More details are coming in about yesterday’s deadly incident where a large wave crashed through a window on the Marco Polo cruise ship.
As we mentioned in our article yesterday, a 85 year old man and a woman in her 70s were airlifted from the ship. The man later died due to his injuries.
A cruise passenger gave the following account to the U.K.’s Channel 4 News:
"We were sitting at a table in the Marco Polo’s Waldorf restaurant, located on deck six of the cruise ship. The table was on the starboard side. Lunch was just being served and most people were waiting for their orders.
The seas, visible through the windows, were very rough. Waves were peaking nearly parallel to the windows. Furniture in the restaurant was beginning to shift, so people were holding on to tables and chairs.
Suddenly there was a very loud ‘bang’ and the daylight in the room reduced as a wall of seawater covered most of the starboard windows. The bang was the breaching of a forward window in the restaurant."
On leaving the restaurant, I went up three decks to my cabin, when another large wave hit the ship and I was thrown across a connecting passageway and ended up in a bundle against a wall.
I was rescued by fellow passengers who called the ships doctors and crew. I was stretchered to the sick bay four decks below with a cut head and extensive bruising."
ABC News aired the video here:
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1
Photo Credit: Marco Polo – ITV News