CRUISE SHIP DAMAGED DURING STORM

It was a rough night at sea for passengers on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship bound for the Bahamas. On Sunday, 4,529 passengers aboard the Anthem of the Seas were instructed to stay in their cabins after the ship was hit by hurricane-force winds. As 30-foot waves thrashed the vessel, furniture overturned, ceilings collapsed, glass shattered, and some passengers reported the ship was angled at 45 degrees. The company reports that there were no serious injuries, but passengers were pretty shaken up. “I’m not going to lie: It was truly terrifying,” passenger Robert Huschka, told USA Today. “A very nervous cruise director kept coming on. He didn’t sound very reassuring.” Huschka added that while many operations on the ship were halted until conditions improved, he never lost the TV signal carrying the Super Bowl. “It was a perfect picture during the height of the storm,” he said. “That certainly improved my mood.”
* Apparently the Anthem of the Seas is the theme from “Titanic”.
* “Attention, stay in your cabins. And when I give the word, everybody run to the left side of the room.”
* 45 degrees? I know people get tipsy on cruises but this was nuts.
* Furniture overturned, ceilings collapsed, glass shattered … and, oh yeah – there was puking. Lots and lots of puking.
* It wasn’t so much a cruise ship as a floating bouncy castle.
* Let’s look at the bright side: There have been no outbreaks of diseases yet.
* Of course, watching the football game was weird with the field tilted at a 45 degree angle.
* So they saw the game like Cam Newton did – from a weird angle on his back.
* Actually, it probably added to the game: Denver’s defense was so disruptive that it trashed the cruise ship.
* Wow, your last image before you sink below the waves and it’s the dude from Coldplay.