Todd Beck was with family onboard Celebrity Cruise Lines Zenith during Tropical Storm Gordon. Watch the waves crash over the railing 11 stories above the water.
Try an old Adam’s class Tin Can Destroyer in 25’ seas rolling out of Antarctica. UNITAS ‘87 cruise of the coast of Argentina. Those were waves and fun as hell! Love going to sea!
I was on this same cruise ship in June 04 on my honeymoon, from NYC to Bermuda. The Zenith is small as far as cruise ships go but it was a great time. best vacation of my life. Cant wait to go again. Celebrity is a great cruise line. I believe this ship has been retired since. Celebrity crew was great. not much you can do about the weather. Ride it out.
Absolutely you should go on your first cruise. This is rare. And you didn't see the video of the end of the cruise where we had a blast scuba diving in St. Thomas and enjoying beautiful (and flat) blue ocean for the trip home. Cruises are awesome!
Cool video! I remember TS Gordon when it hit the area I lived in Florida. It wasn't an exceptionally "bad" storm, but it flooded everything and downed a lot of trees and power lines. Thankfully we lived on a lake, and because we lived in the middle of nowhere--no power=no water, so we bathed in the lake for a few days. Anyway, thanks for sharing the video.
It's wild that somebody's vacation video, made presumably on a camcorder is now digitized and available to the world and will remain so until the internet ceases to exist. Scary waves, the pool water just wanted to go home, lol.
I'm a crew member and that's pretty standard. The waves will never reach 11 stories above the water. The sea spray will. It looks to be Beaufort Scale 5 or 6, so the wind will be 30 to 40 knots and the wave swell be be about 3 to 4 meters in height, from trough to crest. Good fun and certainly no danger here.
S.Scotty...the roughest ferry I was ever on as a kid was Dieppe-Newhaven on a tiny 1947 built ferry called 'Falaise' ..it was horribly rough and the tiny ship closed the deck for safety. Larger ships probably ride the waves better.
30 to 40 knots is beaufort 7-8, near gale to gale. 5 or 6 only goes up to 27 knots (which is itself a fair bit of wind, since force is exponentially proportinal to speed) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale
@mamachops777 Please know this was very unusual--thus the video. Most cruises are on ships where you can't even feel the boat moving. You go to sleep in one place and wake up, refreshed, in the next place. In that sense it's quite possibly the perfect way to travel if it goes between the places you like to visit.
great video! i was on the zeniths sister ship horizon. we cruised to bermuda had an awesome time until it was time to come home. we ran into a storm at sea. that was very freaky
Thanks for posting this video.. Just got back form my first cruise last week and I was thinking about what could go wrong which is what led me to your video. Good stuff, sorry you had to experience such a bad cruise..
@kiraklas No discount. In fact, a friend of mine was on a Carnival cruise out of Florida that ran into weather and didn't make a single stop. It just sailed around in the storm for the week, then came home. No refund, no discount, no free drinks, nada. On this Celebrity cruise, certainly the staff onboard worked very hard to make the best of it. You hear how chipper the daily announcement is, and they scheduled as many indoor activities as they could. So they deserve credit for trying.
I took a med cruise. We rode out a storm on a small ship between Italy and Greece. 40 foot waves. It lasted about 20 hours or so. I never felt sick at all but most of the people on the ship were sick. It wouldn't stop me from taking a cruise.
I travelled on board Zenith & Horizon a number times and the trouble with them both was that they wallowed in heavy seas and the stern used to waggle like a duck's tail as it went down in every trough. It was most disconcerting!
Nice Video! I did the Bermuda run both Zenith and Horizon a number of times in those days and the weather out of New York was often bad. Those Celebrity ships were too short for the kind of seas they regularly encountered and their "sea manners" were never very good. The newer, bigger ships are rather steadier but even they have to slow right down to avoid risking structural damage and passenger injuries!
I know each ship has a varying degree of stability, seemingly by age of the ship. The Pride might be an older and smaller ship. This was the Zenith--probably an 80s build, nothing like the behemoths being launched today. The big ships probably would have smoothly moved through this storm.
@SavingNines wrong, the higher levels on a ship swing more then the lower levels, it is amplified up on top. The bow also pitches more than the stern does.
@sjtom57 Don't be silly. The Dramamine would be cheap. But it would have to be prescribed by the ships doctor, for whom fifty bucks is just his evening bar tab. Seriously, yours is a funny insight into the modern cruise ship. Things used to be generally all-inclusive. Now it's truly nickel and dime.
At least your captain tried to keep you informed. We were recently in 16' swells on the Norwegian Dawn in the Gulf and nobody would tell us anything except to please use caution when getting around. While I realize it's not dangerous, it's just flat out miserable. It would help to know roughly when things might calm down.
@GirlyTennill 123 It will be a good time....the weather is a bit cooler.....enjoy your cruise...remember the captain will do what everl possible avoid very bad or dangerous weather. they want their guests to have a wonderful experience,not a bad one...... and safety on a ship is of the highest priority..
Come to Iceland, and i show you some real storm waves my friend. Iceland have it all, storm, sun, rain, snow and on and on....all this in same day actually ;)
@smartdon007 Sadly, you book cruises way out in advance of knowing whether the storm will come. And there are no refunds. I should know, obviously, that hurricane season is the same time each year. But that's when the best cruise deals are, too.
No, Jimmy. The ship sailed from Fort Lauderdale into the Eastern Caribbean. It reminded me of the North Sea, which seems to look like this on any given day.
We got slightly sea sick on the last day of our cruise last year. It was in November from Port Canaveral to Nassau. I don't know if I want to cruise again for our anniversary because of the rough seas that cruisers sometimes encounter that time of year.
How bad your pitching? Doesn't look bad at all. I didn't see anything sliding off any tables. None of the deck chairs were sliding around. Looked fairly tame to me.
I wasn't going to say anything because dar359 generously complimented my video. But, yeah, this was shot on Hi8 analog camera. I finally got a MiniDV camera in 2001.
@SavingNines I think you have that reversed. The lower levels move less than higher levels. I agree that the bow moves more than the stern as the boat pitches.
@nighttrain334 I work on cruise ships they have go a lot bigger and can handel bad weather so much better...dint worry about it if you dont want rough weather dont go in winter, its the winter months that kick up stormy water....
interesting...but after a few days of storm it would be enough :) is it possible to sleep then ? I was never on a cruise ship, I was only sailing on small sailing boats in the coast area and I didn't encounter such a bad weather...
Those were 'cats paws'; i e, spray NOT waves . Waves are solid 'green' water not white spray. 7 knots per hour is an acceleration NOT a velocity. The announcer has'nt got a clue!!
You are not alone. The cruise was like a ghost ship for several days. Nobody walking around, nobody in the restaurants. Everybody was in their cabins, puking. So my brother-in-law and I had the ship to ourselves. I think everybody thought we were a gay couple because it was always just the two of us--the rest of our group was never with us.
just when ona royalcarriaban cruise just came back the lat day of the cruise we had a tropical storm i was stunned what happened why do these capatins go into these storms why dont they go around it
I have been on several cruises and celebrity was our first most expensive and the worst. The seas don,t have to be bad to get a rocky ride on celebrity as the captains let the ship list back and forth to save on fuel. On our celebrity cruise it was work to keep from rolling out of bed. Never again
Ivan Straights if he retracts the fin stabilizers, drag is reduced and so is fuel consumption. However, this seems a stupid policy, if it would be true.
It's nice to see people dining and interacting without phones
If it was anything like PROPER rough those glasses wouldn't still be upright, surely not.
I love the sound of storm winds whistling on a cruise ship! Relaxing!!!
Yeah, it was beautiful. Classic Caribbean cruise weather, sunny, blue seas, blue skies. We had a blast for the last 3 days.
It's amazing how steady those big cruise ships are in heavy seas.
We just got through a cyclone yesterday.. the power of nature is awesome and sadly destructive.. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿
Try an old Adam’s class Tin Can Destroyer in 25’ seas rolling out of Antarctica. UNITAS ‘87 cruise of the coast of Argentina. Those were waves and fun as hell! Love going to sea!
ha ha Exactly! I was on USS Tattnall DDG-19 out of Mayport Florida, and it was quite rough crossing the Atlantic to head for the MED!!! LOL :)
I was on this same cruise ship in June 04 on my honeymoon, from NYC to Bermuda. The Zenith is small as far as cruise ships go but it was a great time. best vacation of my life. Cant wait to go again. Celebrity is a great cruise line. I believe this ship has been retired since. Celebrity crew was great. not much you can do about the weather. Ride it out.
Lol I was 4 years old when this was shot. That’s crazy. Awesome footage.
Absolutely you should go on your first cruise. This is rare. And you didn't see the video of the end of the cruise where we had a blast scuba diving in St. Thomas and enjoying beautiful (and flat) blue ocean for the trip home. Cruises are awesome!
Can we get a all raise to the guy hosting pictionary
Cool video! I remember TS Gordon when it hit the area I lived in Florida. It wasn't an exceptionally "bad" storm, but it flooded everything and downed a lot of trees and power lines. Thankfully we lived on a lake, and because we lived in the middle of nowhere--no power=no water, so we bathed in the lake for a few days. Anyway, thanks for sharing the video.
It's wild that somebody's vacation video, made presumably on a camcorder is now digitized and available to the world and will remain so until the internet ceases to exist. Scary waves, the pool water just wanted to go home, lol.
That’s nothing, the ship is riding very well! Ex seaman.
That crack sound is the ship wants to crack in half lol😂
I'm a crew member and that's pretty standard. The waves will never reach 11 stories above the water. The sea spray will. It looks to be Beaufort Scale 5 or 6, so the wind will be 30 to 40 knots and the wave swell be be about 3 to 4 meters in height, from trough to crest. Good fun and certainly no danger here.
Never concerned knowing that Celebrity would take care of us. But still a fun ride for us landlubbers.
S.Scotty...the roughest ferry I was ever on as a kid was Dieppe-Newhaven on a tiny 1947 built ferry called 'Falaise' ..it was horribly rough and the tiny ship closed the deck for safety. Larger ships probably ride the waves better.
Philip Scott That would scare me to death! Phewww!
30 to 40 knots is beaufort 7-8, near gale to gale. 5 or 6 only goes up to 27 knots (which is itself a fair bit of wind, since force is exponentially proportinal to speed) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale
Lisa Burch i love being on water...but this scares me like crazy
2:56 North Sea? A storm on the North Sea will keep you in your cabin praying like mad 😆
Ships in the bygone days were things of beauty unlike these new top heavy barges that are designed to carry way too many people.
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Wow that's awesome great job on the video thanks
Glad you enjoyed it. There are like 100 more on the channel, so please poke around.
Glad I found this
That is nice to see people with out phones
Thanks for your attention and have an wonderful evening.!!!
@mamachops777 Please know this was very unusual--thus the video. Most cruises are on ships where you can't even feel the boat moving. You go to sleep in one place and wake up, refreshed, in the next place. In that sense it's quite possibly the perfect way to travel if it goes between the places you like to visit.
@dboothie It's in the first shot--Celebrity Zenith, now owned by a totally different cruise line.
great video! i was on the zeniths sister ship horizon. we cruised to bermuda had an awesome time until it was time to come home. we ran into a storm at sea. that was very freaky
Thanks for posting this video.. Just got back form my first cruise last week and I was thinking about what could go wrong which is what led me to your video. Good stuff, sorry you had to experience such a bad cruise..
@kiraklas No discount. In fact, a friend of mine was on a Carnival cruise out of Florida that ran into weather and didn't make a single stop. It just sailed around in the storm for the week, then came home. No refund, no discount, no free drinks, nada. On this Celebrity cruise, certainly the staff onboard worked very hard to make the best of it. You hear how chipper the daily announcement is, and they scheduled as many indoor activities as they could. So they deserve credit for trying.
when there was bad weather on my cruise i went in the pool on the ship and it was insane there were like waves in the pool it was awesome
I took a med cruise. We rode out a storm on a small ship between Italy and Greece. 40 foot waves. It lasted about 20 hours or so. I never felt sick at all but most of the people on the ship were sick. It wouldn't stop me from taking a cruise.
I travelled on board Zenith & Horizon a number times and the trouble with them both was that they wallowed in heavy seas and the stern used to waggle like a duck's tail as it went down in every trough. It was most disconcerting!
Nice Video! I did the Bermuda run both Zenith and Horizon a number of times in those days and the weather out of New York was often bad. Those Celebrity ships were too short for the kind of seas they regularly encountered and their "sea manners" were never very good. The newer, bigger ships are rather steadier but even they have to slow right down to avoid risking structural damage and passenger injuries!
Thanks for sharing!
You are absolutely correct. Had I considered anyone but myself, in any degree, I would never have done that.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Todd Beck great video. I would be scared to death I couldn't do it ..I commend you for courage..Oh this is an old video,,🙄🤔🤔🤔
Amazing how Vikings and Polynesians and Christopher Columbus rode in these waves.
Pretty cool catching those on waves!
I know each ship has a varying degree of stability, seemingly by age of the ship. The Pride might be an older and smaller ship. This was the Zenith--probably an 80s build, nothing like the behemoths being launched today. The big ships probably would have smoothly moved through this storm.
@SavingNines wrong, the higher levels on a ship swing more then the lower levels, it is amplified up on top. The bow also pitches more than the stern does.
@sjtom57 Don't be silly. The Dramamine would be cheap. But it would have to be prescribed by the ships doctor, for whom fifty bucks is just his evening bar tab.
Seriously, yours is a funny insight into the modern cruise ship. Things used to be generally all-inclusive. Now it's truly nickel and dime.
If you want to get on a cruise ship heading into a tropical storm that's your choice......it ain't wise.
At least your captain tried to keep you informed. We were recently in 16' swells on the Norwegian Dawn in the Gulf and nobody would tell us anything except to please use caution when getting around. While I realize it's not dangerous, it's just flat out miserable. It would help to know roughly when things might calm down.
@GirlyTennis123 Don't worry the chances of the ship hitting an iceberg in Mexico are very slim.
@GirlyTennill 123
It will be a good time....the weather is a bit cooler.....enjoy your cruise...remember the captain will do what everl possible avoid very bad or dangerous weather. they want their guests to have a wonderful experience,not a bad one...... and safety on a ship is of the highest priority..
Come to Iceland, and i show you some real storm waves my friend. Iceland have it all, storm, sun, rain, snow and on and on....all this in same day actually ;)
Ronjarut Ræningjadóttir I know. I've been there.
u have a beautiful family
i am envious xxxx
@smartdon007 Sadly, you book cruises way out in advance of knowing whether the storm will come. And there are no refunds. I should know, obviously, that hurricane season is the same time each year. But that's when the best cruise deals are, too.
No, Jimmy. The ship sailed from Fort Lauderdale into the Eastern Caribbean. It reminded me of the North Sea, which seems to look like this on any given day.
We got slightly sea sick on the last day of our cruise last year. It was in November from Port Canaveral to Nassau. I don't know if I want to cruise again for our anniversary because of the rough seas that cruisers sometimes encounter that time of year.
@twbflorida every ship is a good ship, you just need a good captain.
I was fine in calm waters. I can't imagine how this might have effected me. Scary.
That's not rough all you can see is a few white caps and rain on the windows. I've been on about 20 cruises never had any problems.
Man those are some waves how did you not get sea sick!!!!
Nice vintage footage!
How bad your pitching? Doesn't look bad at all. I didn't see anything sliding off any tables. None of the deck chairs were sliding around. Looked fairly tame to me.
Did yall ever have good weather?
Enjoyed the video, nice presentation
I wasn't going to say anything because dar359 generously complimented my video. But, yeah, this was shot on Hi8 analog camera. I finally got a MiniDV camera in 2001.
Yeah, now I feel old.
When to take a cruise is important
That kinds of weather have to cost extra for the passenger, it’s just like a roller-coaster an extra fun for the trip. ;O)
@GirlyTennis123 The Titanic got made into a movie and the people on it are now famous. So it's not all bad news. Enjoy your cruise!
@SavingNines I think you have that reversed. The lower levels move less than higher levels. I agree that the bow moves more than the stern as the boat pitches.
its rather hilarious how calm crew stays, despite all those...waves...
weather like this on a cruise ship, i think is a different kinda fun... as long as you're save, but cool experiences!
Is that Lt Commander Data doing the daily announcement? I suppose all star fleet commanders had a summer job at one time.
@nighttrain334
I work on cruise ships they have go a lot bigger and can handel bad weather so much better...dint worry about it if you dont want rough weather dont go in winter, its the winter months that kick up stormy water....
This was great, this is what a reall sea trip should always be, hope you enjoy because is once in a lifetime
1994! Wow
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What waves?
Where is Captain Jack Sparrow, when he is needed to entertain us in the Caribbean?
We were on the Carnival ship Fantasy at that same time. It was a wild ride.
You should try to work in Icelandic troller, like i did.... This is calm sea vs: Icelandic winter weather... Regards ;)
I never felt unsafe, so they must make good ships.
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interesting...but after a few days of storm it would be enough :) is it possible to sleep then ?
I was never on a cruise ship, I was only sailing on small sailing boats in the coast area and I didn't encounter such a bad weather...
I'd never get on a cruise with a tropical storm affecting the cruise. Why do that? Dangerous!
hit bigger waves than that when i was aboard the QE2 in 1987.We got the tail end of a hurricane .
You will have a fantastic time! What a great itinerary.
And in that weather some nutters go outside the ship and risk getting washed overboard. Numbskulls or what!?
Dave Perry how right you are!! There will always be idiots who take the view "it won't happen to me", they think they're invincible!
Omg could never do a cabin without a balcony
You know it's bad when you see frogs in the pool surfing.
Those were 'cats paws'; i e, spray NOT waves . Waves are solid 'green' water not white spray. 7 knots per hour is an acceleration NOT a velocity. The announcer has'nt got a clue!!
You are not alone. The cruise was like a ghost ship for several days. Nobody walking around, nobody in the restaurants. Everybody was in their cabins, puking. So my brother-in-law and I had the ship to ourselves. I think everybody thought we were a gay couple because it was always just the two of us--the rest of our group was never with us.
Absolutely!
Wow, 1 million views, great video, thanks.
Lol. Love the lift music in the room. :)
Swiming in the pool would be unforgetable !
It’s not the white caps that cause the problems, it’s what are called ground swells that can kick your ass.
Yeah, me too. I am never see it before.
At 19:00 we got Puketionary and swimming lessons start at 20:00 just outside the ship.
I would hate to be on a cruise and have that piped music the whole time.
Take me to the poop deck because I need to shite my pants!
Work? I only want to be on a boat for play. Plus I'm sure your troller was smaller and the waves bigger, so that is a dangerous combination.
People like me who book a year in advance and can't forecast the storms.
Todd Beck But on the day you sail you can. You want to risk riding into a tropical storm ⛈ go ahead. Some of us won't regardless of the cost.
A10PANG 🐓
IF THIS IS CELEBRITY SOLSTICE, THEN THAT'S THE SHIP I WENT ON.
Thats what we sail for... Awesome!!!!
@Misskarissababyy Yea me too, I'm scared to go on one too. Getting seasick would realllllyy suck. :(
just when ona royalcarriaban cruise just came back the lat day of the cruise we had a tropical storm i was stunned what happened why do these capatins go into these storms why dont they go around it
I have been on several cruises and celebrity was our first most expensive and the worst. The seas don,t have to be bad to get a rocky ride on celebrity as the captains let the ship list back and forth to save on fuel. On our celebrity cruise it was work to keep from rolling out of bed. Never again
+james allen How does rolling back and forth save on fuel?
Ivan Straights if he retracts the fin stabilizers, drag is reduced and so is fuel consumption. However, this seems a stupid policy, if it would be true.
Be lucky it didn't roll upside down or break down no one for sure knows anything about the one steering the ship.
Those look like about 18-20 footers
dont go on a cruise during storm season?
Risk to travel with this situation. Nature is stronger