan 18 from Vancouver for a 100 day semester at sea program. It is carrying about 700 students. 110 of the students are from PA colleges. 81 of them are from Pitt.

This has been the big talk around here for the last 2 days.

[jhannah]

That's certainly an experience they will remember for years to come! Mother Nature can really throw some ringers from time to time.

[DFD1]

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[01 Cobra]

DFD1,
Where do you think google finds all it's answers?
:o)!!! J/K

[mariner]

If I'm not mistaken, the Explorer was an earlier version of the Veedam or Volendam. She originally sailed the Pacific from San Francisco to Japan on the Moore-McCormick Line. As an older ship, she'll handle a rouge wave better than the shallow-drafted newer ships.

Once experience a rouge wave in the windward passage. It was about a 50-footer and it created shear chaos on a 26,000 ton ship that was built to sailfrom Scandanavia to New York. I slid across the deck on my butt until I grabbed the railing and prayed for the ship to right itself.