Strangest thing you've seen... In the water

[tammymacb]

A big old turd floating on the top of the water at the port in Nassau. Pretty much summed up the whole island for me.

[Philreif]

Two waterspouts at the same time. The ship went right between them. Was fascinated by it.

[truecruiser]

A big old turd floating on the top of the water at the port in Nassau. Pretty much summed up the whole island for me.

 

...at least it wasn't floating in one of the pools this time:rolleyes:. lol

[joshd33]

Two waterspouts at the same time. The ship went right between them. Was fascinated by it.

 

I love watching waterspouts. Can they cause any harm?

[itravelalot]

Shark!!!! Nurse shark while snorkeling in Cozumel.. but still un-nerving..

[Rottweiler Puppy]

I love watching waterspouts. Can they cause any harm?

 

Plenty.

[NotWthOutablcony]

Picture this: We were on a b2b on the Caribbean Princess during hurricane season, every evening the ship would be engulfed by thick fog and the sea was like glass. The fog was eerie and the silence became defening. No rain, no wind, and not a sound from this ship or its passengers. We'd sit out for hours, sipping coffee and watching hundreds of bats dive in and out of the ships now, subdued lights, hunting the insects they attracted. This was shortly after the release of the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Lightening would move in and out of the fog reaching for the ship, but always falling short. One evening while watching mother nature at her best we see a brown parcel wrapped package, finished off with hemp twine adorning the top with a bow, float eerily past. Slowly it bobbed its way along the side of the ship and then disappeared behind us to fight the wake. It was shocking to say the least! We still wonder where it had initially been headed to, who was missing it? Who had sent it? And the million dollar question, what was inside? It was a rather large package, probably a good 20x20. We still wonder about that package to this very day.

[H82seaUgo]

I love watching waterspouts. Can they cause any harm?

 

they're fine until they hit land, or something solid. all they throw is water and stupid fish.

[SunshineOnTheBrain]

Shark!!!! Nurse shark while snorkeling in Cozumel.. but still un-nerving..

WE had the same experience in Key West. Beautiful but still uneasy at the same time.

[jules815]

One year we were heading out to sea from Port Canaveral we saw a very large hammerhead shark, and a few big sea turtles. It was swimming right next to the ship.

 

On our Mexican Riviera cruise in 2009, the morning we were docked in Cabo, we went out to our balcony early that morning, and there were some type of Ray's jumping out of the water and slapping down on top of the water. It was very sunny and there were lots of them. No idea what they were doing, but it looked like they were playing/sunning themselves. It was really something to see.

[bluehenfan]

I had invited a friend from work to go on a cruise with me. It was her 1st and she loved the balcony. One day in caribbean port I noticed she'd been sitting on balcony for quite a long time and was writing in a small notebook. I was anxious to go ashore so I went out on balcony and said, "Karen, I've sat on balconies for so many cruises and have never seen anything -let's go into town". She pointed down into the water and there was a huge turtle. She was writing list of things she'd seen. Dolphins, flying fish, jelly fish, the turtle... I learned to look more carefully and be a little more patient.

[Celandine]

A few things...

 

1 - while pulling into Key West I saw a sting ray just swimming.... loved that

 

2 - one the same cruise, but while at sea somewhere my dad and I were watching some sea birds that were just sitting and bobbing in the waves.... then a splash and commotion and one of the birds is gone... we've watched our 'video' of it and we are pretty sure a shark took it...

 

3 - dolphins while cruising from Japan in stormy weather I was the only one on deck and super close to the ocean (small ship, deck 3) and a pod of dolphins was swimming in the waves

 

4- I still remember the first time my mum and I saw dolphins - we were together, and jealous that my dad had seen them so many times. We were on a balcony WAY up on Lido deck, watching, and I said "hey, those fish are jumping like....wait...those are dolphins!!!!" about 10-12 of them.... it was cool.

 

another cool/weird thing I saw was first thing in the morning while docked in Vietnam

 

[elcuchio24]

We saw a manitee right near the Mallory Square dock, where the little river mouth is. Keep a weather eye out, you never know!

[SASA13]

the ncl epic.

 

Too funny :)

[luvcruisetime]

One year we were heading out to sea from Port Canaveral we saw a very large hammerhead shark, and a few big sea turtles. It was swimming right next to the ship.

 

On our Mexican Riviera cruise in 2009, the morning we were docked in Cabo, we went out to our balcony early that morning, and there were some type of Ray's jumping out of the water and slapping down on top of the water. It was very sunny and there were lots of them. No idea what they were doing, but it looked like they were playing/sunning themselves. It was really something to see.

 

I saw the same thing last week while in Cabo. They looked like they were having fun.

[bassmaster150]

Twice I have seen sharks chasing something from the balcony, and once my wife and I saw a pod of dolphins on deck 3. There were about 20 of them.

[palmtre2]

We saw a whale breach on a southern carib cruise.

 

We have our own boat and on a trip from the Philadelphia area to Baltimore after a particularly bad few days of storms and floods - what didn't we see?

Refrigerators, telephone poles, lawn furniture,tires and oil tanks......... It was a very long and tedious trip! Getting to the Chesapeake is it's own reward!!!

[waynbo]

Home made boat with 7 cubans in it. They had attached an inner tube to the back that they used as the bathroom. They were surrounded by Dolphin Fish of all colors. We sat there with them in their boat until the Coast Guard could get there and take over. They were so close to the US. They had been without food of water for 2 days when we found them. It was a life lesson for my kids.

 

On the Legend on New Years Eve (07-08) we stopped for around 7 hours while the crew assisted some Cuban refugees floating in a disabled boat... well a few of them were IN the boat but two were actually in the water some distance away from it. Seems they had run out of food/water and two of them were going to try to swim for help. We waited for the US Coast Guard that never showed up and finally the Capt brought them on board and sent the crew out to paint the disabled boat bright orange for the Coast Guard to sink later. We met up with the Coast Guard on the way back to Tampa to transfer them off the ship. Don't know what happened to them but I hope they enjoyed their cruise. I'll post some pics of the boat when I get home (shhhh, I'm supposed to be working ;)).

 

I tried to find a review from any of them but I guess they weren't CC members! :D

[maplered]

Picture this: We were on a b2b on the Caribbean Princess during hurricane season, every evening the ship would be engulfed by thick fog and the sea was like glass. The fog was eerie and the silence became defening. No rain, no wind, and not a sound from this ship or its passengers. We'd sit out for hours, sipping coffee and watching hundreds of bats dive in and out of the ships now, subdued lights, hunting the insects they attracted. This was shortly after the release of the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Lightening would move in and out of the fog reaching for the ship, but always falling short. One evening while watching mother nature at her best we see a brown parcel wrapped package, finished off with hemp twine adorning the top with a bow, float eerily past. Slowly it bobbed its way along the side of the ship and then disappeared behind us to fight the wake. It was shocking to say the least! We still wonder where it had initially been headed to, who was missing it? Who had sent it? And the million dollar question, what was inside? It was a rather large package, probably a good 20x20. We still wonder about that package to this very day.

 

You should write books. You had me on the edge of my seat. HAHA

[kim826]

While in port at Acupulco we took the Oceanrider excursion. We rode up to watch the cliff divers. They were literally diving into sewage - gross!

[TahoeBob]

George Smith, sorry but I could not help myself

[geoherb]

On our cruise to Alaskan, we were sailing in Tracy Arm past huge chunks of floating ice. We came upon a Coast Guard cutter. There were men jumping off the cutter into the icy water. Our cruise director said it was an initiation ceremony.

[Mur-cruiser]

We were snorkleing and a man had taken some smalll cereal boxes form the ship to feed the fish. He took the cereal out of the box (left it in the bag) put the bag in his inside swim pocket, he was swimming along the bag disintegrated and the cereal starting coming out his suit. Naturally all the small fish decided to swim up his suit to get to the food. OMG I was laughing so hard at the expression on his face :eek:

[NotWthOutablcony]

You should write books. You had me on the edge of my seat. HAHA

Thank you very much! I miss writing, guess I'll have to save it all up for my reviews :p

[YB Nrml]

DH and I were in Puerto Rico about 6 years ago. We're wading in the ocean and smelled "something". Three guys about 25 feet away from us are also wading in the ocean and passing around a bong.

 

On our first cruise we were in Montego Bay, Jamaica on a snorkeling excursion with about 15 other people from the Liberty. This smaller boat motors up to us, only the "captain" and a single lady on board. She yells out to us that she needs a lighter. Someone hands her one, she lights a joint then offers to share it with anyone on our catamaran.