Pride of Dover - Channel Storm 14th of November 2009

Stormy crossing on the 14th of November. It took us 11 hours for a round trip instead of the normal 4 hours.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• storm
• channel
• pride
• dover
• english
• P&O
• winter
• november

[fangbe2]

it looks so funny when all the people on board are in panic

[HDferryChannel]

@fangbe2 It is indeed, I remember one time when the Pride of Dover left harbour. We had only slight seas but as soon as she hit a wave and she shook people started panicking

[GadgetReviews21st]

is this calais to dover

[HDferryChannel]

Yep it is but we were stuck along the coast during the day and it was dark by the time we could enter the port.

[CrazyCars552]

awesome video, 1:33 made me jump a bit!

[EmmaLewis]

SOOOOOOO glad I no longer work on a ship!

[ArubaSailing]

I did the crosing 350 x's (!!) I Drove bigrigs back in the 90;s

[colinclarke1000]

Love it! ... travel a lot on the channel.... good video..

[Oakleaf700]

We did a really rough crossing Dieppe/Newhaven on a tiny ex steamer ferry [1969] and thank goodness we were able to dock, maybe as the ferry was so small [Falaise]

Offering free food and drink? maybe not many takers-poor staff having to clean up after seasick passengers! the falaise had carpets in the bar-horribly stained from other rough crossings-ferries need to be hose-downable, I would imagine!

[sf52lnw]

why 11 hours, i was on dover to calais in rough seas and we were 2 and half hours

[D4mo84]

@gloomyoutlook Purely for the fact that trying to dock, let alone enter the port, is dangerous with high-winds. It's much safer to ride out the storm at sea, and usually Ferry companies are as accommodating as they can be - usually offering free food and drinks here and there.

[beefyboy09]

i would of loved to been on that

[gloomyoutlook]

How can they close a port with a ferry out at sea? at least let the bloody ones that've left in first o_0

[Mehdispino]

1:34 ; )