Posted on 01/08/2018 7:46:02 AM PST by BenLurkin
Thursday’s winter storm was tough to take around the Tri-State Area, but imagine being in the thick of it on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
For 21 members of the Ross family, of Stony Brook, it was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime – cruising to the Bahamas for their patriarch’s 80th birthday.
Instead, they returned Friday after what they called a nightmare onboard the Norwegian Breakaway.
“I thought I’d never be in a situation where I would say that’s the scariest moment of my life. This was the worst moment of my life,” said Karoline Ross, speaking exclusively with CBS2’s Carolyn Gusoff.
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CBS2 asked Norwegian Cruise Line why the decision was made to sail back to New York in the middle of what was forecast to be a monster coastal storm.
The cruise line initially released a statement, apologizing to travelers that were delayed for the company’s next embarkment, but made no mention of those who weathered the storm.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
She should ride a destroyer through a typhoon sometime.
I always wondered if anyone died of seasickness before IVs.
Aren’t these winter cruises really repositioning for the ships with low-cost berths available? I think often these are less expensive than a comparable time in a mediocre hotel, but with meals, etc... It’s certainly a bargain way to take a cruise but most likely cheap for a reason.
Give em a taste of the lash!
Get back to your cabins you scurvy dogs!
The water is supposed to be coming down the elevator shaft! We call it our new Aqua-Elevator Ride! We should be charging you extra for it!
Agreed, everything is over-hyped today.
Sure.
Now everyone is going to sign up for the special Storm Cruises.
They’ll charge an extra $500 for it.
She would know fear then.
When I was a kid, we called these “monster storms”, WINTER.
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Storms like this one have been termed “Monster storms” for centuries.
My family went on a similar cruise in August of 1995 to celebrate my father's 75th birthday and my parent's 50th wedding anniversary. The NCL Dreamward, captained by one Captain Odd Strom, left New York for Bermuda and took us and 1200 other passengers into the path of Hurricane Edwardo. Attempting to outrun the storm by cruising east past Cape Cod, the good captain determined that the Dreamward was capable of ‘rounding’ the NE quadrant of the storm and sailing into clearer waters to the south. His error in judgment resulted in 3 days of hurricane conditions, the total disruption of anything resembling normal services and numerous injuries to passengers and crew including my father suffering a broken neck in a fall in his cabin. Fortunately, he survived to live another 12 years, albeit in a significantly diminished capacity.
We sadly refer to that voyage as The Spa Cruise, in which everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE lost weight. We arrived in Bermuda 2 days behind schedule with the incredulous Bermudians amazed that we were not all lost at sea. Believe me when I tell you, there were many moments when I thought that this was our likely fate as well.
Thank you, NCL.
Imagine being out in this on one of their Longships. Like stated, some people would pay bigtime for the adventure (if they survived)...!
My Father served in the Navy in WWII in the South Pacific.
He rode out the Typhoon that sank some of our Ships.
He said that even the old timers were puking their guts out. Everybody was green.
The great Mort Drucker's PoopsideDown Adventure parody.
I have fond memories as a kid crossing the North Atlantic in October. I can’t say how big the waves were other than to say YUGE!
A bunch of us kids went to a long corridor (passageway) and walked back and forth. The ship must have been heading right into the waves. It was a blast!
When the ship dove into the troughs you would become almost weightless. When it started to rise on the waves your knees would buckle under you. It was AMAZING! Seasick? What is that?
Obscure reference bump.
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That must have been “Halsey’s Typhoon”. Over 800 died and about 5 ships sank in that one.
Glad your Dad made it.
My Father passed away at 93 a couple of years ago.
We found a picture of him with a big smile on his face standing in front of a Ship’s Bulkhead that had depicted all the Japanese Planes that his Ship had shot out of the sky. He never mentioned anything about that.
He served on a Destroyer, a Sub Chaser and an Ocean going Tug that pulled stranded Landing Craft off the Beaches while under fire.
He said serving on that Tug was the closest he got to dying in the War. They were almost sunk by one of our own Ships in all the chaos because his Captain screwed up big time.
yes
He was a brave man.
My Dad served in the China-Burma-India Theater of War.
God bless them all.
I was a kid coming across to N.Y. on the Ile de France in early February, 1952. That was one big ship but we hit a storm and it would throw a friend I had made onboard and myself up in the air when we crested a wave, and we then
couldn’t lift a foot off the floor when we went downward each time. The only two kids on that ship running loose in the corridors were myself and the French girl, both 11 at the time, having such fun while everyone else was tossing their cookies. It was a big adventure.
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