We moved to Argentia in 1964 when I was 9 but I still remember the ferry ride - it looked just like this - my father was the only one walking the decks not seasick..I remember one man hit his head - really enjoyed hearing the "Newfie" accents, too!
The sea's are always rough, even when they're 'calm'! Sorry about the person who died though! Point of advice though: If you know you are someone who gets sea sick then don't take the boat! Take a plane instead! And if that makes you sick, don't bother leaving the island! It's not so bad there anyway! Hometown Proud! Newfoundland Rocks! lol
'No turning back!'' lol ;) I crossed the English channel in a severe gale, and the ferry was tiny, [ Falaise] and I said to dad ''how many more hours?'' as I had a mortal dread of people being sick near me.. I remember being glad to disembark when the 5hr trip was over. As it was rough, it took much longer than usual.
This is just a typical winter crossing between port aux Basque NL an north Sydney , NS. Maybe 35 - 40 knots of wind or 65-75 km/hr. Ive crossed this when it was 110 m/hr or 177km/hr.Off NS near sable island where it is fairly shallow there are marker bouys marked in meters to a height of 30. and seas in winter have been to this height that's ..98 feet hight waves.The biggest waves Ive known about was off spare point/ spare harbor, out side st louis's bay, Labrador in march month, this area of the north atlantic in winter is the roughest ocean in the world, where a shoal maked 20 fathoms on the chart had seas breaking over them. That's 120 feet high.
+phil earle Just reading your comment makes me nauseous. lol. I've been on the Galveston (Texas, USA) ferry when it was the last ferry across the bay before a hurricane. Bad, but nothing like your describe!
There's a story that the QE2 was once caught up in one of those. Fortunately, the ship had been sealed off when they received a rough weather warning, but the entire vessel was reportedly underwater for several seconds when a 98 foot wave broke over the top of it off the coast of Newfoundland one night.
Scary! People don't believe me when I tell them what my uncle said. I once asked my uncle what was the biggest wave he'd ever seen on the ship (he and my father were merchant marines for over 20 and 40 years). He told me he had seen the water come over the ship and down into the smoke stack! I believed him and still do. You've just helped.
Which ferry was this? I worked on the crew that welded the bow visor shut on the MV Caribou after she hit a rogue wave. Seas were 20+ ft abd the wave bent her hull plating so you could see where the "ribs" were and opened about a 12" gap in 15' of the visor seam. It bent a 36" steel beam against its backbone, the hardest way to bend a beam. That was a "massive" wave.
That’s what happend the door was damaged had to wait at port for 4 hours before turning around and back I got in and all the Riggs if to back off the ship
i was on the top deck a few months ago when me and my uncle was going back home. 5 meter waves. when i went up top it was like that feeling when your really drunk only sober lol
The William Carson sank in 1976 after hitting an ice burg. We returned from Argentia in July 1973 departing from Port aux Basques to North Sidney on the WV William Carson.
hey westvillwhat can you explain me what a swell is? i was ont he camille marcoux in february and there was a big ass swell hitting the side boat that it almost capsize on its side the captain had to stop the ship and change the course to avoid it what exactly is a swell i hope you can explain it so people don,t whine about OH iwaves aren't even that big! and all that stuff thank you!
I was there when you were recording this. Is it possible that you can send that to me so i can download that to my computer? There was fellas that has crossed there for many years and never experienced anything like that before. Im over once a week and i know that was a nasty boat ride!
Truth is the waves get much, much bigger on the Cabot Strait than what you see here, but when they reach a certain height the ferry runs between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are cancelled.
I dunno if it's the same Ferry,I was on to, St Pierre in September 17 2011 but a Passenger actually passed on,While the Ferry was crossing. Poor guy had a Cardiac Arrest we were administering CPR,and there was even a Physician,t to the scene,where poor guy fell,and took over,pumping his chest. The Gentleman never,came back and was breading,through a Chest pump frm the Ferry's Fist Aid kit,placed in by this Dr Lennox from Halfax NS. I hoped for the best,but as I found out later,they'd flew him to St Johns,NF & Lab.but unfortunately he passed on few days later,his family,ok'd the Drs to stop the machine.I guess the Dr figured,poor guy must have been,unconscious,5-10 before my Wife and saw him laying there,He suffered Unrecoverable,Brain Damages,from lock of Blood circulation to,his Brains!x Sad he was still a young Man at 45. RIP Scott Prigmore.1966-17.Sept 2011. Can you please,let me kn if this was the same Ferry ride?
ahah i know iget alot of people saying oh them waves arent big lol the yhave to remeber this was recorded from a low end black berry phone lol it dosent do it justice cheers Dangerous bill
Now you say oh vic it's not that rough any more, then you tell me how they take 25 foot waves out of the sea, my god man I get sick just watching the waves, I'll have to fly:)
a few years back, we drove over on the bridge for free but hadda pay for the ferry boat which was very calm....can't imagine being on such seas so we lucked out. sorry but is was PEI, not where the Newfies abide.....
like they didn't design the kitchen pro-actively to prevent stuff from breaking? Nah nobody would have ever been able to figure out that the boat would go over waves.
What do you mean "massive" waves? They're not massive, you can still see the horizon looking so flat. Wait 'til the waves are so big that the horizon keeps vanishing behind towering waves, then the ferry will REALLY heave! I'd love to be on it in 50 foot swells, that would be well exciting! Miles better than insane brutal frying HOT sun!
It does look very bad. I used to take that ferry trip( which really can toss you around a bit) and then drive to Argentia. I get sea sick just looking at this..
i remember year's ago I was catching a ferry from argentia(Newfoundland) to nova Scotia and the sea was fuckin angry that day, we were in like 15 to 20 foot waves and it was ROUGH as fuck. I thought for sure at one point the boat went completely to one side so far that the people who were drinking in the bar were spilling there drinks.
So 15 foot ( as they claim) waves are "massive" and a "must see". Maybe they.bave never seen water before. Only when you try to cross that water in bathtub it would be a problem. I want my time spend on this back .
Nathan Hale Was looking down the quebec north shore ferry into thirty foot waves from my Otter bush plane, from Sept Isles to Forteau Labrador...telling the passengers:"we have two hours to go, they have one week!" (We both had ten villages to stop by) Pitching they were forty degrees up and down and rolling nearly 70 degrees! Man, were they glad to have paid the extra money!
+hotspur666 Yes, I flew as a passenger from London to Amsterdamn, nd the North Sea was like rippled glass beneath us, and we could see tiny ships ploughing through.. We had quite a lot of bumpy turbulence, but the North Sea part seemed to be over in 5 minutes or so- to the poor buggers on the ferries...several hours of pitching misery.
+Oakleaf700 ...On the ferry to Newfoundland from Sydney to Port aux Basques, deep in the bowels of the ship all night with the wife and kids, man, I dont get sea sick but everybody else on the ship was...smelled like the stink of vomit was ingrained in the ship's paint!
hotspur666 UGH!......that must have been hell. We had to cross the Irish sea and back in one session [collecting a large item too fragile to entrust to a shipper] and I was so worried about the crossings-as heard that the permesan reek [quote] of vomit is hard to get rid of on a ship [and there had been a huge storm front in the previous week. I am glad to say the crossing was ok, and the reek of vomit wasn't detectable- but the staff said there was [quote] puke everywhere...goodness knows how they clean up- but the old ferry [Stena Europe] is built to be washed down! :)
What i find funny is ive been in that and worse crossing that ferry. You fellas are in the restaurant waiting to eat and most everyone else is ready to puke hahhahhahahahah
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lol whining? people that worked on the boat for a long time said it was one of the worst crossings they ever been on it was in november 2011 from port aux basque to north sydney nova scotia
We moved to Argentia in 1964 when I was 9 but I still remember the ferry ride - it looked just like this - my father was the only one walking the decks not seasick..I remember one man hit his head - really enjoyed hearing the "Newfie" accents, too!
Wow! I sailed in Newfoundland and it wS unforgettable. God bless Newfoundland. Loved it, miss her.
Also, my Dad was CO of the Marine Barracks from '64 to '66 - I have great memories of Newfoundland :)
The sea's are always rough, even when they're 'calm'! Sorry about the person who died though! Point of advice though: If you know you are someone who gets sea sick then don't take the boat! Take a plane instead! And if that makes you sick, don't bother leaving the island! It's not so bad there anyway! Hometown Proud! Newfoundland Rocks! lol
Sometimes you have to leave
The way the dishes were smashing it sounded like you was in a Greek taverna
'No turning back!'' lol ;) I crossed the English channel in a severe gale, and the ferry was tiny, [ Falaise] and I said to dad ''how many more hours?'' as I had a mortal dread of people being sick near me.. I remember being glad to disembark when the 5hr trip was over. As it was rough, it took much longer than usual.
This is just a typical winter crossing between port aux Basque NL an north Sydney , NS. Maybe 35 - 40 knots of wind or 65-75 km/hr. Ive crossed this when it was 110 m/hr or 177km/hr.Off NS near sable island where it is fairly shallow there are marker bouys marked in meters to a height of 30. and seas in winter have been to this height that's ..98 feet hight waves.The biggest waves Ive known about was off spare point/ spare harbor, out side st louis's bay, Labrador in march month, this area of the north atlantic in winter is the roughest ocean in the world, where a shoal maked 20 fathoms on the chart had seas breaking over them. That's 120 feet high.
+phil earle Just reading your comment makes me nauseous. lol. I've been on the Galveston (Texas, USA) ferry when it was the last ferry across the bay before a hurricane. Bad, but nothing like your describe!
There's a story that the QE2 was once caught up in one of those. Fortunately, the ship had been sealed off when they received a rough weather warning, but the entire vessel was reportedly underwater for several seconds when a 98 foot wave broke over the top of it off the coast of Newfoundland one night.
Scary! People don't believe me when I tell them what my uncle said. I once asked my uncle what was the biggest wave he'd ever seen on the ship (he and my father were merchant marines for over 20 and 40 years). He told me he had seen the water come over the ship and down into the smoke stack! I believed him and still do. You've just helped.
You'd not get waves like this at North Sydney, NSW. The difference a letter can make!
Which ferry was this?
I worked on the crew that welded the bow visor shut on the MV Caribou after she hit a rogue wave. Seas were 20+ ft abd the wave bent her hull plating so you could see where the "ribs" were and opened about a 12" gap in 15' of the visor seam. It bent a 36" steel beam against its backbone, the hardest way to bend a beam. That was a "massive" wave.
That’s what happend the door was damaged had to wait at port for 4 hours before turning around and back I got in and all the Riggs if to back off the ship
i was on the top deck a few months ago when me and my uncle was going back home. 5 meter waves. when i went up top it was like that feeling when your really drunk only sober lol
The William Carson sank in 1976 after hitting an ice burg. We returned from Argentia in July 1973 departing from Port aux Basques to North Sidney on the WV William Carson.
Been there. I was in a cabin sitting on the shower floor with my precious bag the whole ride back.
lol
Good god, what's with all the noise? Must be the cases of Molson Ex on the bridge! Lol!
Your a Newfoundlander too I can tell lol, ya never know though the captain might have had a rough morning and went for some max ice instead!
no, I don't think it's molsen, if your a true newfoundlander, it's definitely blue star.✌
The empties!
I've been on Acadian princess 30 years ago water over the windows you couldn't stand up move around.
My first time across was in winter. Took over 12 hrs to cross.
its a very scary storm, huge waves
That Cabot Strait can be a bear when its blowin a ten gale.
hey westvillwhat can you explain me what a swell is? i was ont he camille marcoux in february and there was a big ass swell hitting the side boat that it almost capsize on its side the captain had to stop the ship and change the course to avoid it what exactly is a swell i hope you can explain it so people don,t whine about OH iwaves aren't even that big! and all that stuff thank you!
I was there when you were recording this. Is it possible that you can send that to me so i can download that to my computer? There was fellas that has crossed there for many years and never experienced anything like that before. Im over once a week and i know that was a nasty boat ride!
Just use a RUclips to mp4 online convertor
Try Cook Strait in NZ when its rough.10m waves are the usual. And yes I did contribute to the vomit vessel!
Truth is the waves get much, much bigger on the Cabot Strait than what you see here, but when they reach a certain height the ferry runs between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are cancelled.
They had a ferry run on that route, (NS-NF), in which the waves were about 50 feet, 60 knot winds. Even many of the crew were sick couldn't work.
10 m is usual? Hmmm
Man that ship creaks more than my back..
Didn't should like creaking to me. Sounds more like tables or chairs where sliding across the floor.
@@justinlynch3 Thats exactly what it is. I work on the vessels so I should know. Not the tables though bc their bolted down but chairs yes.
Went to newf on family vacation in 1972. Crossed onthe William Carson. She sank later that year
I dunno if it's the same Ferry,I was on to, St Pierre in September 17 2011 but a Passenger actually passed on,While the Ferry was crossing. Poor guy had a Cardiac Arrest we were administering CPR,and there was even a Physician,t to the scene,where poor guy fell,and took over,pumping his chest. The Gentleman never,came back and was breading,through a Chest pump frm the Ferry's Fist Aid kit,placed in by this Dr Lennox from Halfax NS. I hoped for the best,but as I found out later,they'd flew him to St Johns,NF & Lab.but unfortunately he passed on few days later,his family,ok'd the Drs to stop the machine.I guess the Dr figured,poor guy must have been,unconscious,5-10 before my Wife and saw him laying there,He suffered Unrecoverable,Brain Damages,from lock of Blood circulation to,his Brains!x Sad he was still a young Man at 45. RIP Scott Prigmore.1966-17.Sept 2011. Can you please,let me kn if this was the same Ferry ride?
You gotta love the Newfie accent
What was the date the video was taken? Thanks
It isn't so much the height of the waves so much as the pitch (the distance between peaks). These waves are bad-rough, but not bad-serious.
ahah i know iget alot of people saying oh them waves arent big lol the yhave to remeber this was recorded from a low end black berry phone lol it dosent do it justice cheers Dangerous bill
+Nathan Hale who dies?
Ryan P not sure who it was..bumped there head and later died in hospital...
Nathan Hale Wow, what was the wind like?
+Ryan 2001
Windy.
Now you say oh vic it's not that rough any more, then you tell me how they take 25 foot waves out of the sea, my god man I get sick just watching the waves, I'll have to fly:)
nice
Had one crossing like this---trust me absolutely no fun.
a few years back, we drove over on the bridge for free but hadda pay for the ferry boat which was very calm....can't imagine being on such seas so we lucked out. sorry but is was PEI, not where the Newfies abide.....
The proper title for this would be: Newfoundland ferry in massive waves "MUST HEAR".
The sea was angry that day my friends...like an old man bringing soup back at a deli
Which ferry was this?
Ahhh....how cute....was that a wake?
like they didn't design the kitchen pro-actively to prevent stuff from breaking? Nah nobody would have ever been able to figure out that the boat would go over waves.
Ok now thats some big waves
What do you mean "massive" waves? They're not massive, you can still see the horizon looking so flat. Wait 'til the waves are so big that the horizon keeps vanishing behind towering waves, then the ferry will REALLY heave! I'd love to be on it in 50 foot swells, that would be well exciting! Miles better than insane brutal frying HOT sun!
Rwret4
What a ya at by’es?
Call those ways massive? In Cook Strait (New Zealand) that's just a normal swell. COME ON GUYS!!! Wait till you get vehicles bring washed overboard
They had a ferry run on that route in which the waves were about 50 feet, 60 knot winds. Even many of the crew were sick couldn't work.
The dishes are hittin the floor lol
It does look very bad. I used to take that ferry trip( which really can toss you around a bit) and then drive to Argentia. I get sea sick just looking at this..
Average waves. Was that your first time on thw ferry crossing? Not a single one even broke over the bow. Had a little mist.
killer video!!!
i'm thinking about the cars man...must be a wreck in there
Ya. Gotta love those new boats eh. Lol.
This must have been scary
*ANNOUNCEMENT:*
"Table #25, your coffee's ready . . . Oops!, sorry, it's on the deck . . . Are you in a hurry?"
Doesn't sound like there's any plates left to fill order 25.
I think I was on that ferry
Haha if this was after the ferry was shut down for a couple days.. I wanna say 2009 just before christmas it was 11m seas
I don't like title's like these. How did the passenger die? It just leaves you hanging.
+CaptainArt777 The title never said anything about passengers dying. This is the title "Newfoundland ferry in massive waves "MUST SEE"
Where were the massive waves? Seemed quite below average
the noise of the waves against the ship, make me sick.......
i remember year's ago I was catching a ferry from argentia(Newfoundland) to nova Scotia and the sea was fuckin angry that day, we were in like 15 to 20 foot waves and it was ROUGH as fuck. I thought for sure at one point the boat went completely to one side so far that the people who were drinking in the bar were spilling there drinks.
seen bigger waves in my bath,lol
+karen davies quit movin around so much then lol cheers
+Nathan Hale ha ha ha ha mint come back 😂😂😂
It depends how the waves are made!!!:-)))
No guys, she's telling the truth! I've seen bigger waves in her bath, too!
👱🏻♀️🛁🏡🔭😏
So 15 foot ( as they claim) waves are "massive" and a "must see". Maybe they.bave never seen water before.
Only when you try to cross that water in bathtub it would be a problem.
I want my time spend on this back .
X Post got another hit thanks for the support cheers!
Man I haven't been on da ferry in years
That's pretty scary.
I stand corrected.
The worst was the smell of vomit in the whole fucking ship!
yeah that was the wrost part for sure
Nathan Hale Was looking down the quebec north shore ferry into thirty foot waves from my Otter bush plane,
from Sept Isles to Forteau Labrador...telling the passengers:"we have two hours to go, they have one week!" (We both had ten villages to stop by) Pitching they were forty degrees up and down and rolling nearly 70 degrees!
Man, were they glad to have paid the extra money!
+hotspur666 Yes, I flew as a passenger from London to Amsterdamn, nd the North Sea was like rippled glass beneath us, and we could see tiny ships ploughing through.. We had quite a lot of bumpy turbulence, but the North Sea part seemed to be over in 5 minutes or so- to the poor buggers on the ferries...several hours of pitching misery.
+Oakleaf700 ...On the ferry to Newfoundland from Sydney to Port aux Basques, deep in the bowels of the ship all night with the wife and kids, man, I dont get sea sick but everybody else on the ship was...smelled like the stink of vomit was ingrained in the ship's paint!
hotspur666
UGH!......that must have been hell. We had to cross the Irish sea and back in one session [collecting a large item too fragile to entrust to a shipper] and I was so worried about the crossings-as heard that the permesan reek [quote] of vomit is hard to get rid of on a ship [and there had been a huge storm front in the previous week. I am glad to say the crossing was ok, and the reek of vomit wasn't detectable- but the staff said there was [quote] puke everywhere...goodness knows how they clean up- but the old ferry [Stena Europe] is built to be washed down! :)
Big waves...15 foot the bloke says.. thats only between 5 and 6 on the scale..
0:22 now we know what it must have sounded like on the Estonia car ferry when it tipped 35 degrees in a few seconds... terrifying
ahah i wish i had abetter cam then my blackberry ahah the video dosnet do it any justice on how crazy it was lol
That would have made me sick and nerves at the same time best to take a strong sleeping pile and sleep threw it .
: Then he’s right about that too.
I would have been so sea sick that the best thing for me to do was jump overboard and get it over with quickly.
+sylviajh14 I know the feeling.
I didn't see Jack...... nor Jill.
im not sure how iwould send it
Those americans have never even caught a ferry in their life!
what would you call this then
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I think I'll stay on land
I just got seasick by Ipad
What i find funny is ive been in that and worse crossing that ferry. You fellas are in the restaurant waiting to eat and most everyone else is ready to puke hahhahhahahahah
waves for school girls
Wises, that's not big waves, you would know rough sea if it bit ya
Ok there wises......
this is the ferry in the video, she's 654 ft long and 87 ft wide
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I've been out in my canoe with my family and grandmother in worse stuff than this....
Joe Patroni thanks for the view lol
To bad it didn’t sink... lol thanks for the view ;)
last saturday
Waves my arse. That is nothing. Try crossing a shallow sea in winter - like the North Sea, English Channel or Irish Sea.
So you show the boring view outside but fail to film the excitement of everything flying all over the place. You're fired.
it was the blue putees i do beleive
1977
More views if you had videod the destruction
it wasn't that massive. I have experienced much bigger pounding wave
lol whining? people that worked on the boat for a long time said it was one of the worst crossings they ever been on it was in november 2011 from port aux basque to north sydney nova scotia
that camera quality was very frightening
A bit "Titanic"-ish. Please stop
this is nothing
Ivan Shipy You tell them this is good dory weather