The Norwegian Escape was struck by extreme wind gusts of around 100 knots, eight hours after the ship sailed from New York on a seven-night cruise to the Bahamas. The ship heeled to the port side in the high winds. The ship arrived at its first destination at Port Canaveral in Florida on Tuesday morning.
Norwegian Cruise Lines tweeted: Several injuries were reported and those guests and crew received immediate attention or are being treated by the ship’s medical staff. There was no damage to the ship; she remains fully operational and continues her scheduled itinerary.
Norwegian Escape is a Breakaway Plus-class cruise ship, built by Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, for Norwegian Cruise Line. The vessel entered service in October 2015 and has a passenger capacity of 4,266 with 1,733 crew.
I wonder if this was part of a large low pressure system or a momentary blasting by a microburst or similar anomaly. 100 knots is no joke. Things get pretty tense at 50-70 knots as it is.
I reckon the person holding that camera would make me feel seasick even when filming on dry land.
Butt-ugly comes with a price.
Doubtless this is all accounted for in stability calculations but I wonder if the people doing those numbers are connected to the people responsible for the hotel?
“No big deal– she’ll heel and recover from much worse.”
“Yeah but what about our pianos?”