Pacific Sun Cruise liner in very heavy seas. Internal CCTV footage.




  1. Aude says:

    lol can you imagine the workman’s comp?
    wow great vid

  2. Animal Mother says:

    Funny, but scary too. I hope no-one got hurt.

  3. Rider says:

    It amazes me that there seems to be nothing aboard the ship that is anchored down.

  4. Jamie Pullman says:

    I’m not suprised the chairs and tables on the passenger decks weren’t fixed to the floor, but wow, the crew deck took a pasting too.

  5. Faxon says:

    The music———- BRILLIANT!

  6. Beswetheric says:

    Not Monday. Wednesday. That is, *a* Wednesday in July 2008.

    [Right. Misread the date posted as being the incident date — UD]

  7. I love watching the busboy (who has serious sea legs) walk casually past the scene.

  8. UncDon says:

    Would’ve been more fun if they guy were calmly playing the piano as it went to and fro …

  9. Rob Leather says:

    When I was a kid I went on a number of school trips to Europe. We crossed the English Channel twice in a Force 10 and once in a Force 12 storm. Each time with the weather looking fine and then “kicking off” about half way across.

    The last storm was so severe that the P&O Ferry people started to get the lifeboats ready! Needless to say, as teenagers, we thought it was awesome!

    These days I think I would just go gray(er).

  10. Cursor_ says:

    And this is why you never go on a small cruise ship.

    If the thing is not at least big enough to fill times square and if stood up as tall as the liberty statue, don’t go on it.

    Never pay to vacation on a tub.

    Cursor_

  11. RTaylor says:

    They were turning away from a heavy sea. They have stabilizer ballast tanks, but they have limitations. I still wonder if this wasn’t an autopilot or crew error. These ships avoid heavy seas like a plague. Rogue waves can come in double or triplets, they would explain it also.

  12. pilgrim says:

    Pacific Sun is Cursed

    Cruise-goers watch as truck plunges into harbour
    The Pacific Sun sailed into Newcastle harbour this morning and docked at Dyke Point, where the New South Wales Government has just spent over $2.5 million creating a temporary cruise ship terminal.
    But it was far from smooth sailing, when a forklift involved in the unloading operation went off the edge of the berth and into the harbour.

    Passengers in Australian cruise given antibiotics to prevent fatal disease.
    Passengers on the Pacific Sun cruise off the Queensland coast have been treated with antibiotics after a man fell ill with a suspected case of meningococcal disease, Health authority of Queensland state in east Australia said on Tuesday.

  13. Barnacle Bill says:

    You still want to go on that cruise Billy?

  14. Benjamin says:

    I’ve seen worse when I was in the Navy. However, everything was tied down that could move and we didn’t have stuff sliding all over the deck.

    #12 said, “They were turning away from a heavy sea. They have stabilizer ballast tanks, but they have limitations. I still wonder if this wasn’t an autopilot or crew error.”

    Possibly crew error. If you are caught in heavy seas, you want to head bow first into the storm. A wave hitting on the side of the ship could capsize it.

  15. admfubar says:

    roll roll roll your boat, violently in the seas, merrily merrily merrily, life is but nightmare…

  16. Charlie says:

    Maybe some Blue-Tac under the piano was in order?

  17. ECA says:

    I posted the top vid, and another of the cargo, in cage match. There is another in the set..
    Take a Tall tool chest, and THROW it across the bay.

  18. RoeBoeDog says:

    You think they would at least have procedures in place to strap things down before leaving port. The metal cabinet could have killed somebody.

  19. bill says:

    I can’t imagine what it was like down below or in the galley!!!

    On an Alaska trip late in the season we were flipped out of bed like pancakes in a frying pan!

    Ocean big! Boat (even a cruise liner) small!

  20. Greg Allen says:

    I have pretty-good sea legs but when fork lifts are being thrown around, you’re pretty much screwed.

  21. Greg Allen says:

    >> Benjamin said, on September 8th, 2010 at 5:32 am
    >> I’ve seen worse when I was in the Navy. However, everything was tied down that could move and we didn’t have stuff sliding all over the deck.

    I was wondering the same thing. I’ve experienced worse, too, in small crafts.

    But everything was battened down or packed-away. There was always the odd scary thing flying through the air but nothing like a cabinet or table.

    I always assumed they did that on cruise ships. Obviously not!

  22. Awake says:

    At second 43 there is a woman that crashes face first into the pole. I hope she was OK… looked bad.

    All this because of the stupid 1MC (main loudspeaker) announcements:
    “- The port buffet is now open…
    – Sorry, I meant the starboard buffet is now open…
    – Never mind… it’s actually the port buffet…
    – It’s the starboard buffet? Oh… whatever…”

  23. bill says:

    Overheard in the elevator, “What time is the midnight buffet?”
    or, the mean old guy at the dessert table with 500 different desserts…
    ‘Is this all you have? I can’t eat this crap!”

  24. Aude says:

    #15 is dead on. IMO

  25. eighthnote says:

    What surprises me the most is the number of morons that continue walking around on the upper deck while this is going on. I think I hear Darwin calling.


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