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Today, disaster movies are not limited to the movie theater. W e are living in a iReport society where CNN, MSNBC and FOX News regularly broadcast iPhone videos of fires, floods, and bedlam, including cruise ship disasters.
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I picked the top 5 worst cruise ship disaster videos. Nothing subtle here. Exploitational? Maybe so, but these are not low budget disaster movies. They are real. With real people aboard. Fortunately, in most of the incidents no one was killed or seriously injured. Take a look and see how Mother Nature can interrupt your serene cruise vacation:
Number 5 : Stabilizers? alaska america cruise holland line What Stabilizers? Okay, I admit it. I have to take a Dramamine before I click the play button for this video. It shows what a cyclone can do to a cruise ship. I'm not sure which cruise ship this is or when or where this occurred. Does anyone know? Was anyone reading this on the ship? Let us hear from you.
Number 4 : Keep this video secret! Don't let the lawyers see it! Last September the internet was a buzz with the release of CCTV films of the interior of the P O Cruises' Pacific Sun , which ran into heavy weather in June 2008. P O had also understated the effects of the storm on the cruise alaska america cruise holland line ship and passengers, and it was successful keeping the CCTV under wraps for over two years.
But the video finally made its way out of P O's control this fall. When the truth came out, the video went viral! A number of passenger were injured. You can clearly see one young lady smash her face into a column at the 47 second mark.
Cruise lines are experts keeping video like this secret. The risk management departments of cruise lines hide these types of video from the public's alaska america cruise holland line eyes. This permits the cruise lines to contest the passengers' accounts of injuries and lets the defense lawyers claim that the passengers are exaggerating. Would you have believed what occurred in the video if you did not see it?
Number 3 : Anyone for a relaxing cruise to Antarctica? The Clelia II cruise ship caught the country's alaska america cruise holland line attention when passengers on the National Geographic Explorer alaska america cruise holland line filmed it bouncing around by big waves and howling wind as it was trying to make its way back to Argentina from Antarctica. (Video by Fiona Stewart/Garett McIntosh (via jonbowermaster.com) 88 U.S. passengers were aboard as it limped back to port after a wave broke over the bridge of the vessel and smashed windows, interrupting communications and causing an electrical outage that reduced power to one of its engines.
Number 2 : Death on the Louis Majesty cruise ship: The Greece-based Louis Cruise Lines ship was heading east to Genoa, Italy when waves struck the vessel and smashed windows in public areas, killing two passengers and injuring fourteen alaska america cruise holland line others.
The Louis Majesty used to be NCL's Norwegian Majesty and, before that, the Royal Majesty operated by Majesty Cruise Lines from 1992 - 1997. Long before I began representing passengers and crewmembers, alaska america cruise holland line I represented Majesty Cruise Lines (around 1995) when this cruise ship was based in Miami. I have been on this ship and in the area where the glass blew out. The Royal Majesty was considered a large cruise ship 20 years ago. A real tragedy, alaska america cruise holland line which could have been avoided if the officers aboard had instructed the passengers to remain in their cabins.
Number 1 : And the winner is: the cruise ship Oceanos which sank back in 1991. Unlike the other disasters attributable to rough weather, this disaster was man made. The Oceanos was a Greek-owned cruise ship in a state of neglect, with loose hull plates, valves stripped for repair parts, and a hole in one of its watertight bulkheads. When the cruise alaska america cruise holland line ship began to sink, the cowardly captain alaska america cruise holland line and officers were the first into a lifeboat, abandoning children, women, and elderly alaska america cruise holland line passengers to face a certain death. But due to the courage of one of the ship's entertainers and a dramatic and nothing-less-than-miraculous rescue that followed, everyone was saved! A happy ending to a terrifying ordeal.
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These videos are possibly alaska america cruise holland line the most terrifying ones I have ever seen. Just goes to show you how mysterious the ocean is. I like cruising and have never had a bad experience but this is enough to make anyone second guess themselves when booking one. Yikes!
The number one video brought tears to my eyes when I realized how good, us humans, can be to each other. alaska america cruise holland line The entertainers were selfless as they went about ensuring everyone's safety. Humanity at its finest!!!
On another note, not to mitigate the lives that have been lost on Cruise ships, but for every Cruise liner that has hit tragedy, so much more have returned safely to Port. Basing your decision to not Cruise on these 5 videos is a bit ignorant, if I may say so, without being rude. How many car accidents happen daily, will you not drive anymore? Airplane crashes, will you not fly anymore? How many people joke to death while eating, will you not eat anymore?
The #5 'What stabilizers?" video is of the MV Explorer. In 2005, chartered for a 'Semester at Sea' (by Virginia State U), hit very bad weather in the Northern Pacific while enroute to Pusan Korea from Vancouver. they limped into Honolulu after losing, alaska america cruise holland line then regaining use of generators and one engine, I think. See:
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