1 killed, 4 injured when rogue wave hits cruise ship - WGAU

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A rider from the United States was killed and 4 different radical were injured erstwhile a ample question deed a cruise vessel sailing toward confederate Argentina.

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In a statement, Viking Cruises said the rogue question deed the Viking Polaris connected Nov. 29 portion the vessel was heading toward Ushuaia, Argentina.

The 62-year-old pistillate who was killed was deed by breached solid erstwhile the question broke windows onboard the ship, The Associated Press reported. The vessel docked successful Ushuaia the adjacent day.

“It is with large sadness that we confirmed a impermanent passed distant pursuing the incident,” Viking Cruises said successful a statement. “We person notified the guest’s household and shared our deepest sympathies. We volition proceed to connection our afloat enactment to the household successful the hours and days ahead.”

While Argentine officials identified the unfortunate arsenic an American, the woman’s sanction and hometown were not released, according to the AP.

“We wondered if we deed an iceberg,” Suzie Gooding, a rider connected the ship, told WRAL. “Everything was good until the rogue question hit, and it was conscionable sudden. Shocking. We didn’t cognize if we should get our cogwheel acceptable for abandoning ship.”

Viking Cruises described the different 4 people’s injuries arsenic non-life-threatening and said they were treated by the ship’s onboard doctor.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration describes rogue waves arsenic larger than doubly the size of surrounding waves, unpredictable, and coming unexpectedly from directions different than prevailing upwind and waves. Most reports picture them arsenic “walls of water.”

Viking Cruises said successful its statement that it canceled the adjacent departure for the ship, scheduled for Dec. 5.

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