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I don't believe for a minute that a single one of these
modern cruise ships could have survived such a blow.

All you have to do is look at them. Were those whirlpools that went
overboard on the bow?

It doesn't take much of an eye to see that the QE2 and the Queen Mary 2
were designed as ocean liners, not cruise ships. (I was privileged to
accompany both ships down harbor last year when the QM2 made her first
visit to New York.) Indeed, the QM2 encountered very heavy weather on her
maiden voyage, much to the delight of the liner buffs on board. No
hystericals looking for lawyers.

Unfortunetely, some of thoise hystericals remind me of some members of
our very own club who, on a dinner cruise on the East River, got
terrified when a they deemed a tow to have come too close and cannot now
be persuaded to take another such cruise. So it's back to same old, same
old. And these people are presumeably sailors!

We were on the Italian Line Michelangelo when she encountered a mid
Atlantic storm and a huge wave in the middle of the night. She just
slammed into that wave and the entire ship just rang like a gong. It was
uncanny. Of course, she was rigged for heavy weather and nothing broke
and nobody got hurt. She was, after all, an ocean liner, not a cruise
ship.