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

WTF causes that in the Med'?

Very strange.

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.

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.

I noticed the waves were unusually high on our beach (south Costa Blanca) yesterday given the wind was not that high.

they were unusually high here too - North Costa Blanca

I can see the white horses here too from the bedroom window as I drink my tea and listen to the rain, funny thing is I wake up now if it is not raining. lol

Mushroom tea by any chance?

Where´s Minorca?

To the OP, the link doesn´t work, is it me ?

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?

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?

And it was British but we permanently ceded it to Spain, a bit like Gib, so if they want Gib back, we want Minorca back!

Yeah, and give us the Sugababes and you can have La Pantoja.

Send us James Morrison and you can have Rafael.

Give us steak and ale pie and you can have gazpacho.

I've only heard of steak and ale pie and gazpacho, the rest are unknown to me, I suspect I'd be getting a bum deal!