The Royal Caribbean cruise ship ‘Explorer of the Seas’ with 5,000 passengers experienced scenes of panic. It covered the route from Barcelona to Miamiaccording to Cruise Mapper, a website that shows the position and routes of these ships. Few would think that on this idyllic 12-night trip, something worthy of a movie would happen. When the ship passed near Tenerife they were surprised by hurricane winds of more than 100 kilometers per hour. Which caused, according to a company statement, the ship to experience a “sudden movement.”
In the midst of the screams, you can see in a video, recorded by one of the passengers and spread on social networks, how the chairs move, the bottles fall and roll on the floor and the tilt angle reaches more than 40 degrees.
He passenger Jonathan Parrish He told CBS News that he was sitting watching a show in the cruise ship’s theater when he felt the ship make a “sharp turn to the right” followed by a second, more intense turn. “The show stopped and he and his fellow passengers emerged from the theater to see a disaster in one of the ship’s main common areas. Everyone walked around for a while, gawking at all the bottles that had fallen from the bar. All the merchandise that could be purchased on the Royal Promenade was scattered all over the floor,” Parrish said. Another witness explained that it was crazy. »It made your heart skip a beat,« he pointed out.
Simon Goodenoughwas also in the ship’s theater during the listing, told Local 10 News: “We thought it was part of the special effects until we saw the staff’s faces.”. “There we realized that something was not right.” And Dan So, who shared the images on TikTok, recalled: “You could hear the glasses falling and people screaming. It was terrifying. “I thought the boat might capsize and I sent a message to my colleagues saying goodbye.”
Parrish noted that the captain of the ship said that The winds had gone from 76 kilometers per hour per hour to 138 kilometers per hour. “I think there was about five minutes where everyone was wondering what was going on, but as soon as the captain came in and announced what had happened, it gave you a sense of calm,” Parrish notes.
And he added that the announcement made him feel like he was in “the best hands he could have been in.” Passengers were asked to return to their staterooms for security checks, which Parrish said took about an hour.
There was one injured In this incident he had to be transferred to a hospital, forcing a forced stop in Puerto de la Luz and Las Palmas, in Gran Canaria. The event, as detailed in the statement, occurred at the beginning of November and it is known that the cruise He resumed his course three days later to continue its route across the Atlantic. However, Atresmedia points out that after the incident some tourists preferred to stay on the ground and take a plane.
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