A proverbial “rogue wave” struck the Vision of the Seas cruise ship a week ago, on September 20th 2025, as the Royal Caribbean ship returned to Baltimore from Bermuda. The incident caused the cruise ship to rock sharply, sending dishes and glassware tumbling across dining rooms and bars. A viral TikTok video of the incident
Passengers on Quark Expeditions’ Ocean Explorer ship heading back from Antarctica experienced a harrowing journey through the turbulent Drake Passage, where the expedition cruise ship hit waves as high as 30 to 40 feet. Passengers described the 48 hour experience as being trapped on a “never-ending roller coaster at sea.”
One passenger, travel blogger Lesley
German and Colombian media report that last Friday an excursion boat from the Carnival Corporation-owned AIDAbella cruise ship, with 38 tourists aboard, capsized off the coast of Colombia near the Barú Peninsula, Cartagena, Colombia, according to the popular Crew Center site.
The accident apparently was caused by strong winds and high waves, which overwhelmed
Yesterday, we were informed by a number of guests onboard the Carnival Sunshine that the cruise ship encountered severe weather as the vessel was returning from a cruise to the Bahamas.
What’s the Chinese Proverb? A picture is worth a thousand words?
Rather than try and explain what happened, we will just post some of
A little over a month ago, the MSC Opera cruise ship smashed into a dock and another smaller, cruise ship which was disembarking tourists in Venice.
Videos of the huge, out-of-control cruise ship, smashing into the dock and knocking tourists from the little ship in front of it into the water, looked like an attack-of-the-aliens
High winds reportedly struck the Norwegian Escape last night, causing injuries to passengers as “chairs, tables, glass, people went flying to one side of the ship:”
The scariest shit just happened on this cruise. Chairs, tables, glass, people went flying to one side of the ship😥 @CruiseNorwegian
— Gabriel™️ (@GVelez22) March 4, 2019
https://twitter.com/Toniann_Mariano/status/1102463676458717184
This morning (around 11 hours later), Norwegian Cruise Line tweeted that on Sunday, March 3rd, just before midnight, the Norwegian Escape encountered a “sudden, extreme gust of
The cruise ship MSC Poesia was caught in rough weather while sailing off the coast of Uruguay last week, according to an article posted by the Crew Center site and video posted on Noticias de Cruceros.
Crew Center explains that during the December 2 – December 9 cruise, the MSC Poesia was sailing
NCL Holdings president and CEO Frank Dek Rio rang the bell this morning at the New York Stock Exchange in celebration of the five year anniversary of NCL’s listing. Del Rio was later interviewed by CNBC when he was asked about cyclone Grayson, often called the “bomb cyclone” storm, which terrorized the passengers aboard the
This week, a number of passengers contacted our office after returning from the harrowing end of their ill fated cruise aboard NCL’s Norwegian Breakaway.
News accounts indicate that on January 2, 2018, the Breakaway stopped at its private island, Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas. Videos available online show the weather, initially calm and
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A local news station in Miami reports that Royal Caribbean used the Adventure of the Seas to take around 3,800 evacuees from St. Thomas, St. Croix and Puerto Rico back to South Florida, following the destruction and chaos caused by Hurricane Maria.
7 News in Miami aired a brief segment on its television program today
Hurricane Irma, which continues to strengthen as it heads west toward the Leeward Islands and Virgin Islands, is now a Category 5 storm with winds of over 175 mph (with gusts up to 215 mph) as of this morning’s advisories. The huge storm is predicted to continue west across the Caribbean, north of Dominican
I received the following information from a regular reader of this blog, who wishes to remain anonymous.
"Today’s Bild (translates to "Picture", Germany’s largest circulation daily) reports cruise ship Aida Prima was hit by 23 ft waves in the North Sea as it was returning to home port Hamburg on Friday evening from a week-long
Royal Caribbean’s Rhapsody of the Seas was damaged after it encountered a storm early this morning during a cruise.
A dozen large windows in the Viking Crown Lounge were reportedly broken, as you can see in a video posted to YouTube. Several panes of glass are also missing from the pool deck.
Passengers reported that
Two weeks ago, five windows on deck three broke on the Rhapsody of the Seas, injuring cruise passengers and partially flooding the cabins on deck three and also on deck two.
So why did the windows break? We have heard dramatic stories of a “rogue wave” from passengers. Afterward, the captain announced (saying words
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Last night / early this morning around 4:A.M – 4:30 A.M., a wave struck the Rhapsody of the Seas, breaking the windows of five passenger cabins on deck three, injuring cruise passengers and partially flooding the cabins on deck three and also on deck two.
One passenger, Kerry Boyd, tweeted; "Woke up at
This evening Royal Caribbean announced via Twitter that that it’s "closely watching a large storm off the coast of Cape Hatteras. We want to be extra cautious when it comes to weather in the area." The cruise line decided that it is canceling the last two days of the current Anthem of the Seas cruise which
Today, Miami lawyers filed suit on behalf of a cruise passenger who sailed aboard the Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Seas on Sunday, February 7th. The Lipcon law firm, based here in Miami, has filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Royal Caribbean in Federal Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Anyone who has
The maritime blog gCaptain published an article yesterday, written by Rick Spilman, author of the well written Old Salt blog, titled Anthem of the Sea – is She Seaworthy? The Old Salt blog takes issue with an article I wrote several years ago entitled Are Cruise Ships Dangerously Top Heavy?
In my article I
