{"id":9915,"date":"2011-10-11T01:34:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T08:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=9915"},"modified":"2011-10-11T01:34:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T08:34:29","slug":"freedom-stifled-by-a-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=9915","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Stifled by a Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friends of ours were on a cruise ship in rough weather in August and the environment was an education. They learned about the Beaufort Scale, a 200-year-old measurement used for storms at sea. It goes from 1 to 12 and, somewhere between Antwerp and Bergen<\/a> in the North Sea, their Princess<\/a> ship was in an “8” in gale-force winds and seas of 18 to 25 feet.<\/p>\n

Sunday night, far from there off the coast of Florida, Royal Caribbean’s<\/a> Freedom of the \"\"<\/a>Seas was caught in a surprise storm. There was minor damage to the ship and major sea sickness on it.<\/p>\n

One passenger told CruiseRadio.net<\/a>: “”It was crazy…the ship was on its side” and there were “medical emergencies all over.”<\/p>\n

In the end, neither the damage nor passengers injured by the storm \u2014 a nor’easter \u2014 was severe enough to cause a change to the Freedom of the Seas<\/a> itinerary. It continues on its 7-day cruise to the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

Royal Caribbean said only that wind speeds were “three times more than what was forecast” and there were reports that seas exceeded 18 feet.<\/p>\n

Maybe they should know about the Beaufort Scale.<\/p>\n

DAILY DEAL:<\/strong><\/span>
\nSeabourn Quest<\/a>
\n13 nights Transatlantic
\nNovember 8, 2011
\nMalaga<\/a> (Spain), Cadiz (Seville<\/a>, Spain), Funchal (Madeira<\/a>, Portugal), Fort Lauderdale<\/a>
\nVerandah (balcony) $3,849
\nwww.seabourn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friends of ours were on a cruise ship in rough weather in August and the environment was an education. They learned about the Beaufort Scale, a 200-year-old measurement used for storms at sea. It goes from 1 to 12 and, somewhere between Antwerp and Bergen in the North Sea, their Princess ship was in an… Continue reading Freedom Stifled by a Storm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,31,19,15],"tags":[72,86,35,312,741,326,33,152,742,428,2207,148,701,187],"class_list":["post-9915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-finding-bargains","tag-freedom-of-the-seas","tag-rough-water","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-seabourn","tag-seasickness","tag-ship-accidents","tag-ships","tag-transatlantic-cruises","tag-tropical-storms","tag-weather","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}