Chaos On Board P&O Ship In High Seas

A camera above the bar was the only thing left stable when the P & O ship hit 8 metres seas and 50 knot winds off the New Zealand coast in July 2008.

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[TheFusionCoils]

Deleted scene from Inception?

[CAPITANFREAKY]

KID: yupi, lets do it again.

Capitan: %&@ you kid

[torngr4a]

Is it okay to be sat laughing my arse off at this?

[sableghost]

That's a heck of a lot of paranormal activity! ;)

[quebeckromeovictor]

A herd of chairs gone wild. Mad chairs.

[quebeckromeovictor]

@quebeckromeovictor as the master was attempting to reduce her motion by altering course.

[quebeckromeovictor]

@quebeckromeovictor Of the 1730 passengers and 671 crew on board, 77 were injured, with seven sustaining major injuries.

The motion of the ship had increased during the day, and at sunset the master had

hove to into wind and swell, in doing so reducing the vessel’s speed to below that at which the one working s t a b i l i s e r was effective. Two hours later, the ship rolled heavily three times, to an estimated angle of heel of 31º, ...

[quebeckromeovictor]

@DempseyBloom During the evening of 30 July 2008 the cruise ship Pacific Sun rolled heavily in gale force winds and high seas while returning to Auckland on the final leg of an 8-day cruise of the South Pacific.....

[quebeckromeovictor]

@DempseyBloom Thanks lad for mentioning the ship's name. The 25-year-old ship hit the headlines earlier this year when three cruises were cut short because of engine problems.

[DempseyBloom]

@quebeckromeovictor Even with or without stabilisers, what are you meant to do in this situation? Steer hard to port, then hard to starboard, then reverse? Its a ship, not much you can do in stormy weather.

[DempseyBloom]

@quebeckromeovictor How would you know anything. The ship, Pacific Sun, does not have stabilisers, it is quite top heavy and would experience these conditions in such rough weather.

[quebeckromeovictor]

Complete lack of seamanship. This happens when you depend on stabilizers.