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Several passengers, including Brenda Goodwin Sherbert, posted on social media about broken glass on the ship. She tweeted again on Saturday afternoon, describing "14 hours of high winds, rain and massive waves." Carnival Sunshine, which was headed from the Bahamas to South Carolina, arrived in Charleston behind schedule, according to the spokesman. Some crew cabins needed to be temporarily taken out of service because of water damage. The ship's next voyage, on which it has since embarked, was also delayed. The nation's water and infrastructure authority said that was also a first.
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Lawrence told BI that while she probably won't head to the North Sea in the winter again, she would still cruise with HX in the future. Passengers are “anxious to get to port” and injuries were “minimal,” the British woman said. MacRae said the cruise line would be providing flights to London — where it was originally supposed to end its journey. As for further compensation, MacRae said they haven’t been told of any.
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"Myself being in emergency services and retired, I knew nobody was going to come and rescue us with winds over 40 knots," Overcash said. The area was hit by a storm late on Thursday with hurricane-force gusts blowing from the north-west that were forecast to continue on Friday, the Danish Meteorological Institute said. The ship was currently being steered manually from the engine room but cannot navigate. Esvagt support vessels had arrived to help the ship navigate until the ship could be towed to port.
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Norwegian cruise ship loses ability to navigate after rogue wave hits - NBC News
Norwegian cruise ship loses ability to navigate after rogue wave hits.
Posted: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 08:00:00 GMT [source]
"The situation started with the ship's horn sounding for an extremely long time, then the PA system came on, and we just heard scuffling and general moving around noises," Lawrence said. Then, passengers heard the alarm that meant they should head to their muster stations — the place on board where guests gather in case of an emergency. HX said after following ongoing safety checks and technical assessments, the company amended the ship's planned route to sail to Bremerhaven, Germany, for disembarkation. The MS Maud sustained a temporary loss of power while sailing to Tilbury, England, from Florø, Norway, HX said in a statement to NBC News.
The MS Maud, a Norwegian cruise ship, lost its ability to navigate after a rogue wave knocked out its power on Thursday. Cruise Hive’s thoughts are with all passengers and crew onboard MS Maud for a safe sailing that is as smooth as possible, and with all emergency personnel responding to this tense and challenging situation. Windows were broken in the incident and the ship lost power for a brief time and was temporarily adrift.
The condition of the ship remains stable and the crew are able to sail under their own power. The vessel carrying 266 passengers and 131 crew suffered shattered windows on its bridge when it encountered a powerful storm in the North Sea late Thursday, Danish authorities said. "At this time, the ship has confirmed that no serious passenger or crew injuries have been sustained as a result of the incident and the condition of the ship remains stable," the statement said.
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Danish Search and Rescue said the vessel could "maneuver via emergency systems, and it has two civilian support vessels close by." A towage vessel from the civil rescue company Esvagt was scheduled to arrive at the ship around 2230 GMT. The MS Maud, which is run by the cruise company HX, a unit of Norway’s Hurtigruten Group, left Floroe in Norway on Thursday and was scheduled to arrive in Tilbury in Great Britain on Friday. “I’ll be honest, there was about 20 minutes yesterday where I thought the ship might capsize, it was rolling so heavily and we didn’t have any idea what had happened,” she said. The ship’s main engine is still functioning, so the vessel can be steered from the engine room. Rogue waves typically "come unexpectedly from directions other than prevailing wind and waves," according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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“Waves were hitting the boat so hard that it was like an earthquake experience, jarring you like a really rough roller coaster — even in the middle floor,” Branham said. "We were surrounded by lightning and the ship took a huge hit by a wave and sounded like it split in two," Tutrone tweeted. The storm also brought down trees and prompting warnings of flooding on the North Sea coast. A woman in Belgium was fatally injured by a falling Christmas tree, while another tree killed a person in the Netherlands. On Thursday, high winds also grounded flights in parts of the U.K., suspended train services and stopped Scottish ferries. "An Esvagt ship is towing it slowly towards Bremerhafen in Germany at around 8-9 knots," the spokesperson told Reuters.
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Video posted to Twitter under the handle @CrewCenter showed water running up and down a hallway and said the crew on one deck had to be evacuated to another part of the ship. Nathan Diller is a consumer travel reporter for USA TODAY based in Nashville. While Walker said passengers should make their complaints known to Carnival, he doesn’t believe filing a lawsuit would be an efficient next step. Instead, impacted passengers can ask Carnival for a refund or a credit for another cruise, although there’s no guarantee the cruise line will grant such requests.
No serious injuries have been reported, and the ship is now receiving navigational assistance. One passenger posted a video on Facebook showing the view from her room's window Thursday with the cruise ship bobbing up and down and creaking in the throes of high waves. The MS Maud lost power after the wave hit as the ship was sailing toward Tilbury, England, from Florø, Norway, HX, a unit of Norway’s Hurtigruten Group, said in a statement.
No serious injuries were reported among the 266 passengers and 131 crew members, according to HX. Tutrone said the only time passengers heard from the captain was on Friday when he told them he had an experienced crew and would do everything he could to minimize discomfort as the ship encountered the storm. Passenger Sharon Tutrone, a professor at Coastal Carolina University, tweeted Friday that the ship was rocking.
A similar incident occurred on Viking Polaris last year, killing one passenger and injuring four others. The company said that falling trees damaged overhead electric wires or blocked tracks largely in northern Germany, but also in the central state of Hesse. A woman who was struck by a falling tree on Thursday in the eastern Dutch town of Wilp later died of her injuries, her employer said. The MS Maud’s on-board technology makes her “exceptionally well-suited” to trips through Norway and the British Isles, the company boasted.
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