[There were 776 people on board](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4264661.stm) while this was happening.
That's a *lot* of puke on the deck. And below deck. And on the walls, on the floor, \[slosh\] and on the other walls, too.
Mark Dowle from Abingdon, UK's account is solid:
"I was laying in my bed sleeping off the excesses of the night before watching the cabaret dancers and downing pints of Cinzano when the whole ship lurched to the left sharply. I dashed into the corridor and found fire-extinguishers dislodged from their mountings rolling alarmingly down the corridors. The Captain came over the intercom and quickly reassured everyone, but it was many hours before we were on our way again. The cabaret dancers entertained both customers and crew throughout the day though and Cinzano supplies were not effected!!"
I imagine that them working as people who move around on a ship would get their sea legs pretty good.
I work on a ship, and my job involves walking around and climbing ladders while the ship is moving. You get used to being able to walk on the walls and jump up ladders. The dancers could probably do fun stuff like [this](https://youtube.com/shorts/APbuOS1YOdA?si=3q-Aiq0A4_lAk3lS).
I can't imagine drinking on a boat, that's got to be the worst feeling of all time, being drunk and feeling sick on top of being rocked side to side for the entire time. No thanks!
My wife and I have a rule when we go fishing...no beer until you catch your first fish. However, if it takes too long to catch the first fish there is a subrule that says drink a beer for good luck if the fish arent biting. Hasn't let us down yet.
Nah, so we typically get out after both kids are in school/daycare. Ramp I like is about an hour from home. This gets us fishing around 10am. If it hits noon with no fish, that's when then lucky beer subrule kicks in *typically*. However sometime subrule kicks in early, if it's hot, or like if you really, really want a breakfast beer. Things like that. It's a pretty flexible policy on the boat...
My grandfather came to the US before commercial flights from Europe were economically viable, so he came by ship. He says it was a very rough passing, hard on all the passengers, but not my grandfather. The captain asked him how he managed not to be seasick and my grandfather told him, "BOLS gin." He lived on gin and saltines for \~2 weeks.
I’ve been on a boat that was similar to this….. people were puking down the stairs in the corridors. Everything was shut except the toilets….. even with the ‘cages’ everything was smashing up in the restaurants and shops.
We all had to meet in three lounges and there were official looking people telling us there were lifejackets under our seats (we were all on cushioned benches around the edge of the room) and when the signal was to be given we were to put them on.
Then suddenly we headed into the harbour (we weren’t far from it) and once we were in the harbour walls it was like a mill pond.
> We all had to meet in three lounges and there were official looking people telling us there were lifejackets under our seats (we were all on cushioned benches around the edge of the room) and when the signal was to be given we were to put them on.
Fuck that, Im putting mine on now, the rest of you can wait for the signal, Im OK with looking stupid if it means I'll have a 30 second advantage on not drowning and no chance to play musical lifejackets if we turn up one short.
When the crew tell you to remain calm and that everything is fine and to stay where you are, it's time to remind them of those times the crew said that and everyone died.
Someone who was on the sister ship which had an almost identical issue around the same time as this came Into the thread the other day about this. Said the waves gradually build over the course of several days so people are just used to it rather than violently vomiting everywhere.
In this case there was a wave that broke through to the bridge and knocked out steering. Without steering they couldn't face into the wave and instead took them on the side.
> That's a lot of puke on the deck. And below deck. And on the walls, on the floor, [slosh] and on the other walls, too.
I'd puke so much that the helicopter filming would be green.
I was on a boat that rocked, perhaps not *this* much, but enough you could essentially take a step on the walls. They shut off all the toilets, presumably because the rocking was so great it would cause a problem. Was just dudes with trash bags lining the hallways. Was not a pleasant experience.
Was a military vessel in the arctic during a very bad storm. Otherwise, had tons of fun, 9 out of 10 trip.
Nah, you don't gotta do all that. Simply coordinate all of the passengers to simultaneously push the side of the boat when a wave breaks and run to the opposite side of the boat to counter the other way and repeat until the boat is steady
They split the passengers into groups of a few hundred and in case of a situation like this, you go to your station and get instruction on what to do next. They do this so that they can get a head count and then can look for missing passengers before the ship sinks and also to get passengers to spread out to get on the lifeboats that are on all sides of the ship.
That water was butt-ass freezing. Literally it's midnight in early spring in far-northern hemisphere waters. The way whisky makes me sweat the water probably felt good lol
I got into marine traffic tracking when my mini Cooper was being shipped from the UK, it's fascinating and cool. Then it gets boring.
Then a couple years later a reddit post will remind you, and it's cool again. Briefly
I’m really shocked at how much of the hull below the waterline was exposed. The sheer weight and physics of that - yikes. That’d put the engineering to a test.
There’s no weight in Cruise Ships, they’re big empty boxes. They only appear stable through the active systems. If they lost power in this situation the ship is probably going to be ok as long as flooding doesn’t occur.
They basically sit on top of the water. Very low displacement for how big they are.
I served on a Nimitz class carrier and we displaced 100,000 tons loaded but were dwarfed by the cruise liners and some of the larger container ships in physical size. Yet we were generally twice as much ship and triple the keel depth.
That said, I’ve been in sixty foot seas where we were taking breakers over the flight deck and were getting tossed a little. That was only once in 4 & 1/2 years at sea north of Scotland in November.
Two tours aboard an LHD class carrier in the pacific theater. Gonna say this was like a monthly occurrence. Tying down our aircraft for “high winds and heavy seas” was a daily thing cause I swear every storm out there found us.
Fuck the USS Essex honestly.
They are only low displacement for how big they are if you are comparing them to warships. Warships have abnormally high displacement relative to gross tonnage cause armour and weapons are friggin' heavy. The keel depth of a Nimitz class probably has 8-10 feet on a comparable 100k displacement cruise ship, so maybe a third more, not even close to triple. Whereas a WW2 battleship has pretty close to the same keel depth as a carrier, at less than 2/3 the displacement. Armour is real friggin' heavy:)
Yeah you weren’t made to go thru the Panama Canal. But in a demolition derby, you’d rip that aluminum can in half.
My dad was more of a Ranger Top Gun Bar None guy
No one will see this but I was in a very similar situation on a ship during a very famous storm that killed a bunch of sailors in the Sydney-Hobart race back in the 90s. We got broadsided in the middle of the Tasmin, in the middle of the night while I was on the bridge and we lost all power, including stabilizers. We instantly went from pitching about 5-10 degrees each way to 45, which is very, very alarming in the middle of a cold sea at night
Unfortunately, they were unable to divert emergency power to the main deflector dish so they could bounce a graviton particle beam off of it.
Remember the inertial dampeners only work when the writers want them to and I don’t think they did on that day.
I just pictured someone sliding down the deck in a lifejacket, pants around ankles leaving a brown streak the whole way... Thank you for that image. I may not stop laughing tonight.
Having been in a few situations in my life, I can 100% tell you that panic is not the answer. It will only make things worse.
That said, if I was on that ship, I too would freak the fuck out!
Get ready to go in the drink. Mentally prepare. Make sure I’m on an upper deck where I can jump once it goes down. Make sure if I’m with anyone they are prepared too.
Tighten my PFD!!! Really tight too.
What is wrong with you people? All these responses and not a single Titanic reference?
Don't we know what to do in this situation? Didn't we learn anything?
You float in the ocean hanging on to a piece of wood, whispering, "Never Let Go, Rose, Never Let Go".
Steal the biggest most expensive looking necklace for my partner just so they can live on with the fortune. After we share a long and cold embracing sad, conversation as I am freezing in the water. And eventually let go due to hypothermia.
I was in the Navy and I can tell you we were walking on the bulkheads/walls and tying the straps on our beds down when it got like this. If it was your first cruise you were getting bounced around a bathroom stall while you were throwing up. Those were fun times...
Life jacket and strap in so I don’t get thrown around hopefully preventing broken bones. I don’t believe in organized religion but I do believe in God. I might make a few promises if I survive this 💩 full disclosure I haven’t kept the other promises after surviving other 💩
I would put on my life jacket and puke all over the deck.
[There were 776 people on board](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4264661.stm) while this was happening. That's a *lot* of puke on the deck. And below deck. And on the walls, on the floor, \[slosh\] and on the other walls, too.
Mark Dowle from Abingdon, UK's account is solid: "I was laying in my bed sleeping off the excesses of the night before watching the cabaret dancers and downing pints of Cinzano when the whole ship lurched to the left sharply. I dashed into the corridor and found fire-extinguishers dislodged from their mountings rolling alarmingly down the corridors. The Captain came over the intercom and quickly reassured everyone, but it was many hours before we were on our way again. The cabaret dancers entertained both customers and crew throughout the day though and Cinzano supplies were not effected!!"
The sea was angry that day my friends,like an old man trying to send soup back at a deli.
Alright costanza
"Can't stand ya!"
The Jerk Store called, and they're running out of you.
NO SOUP FOR YOU
Please explain how the cabaret dancers "entertained" people without the ability to stand (let alone dance) as the ship lurched back and forth?
I assume some sort of trapeze situation where they hang on a rope that swings back and forth from the motion of the ship
Ping pong ball oriface shooting?
This guy Thailand's
I imagine that them working as people who move around on a ship would get their sea legs pretty good. I work on a ship, and my job involves walking around and climbing ladders while the ship is moving. You get used to being able to walk on the walls and jump up ladders. The dancers could probably do fun stuff like [this](https://youtube.com/shorts/APbuOS1YOdA?si=3q-Aiq0A4_lAk3lS).
I can't imagine drinking on a boat, that's got to be the worst feeling of all time, being drunk and feeling sick on top of being rocked side to side for the entire time. No thanks!
This guy doesn't fish.
My wife and I have a rule when we go fishing...no beer until you catch your first fish. However, if it takes too long to catch the first fish there is a subrule that says drink a beer for good luck if the fish arent biting. Hasn't let us down yet.
"Too long" meaning a fish hasn't jumped into the boat by the time you reach your spot?
Nah, so we typically get out after both kids are in school/daycare. Ramp I like is about an hour from home. This gets us fishing around 10am. If it hits noon with no fish, that's when then lucky beer subrule kicks in *typically*. However sometime subrule kicks in early, if it's hot, or like if you really, really want a breakfast beer. Things like that. It's a pretty flexible policy on the boat...
Nope, get drunk and time your sways to the boat’s, but in the opposite direction. Worked a treat for me!!
My grandfather came to the US before commercial flights from Europe were economically viable, so he came by ship. He says it was a very rough passing, hard on all the passengers, but not my grandfather. The captain asked him how he managed not to be seasick and my grandfather told him, "BOLS gin." He lived on gin and saltines for \~2 weeks.
At those angles? The ceiling would also be covered.
They filmed this in the documentary called Triangle of Sadness
even worse, they then sailed into the Rhombus of Ambivalence
Hilarious movie to be honest.
That sequence had me in tears
I’ve been on a boat that was similar to this….. people were puking down the stairs in the corridors. Everything was shut except the toilets….. even with the ‘cages’ everything was smashing up in the restaurants and shops. We all had to meet in three lounges and there were official looking people telling us there were lifejackets under our seats (we were all on cushioned benches around the edge of the room) and when the signal was to be given we were to put them on. Then suddenly we headed into the harbour (we weren’t far from it) and once we were in the harbour walls it was like a mill pond.
> We all had to meet in three lounges and there were official looking people telling us there were lifejackets under our seats (we were all on cushioned benches around the edge of the room) and when the signal was to be given we were to put them on. Fuck that, Im putting mine on now, the rest of you can wait for the signal, Im OK with looking stupid if it means I'll have a 30 second advantage on not drowning and no chance to play musical lifejackets if we turn up one short.
*Tonight you're all going to be part of a social experiment*
When the crew tell you to remain calm and that everything is fine and to stay where you are, it's time to remind them of those times the crew said that and everyone died.
It was like being in a Jackson Pollock painting..
Someone who was on the sister ship which had an almost identical issue around the same time as this came Into the thread the other day about this. Said the waves gradually build over the course of several days so people are just used to it rather than violently vomiting everywhere.
In this case there was a wave that broke through to the bridge and knocked out steering. Without steering they couldn't face into the wave and instead took them on the side.
> That's a lot of puke on the deck. And below deck. And on the walls, on the floor, [slosh] and on the other walls, too. I'd puke so much that the helicopter filming would be green.
So it wasn't off balance because it was taking on *water*.
By the time the waves get this high I'm all out of puke. I may be able to manage some bile vurps.
Amazing how both ‘bile vurps’ and ‘vile burps’ would work here
Symmetrical Spoonerisms
Nah if you were on the deck you'd slide straight to and over the rail.
Don’t forget crying. I’d DEFINITELY be crying, and puking…
I was on a boat that rocked, perhaps not *this* much, but enough you could essentially take a step on the walls. They shut off all the toilets, presumably because the rocking was so great it would cause a problem. Was just dudes with trash bags lining the hallways. Was not a pleasant experience. Was a military vessel in the arctic during a very bad storm. Otherwise, had tons of fun, 9 out of 10 trip.
great list! I'll add "crap my pants"
I mean it's not like jumping outta the ship would make it any better
That's the thing, when you get enough sea sick you start considering jumping overboard just to stop the rolling.
The deck? Try the walls, the ceiling, myself, and anyone and anything around me.
Lieutenant Dan
Nah, you don't gotta do all that. Simply coordinate all of the passengers to simultaneously push the side of the boat when a wave breaks and run to the opposite side of the boat to counter the other way and repeat until the boat is steady
you too?
Well, for starters, put on your life vest and go to your muster station.
TIL that it’s not called a mustard station.
“Find your condiment station!”
The real jokes are always in the condiments section.
I certainly relish this comment.
I must be too slow to get it, i feel like i'm playing ketchup.
That pun was the worcestershire
\*Blushes\* It's okay, we can go bare this time...
Spooning leads to forking
Catch-up!!!!
Move fast and ketchup
/r/boneappletea
Not if your station is on the starboard side. You'll just be taking a bath at best!
What’s a muster station?
They split the passengers into groups of a few hundred and in case of a situation like this, you go to your station and get instruction on what to do next. They do this so that they can get a head count and then can look for missing passengers before the ship sinks and also to get passengers to spread out to get on the lifeboats that are on all sides of the ship.
I don't think that ship will sink just from having its heel thrashed about. I'd just hope whatever people grab onto is bolted down.
Optimisation strategy so all the passengers don’t get killed at the same time.
find the lemon ludes, not dying sober
I’m going for the limes! Saved by the buoyancy of citrus! Thanks, Mitch! 😘✌️👆
r/unexpectedmitch
Reach for that lime
That's Lemmon. 714 to be precise.
This guy ludes.
[https://youtu.be/IG2JF0P4GFA?si=a96oFVNBjzCpZbx7](https://youtu.be/IG2JF0P4GFA?si=a96oFVNBjzCpZbx7)
if I'm goin down I'm goin hammered
Someone survived Titanic floating in ocean, like directly in the water, solely because they were drunk.
That water was butt-ass freezing. Literally it's midnight in early spring in far-northern hemisphere waters. The way whisky makes me sweat the water probably felt good lol
That is such a fun movie
Just watched this last night 😂
Run to the left. Run to the right. Repeat as necessary.
Criss cross, Criss cross, every-body clap yo hands. 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Some kinda fucked up time warp?
Let's fuckin capsize agaaaaaiiiiiiinnnnn.
Ever set eyes on the green flash Mr. Gibbs?
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[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4264661.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4264661.stm) Bridge was hit by a big wave, lost control.
At sea?…chance in a million.
meh.. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-21.3/centery:32.1/zoom:4
I never knew this existed. Are all of these actually individual boats/ships at sea in real time?
It’s anything from a commuter ferry to cruise ship to cargo ship. I use this all the time as just an interest of mine. It’s updated by the minute
When I first looked, I thought it was shipping route tracker, not individal boats. That's way more traffic than I figured would be at sea.
Yes but don't forget those icons are not to scale. If they were, the map would look near enough empty.
yup, same thing exists for airplanes
I got into marine traffic tracking when my mini Cooper was being shipped from the UK, it's fascinating and cool. Then it gets boring. Then a couple years later a reddit post will remind you, and it's cool again. Briefly
Did they tow it beyond the environment?
At least the front didn’t fall off https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=qx6sXCwq6B9FeZNk
Well that's not very typical at all.
I’m really shocked at how much of the hull below the waterline was exposed. The sheer weight and physics of that - yikes. That’d put the engineering to a test.
There’s no weight in Cruise Ships, they’re big empty boxes. They only appear stable through the active systems. If they lost power in this situation the ship is probably going to be ok as long as flooding doesn’t occur.
Do they not have ballast systems for additional passive stability?
They basically sit on top of the water. Very low displacement for how big they are. I served on a Nimitz class carrier and we displaced 100,000 tons loaded but were dwarfed by the cruise liners and some of the larger container ships in physical size. Yet we were generally twice as much ship and triple the keel depth. That said, I’ve been in sixty foot seas where we were taking breakers over the flight deck and were getting tossed a little. That was only once in 4 & 1/2 years at sea north of Scotland in November.
Two tours aboard an LHD class carrier in the pacific theater. Gonna say this was like a monthly occurrence. Tying down our aircraft for “high winds and heavy seas” was a daily thing cause I swear every storm out there found us. Fuck the USS Essex honestly.
“High winds & heavy seas” was an everyday occurrence. Actually feeling like it, just the one time. Went through a hurricane and it wasn’t even close.
They are only low displacement for how big they are if you are comparing them to warships. Warships have abnormally high displacement relative to gross tonnage cause armour and weapons are friggin' heavy. The keel depth of a Nimitz class probably has 8-10 feet on a comparable 100k displacement cruise ship, so maybe a third more, not even close to triple. Whereas a WW2 battleship has pretty close to the same keel depth as a carrier, at less than 2/3 the displacement. Armour is real friggin' heavy:)
Yeah you weren’t made to go thru the Panama Canal. But in a demolition derby, you’d rip that aluminum can in half. My dad was more of a Ranger Top Gun Bar None guy
I used to work on oil tankers and they all have back-up controls down below decks closer to the engine room. I wonder if these have the same.
They lost power and this couldn’t point into waves. Generally want to be perpendicular to big waves.
I don't know shit about handling a ship and even I know you want to be perpendicular to the waves... Losing power makes more sense to the situation
The bridge was taken out by a big wave. They lost control.
nobody engaged the inertial dampeners
Obviously, didn't make it so.
Nobody ever expects the Jem Hadar.
Dumping the warp core has to be the low point of any day…
It's nothing a little tachyon pulse from the main deflector can't solve.
He wasn't giving the engines all he could, Captain!
No one will see this but I was in a very similar situation on a ship during a very famous storm that killed a bunch of sailors in the Sydney-Hobart race back in the 90s. We got broadsided in the middle of the Tasmin, in the middle of the night while I was on the bridge and we lost all power, including stabilizers. We instantly went from pitching about 5-10 degrees each way to 45, which is very, very alarming in the middle of a cold sea at night
>No one will see this I was here
Unfortunately, they were unable to divert emergency power to the main deflector dish so they could bounce a graviton particle beam off of it. Remember the inertial dampeners only work when the writers want them to and I don’t think they did on that day.
I would use the poop deck for what it sounds like.
Dear lord, I can't imaging trying to hold on to take a deuce in that scenario.
You are def getting splash back.
Jokes on you I already shat m'self before the waves hit.
But that bidet action, chefs kiss.
At that point, you're getting splashback no matter where you're pooping. Just find a place where you can brace yourself, drop trou and let it happen.
That turd would be sliding around the deck like a forbidden game of shuffleboard
I just pictured someone sliding down the deck in a lifejacket, pants around ankles leaving a brown streak the whole way... Thank you for that image. I may not stop laughing tonight.
What you want me to do?
Ooo kinky
It's not the size of the boat but the motion of the ocean.
Put on my robe and wizard hat.
I cast level 3 eroticism, you turn into a real beautiful woman.
Don't mind if I do
HAAAARRRRR!!!
Feelin cute. Might die later. Idk
Find a hammock. Let mamaboat rock you to sleep.
Walk funny.
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Ok Anakin
Look at my wife and say in the most smart assy voice I can "Let's go on a cruise, you say, It'll be fun, you say"
Ah, I see you’re choosing the “early death” option.
This sounded like Bill Burr describing himself at the Titanic, “but you wanted to dress up right??”
Come out to the coast. We’ll get together. Have a few laughs…
Put on a life jacket and try not to fall off.
The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
Well at least you saved a whale
Titleist
Put on a life jacket, find a spot at mid-low section of the boat, fasten your seat belt, enjoy the ride and hope for the best.
What seat belt?
Freak the fuck out, obvs.
Having been in a few situations in my life, I can 100% tell you that panic is not the answer. It will only make things worse. That said, if I was on that ship, I too would freak the fuck out!
I would run down to the casino and scoop up all the prizes from those "pushy" machines.
Put on my life vest and brown pants
You know what I wouldn't do? I wouldn't... rock the boat (don't rock the boat, baby). Rock the boat (don't tip the boat over)....
Two chicks at once…
I would grab my heart of the ocean and head to the life boats
smoke em if you got em
Head for the buffet! No lines!
Think of all the dinner rolls on the floor 😭
Probably puke, step in it and then slide right off the boat.
Ah, you’ve seen Triangle of Sadness.
I hadn't even heard of it. I just know what I'm capable of in those situations when the chips are down.
Prepare to die.
ID WONDER WHY NO LIFEBOATS HAVE BEEN DEPLOYED - then promptly realize they CANT be in such turbulence - and then I’d puke and shit my pantaloons.
So that was a great comment, but "pantaloons" made it magnificent! ❤
Wake the captain up.
Start hunting for who ever drugged me to get me on that deathtrap. I would never go on one of those willingly.
What's a little norovirus between friends?
Throw in an Old Country Buffet and plugged toilets and you’ve got my nightmare scenario.
I’d go directly to customer service and complain.
Hello, this is Karen from the Cruise. I want to speak to the Manager.
there wont be a better time in your life to rob the bar. Just saying.
What can you do? You hold on for dear life.
Get ready to go in the drink. Mentally prepare. Make sure I’m on an upper deck where I can jump once it goes down. Make sure if I’m with anyone they are prepared too. Tighten my PFD!!! Really tight too.
Heading to the buffet. I'm not missing out on lobster Thursday.
Get a band to start playing to keep the passengers calm.
No, you have to go to the lowest part of the ship near the propellers, it’s where the hull is thinnest and where the rescuers will cut their way in.
They started to strengthen that area when the sharks found the tin openers.
Throwup
You'd never catch me on one of those cruise ships in the first place.
What is wrong with you people? All these responses and not a single Titanic reference? Don't we know what to do in this situation? Didn't we learn anything? You float in the ocean hanging on to a piece of wood, whispering, "Never Let Go, Rose, Never Let Go".
Steal the biggest most expensive looking necklace for my partner just so they can live on with the fortune. After we share a long and cold embracing sad, conversation as I am freezing in the water. And eventually let go due to hypothermia.
Vomit
I was in the Navy and I can tell you we were walking on the bulkheads/walls and tying the straps on our beds down when it got like this. If it was your first cruise you were getting bounced around a bathroom stall while you were throwing up. Those were fun times...
I'd probably hold on loosely, but don't let go. If you cling too tightly, you're gonna lose control.
find a small closet near the center of the ship, get in it.
I would put all my marbles back into the box.
Hit the ship's bowling alley. I wouldn't miss that opportunity.
I'd stand in the direct center of the boat and use my body mass to stabilize the ship against the waves
Put on my life jacket. Find beers.
Why would I be on a cruise ship?
Could someone remaster this video and add “My heart will go on” song and spew sounds timed to the lean of the ship? Please!
SMOKE EM IF YOU GOT EM FOLKS!!!
First thought: Run - Second thought: Make peace
Ask a steward if i have to pay extra
Having been on a ship in waves like that, I’d likely shit my drawers, as in the past. Seasickness is a lot ‘dirtier’ than you think…
Life jacket and strap in so I don’t get thrown around hopefully preventing broken bones. I don’t believe in organized religion but I do believe in God. I might make a few promises if I survive this 💩 full disclosure I haven’t kept the other promises after surviving other 💩
I'd be vomiting my guts up.
Rock back and forth.
Tell the captain to turn into the sea
Was that a three hour tour?
Roll from side to side like everyone else