March 04 2008
The Mighty Power of the Sea
posted by Ana Samways at 4:56 pmTerrified of the sea? You should be. Here are three highly dramatic clips, filmed in incredibly rough seas. First up is the Grand Voyager, which lost engine power after a 15 metre wave hit it in February 2005, en route from Tunisia to Spain. Next, huge seas hitting lighthouses somewhere off the French coast, followed by a commercial fishing boat in Iceland getting a battering.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
I like the way all three of these things are designed to withstand the conditions and they cope with it adequately!
March 5th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
nice clips but the Grand Voyager clip leaves the best wave until the end but we only get to see the liner starting to touch the HUGE wave – where’s the rest of the clip showing the liner going over/through/under the wave? I feel let down!
March 5th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
As an engineer I would have said they coped better than adequately. In extreme conditions, adequate is the destruction of the object without the loss of life or limb. These videos look like all three are well within the scope of maximum working (not extreme) design.
March 5th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I was on the Grand Voyager (then known as Olympia Voyager) in 2003 when it hit a reef in the Aegean Sea off Patmos. We rolled probably as far as the worst roll shown in this clip but fortunately only once (it did manage to empty out the swimming pool and ended the Greek Dance Class!). Some ships are obviously unlucky!
March 8th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
So what about our very own MV Suilven (well it was then) leaving Wellington, Waitangi Day 2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnf96LJ9Kvg
March 10th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Yep, totally f*ing terrified.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Ships arent airplanes with seats and seatbelts…what are you supposed to hang onto when the ship is rolling like that?