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+Tahoe_Mike Aaaaaaaah, the salesmanagerof this floating coffin reacts!!!! Now you are there, could please stop spoiling the internet. newspapers, etc with these shitty commercialsof this so called "luxerious" ferries.

+Showdown seriously, shut the F up.

+xmrrushxNot an argument.

+kommisar Not all people feel and react the same way. For me the incident actually made me want to cruise more.

+xmrrushxSwearing off going on a cruise ship though is silly.  I can understand being traumatized, but to avoid such a silly, super unlikely danger is just irrational no matter how you look at it.  If you had a fender bender, are you going to never drive again?

+kommisar I agree on those stats... However having gone through the same event as him. If you have clue why your fighting gravity. There is some reasonable level of panic. So before you go bashing someone check yourself. I lived it, I didn't panic (as you can see in my video) but that's because I knew exactly what was going on.... and I know it took the Titanic a cpl of hours to sink too, that info always helps.

+Ranga's Rule! Jesus, get over it. You're a hundred times more likely to get mutilated in a car accident than drowning on a giant cruise ship.

+xmrrushxThat was very informativeThe water was definitely covering the windows on deck 2. That is the vision I can't get out of my head :) This was my first (and last) cruise

+Dan Boris I'm not defending the crews actions but just looking at the whole incident more objective. I was in the main dinning room as well on the 3rd floor, above you. I would have liked the video from that deck as i'm sure the water was at if not covering those windows. That squall, if you look at the Satellite images from that day and time period, formed quite rapidly. In the course of an hour it was partly cloudy and then turned into a full on squall. Ranga's Rule! to answer your question about "spinning a huge ship". You must think of the ship and its 11 floors as a huge sail, or wall. Any amount of a strong wind will cause the ship to list to the opposite side that the wind is blowing. I feel we were lucky in the fact that a couple of events transpired which prevented this to being worse than it was.1.) The squall and winds hit us more in the Aft than Port side of the ship. Had it hit perpendicular to us I'm sure we would have broke the 25 degree threshold (the point as told by the Queen Elisabeth Assistant Capt we take on water) 2.) Our ship has a Modern Propulsion system, or Azipod system. This system allows the propulsion to articulate 360 degrees. In other words instead of the ship turning with a rudder, they use the props to turn so you don't get as bad a list when turning. We Also had bow thrusters which you may have noticed when we pulled in and out of ports.3.) While our Capt was enjoying his surf and turn, the Queen Elisabeth Assistant Capt praised our Capt on how well and quickly he corrected the incident. As for the crew, especially the dinning crew. Most even the seasoned ones have never been in an incident such as the one we experienced. On our floor some did their best to keep the plates and what not from falling, others were planted to the starboard windows with fear/amazement. I will say within 20 mins they had cleaned up and we were being served our deserts. Also friend of ours were on the 5th deck with kids in their stateroom and were assisted by the gentlemen who cleaned our stateroom. We did catch up with our Capt on the final day for us in Venice. We pondered if they would release the security footage from that day. He gave a prompt No. I am surprised as how little this has made it to the internet. I'm assuming because 90% of the passengers were well into their 60-70's and not well connected to smart phones such as the younger generation.

+Dan Boris Well I had PTSD I can tell you that and I still cant get that image out of my head of that wall of water from the Manhattan windows but I do feel better about it now. I agree with you it has to be an error with the navigational equipment

+Dan Boris I still don't understand how a squall could spin a huge ship like that and to be fair the Captain is allowed to have dinner and he did have a second in charge. I think it was either human error or something went wrong with the navigation equipment. I am Australian, we don't sue, but full disclosure from the company would be appreciated.

+xmrrushx Oh no don't tell me that I was just starting to get over this :)

+Ken Hendsbee A friend of ours ended up on a flight with The Assistant Capt to the Queen Victoria, he had said we hit 19'. He also praised our Capt for correcting the ship quickly and "saving our lives". I think what most people forget is that cruise ships don't sink in 30 seconds. It took the Titanic 2hrs and 40 mins to sink.

+xmrrushx I was scared for a few days as I did not think a ship could tilt like that but I am over it now :)

+Ranga's Rule! I Still haven't gotten to it yet as i took the video on my wife's phone. I was in the 3rd floor main dinning room and started recording 30 seconds before the Capt came over the PA system. You can see in my video that we still had a list going and the rough seas as i was near the Aft windows of the dinning room. For me to this day, i didn't think much of the incident. 20 - 15 mins prior to the focal point of the list, i had already seen the squall incoming from the Aft windows. Being a weather enthusiast i knew what was going to transpire, and had my eyes fixed to the Aft and starboard windows (as i watched a horizon im used to seeing disappear) . I feel a lot of people panicked because they had no idea what was going on or didn't feel that the ship wasn't in a critical point of danger.

+xmrrushx I am looking forward to that