The mostest ocean motion?

[havanadaydreaming]

Whats the most youve felt the ocean when on a cruise ship?  

 

Not counting turbulent waters, but ill welcome those responses too! 

 

We are on the Elation headed to the D.R. and this is the most we have felt the ship. Water looks pretty calm. We feel it pretty consisently forward and aft, upper and midlevel decks.  

 

Doesnt bug me but i feel for the elderly and those that are frail. Its a bit of challenge to keep sturdy footing at times. 

[LatinaInTexas]

 

Never had significant/noticable movement until our 8 night Bahama cruise on the Dream in late Oct. First few days noticable but not too bad movement, next 2 days calm, and then the last few days pretty bad.

Like you said hard to get your footing, hard to sleep with the movement. We had the thermal suite week pass and couldn't use them the last 2 days because it was so extreme up there. The T-Pool was crazy to watch, the water sloshing back and forth, end to end like a small tidal wave. I tried getting in but started to feel nauseous after a minute. I was surprised it was even open, it seemed unsafe. The captain did announce once or twice about the ships movement. Something about cold front, that's all I understood.

 

 

 

[sunonfire]

Our worst experience was while we were on Royal Carribean ship - per the Captain we were experiencing 18 foot seas. I hope to never repeat. It was an eastern Carribean cruise.

[babygrljaz]

2 minutes ago, LatinaInTexas said:

 

Never had significant/noticable movement until our 8 night Bahama cruise on the Dream in late Oct. First few days noticable but not too bad movement, next 2 days calm, and then the last few days pretty bad.

Like you said hard to get your footing, hard to sleep with the movement. We had the thermal suite week pass and couldn't use them the last 2 days because it was so extreme up there. The T-Pool was crazy to watch, the water sloshing back and forth, end to end like a small tidal wave. I tried getting in but started to feel nauseous after a minute. I was surprised it was even open, it seemed unsafe. The captain did announce once or twice about the ships movement. Something about cold front, that's all I understood.

 

 

 

I think we were on the same sailing...i got motion sick just sitting up in bed

 

[jonbgd]

early 2000's fantasy class ship, coming back from the Bahamas to Miami

last night, up in buffet eating pizza, a ketchup bottle flew so hard off the table it cracked the window

 

 

 

2014 Alure TA leaving the Med to FLL we were rocking and rolling so bad the pool was pouring water into central park balconies 

[groundloop]

We were on Elation last February just before cruising shut down.  Top deck.  60+ MPH winds and 20+ foot seas.  Our luggage was sliding back and forth across the room, cabinet doors banging open and closed.  Laying in bed I'd feel like I was nearly weightless, then a few seconds later I was being pushed downward with a couple of G's of force.  This was the last night of the cruise so I'd had an extra helping of chocolate melting cake and a couple of extra drinks.  I made it through 3 hours of that mess before getting sick, (I'm normally not affected by rough seas).

 

What was kind of ironic was that up until that night the cruise had been super smooth, hardly felt any ship movement at all, yet that afternoon a woman was complaining about how 'rough' it was.  Somehow I don't think she ever cruised again.

 

AND it looks like you're probably in about 8 ft. seas right now heading to the Dominican Republic, but it shouldn't get any worse than that.

Edited December 12, 2021 by groundloop

[Pami1968]

53 minutes ago, 1stin71 said:

Returning to Hawaii from Fanning Island in the South Pacific.

If memory does not fail me short, I seem to remember 35ft waves.

Captain said on the PA those were some of the roughest waters he had ever sailed.

 

I hope he waited to say that until the storm passed, cause I wouldn’t have wanted to know that in the moment!

[sanger727]

Two times.

 

first on a cruise ship - a 10 night eastern Caribbean in January.  It wasn’t baaaaad. But it wasn’t good. I get horrible motion sickness and take meds and got a little sick. But the people I was with who don’t get motion sick got it too.

 

second was on more of a mega yacht. It was in the Galapagos. 10 rooms. When the ship sailed you knew it. Luckily we were on an itinerary with only a couple overnight sails. But everyone had trouble when it was sailing. It was a great way to visit the Galapagos, but I will probably never do a boat that small again.

[K_e_short]

I remember the last night of an Alaskan cruise heading toward Seward.

 

The ship had been swaying most of the night but my son and I thought it was pretty fun.

 

The captain and most of the higher up staff were on stage in the main theatre doing their goodbyes and the ship moved so drastically you could visibly see everyone on stage sway back and forth.

 

I remember the captain was like "everything is fine", then laughed before leaving to go back to the bridge.

 

 

 

[Chief93]

First cruise on the Spirit in 2002 was the worst, in the aft dining room you could feel the cavitation when the screw came out of the water.

[Mary229]

North Atlantic, Halloween, last cruise of the season to Montreal.  I think it was the old Norwegian Sky, it was a fairly small ship. More than  half of the 750 passengers were paralyzed in their cabins.  We were born with sea legs and Dad, an old Navy guy, was with us.  None of us knew it was even a problem.   DH won “the house” playing the push quarter machine as no one thought to shut it down.   It rocked and rolled all night.  The captain was very happy when we finally entered the Seaway.  

[mz-s]

Wow, I've never felt anything like the things people are describing in this thread. Just the average "you have to try a little harder than usual to walk in a straight line" movement that everyone experiences on a moving vessel.

[Capt_BJ]

just a typical workday during a fisheries patrol in the Bering Sea . . . 

 

[Shmoo here]

6 hours ago, havanadaydreaming said:

Whats the most youve felt the ocean when on a cruise ship?  

 

Not counting turbulent waters, but ill welcome those responses too! 

 

We are on the Elation headed to the D.R. and this is the most we have felt the ship. Water looks pretty calm. We feel it pretty consisently forward and aft, upper and midlevel decks.  

 

Doesnt bug me but i feel for the elderly and those that are frail. Its a bit of challenge to keep sturdy footing at times. 

Crossing the northern Atlantic from Canada to Ireland.  6 days of weightless training.  Walking down the passageway onboard, the floor would fall away and there you were hanging out in space.  I loved it.  The dining rooms were fairly empty, so not many others did.

 

 

[navybankerteacher]

The most dramatic on a cruise was on Noordam out of New York for the Caribbean in January 2007 - I had a forward lower deck cabin, just aft of the theatre -- I woke to see green water outside my window every time we plowed into one of the 30+ foot seas... The roughest (pitching and rolling) was crossing the Bay of Biscay with very erratic seas hitting us broadside. 

 

Of course, on a destroyer escort (very small, virtually no beam- I think she would have fit inside Mariner of the Seas' inside promenade)  rounding Cape Hatteras with our bow going under with every oncoming sea meant no hot meals for a day and a half.

[Essiesmom]

On original Royal Princess 1999, coming up the coast of Brazil.  Very windy and bouncy.  What a change when we turned into the Amazon.  EM

[hallux]

My Explorer of the Seas trip, my first ever cruise.  Rumor was that they were actually giving away Dramamine, I never needed it though.  They had sick bags in the stair wells also.  I was in an inside room, my bed was positioned across the ship rather than fore/aft, I woke up rolling side to side and thought we were REALLY taking swells from the side, then recalled the bed orientation and realized they were head-on.  I used an elliptical the first morning and was wondering if I could count extra credit for the workout because so much effort was needed to stay on the machine.

 

I recall having lunch in the Windjammer (aft on that ship, we could look out over the wake) and seeing lightning hitting the water, and the ship hit one wave with such force we felt it all the way back in the Windjammer, after which we felt them pull back on the throttles a bit.

 

Outside decks were closed most of the time, the pool was empty (not sure if it was intentionally emptied or it just all sloshed out), they were on the verge of cancelling stage shows.

 

One might think a trip like that would deter someone from cruising again.  It didn't, I've been on 3 since.

Edited December 13, 2021 by hallux

[Markanddonna]

A "Medicane" (a hurricane in the Mediterranean.) near the Straits of Messina in Dec 2019.

 

- Outside decks all closed

- Dining Rooms and Buffet closed (too many people, including staff) spilling the food.)  Things flying around

- Elevators were closed for a while because of the ropes wildly swinging.

- The ship was listing sideways as the severe winds pushed the ship.

 

I didn't become seasick on this one. A cruise off the Pacific Northwest Coast from Seattle to Hawaii did me in. The ship dipped in all directions and then added a swirl occasionally. An officer later told me that was his first seasick experience, so I didn't feel too bad.

 

Edited December 13, 2021 by Markanddonna

[tbmrt]

Think it was the Carnival Legend many years ago...not sure to where...We were walking through hallways really having to hold on walls, etc. Water sloshing in pool, etc.  Never had that happen again in all the cruises we've been on.

[Heidi13]

Working at sea, heavy weather is a normal experience, but here are a few I recall

 

Meddy - Hit a storm off Greece that had green seas hitting the Bridge windows. One wave tore along the Promenade Deck, ripping away the gangway.

 

South Pacific - seas damaged one of the lifeboats

 

North Pacific - stove in most of the enclosed Focsle inspection plates, on arrival Hawaii we had a fair bit of water on the Focsle Deck

 

Pacific south of Acapulco - again green seas hitting the Bridge windows. Did significant damage on the Focsle, 1" thick steel plate buckled and warped. Officer's speedboat destroyed. Gangway ripped off the masthouse

 

Mid Pacific - Hove to for about 2 days and got pushed back about 30 miles

 

Indian Ocean - rolling 40 to 45 degrees continuously for a couple of days (not a cruise ship - reefer)

[MBP&O2/O]

The reefer doesn’t count … they would even roll when alongside 😁

 

Once caught the back end of a typhoon whilst off Japan. That was a bit naughty at times. Similar thing … rolling 40 degrees each way for a couple of days. Had to ‘heave too’ more than once. 
 

Totally dead ship in the Pacific, the weather was F7 gusting F8, we lost three of the four lifeboats …. they were damaged beyond repair due to waves breaking over them.

 

Again, some vicious stuff in the Western Med. 

All good fun ….

 

[lenquixote66]

22 hours ago, havanadaydreaming said:

Whats the most youve felt the ocean when on a cruise ship?  

 

Not counting turbulent waters, but ill welcome those responses too! 

 

We are on the Elation headed to the D.R. and this is the most we have felt the ship. Water looks pretty calm. We feel it pretty consisently forward and aft, upper and midlevel decks.  

 

Doesnt bug me but i feel for the elderly and those that are frail. Its a bit of challenge to keep sturdy footing at times. 

Being in the Bermuda Triangle in 1973

[navybankerteacher]

1 hour ago, lenquixote66 said:

Being in the Bermuda Triangle in 1973

Which includes virtually all cruise to the Bahamas, all cruises from Miami, and virtually all cruises from any East Coast port to the Caribbean.

[lenquixote66]

14 minutes ago, navybankerteacher said:

Which includes virtually all cruise to the Bahamas, all cruises from Miami, and virtually all cruises from any East Coast port to the Caribbean.

Manhattan to Bermuda .We went directly into a storm that nobody on board including the Captain expected.

[rkacruiser]

Volendam, 2002, sailing from Vancouver across the Northern Pacific:

 

#1:  Departure/welcome speech on the PA from Captain Harris indicated good weather and pleasant conditions for the immediate future.  Arising the next morning, West of Vancouver Island, the "ocean was seriously in motion" unexpectedly.  Hanging onto the railings and furniture as one walked was mandatory.  At breakfast that first morning, a woman was seated near me; she needed to leave very quickly soon after she was seated--and didn't make it.

 

#2:  We had several days of rough weather interspersed with some better seas as we were sailing in seas where a typhoon had been in the area.  One day, the ship was pitching greatly.  I made my way to the Crow's Nest and watched the bow rise on the crest of a wave and then come crashing down into the trough.  Sea water and spray was shot into the air above the Crow's Nest.  This was the storm when our Chief Engineer was injured and we had to make a detour to Dutch Harbor to disembark him (along with a fugitive Priest from Los Angeles who was discovered to be aboard).  

 

The Tasman Sea:  I have experienced some very rough seas sailing there, but, there have been times when the seas were "normal".  One never knows.  That's part of the fun of cruising for me.  

 

Drake Passage:  I was expecting the worse.  And, if the Zaandam's Captain had decided to make our crossing to Antarctica on schedule, we would have been "rocking and rolling" more than we eventually did.  Because of the forecast, for 18+ hours, he sailed the Zaandam in the lee of some islands at the tip of South America, allowing the storm to pass.  When we did begin our crossing, the view of the storm clouds to our West were the ugliest/darkest that I have ever seen.