gaint waves in the Med 2 killed.
Mar 4th 2010, 7:13 pm
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gaint waves in the Med 2 killed.
I heard this story on the news, it seems impossible that a ship that big could be battered like that.
I know the sea is mighty, but it seems they came out of the blue, so to speak.......poor passengers.
http://clipta.com/Video_Waves_rock_c...die__nMzY1NDU5
I know the sea is mighty, but it seems they came out of the blue, so to speak.......poor passengers.
http://clipta.com/Video_Waves_rock_c...die__nMzY1NDU5
Mar 4th 2010, 7:23 pm
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Re: gaint waves in the Med 2 killed.
WTF causes that in the Med'?
Very strange.
Very strange.
Mar 4th 2010, 7:31 pm
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Re: gaint waves in the Med 2 killed.
A cruise forum is saying that the ship is old and has a bad design, ie. the deck and the windows are too low in the water. Interesting that the group who own the ship also own the hotel in Greece where the two british kids dies through carbon monoxide poisoning. I have been on a cruise ship in a hurricane and most ships can cope with waves at that height.
Mar 4th 2010, 7:34 pm
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I can remember being in Minorca a few years back and a bloody great wave hitting us as we sat at a bar in the marina.
Mar 5th 2010, 6:31 pm
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I noticed the waves were unusually high on our beach (south Costa Blanca) yesterday given the wind was not that high.
Mar 6th 2010, 8:26 am
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Mar 6th 2010, 8:30 am
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Mar 6th 2010, 10:32 am
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Re: gaint waves in the Med 2 killed.
Its an Island off the coast of Spain to the right of Majorca who's name comes from the Latin Insula Minor that became Minorica and eventually Minorca before the Spanish decided to bugger up the name and make it Menorca....
Does that answer your question?
Does that answer your question?
Mar 6th 2010, 6:57 pm
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Because there's an element of chaos in there, I'm not surprised there are freak waves. Isn't there a region below south Africa that regularly throws up monster waves?
Mar 6th 2010, 7:49 pm
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Mar 6th 2010, 7:54 pm
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Send us James Morrison and you can have Rafael.
Give us steak and ale pie and you can have gazpacho.
Mar 6th 2010, 9:14 pm
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