giant wave damages cruise ship

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I though the new satellite imaging was supposed to tell when there was an ususually high wave in the vicinity of a ship. Maybe it's not in use as of now.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/17/ship.diverted.ap/index.html

 

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Yikes! 42

 

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I always wondered if those sort of things happen, and if they do happen, whether it does so often. I suppose it does...yikes.

 

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Red Dog said:

I always wondered if those sort of things happen, and if they do happen, whether it does so often. I suppose it does...yikes.

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I always wondered whether people fell off the ships, then I found out that it happens a lot more often than you would think (or hope)--mainly alcohol related incidents.

 

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Rogue waves occur more often then previously thought, and have been responsible for taking ships down.

The Queen Mary, now docked in California as a hotel, was once hit by a rogue wave and nearly capsized(turned over).

The QE2 hit a 90-foot wave head-on about 10 years ago. I would've been writing thank-you notes to the ship designers for making her able to withstand such an impact.