MS Maud Hurtigruten Cruise Ship During Storm Pia December 2023

12.51 21st Dec the force 11 sea from deck 4 . #Hurtigruten MS Maud #StormPia Before the wave broke bridge windows at 4pm taking out steering
Pilot arrived by helicopter as steering on manual at engineering deck. 11am.

[@FraserAtSea]

Having spent most of last year living on cruise ships, I can reassure anyone who needs to hear it that this is INCREDIBLY rare - we would VERY rarely have water strong enough to really impact the onboard experience. While this would be horrendous onboard, please don't let it kill your dreams of cruising!

[@raybede]

I am so pleased I have never been at sea in weather like this. We been many thousands of miles with Fred Olsen from the UK and amazingly never had this sort of sea.

[@gavinbrien9351]

Bad weather is always a good time to head to the restaurant as there's no other fecker in it. Good food and peace .

[@hughjass1044]

Food's usually free too if you're not too fussy. Just have to pick it up off the floor which is where most of it is in seas like this.😄.

[@wallochdm1]

Confidence inspiring that everyone is in full evacuation mode.

[@gertkaiser4273]

Half a lifetime ago I booked a place on the new ferry from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar. It turned out to be a pleasure boat from Hamburg, quite superannuated. Downstairs seating area had large panorama windows. Nice sunny day with a good swell. So the waves were moving across the windows and at one point you could see flying fish crossing the air between the waves. Don’t remember any life jackets.

[@charlesming7875]

Read the article written by witness Kate Moore of East Anglia Bylines. Harrowing recount by excellent journo who was there. Apparently a huge wave hit the bow full on and broke the bridge window on deck 7, imagine the force and how terrifying it would be for the Captain and crew!

[@peakpanther5136]

Thanks for the suggestion. An excellent article with a lot of detail. Was actually a LOT more serious than this vid makes it appear.

[@Slonge92]

Always book your cruise on the MS Guaranteed Refund.

[@tomarmstrong1281]

My wife and I crossed from New York to Southampton on the QE2 in the winter of 2020. I estimated that some of the waves were thirty feet high or more. Apart from a bit of unsteadiness when walking without some support, there really was not any difficulty.

[@kevincrowley6991]

Up to 70 ft is a different ball game

[@lindaj5492]

2:59 Passengers watching helicopter: no one wearing life jacket?

[@billymarlene380]

Looks flat calm too.

[@towerdave4836]

Yeah, by that time it was flat calm!

[@hond654]

Surely everybody will remember of this trip. Good they did not have any problems at the end.

[@ShipspottingUK]

All memories

[@greathornedowl3644]

I get seasick just watching those waves. Imagine D-day soldiers on landing craft then expecting to storm the beaches at Normandy

[@johnnya9001]

The boat is on a beam reach and those stabilizers are working great.

[@ramblingrob4693]

Lol

[@chrispnw2547]

I have to say when the sea was pretty rough on my last cruise I was aware but never was overly concerned on level 14. However, on level 6, the waves were hitting the windows with such force, that you felt it and I feared how long those windows would hold-up. Especially at night when the sea is pitch black and land is far away.

[@Shipspotting_Vietnam]

Memorable wavy day for all passengers !!

[@lindaj5492]

Survival suits in case of capsize or helicopter rescues: reassuring and crew seems to have kept everything calm. But it’s not something that was reported on tv news: I wonder why?

[@chevy266nova]

Go on a cruise they said , it will be fun they said. Right.

[@joeyjamison5772]

Sea sickness: The fear that you're going to die combined with the dread that you won't!

[@maggiesamuels2937]

And that my friends is why I will never step one foot on a cruise ship 🚢🤣

[@sharonneil2118]

At no point was the cameraman under water so overall a huge success and they got helicopter rides when things calmed down a win win in my book

[@lostmoose9994]

Being a senior myself, I wouldnt spend one single buck for such a cold and cruel death. Way better at home, warm, and way cheaper too.

[@Ozvideo1959]

Yeah, but you can pay a small fortune for the privilege of spending a week or two floating around in a giant shopping mall, being "entertained" by third rate shows, plus, you can risk getting any number of bacterial and viral infections, and even if you don't, you can "embrace the culture" of your exotic destination during the one day you have in port, before your next pointless leg of a pointless journey. Sounds to good to miss now doesn't it?

[@lostmoose9994]

😂👍

[@joeyjamison5772]

I once did a crossing from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland. The ship hit a storm 5 miles out of port and the next 16 hours rank among the worst in my life. I have never gotten on board another ship again. And I probably won't for as long as I live!

[@lostmoose9994]

I can confirm this. I was living in NF, & Norway, but the worst (by far) was a 3 days ferry ride to Iceland in the 90ies. The entire vessel was speaking out prayers, ' well, except Icelanders and people & crew from the Faroe Islands. 😂 They had a beer instead.

[@lostmoose9994]

I can confirm this. I was living in NF, & Norway, but the worst (by far) was a 3 days ferry ride to Iceland in the 90ies. The entire vessel was speaking out prayers, ' well, except Icelanders and people & crew from the Faroe Islands. 😂 They had a beer instead.

[@EdwardHogben-sg1qi]

Normal crossing of the Pentland Firth in winte🎉

[@cherylbradbury4875]

Now one can see why I will never ever go on a cruise ship on the ocean, it was bad enough 50 years ago seeing my auntie off on a big Italian ship, I went all the way down in the lower decks to see her cabin and got claustrophobic and two cabin crew had to carry me up and outside. Never set foot even near one again. 😝

[@irene1655]

Dry land for me. Brave passengers.

They don't show this in their adverts do they 😂😂😂

[@charlesming7875]

There were no stabilisers! The ship was going too slow and they retracted. Vomits-ville.

[@iCE2sKY]

Ye, you do not play with the north Atlantic especially at winter and many (not all) people on the boat who are laughing do not understand what will happen to them if they end up in cold Atlantic water

[@paulgillard2258]

Cook strait on an average day!

[@glendafaber1245]

Back in the early 1970s I crossed Cook Strait 4 times. 3 times it was perfect and calm but the last time I thought we were going to die. We could see sky and then we were underwater, then sky then water. So many people were sick they had to hose the corridors before we could disembark in Wellington and that's when I said never again! Fotunately for me I wasn't sick.

[@neilharrison7555]

Well, that's going to fill you with confidence, isn't it Passengers in their survival suits and lifejackets all sitting on the deck! Then a wee visit from the Norwegian coastguard helicopter just to top it off.Still the motion of the ship didn't look too bad, thankfully. Phew....

[@magnele4711]

That helicipter must be before or after the storm. Its calm water. In storm passengers are not allowed on deck.

[@MrJohnnybe123]

80 year olds in immersion suits, what a nightmare for the captain ..

[@jamesdunlop8704]

this looks like a gentle swell to me

[@grafzepplin5944]

No passengers under 65 on board.

[@geoffpowell8419]

The North Sea was angry that day my friends

[@richardgiles2484]

Sorry, but why would you pay for a holiday like this 😂😂

[@geoffreyhattersley9186]

Wouldn’t call that rough

[@geoffpowell8419]

Dam that was a shitty pensioner cruise

[@ricladouceur6202]

The laugh is watching people put life jackets and suits on. Seriously you wouldn't last an hour in those waters. You'd be swamped by the waves and drown!

[@AA-69]

"STORM" 😂🤣... Obviously this was uploaded by someone who has NEVER been fishing in the North Sea 🤣😂... T shirt weather if you're a Scotsman 🥳

[@MTBMCP]

The waves averaged around 14m. Pretty sure that's not 'every day' for the North Sea

[@sovereignwaters3560]

Looks a Bonny day to me ,

[@dorsetdumpling5387]

It was a storm; it was named Pia by the Danish met office; they were in it.

[@daphnekivinen9482]

I really think that comment is arrogant and unnecessary.

[@richessery8475]

Storm? My arse.

[@ShipspottingUK]

Lol

[@simplesimon182]

@richessery8475, totally agree after serving on deep sea tankers that looks like a paddling pool.

[@user-ob3fs7bi7o]

The storm had finally passed by this time. The wave hit bridge at 16.00 on 21st, managed to restart engines but no navigation or radar. Too rough for tugs to attach tows, so next 24 hours spent going in circles in a still very stormy sea. This is morning of 23rd

[@unkannyunkanny9232]

I know this is begging for jokes about drugs but what's all the white powder on the floor? Someone is sitting on pile of it. Did someone get ahead of crew instructions and open something they shouldn't have?

[@peakpanther5136]

Icing sugar from the chef's Gingerbread Xmas town collapsing due to the rolling. Bit of a shame after all their effort. It apparently made the floor extra slippy. Next year they are making a Poseidon Adventure cake.

[@unkannyunkanny9232]

@@peakpanther5136 Thanks. Knowing that helps me see such displays a little differently. Poseidon cake sounds like Upside-down cake.🙃

[@billb3444]

That’s a cruise ship not a ferry.

[@christianx8494]

Those ships of Hurtigruten serve both purposes. We sailed on the „Otto Sverdrup“ that was slightly rebuilt for cruises instead of going from port to port along the coast. Large rubber boats for getting ashore everywhere were stored in the hold that would otherwise be the car deck.

[@ShipspottingUK]

Cruise for passengers. Ferry for the islanders

[@billb3444]

Hurtigruten is marketing this vessel as a cruise/expedition cruise ship. While I agree that as she has a vehicle deck and side ports for load/unload, she is capable of running as a ferry. If she is on a regular timetable run between scheduled ports, in this report she is being run as a cruise ship. Have seen far worse weather in the German Bight and northern North Sea. To have suffered damage to her wheelhouse windows would indicate that something out of the ordinary occurred. Would be interested to see what the Norwegian MAIB report will say.

[@christianx8494]

It is that kind of wave that German sailors call „Kawenzmann“, no idea what the origin of that term is. More modern is „Monsterwelle“, The existence of those almost vertical waves that crush over a ship was long denied or pushed into the world of myth and fantasy. No wonder: they hardly left any survivors in the days of the wooden sailing vessels. @@billb3444

[@Supernaut2000]

Yeah, you pay for that 'fun' ? No thanks.

[@paultwyman7821]

Didn't look to bad just a bit lumpy as we use to say!

[@gianlucavisca3419]

Frightning..!! That's why I will never go on a Crusie ship boarding 8000 people between passengers and crew. Think about it:..a metal/platsic wreck, becaue these are cruise boat made off, measuring 250 per 60 meters 10 floors and more holding a number of people that usually live in a medium small town of Europe..??? Silly just silly...!!!

[@espero7757]

On the MS Artania we have returned two days earlier to Hamburg due to this Orcan Zoltan. We had 4 1/2 Meter waves west of Denmark on December 20th. Two days later we would have got 10 and more meters. Hamburg received a storm flood two days later. Happily this decision made by captain and the cruisedirector was best. ❤🛳️ for ship & souls😊

[@ShipspottingUK]

Great choice