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I included the Queen Victoria as well.
I included the Queen Victoria as well.
QE2 in Heavy Seas
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What a contrast in ships. The QE2 looks as if she is made to ride the waves, while the QV just digs into the wave and goes submarine with her tiny bow. The horizon is actually slanted in QE2's photos so her pitch is exaggerated in the photo.
I remember these photos from QV's maiden crossing in tandem with QE2 in which QE2 had to reduce her speed considerably so that QV could keep up. They must have been going really slow in these waves for QV to make it with her short cruise ship bow.
I remember these photos from QV's maiden crossing in tandem with QE2 in which QE2 had to reduce her speed considerably so that QV could keep up. They must have been going really slow in these waves for QV to make it with her short cruise ship bow.
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Kyle Johnstone
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Closer inspection of the photos will show that QV's bow is not submerged. She did not ship any seas on this crossing.
What is seen is simply spray from the swells, with QV's bow-line still above the sea.
What is seen is simply spray from the swells, with QV's bow-line still above the sea.
QV's picture reminds me of this one.
http://web.usna.navy.mil/~phmiller/en358/cruise%20ship%20big%20wave.JPG
http://web.usna.navy.mil/~phmiller/en358/cruise%20ship%20big%20wave.JPG
Oh THAT looks fun! NOT! But given that the Carnival Triumph has no bow to speak of, it's not surprising.
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Kyle Johnstone
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>>Can you say D R A M A M I N E ?<<
Not me. I've never had a problem with mal de mar although I've seen some who have. For me at least, this would be home sweet home. Now pass the biscuits with jam and butter that nobody else seems to want.
Not me. I've never had a problem with mal de mar although I've seen some who have. For me at least, this would be home sweet home. Now pass the biscuits with jam and butter that nobody else seems to want.
I get seasick at the drop of a hat, so in a crossing like shown in the pics I would be on the great white telephone for the entire voyage. And I still can't beleive that until I left University, I was bound and determined to spend a couple of years at sea.
Guess it would have been the wrong choice.
Guess it would have been the wrong choice.
Some people just don't get seasick. I guess it's wired into their DNA. It's like swimming. Some people have to be taught, and to some people it comes naturally. My parents tell me when I was about 2 years old I took a giant run and lept into the swimming pool. My mom almost had a heart attack until she saw I was treading water with ease.
Russell
My parents handled it a bit differently. When I was 4, my father dropped me off the end of the dock at the cottage. I did just fine. He, on the other hand, had to face the wrath of my mother. He said it was an experiance NEVER to be repeated.
My parents handled it a bit differently. When I was 4, my father dropped me off the end of the dock at the cottage. I did just fine. He, on the other hand, had to face the wrath of my mother. He said it was an experiance NEVER to be repeated.
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