Massive waves batter the Saga cruise ship as it crosses the Bay of Biscay. Footage from aboard the ship show 30ft waves brought on by a storm that rocked the cruise ship. Passengers have described the event as very 'traumatic'.
Richard Reynolds, 60, says furniture and glass were flying in every directionA passenger on board the Saga cruise ship that was battered by storms as it crossed the Bay of Biscay has revealed people on board were screaming for their lives as 30ft waves battered the windows.
His mother, 84, was injured when the ship rocked and she was thrown to the floor while he and others were confined to their cabins where passengers wrote final messages to family members on their phones and wore lifejackets non-stop for two days in case the ship capsized. 'I am ex-military and fire service and I have dealt with a lot of traumatic experiences in my career but this up there with the worst of them.
'We were there chaperoning my elderly parents, my mother was in the medical ward because she had a fall. They were so swamped they had to turn the main dining room into a makeshift first aid area because it was completely overrun. While sailing through the Bay of Biscay, the punishing winds and choppy waters caught up with them, and around 12:30pm the conditions were so rough that the ship's automatic safety system was activated.
The five more seriously injured passengers were treated at the ship's medical centre and were taken to hospital last night as a precaution after the vessel finally arrived at Portsmouth Harbour. He said: 'The bottom line is we shouldn't have been there, we were the only cruise ship that didn't seek shelter.
She said after the ship halted it was stationary for about 15 hours whilst 'caught in the middle of the storm', during which she and her husband were 'holding on for dear life'.
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