Get me off this ship

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70 foot wave strikes cruise ship <---- working link viscous


Caterina Russo had never been on a cruise. She did not want to go on this one. But friends had talked her into taking a vacation on the Norwegian Dawn.

The storm bore down on the ship soon after it left Miami at 1 a.m. Friday. For hours, the giant waves picked up the 965-foot vessel and slapped it back down. Wave after wave knocked against the windows. Cold saltwater ran down the halls and into the cabin Russo shared with her husband and three children.

And they were on the ninth deck.

Imagine what it was like for people beneath!

"All of a sudden I hear water gushing in the corridor," Russo said. "We open the door and I find two people covered in blood from head to toe. Their window had shattered in the front penthouse suite. The water had blown them into the corridor."

Russo grabbed her boy from the crib and with the two girls went running. She screamed for help. When she found a crew member, he told her to go back to her cabin. But she couldn't. Three feet of water was in it.