{"id":22272,"date":"2010-03-04T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/cruise-ship-hit-by-tsunami-like-wave-two-dead-3\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T10:38:00","slug":"cruise-ship-hit-by-tsunami-like-wave-two-dead-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/03\/cruise-ship-hit-by-tsunami-like-wave-two-dead-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Ship Hit by Tsunami-like Wave. Two dead."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybercruises.com\/images\/louis_majesty_aug09.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"211\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cybercruises.com\/images\/louis_majesty_aug09.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Freak tsunami-like waves measuring almost 30ft high ploughed into a Mediterranean cruise ship today, sweeping two passengers to their deaths and injuring many others.<\/p>\n<p>Cyprus-based Louis Cruise Lines says the incident occurred aboard the 1,790-passenger <i>Louis Majesty<\/i> as it was sailing from Barcelona to Genoa, Italy. The line says the &#8220;abnormal&#8221; waves smashed windows as high as deck five on the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The windows in a public area on deck 5 on the forward part of the vessel smashed resulting (in) the fatal injury of two passengers of German and Italian nationality while 14 more passengers suffered light injuries,&#8221; the line says in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The horrific tragedy unfolded on the Cypriot-owned Louis Majesty near the French port of Marseilles after the walls of water appeared from nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There were at least three abnormally high waves which broke windshields and cascaded along the decks,\u2019 said a local coastguard spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>There were around 1350 people on the ship, including crew. The casualties were very serious, with a German and an Italian passenger dying. At least six other people suffered injuries.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Marseilles coastguard spokesman said the waves were approaching 30ft high and may have been part of an isolated tsunami. <\/p>\n<p><i>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eturbonews.com\/\">ETN<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freak tsunami-like waves measuring almost 30ft high ploughed into a Mediterranean cruise ship today, sweeping two passengers to their deaths and injuring many others. Cyprus-based Louis Cruise Lines says the incident occurred aboard the 1,790-passenger Louis Majesty as it was sailing from Barcelona to Genoa, Italy. The line says the &#8220;abnormal&#8221; waves smashed windows as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}