***** Read Charles Dickens' account of his journey to North America. Then read Sam Clemens experience on his journey to Europe. It was beyond belief. Everybody was sick by the end of it. Salt water splashed in all the food...no heat in what anybody today would consider acceptable, sanitation was not to be mentioned here. It was horrible.
Done this a number of times on QE2. If you look closely, the pitch and roll of QM2 is quite easy due to her sophisticated stabilizers and hull design. She was built for this weather, which is why she is called the last Ocean Liner. I used to love the slow pitch and roll of both ships in a Force 10 gale.
We've sailed on quite a few ships in various seas and the QM2 is by far the most solidly built of any we've experienced. We did not get the chance to experience seas shown in this video during our crossing, but we did get some waves, and I was amazed at the lack of creaks and rattles on the QM2.
Arrived in Southampton from New York on July 14th on the QM2. Beautiful weather coming across and when inside forgot we were on a ship as it was so smooth. Loved it.
You should keep in mind the early explorers, and early liners that had to pass through these storms. Imagine what it was like in a 200 ft wooden sailing ship. It makes this storm seem like a mild swell.
one thing i have to think for a sail boat about 200 ft long is... "we believe we can fly"and very fast trip though well because you know they are litter than a liner and use the pull of the waves
Wind and waves aren't always travelling in the direction you want to be going though, the age of sail was unpredictable, the age of propellers is accurate because if it's wet you can power on through regardless.
This vessel handles the weather and swells very well. As a merchant navy sailor I`ve experienced the north Atlantic on it`s absolute worst. This looks quite alright to me.
Then Try keeping watch on a 20 day passage across the Pacific in the winter with similar if not worse conditions on a ship without stabilisers and a quarter the power. I can guarantee you will be bored stiff at the end of the crossing.
Titanic had also deeper draught, almost 0.5 m (1.6 ft) more than the QM2. And I don't think any ocean liner of the 1900:s sunk only because of a storm.
It almost doesn't do the storm justice. In such a large, elegant ship it's barely rocking. I pictured it being tossed about on the waves, but it looks almost still. It's still making tremendous heading too. Just another day at the office, really by the looks! Great video, and the ship looks beautiful.
I'm pretty sure that even a trip on the bigger Harmony of the Seas would be more "bumpy" in these conditions. That's just one difference between a real ocean liner (QM2) and an average cruise ship.
sealover I went on the allure of the seas (sister ship to harmony) you almost feel no waves at all! it is a insane ship built to handle storms like that
+Kyle Rudd I believe you. I know by now that the Oasis-class cruise ships are a lot better than the Quantum-class (Quantum-, Anthem- and Ovation of the Seas) ships. The incident when the Anthem of the Seas sailed into a storm in february 2016 is well known. They are also a lot bigger, which affect the stability.
I agree and was surprised at how stable the QM2 appeared. I wished I would have been part of this experience. And on the bright side, no line-ups at the buffet!
As a former Navy sailor, I have encountered a few of these while sailing the Pacific. It was a new experience for a young lad from the Prairies. Wouldn't have missed it though. This was in the Canadian Navy. While on a cruise to Australia in 1978 and then Japan the following year we caught the tail end of hurricanes going down the west coast . This footage brought back some good memories.
+Bri Swifty If you're suffering from seasickness, what you do is get as close as you can to the centreline of the ship, amidships, as low as a passenger can access. That'll put you as close as you can get to the ship's centre of gravity, where the motions of the ship will be relatively small. It's not a complete solution, but it'll at least give your inner ears a bit of a rest.
Bri Swifty This would be me: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WERE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH NANNY! (I go on cruises with my nan) GET ME TO LAND NOW!!! DONT CARE WHERE!!!! IM NOT LOOKONG OUT
Having watched a 45 minute documentary before this about how sturdy and well engineered the ship is prevented me from breaking into a cold sweat watching this. Going down in a storm at sea is my nightmare.
2:05 Good to hear people had the stomach to keep the action going in the casino! I love cruising and have experienced a cruise similar to this a few years ago. Ropes were placed out in the common areas to help people get around. Anyways, thanks for sharing.
Wow! Nice video. It's amazing that from high up it didn't look that bad, but the video from deck two was the most convincing. Thanks for the great post, and please don't listen to all the haters.
For swells that reached 8 meters, the pitch and roll of the ship is at best, minimal. Thanks to its stabilizers. I used to work as an officer of a large ship that didn't have stabilizers, those swells would have been really scary if not deadly. QM2 is a ship designed for Atlantic crossings so they have anticipated conditions like this. I'm glad everyone was safe...
Finally, a real storm! On my very first cruise (aboard the SS Rotterdam in 1979), my college buddy and I shared an inside bunk. We were almost tossed out of our beds. I thought we must be in a terrific storm. But up on deck the sun was shining, not a cloud in the sky. We were off Cape Hatteras and the ocean was seething. The captain said the swells were 30 feet. I thought, OK, this is what it's like at sea. But the following day, the ocean was smooth as a lake. I'm glad I got the rough stuff first because I've never seen seasick for a moment some 20 cruises later.
You could not have been on a better ship. The QM2 is not a cruise ship it is a Liner that has 42% more steel in its hull, than a cruise ship, and sits 4.2 mtrs deeper in the water than a cruise ship. She also has 4x7mtr (21ft) stabilizers so you would quite comfortable in a force 10 storm. My wife and I were on her, same time of year in 2007. Went through a force 10 with no problems. If you had been on a -cruise- ship you would have been bobbing around like a cork as cruise ships are flat bottomed.
cynic24/7 the cruise ships that embrace the stereotype version of a crappy voyage like carnival or royal caribbean. Disney has good stabilizers as well and use a bit more steel.
A friend of mine was on the QE2 when it was hit by a freak wave (in the 90's) and he said as the ship rode the wave and went over the top of it, it was so steep the he could hear the propellers spinning clear out of the water.
92 foot is aprox. 28 meters. It's big but modern ships are built to withstand even higher waves, the only problem is if wave like that hits you from the side. Check video on youtube Tanker in big storm, there is the biggest wave ever recorded and uploaded to youtube :p
And that's the true difference between an ocean liner (especialy transatlantics witch QM2 is the only one operative left) and a cruise ship: no matter the weather, no matter whatever happens on the sea: ocean liners will go through everything to make it on time. They're designed for that
I spent two years on the North Atlantic in the Navy, making 9 Med trips and I can tell you this part of the Atlantic ocean can be very unpredictable. My ship was approximately 450 feet long and 145 feet wide and we rocked and rolled many times across the Atlantic both in the summer and winter months. Once you get your "sea legs", sea sickness is not an issue.
People who know little or nothing about the sea and ships don't understand that ocean liners such as the Queen Mary 2 are designed to easily deal with conditions such as what this video depicts. The ship was not in any danger. It may have been uncomfortable for some of the passengers, especially those poor souls who suffer from seasickness, but that's all. I agree with "lcal as". Being out in heavy weather in a ship like this is exhilarating and fun. I took an anniversary cruise from New York to Bermuda in a much smaller cruise ship during which we had heavy weather and enjoyed every minute of it-slept like a baby too because of the ship's motion. I don't get seasick, though.
Patronizing twat. I along with many others know perfectly well that such liners easily deal with most weather conditions, in spite of knowing little or nothing about the sea and ships.
Mark Shorrocks I wasn't being patronizing at all, simply providing information for those folks who don't understand that conditions such as those depicted in the video are quite common in the North Atlantic and that big ships are designed and built to withstand them. I wasn't addressing you and there was certainly no reason for your insulting, foul-mouthed attack.
Jeff Puha Insulting? Foul-mouthed? Jesus fucking Christ, haven`t we lead a sheltered life? It could have been way worse Jeff. I was all ready to go the middle route and accept most of what you said in the first paragraph. I might even have taken back some of the vehemence of my comment. Your second paragraph completely changed my mind and caused me to look a little more closely at your first paragraph. Yes you were addressing me and anyone else who chooses to participate in this open public forum. Calling you a twat is pretty mild as I see it, though patronizing may have struck a nerve. Don`t they say that the truth sometimes hurts? Now, back to your first paragraph. I can accept that you might not have been intentionally patronizing, but herein lies the problem. It seems that you are the kind of person that often patronizes people without even realising that you are doing so. Your choice of phrasing should be the clue, "I was simply blah, blah, blah, for the common simpletons, etc...." Now THAT is an excellent example of patronizing people. I could go on but suspect I`d be wasting my breath. Regards.
Mark Shorrocks It truly amazes me that human behavior has degenerated to the point that people such as yourself, who have no conception of manners and civility, feel it's acceptable to write such filthy words to a complete stranger who wasn't even addressing them in the first place. Unbelievable. You may continue on your path of being ruled by Satan under the bondage of sin, and that will lead you straight to damnation and hell. Or you may repent of your sins, ask the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive you, accept Him as your lord and savior, and have eternal life in heaven in complete happiness and joy. Every living soul has that same choice. Jesus sacrificed His mortal body on the cross so that sinners could be reconciled to God. "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."-Romans 6:23 I pray you will choose life instead of death..
Jeff Puha Aha! The truth will out. You`re just another bible-bashing Jesus freak. That explains pretty much everything. Following your own rules, what exactly gives you the right to throw that evil religious crap in my face. That`s far more insulting than a few naughty little swear words.
Great video!! Watching and feeling a storm like that is FAR better than any entertainment show on a cruise ship, in my opinion! I was on a cruise during Hurricane Katrina with rough seas and loved it! You have a nice voice for narration. I am hoping for really rough waters on my upcoming cruise! :)
I've never been on any cruise. I'm planning a QM2 voyage February 2022. This is stormy weather time. How bad does it get? I welcome such an amazing adventure on nothing but QM2.
@@fz7144 Depends on what the weather will look like by then. If it's anything like in this video, then expect waves up to 30 feet. As the saying goes, that's not enough to even shake the milk out of your tea on QM2. If you're not prone to seasickness either, then there you go. I haven't been on QM2 (yet), but I have been in some rough seas when crossing back and forth between Martha's Vineyard, and it's a blast. :D The Atlantic can be a lot meaner than 30 feet though, so just do you due diligence and you'll be fine.
I loved every minute of it when we were out there. Now you know why we never have pool decks on ships in the United States Navy. I can guarantee that you will normally have the entire restaurant to yourself. Love it.
I have to admit that it was wonderful that you shared a vid that was other than what one might expect. Made me Truly feel as if I were there. tks.for sharing.
Amazing video!! Superb audio and picture quality! 5 stars! As far as the storm... this is one thing that makes me think twice before taking a cruise trip :) (though the overall experience - being at sea - is probably worth it). Thanks again for a great video!
Great video! Just got off the Queen Mary 2 and it is a beautiful ship. Our seas were very calm compared to yours, but you can tell this ship is very stable. Most of the time you forget you are actually on one. I definitely recommend it to everyone.
As dumb as it sounds, this is my dream QM2 Cruise. I would get out of bed at 10am as things slid around, go out on the balcony and take in nature’s cold fury until I was numb, then come back in for a cup of hot tea and a warm bath with champagne before putting on a tux for dinner ..only to go freeze myself outside once again afterwards to make the warm luxuries of my suite feel more special before I dive into bed to be happily lulled to sleep by the soft undulations of the ship as it safely crashes through waves that would destroy any other peasant cruise “ship”.
Dear poster ... The Queen Mary 2 is equipped with four folding fin stabilizers (built by Brown Brothers of Edinburgh). In rough weather, QM2 can deploy all four of them (extending from the sides of the hull) to keep her from rolling side to side. Together, stabilizers can reduce her roll by 90%.
GooglFascists Yes, but only the Qe2, she is an ocean liner that crosses "oceans" i.e. from new york to england. She is also classified as a Cruise ship...
Scary, but from my understanding, such swells are routine and nothing to worry about. But, I am not likely embark on a north transatlantic voyage from Southampton in Winter.
The first time I sailed, it was a transatlantic crossing on the old QE2 in 1996. We had 50 foot waves. We were told that if we were in another ship, we would have been stopped by the waves or would be going backward. The only other time that I was in such heavy seas was on the Queen Elizabeth between New Zealand and Australia in 2012. We could watch the waves while in the Britannia restaurant. Such fun!
Be thankful the owner insisted on those balconies. He was smart enough to know that being able to see outiside well and "reconcile" the movement your inner ear "feels" with what your eyes see is what prevents motion-sickness. And there's an "emergency exit" aspect to them as well.
Gotta respect Christopher Columbus and others explorers like him, who braved these storms hundreds of years ago in their ships that weren't much larger than modern sailboats, without any of modern technology and expertise in ship design.
@@Cristy1202 Don't be so pompous (and inaccurate) - he changed his name to Cristobal Colon from his Ligurian (Genoese) name of Cristoffa Corombo when he moved to Spain....
+Arch Angel Indeed, if you watch the entire video, you won't find a single complaint. We simply document the experience and share it with everyone. Cheers
+Long Long Honeymoon Ocean Liner not a cruise ship. I sailed on Her in '05 from England to NYC and it was a little stormy but she rode well. It was on a whim and flipped a coin. Best coin toss I ever had. The Queens Grill was the best. Cheers!
This was an impressive storm, the likes of which you see up in Alaska. I was struck by how tame it was onboard. I think that was an effect of the ship's size combined with the the nature of the swells. The view really shows the awesome power of the ocean. --Roger Weston, author of Fatal Return, a story about the original Queen Mary
WOW to say that ship is in some very heavy waves.you lot on board seem stable on your feet.you would think you wouldn't be able to stand up in such weather.
Just unbelievable, what a brilliant technology by which this ship is designed. She withstands such a stormy forces waves. She stabilizes her journey through the rough stormy seas.wonderful.
Hi. I was on board this cruise we where in a suite on deck 8 . I was shocked to see this pop up on Queen Mary 2 you tube . What a cruise that was . I'm so glad you posted Thank you M NEEL
msclecarcrzy Gale force 10 means very high waves with overhanging crests. Large patches of foam from wave crests give the sea a white appearance. Considerable tumbling of waves with heavy impact. Large amounts of airborne spray reduce visibility.
Just be thankful you didn't have to cross the Atlantic on the RMS Queen Mary in 1949 or the RMS Queen Elizabeth in 1956 as I did. I guarantee you, stabilization has come a long way since then!
The QE2 is the only Cruise ship designed for Atlantic crossing. Truly you got to experience all she built for. Great video work👍👍 I know it was a long time ago but made it maybe one of your most memorable experience at sea. 👋🔱 Fair Winds and Following Seas
I don't know? Maybe it's just me but I'd be a bit worried abut a ship in a heavy storm where I have to keep a towel next to the window to mop up seawater that's coming inside. I think keep the water outside the ship is the whole idea, isn't it? lol Thanks for the video. It gives a person a bit of a feeling of what it's like to cross the ocean in a ship during a storm. Something that I'm not likely to ever do. So, thank you.
+Long Long Honeymoon I really do appreciate adventure video's like yours here because they do give me a feeling for what it's like to do things I most likely will ever do in this life. If that was the worst of it, it really wasn't that bad. Looks like QE2 rode the seas rather well actually.
+rick charles Very few white-caps? What! The term 'white-caps' is used by yachties and the like when the wind whips up water from a swell top. This was a Force 10 storm with around 8 metre swell (although to reach level 2 on the QM2 - probably more like 12-15 metres at times). I just chuckle at the 'very few white caps' terminology in a Force 10 storm & 'not much of a storm' when you weren't on the bloody ship to begin with.
I love sailing in these heavy seas. On our first cruise in the Caribean we had weather like this for the first 2 days. Winds were so strong that access from publiv areas to the outside of the ship was effectively banned. We thought that the ship was pretty quiet, but on our first port day, realised that everyone had been hiding in their cabins suffering from sea sickness.
A bit late but I am just seeing this video. Can't believe you guys went the Queen Mary! One of my bucket list items. A bit scary with the storm. Would you do it again?
This is calm compared to when we sailed a US DDG destroyer (USS Nitze - DDG 94) around Cape Horn from east-to-west. We had 75 foot swells, 110 mph headwinds , and a ship that is about 1/20th the displacement of the QM2. Everybody was seasick - every single person. TVs were thrown from their mounts and shattered. Many of us hit our heads badly on the overheads, were thrown into hatches and bulkheads, then tossed onto the deck. This footage is like a calm day with no wind on a small pond compared to what we went through. Sickbay was busy stitching up wounds and evaluating head trauma and possible broken bones (two of us did have fractures). When it is rough, the galley secures and no coking is done - only cold cut sandwiches are provided - but everyone was so seasick, including the mess crew, that not even sandwiches were made. Only the Gatorade-like drink we called "bug juice" to keep us hydrated and graham crackers. It was like that for two days solid. Miserable.
i bet you tell your kids you walked to school uphill both ways in the snow back in your day too. everything was so much harder for the old fogies, yeah we get it
That was a compliment Mary! Why are you being so defensive? (You might also want to check out the word 'banter' in your dictionary or 'sense of humour', or something like that.) Sorry if I hit some kind of personal nerve. If that`s the case it wasn`t intentional.
The thing is, if you are in a big ship like Queen Mary, the waves look less because they are being filmed from higher up.That doesn't make the storm any less. A force 10 is a Force 10. The movement of a smaller ship and the effect on people would be different that's all. Sometimes a smaller ship is more able to ride the motion. I have been down the Irish sea and across the Atlantic in a force 10 in a smaller ship than the Queen Mary, but being closer to the water line meant that we rolled less. It must be miserable to get seasick though, and I don't think i would fancy being in a destroyer in the circumstances described.
In any case, hats off to all those who work on the seas and oceans. You wouldn`t get me doing that in a month of Sundays. Do I get seasick? I dunno actually, and I never want to find out. I`ll leave those waters to the pros and heroes who do it for a profession, serious hobby or sport. Keep safe every one of you. (Whatever your size, lol.)
I was amazed at how stable the ship is. I have been on a moderate ship over Bass straight and there was no way that you could walk along a corridor. You wove along bouncing from the left wall to the right wall and back again. Although the wind was strong I understand that the ship often has to contend with worse. The only thing that made me question your description of a storm is that you COULD open the door to the outside. In bad weather I don't think they would have permitted you to go outside for obvious reasons.
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Harmony of the seas is better
Imagine going through that in one of those wooden vessels 150 years ago. It must have been beyond belief.
+Pete Zereeah A lot of those ships could not handle bad storms very well. There became many shipwrecks and plenty of people lost their lives.
***** Read Charles Dickens' account of his journey to North America. Then read Sam Clemens experience on his journey to Europe. It was beyond belief. Everybody was sick by the end of it. Salt water splashed in all the food...no heat in what anybody today would consider acceptable, sanitation was not to be mentioned here. It was horrible.
Did someone say semen?
Pete Zereeah I would rather get crushed by it than be literally thrown around lol
Pete Zereeah I
There's no other ship I'd rather be in then Queen Mary 2 in a big storm. This is exactly the type of weather the ship was designed for.
With window leaking in the water
i'd rather be on the Norwegian Bliss. She deals with storms way better.
@@XXXXXX___913 You'd be surpised how common that is. It's not like the ocean is coming in from that window, just a little leak.
*than not then
Id rather be home in bed
storm is much BETTER than "iceberg straight ahead!!" LOL!
Lolz.
Imagine how unpleasant it would be loading into lifeboats in that. The lifeboat would be full a sick.
KiwiPowerNZ I don't think there'll be any iceberg out in storms like this...it'll all be melted. Storms only occur in tropical weathers.
***** no modern lifeboats are designed to be unsinkable. They are be capsize and still float because of their design...
ItsDangerousToGoAloneWatchThis every time I go on cruises, they saw the lifeboats are design to be unsinkable even when capsized.
Done this a number of times on QE2. If you look closely, the pitch and roll of QM2 is quite easy due to her sophisticated stabilizers and hull design. She was built for this weather, which is why she is called the last Ocean Liner. I used to love the slow pitch and roll of both ships in a Force 10 gale.
What's the price for heading across the Atlantic?
We've sailed on quite a few ships in various seas and the QM2 is by far the most solidly built of any we've experienced. We did not get the chance to experience seas shown in this video during our crossing, but we did get some waves, and I was amazed at the lack of creaks and rattles on the QM2.
Arrived in Southampton from New York on July 14th on the QM2. Beautiful weather coming across and when inside forgot we were on a ship as it was so smooth. Loved it.
This is exactly what the QM2 was designed for-full speed in a storm. There isn't a stronger, more sea worthy ship then this.
Its unsinkable
@@Mau-map3
Ha, nothing is unsinkable.
@@Mau-map3 they said the same about titanic
@@Mau-map3 never unsinkable....just well prepared for disaster.
@@Mau-map3 I'm sure if I put a couple of torpedoes in her, she'd sink right quick. Nothing is unsinkable. Just very, very tough.
My favorite part of this video is when the voice on the speaker says: "the present condition is............... stormy!"
And the reaction of the guy on the podium was like "really, you don't say" :p
The QM2 is an amazing vessel to move so little in such conditions, but then, unlike most cruise ships, she was built for it.
You should keep in mind the early explorers, and early liners that had to pass through these storms. Imagine what it was like in a 200 ft wooden sailing ship. It makes this storm seem like a mild swell.
+PointyTailofSatan Thanks for your comment, Satan.
one thing i have to think for a sail boat about 200 ft long is... "we believe we can fly"and very fast trip though well because you know they are litter than a liner and use the pull of the waves
Wind and waves aren't always travelling in the direction you want to be going though, the age of sail was unpredictable, the age of propellers is accurate because if it's wet you can power on through regardless.
200 feet?? Try 50-60 feet. Columbus' biggest ship, the Santa Maria was only 50-60 feet.
Columbus had it easy! 50-60 feet? Try 5-6 feet. Hugo Vihlen's smallest ship "Father's Day" was only 5 feet 6 inches.
This vessel handles the weather and swells very well. As a merchant navy sailor I`ve experienced the north Atlantic on it`s absolute worst. This looks quite alright to me.
Agree,much ado about nothing
She was built for this. A true transatlantic, not a top heavy cruise bimbo.
exactly! The words of her designer, Dr. Steve Payne when we invited him for a lecture.
I could just sit at the window at 3:01 for hours and hours and not get bored.
Then Try keeping watch on a 20 day passage across the Pacific in the winter with similar if not worse conditions on a ship without stabilisers and a quarter the power. I can guarantee you will be bored stiff at the end of the crossing.
dude, he wrote that two years ago. I bet he's dead already.
Chum Bucket ffs sake you just made me cough my bourbon out my nose
mick Cahill except you're probably underage
same
Cruise Ship: AHHHH HELP US
QM2: Pfft this is nothing
Imagine that on the titanic , no stabilizers just rocking back and forth , possibly lose ballast and capsize , then sinking
Titanic had a lot of weight below the waterline and wasn't as tall as this one.
+KiwiPowerNZ true
Titanic had also deeper draught, almost 0.5 m (1.6 ft) more than the QM2. And I don't think any ocean liner of the 1900:s sunk only because of a storm.
Titanic had stabilizers. No stabilizer fins, but bilge keels
lol @2:12 , no storm is gonna get between granny and her penny slots! hahaha
Bwahhhahahha
😂😂😂
It almost doesn't do the storm justice. In such a large, elegant ship it's barely rocking. I pictured it being tossed about on the waves, but it looks almost still. It's still making tremendous heading too. Just another day at the office, really by the looks! Great video, and the ship looks beautiful.
Thanks much for your comment. Yes, the Queen Mary 2 was built to handle just such a storm!
I'm pretty sure that even a trip on the bigger Harmony of the Seas would be more "bumpy" in these conditions. That's just one difference between a real ocean liner (QM2) and an average cruise ship.
sealover I went on the allure of the seas (sister ship to harmony) you almost feel no waves at all! it is a insane ship built to handle storms like that
+Kyle Rudd I believe you. I know by now that the Oasis-class cruise ships are a lot better than the Quantum-class (Quantum-, Anthem- and Ovation of the Seas) ships. The incident when the Anthem of the Seas sailed into a storm in february 2016 is well known. They are also a lot bigger, which affect the stability.
I agree and was surprised at how stable the QM2 appeared. I wished I would have been part of this experience. And on the bright side, no line-ups at the buffet!
I get sea sick just watching this
As a former Navy sailor, I have encountered a few of these while sailing the Pacific. It was a new experience for a young lad from the Prairies. Wouldn't have missed it though. This was in the Canadian Navy. While on a cruise to Australia in 1978 and then Japan the following year we caught the tail end of hurricanes going down the west coast . This footage brought back some good memories.
Canadian Navy , arrr Billy have you ever been to sea?
I would just stare out the window like a zombie. Soo cool.
Me too!
It was choppy one day when I was out, but I don't mind it. If it was really rocking though I'd probably have to take some nausea meds.
+Bri Swifty If you're suffering from seasickness, what you do is get as close as you can to the centreline of the ship, amidships, as low as a passenger can access. That'll put you as close as you can get to the ship's centre of gravity, where the motions of the ship will be relatively small. It's not a complete solution, but it'll at least give your inner ears a bit of a rest.
Bri Swifty same
Bri Swifty This would be me: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WERE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH NANNY! (I go on cruises with my nan) GET ME TO LAND NOW!!! DONT CARE WHERE!!!! IM NOT LOOKONG OUT
Storm? This is just your average day in Ireland
fine weather
Ross_AFC Ireland is an island inside japan
hahahhaa
Last chance lol I think they mean Ireland, in U.K. Unless they mean Republic of Ireland which is the same place but is not part of Great Britain
Ross_AFC seriously
Having watched a 45 minute documentary before this about how sturdy and well engineered the ship is prevented me from breaking into a cold sweat watching this. Going down in a storm at sea is my nightmare.
Thanks Mars! Yes, it really made me appreciate what sailors must've experienced in those old wooden boats. Incredible!
2:05 Good to hear people had the stomach to keep the action going in the casino! I love cruising and have experienced a cruise similar to this a few years ago. Ropes were placed out in the common areas to help people get around. Anyways, thanks for sharing.
Wow! Nice video. It's amazing that from high up it didn't look that bad, but the video from deck two was the most convincing. Thanks for the great post, and please don't listen to all the haters.
+Patrick Hoesly Thanks. On RUclips, no good deed goes unpunished. If you post here, you have to grow a thick skin. Cheers
For swells that reached 8 meters, the pitch and roll of the ship is at best, minimal. Thanks to its stabilizers. I used to work as an officer of a large ship that didn't have stabilizers, those swells would have been really scary if not deadly. QM2 is a ship designed for Atlantic crossings so they have anticipated conditions like this. I'm glad everyone was safe...
I bet casino arcade profits increase during storms.
A 4 year comment
Finally, a real storm! On my very first cruise (aboard the SS Rotterdam in 1979), my college buddy and I shared an inside bunk. We were almost tossed out of our beds. I thought we must be in a terrific storm. But up on deck the sun was shining, not a cloud in the sky. We were off Cape Hatteras and the ocean was seething. The captain said the swells were 30 feet. I thought, OK, this is what it's like at sea. But the following day, the ocean was smooth as a lake. I'm glad I got the rough stuff first because I've never seen seasick for a moment some 20 cruises later.
You could not have been on a better ship. The QM2 is not a cruise ship it is a Liner that has 42% more steel in its hull, than a cruise ship, and sits 4.2 mtrs deeper in the water than a cruise ship. She also has 4x7mtr (21ft) stabilizers so you would quite comfortable in a force 10 storm. My wife and I were on her, same time of year in 2007. Went through a force 10 with no problems. If you had been on a -cruise- ship you would have been bobbing around like a cork as cruise ships are flat bottomed.
cynic24/7 the cruise ships that embrace the stereotype version of a crappy voyage like carnival or royal caribbean. Disney has good stabilizers as well and use a bit more steel.
OnWingsOfHope indeed it doesnt compare, because its an ocean liner. The best cruise ships are under the disney fleet though.
A friend of mine was on the QE2 when it was hit by a freak wave (in the 90's) and he said as the ship rode the wave and went over the top of it, it was so steep the he could hear the propellers spinning clear out of the water.
Yeah right
ETO0705 That's right. It was apparently a 92 foot wave. Quite big. www.theqe2story.com/forum/index.php?topic=2095.0
92 foot is aprox. 28 meters. It's big but modern ships are built to withstand even higher waves, the only problem is if wave like that hits you from the side. Check video on youtube Tanker in big storm, there is the biggest wave ever recorded and uploaded to youtube :p
And that's the true difference between an ocean liner (especialy transatlantics witch QM2 is the only one operative left) and a cruise ship: no matter the weather, no matter whatever happens on the sea: ocean liners will go through everything to make it on time.
They're designed for that
I spent two years on the North Atlantic in the Navy, making 9 Med trips and I can tell you this part of the Atlantic ocean can be very unpredictable. My ship was approximately 450 feet long and 145 feet wide and we rocked and rolled many times across the Atlantic both in the summer and winter months. Once you get your "sea legs", sea sickness is not an issue.
People who know little or nothing about the sea and ships don't understand that ocean liners such as the Queen Mary 2 are designed to easily deal with conditions such as what this video depicts. The ship was not in any danger. It may have been uncomfortable for some of the passengers, especially those poor souls who suffer from seasickness, but that's all.
I agree with "lcal as". Being out in heavy weather in a ship like this is exhilarating and fun. I took an anniversary cruise from New York to Bermuda in a much smaller cruise ship during which we had heavy weather and enjoyed every minute of it-slept like a baby too because of the ship's motion. I don't get seasick, though.
Patronizing twat. I along with many others know perfectly well that such liners easily deal with most weather conditions, in spite of knowing little or nothing about the sea and ships.
Mark Shorrocks I wasn't being patronizing at all, simply providing information for those folks who don't understand that conditions such as those depicted in the video are quite common in the North Atlantic and that big ships are designed and built to withstand them.
I wasn't addressing you and there was certainly no reason for your insulting, foul-mouthed attack.
Jeff Puha
Insulting? Foul-mouthed?
Jesus fucking Christ, haven`t we lead a sheltered life? It could have been way worse Jeff.
I was all ready to go the middle route and accept most of what you said in the first paragraph. I might even have taken back some of the vehemence of my comment. Your second paragraph completely changed my mind and caused me to look a little more closely at your first paragraph.
Yes you were addressing me and anyone else who chooses to participate in this open public forum. Calling you a twat is pretty mild as I see it, though patronizing may have struck a nerve. Don`t they say that the truth sometimes hurts?
Now, back to your first paragraph. I can accept that you might not have been intentionally patronizing, but herein lies the problem. It seems that you are the kind of person that often patronizes people without even realising that you are doing so. Your choice of phrasing should be the clue, "I was simply blah, blah, blah, for the common simpletons, etc...." Now THAT is an excellent example of patronizing people.
I could go on but suspect I`d be wasting my breath.
Regards.
Mark Shorrocks It truly amazes me that human behavior has degenerated to the point that people such as yourself, who have no conception of manners and civility, feel it's acceptable to write such filthy words to a complete stranger who wasn't even addressing them in the first place. Unbelievable.
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Jeff Puha
Aha! The truth will out.
You`re just another bible-bashing Jesus freak. That explains pretty much everything.
Following your own rules, what exactly gives you the right to throw that evil religious crap in my face. That`s far more insulting than a few naughty little swear words.
I'm getting seasick just watching this!
Definitely the ship you want to be on in that circumstance.
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Great video!! Watching and feeling a storm like that is FAR better than any entertainment show on a cruise ship, in my opinion! I was on a cruise during Hurricane Katrina with rough seas and loved it! You have a nice voice for narration. I am hoping for really rough waters on my upcoming cruise! :)
A cruise during Hurricane Katrina? That sounds absolutely horrifying!
I've never been on any cruise.
I'm planning a QM2 voyage February 2022. This is stormy weather time. How bad does it get? I welcome such an amazing adventure on nothing but QM2.
@@fz7144 Depends on what the weather will look like by then. If it's anything like in this video, then expect waves up to 30 feet. As the saying goes, that's not enough to even shake the milk out of your tea on QM2. If you're not prone to seasickness either, then there you go. I haven't been on QM2 (yet), but I have been in some rough seas when crossing back and forth between Martha's Vineyard, and it's a blast. :D
The Atlantic can be a lot meaner than 30 feet though, so just do you due diligence and you'll be fine.
I served in the Navy in the North At;lantic...it can be really bad there.
J kK that’s dope
I loved every minute of it when we were out there. Now you know why we never have pool decks on ships in the United States Navy. I can guarantee that you will normally have the entire restaurant to yourself. Love it.
yes, good call !! (lol .. a restaurant ; pie and chips to yourself in the middle of the Atlantic) !lovely stuff . very enjoyable ..
I must have very bad luck because I was always afraid of flying. so last year I went to Italy by boat. But the boat sank..... A plane crashed into it.
well with a name like yours ..you should make a movie about it :P
***** yea im joking. but did you laugh
:( thats sad ..
OMG!!!!!!!!
Chris Coppola I know that incident well. I didn't make it to the airport to get on that flight. My train to the airport derailed.
I have to admit that it was wonderful that you shared a vid that was other than what one might expect. Made me Truly feel as if I were there. tks.for sharing.
A considerate, kind comment on RUclips? Hallelujah! Glad you enjoyed the vid, thanks much for your post. 👍
The man narrating this film is a natural at it. He would be successful making it his full time career if such a job exists.
Amazing video!!
Superb audio and picture quality! 5 stars!
As far as the storm...
this is one thing that makes me think twice before taking a cruise trip :)
(though the overall experience - being at sea - is probably worth it).
Thanks again for a great video!
Thanks for your kind comments! Yes, I often used an external mic for these shots to get better audio. It's nice when someone notices. Cheers :-)
Good footage and commentary. I really enjoyed watching the video!
Great video! Just got off the Queen Mary 2 and it is a beautiful ship. Our seas were very calm compared to yours, but you can tell this ship is very stable. Most of the time you forget you are actually on one. I definitely recommend it to everyone.
As dumb as it sounds, this is my dream QM2 Cruise. I would get out of bed at 10am as things slid around, go out on the balcony and take in nature’s cold fury until I was numb, then come back in for a cup of hot tea and a warm bath with champagne before putting on a tux for dinner ..only to go freeze myself outside once again afterwards to make the warm luxuries of my suite feel more special before I dive into bed to be happily lulled to sleep by the soft undulations of the ship as it safely crashes through waves that would destroy any other peasant cruise “ship”.
😂
Well at least you were on an ocean liner, that was built stronger and better for this kind of weather.
Dear OP...The Queen Mary 2 is a OCEAN LINER...She is designed to cross the Atlantic Ocean. She has no problem in a storm.
Dear poster ... The Queen Mary 2 is equipped with four folding fin stabilizers (built by Brown Brothers of Edinburgh). In rough weather, QM2 can deploy all four of them (extending from the sides of the hull) to keep her from rolling side to side. Together, stabilizers can reduce her roll by 90%.
Its not about the ships capability its about people getting seasick and NOT enjoying their vacation...
big city they are still gambling can't be too worried lol
UFOSPACE1999 So its an Ocean Liner and not a Cruise Ship?
GooglFascists Yes, but only the Qe2, she is an ocean liner that crosses "oceans" i.e. from new york to england. She is also classified as a Cruise ship...
Scary, but from my understanding, such swells are routine and nothing to worry about. But, I am not likely embark on a north transatlantic voyage from Southampton in Winter.
And this would be when you're most grateful to be aboard a really big ship.
Thanks - great. You also managed to get some of the best of that very elusive "feel of rough seas" in your footage!
Such a beautiful storm... Sorry you guys had to endure that on a vacation tho. Would be a sight to see for sure!
The first time I sailed, it was a transatlantic crossing on the old QE2 in 1996. We had 50 foot waves. We were told that if we were in another ship, we would have been stopped by the waves or would be going backward. The only other time that I was in such heavy seas was on the Queen Elizabeth between New Zealand and Australia in 2012. We could watch the waves while in the Britannia restaurant. Such fun!
2019? Tube recommended. .still enjoyed it. 👍
Imagine being a fish in that
Richard Sands, you would just go deeper...
A.J. Deutsch that's what she said
ahahahah
Weeeeeeeeew
MBTA Spotter 😂
Be thankful the owner insisted on those balconies. He was smart enough to know that being able to see outiside well and "reconcile" the movement your inner ear "feels" with what your eyes see is what prevents motion-sickness. And there's an "emergency exit" aspect to them as well.
Now man that is my kind of weather! Ahhh ocean breezes! Love it.Nice day for a swim.
Gotta respect Christopher Columbus and others explorers like him, who braved these storms hundreds of years ago in their ships that weren't much larger than modern sailboats, without any of modern technology and expertise in ship design.
please don't translate foreign name into english names,it's cristoforo colombo
Oh, that murderous rascal.
His valiant seafaring is precluded by his legacy of genocide and colonialism. Life is interesting like that.
@@Cristy1202 Don't be so pompous (and inaccurate) - he changed his name to Cristobal Colon from his Ligurian (Genoese) name of Cristoffa Corombo when he moved to Spain....
Tunti Turpaan nah, he was a dick. He’s an asshole too.
Kate Winslet and Leonardo diCaprio would have been quite at home !
Only 1 problem: The QM2 didn't sink.
@Jack the Gestapo yeah for her only 4 day career lol😂😂😂😂.
Even with advance stablizers, you still get motion
Just now watching your Queen Mary 2 video. Kristi looked a little sea sick.
Thanks for sharing the rough seas, it almost made me sea sick!
This is why I love this ship. If you were to go through this weather on a carnival cruise the ship would literally be doing back flips
No it wouldn’t.
Dec in the North Atlantic.....what did you expect, The Caribbean?
+Arch Angel Indeed, if you watch the entire video, you won't find a single complaint. We simply document the experience and share it with everyone. Cheers
+Long Long Honeymoon Ocean Liner not a cruise ship. I sailed on Her in '05 from England to NYC and it was a little stormy but she rode well. It was on a whim and flipped a coin. Best coin toss I ever had. The Queens Grill was the best. Cheers!
Do you think this is any worse than the hurricanes?
Arch Angel just book rc them dumb fuck
This was an impressive storm, the likes of which you see up in Alaska. I was struck by how tame it was onboard. I think that was an effect of the ship's size combined with the the nature of the swells. The view really shows the awesome power of the ocean.
--Roger Weston, author of Fatal Return, a story about the original Queen Mary
WOW to say that ship is in some very heavy waves.you lot on board seem stable on your feet.you would think you wouldn't be able to stand up in such weather.
Just unbelievable, what a brilliant technology by which this ship is designed. She withstands such a stormy forces waves. She stabilizes her journey through the rough stormy seas.wonderful.
Hi. I was on board this cruise we where in a suite on deck 8 . I was shocked to see this pop up on Queen Mary 2 you tube . What a cruise that was . I'm so glad you posted Thank you M NEEL
Good video, you're safe, this vessel unlike the cruise ships we see being tossed around is built for this
proper , well engineered cruise liner !!Nice 1
Oh... The Queen is leaking!
+Damian De Well, at her age it doesn't surprise me in the least. :)
at her age, she should have stopped leaking though....
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Damian 😧😧😧😧😧😧😧😧😧😧
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And you are told NEVER to open your balcony doors during a storm.
billybryang I'm sure some dumb ass always does.
Thanks for sharing!
I love your entire video!
(What a memory you guys have FOREVER!) :)
Deck 2 is where I’d want to be. Sat upright looking at the sea waves reading a book. Bliss
you sound like the guy from the GMC truck commercials
Thanks (I'll take that as a compliment! ;-))
your welcome. Can you tell me what gale force 10 means?
Long Long Honeymoon Wow, now that I think about it, you kind of do sound like it,.
msclecarcrzy Gale force 10 means very high waves with overhanging crests. Large patches of foam from wave crests give the sea a white appearance. Considerable tumbling of waves with heavy impact. Large amounts of airborne spray reduce visibility.
ok thanks alot ... must be a nautical term
Just be thankful you didn't have to cross the Atlantic on the RMS Queen Mary in 1949 or the RMS Queen Elizabeth in 1956 as I did. I guarantee you, stabilization has come a long way since then!
I do Vlogging while working on a container ship!
Come join my life at sea as a mariner!
GUYS! what a fantastic voyage.Thanks so much for thinking of us land lubbers!
The QE2 is the only Cruise ship designed for Atlantic crossing. Truly you got to experience all she built for. Great video work👍👍 I know it was a long time ago but made it maybe one of your most memorable experience at sea. 👋🔱 Fair Winds and Following Seas
Cruise ship? She an ocean liner
I don't know? Maybe it's just me but I'd be a bit worried abut a ship in a heavy storm where I have to keep a towel next to the window to mop up seawater that's coming inside. I think keep the water outside the ship is the whole idea, isn't it? lol
Thanks for the video. It gives a person a bit of a feeling of what it's like to cross the ocean in a ship during a storm. Something that I'm not likely to ever do. So, thank you.
Thanks much for your kind post. The funny/strange thing about travel is that the worst experiences always end up making the best stories.
+Long Long Honeymoon
I really do appreciate adventure video's like yours here because they do give me a feeling for what it's like to do things I most likely will ever do in this life.
If that was the worst of it, it really wasn't that bad. Looks like QE2 rode the seas rather well actually.
I'd lay on my girlfriend and let the "motion in the ocean" do the rest.
nooooooooooooooooooooooo lmao
You and 1banana2kiwis should just get a hotel room together and get it over with. There's alot of sexual tension between you two.
I feel bad for your girlfriend if that's the best you've got. Just lay there like a loaf of white bread. She break up with you yet?
di foo!! You sound dense or mean.
Dexter Haven
I'm both
looks like a nice day at sea
65 knots! that explain everything
Great comment
That was fun. Thanks for filming it and uploading it. The QM2 is certainly the best ship to be on when a storm like this hits.
You say this video is rough, I say it it is some of the best on RUclips.
That is NOT a violent storm.
Rob Burchell That storm has a vicious mean streak, a nasty temper, and a serious drinking problem. I believe it is capable of violence.
I agree, when it's 70-100ft*swell put your life jacket on lol
+Rob Burchell Very few white-caps, not much of a storm.
+rick charles Very few white-caps? What! The term 'white-caps' is used by yachties and the like when the wind whips up water from a swell top. This was a Force 10 storm with around 8 metre swell (although to reach level 2 on the QM2 - probably more like 12-15 metres at times). I just chuckle at the 'very few white caps' terminology in a Force 10 storm & 'not much of a storm' when you weren't on the bloody ship to begin with.
limolee007 True, I'd have been puking a lot.
I’ve been on cruise ships ever since I was in my moms belly. I still get scared when the ship rocks and I e been on 8 or 10..
I get scared to! I’ve been on about 5
Nice video ☺
Thanks for posting this ☺
I love sailing in these heavy seas. On our first cruise in the Caribean we had weather like this for the first 2 days. Winds were so strong that access from publiv areas to the outside of the ship was effectively banned. We thought that the ship was pretty quiet, but on our first port day, realised that everyone had been hiding in their cabins suffering from sea sickness.
4:02 was Richard Ayoade on that cruise?
you can't call it RAW FOOTAGE if you're narrating the whole time
It's my video. I can call it "SCHMOOPIECAKES" if I want.
+Long Long Honeymoon ok wow thats mean
+Long Long Honeymoon - And we can can you Debbie if we want. lol
+Ima SuperPerson Sure, if you're into that sort of thing. 😂
+Andrew S mind your own business
still, the QM2 is a bulldog of a liner, built to withstand atlantic storms...
The water is so pretty
Thanks for posting! It is nice to see how she does!
We sailed form South Hampton to New York in June of that year. What a wonderful adventure sailing on the Queen Mary 2.
Roll Tide, indeed!
Wimps, try riding that in a Navy Destroyer that is 1/3 the size without roll stabilizers.
No thxs
Now we know how Noah felt!
I would have had a heart attack and all I would be thinking about is that the Titanic sank not too far from where this storm was hitting us, Not, LOL
A bit late but I am just seeing this video. Can't believe you guys went the Queen Mary! One of my bucket list items. A bit scary with the storm. Would you do it again?
A coworker from about 25 years ago was on the Queen Mary 2 going back to New York. They got in a bad storm that dented the bow from all the battering.
Blimey. The ship seemed to be riding out the storm well but I'm still pretty sure I'd have only been in one place on the ship. My suites bathroom.
You should try going on the ferry across the cook straight, 4 hours of hell haha
+liqam haha I bet! Ferries can be rough! 😂
liqam haha I know
XD
what's the cook straight?
liqam I did it once a whole school trip of kids were throwing up every were lòooooool
This is calm compared to when we sailed a US DDG destroyer (USS Nitze - DDG 94) around Cape Horn from east-to-west. We had 75 foot swells, 110 mph headwinds , and a ship that is about 1/20th the displacement of the QM2. Everybody was seasick - every single person. TVs were thrown from their mounts and shattered. Many of us hit our heads badly on the overheads, were thrown into hatches and bulkheads, then tossed onto the deck. This footage is like a calm day with no wind on a small pond compared to what we went through. Sickbay was busy stitching up wounds and evaluating head trauma and possible broken bones (two of us did have fractures). When it is rough, the galley secures and no coking is done - only cold cut sandwiches are provided - but everyone was so seasick, including the mess crew, that not even sandwiches were made. Only the Gatorade-like drink we called "bug juice" to keep us hydrated and graham crackers. It was like that for two days solid. Miserable.
i bet you tell your kids you walked to school uphill both ways in the snow back in your day too. everything was so much harder for the old fogies, yeah we get it
Read who that was directed at
That was a compliment Mary! Why are you being so defensive?
(You might also want to check out the word 'banter' in your dictionary or 'sense of humour', or something like that.)
Sorry if I hit some kind of personal nerve. If that`s the case it wasn`t intentional.
The thing is, if you are in a big ship like Queen Mary, the waves look less because they are being filmed from higher up.That doesn't make the storm any less. A force 10 is a Force 10. The movement of a smaller ship and the effect on people would be different that's all. Sometimes a smaller ship is more able to ride the motion. I have been down the Irish sea and across the Atlantic in a force 10 in a smaller ship than the Queen Mary, but being closer to the water line meant that we rolled less.
It must be miserable to get seasick though, and I don't think i would fancy being in a destroyer in the circumstances described.
In any case, hats off to all those who work on the seas and oceans. You wouldn`t get me doing that in a month of Sundays.
Do I get seasick? I dunno actually, and I never want to find out. I`ll leave those waters to the pros and heroes who do it for a profession, serious hobby or sport.
Keep safe every one of you. (Whatever your size, lol.)
Amazing how smoothly the Great ship rides ,Hats off to the designers !!!!
I was amazed at how stable the ship is. I have been on a moderate ship over Bass straight and there was no way that you could walk along a corridor. You wove along bouncing from the left wall to the right wall and back again. Although the wind was strong I understand that the ship often has to contend with worse. The only thing that made me question your description of a storm is that you COULD open the door to the outside. In bad weather I don't think they would have permitted you to go outside for obvious reasons.