The Royal Caribbean cruise ship “Explorer of the Seas” with 5,000 passengers experienced scenes of panic. He traveled the route from Barcelona to Miamiaccording to Cruise Mapper, a website that shows the location and routes of these ships. Few could imagine that on this idyllic 12-night journey 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 press release, a “sudden movement” of the ship.
Amid the screams, we can see in a video, recorded by one of the passengers and posted on social networks, how the chairs move, the bottles fall and roll on the ground 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 find disaster in one of the main common areas of the ship. Everyone walked around for a while, gaping at all the bottles that had fallen from the bar “All the merchandise that could be purchased on the Royal Promenade was scattered on the ground,” Parrish said. Another witness said it was crazy. “It made your heart race,” he pointed out.
Simon Goodenoughwas also in the ship’s theater of operations during the registration, told Local 10 News: “We thought it was part of the special effects until we saw the faces of the staff.”. “Then we realized something was wrong.” And Dan So, who shared the footage 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 to say goodbye.”
Parrish noted that the ship’s captain stated that Winds had increased from 76 kilometers 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.” , notes Parrish.
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 cabins for security checks, which Parrish said took about an hour.
There was one injured During this incident he had to be transferred to a hospital, which forced him to stop in Puerto de la Luz and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. The event, as detailed in the press release, occurred in early November and it is known that the cruise He returned to class three days later continue its journey across the Atlantic. However, Atresmedia points out that after the incident, some tourists preferred to stay on the ground and take the plane.
