dripping wet. they had actually come up from the second floor and the pool had just kind of erupted with water. while waiting for the students, jan realizes something is wrong and starts recording on her new video camera. turns out, the sea diamond has gotten too close to shore and has rammed into the rocks, sheering a hole in its side. within half an hour, helicopters and local boats respond to the ship s distress call. we were close enough that a lot of boats came to our rescue, but no way you could just jump off that cruise ship and swim ashore. too treacherous of a situation from that spot. at that point, we were lifting 20, 30 degrees. at this point we were kind of like this and this was upright for us. passengers are ordered to get into groups by gender and age. they actually said this over the intercom, we re going to be evacuating. it was an actual scene out of the titanic movie. women and children will be evacuated first. but, you know, we had had the boys in our g
their ship sinks to the bottom of the sea. this promotional video for the cruise lines shows one of their ships called sea diamond sailing brilliantly through blue waters. it ten decks hold nearly 1,600 people which include jen and her daughter, alex. their cruise takes them to the pristine coast of greece on a relatively calm and sunny day. well, you could see it s a beautiful day and we were all excited. jan is chaperoning her daughter s high school trip on what so far has been a fantastic experience. but on april 6th, 2007, their fourth day, alex doesn t have a good feeling. we looked really close to the bottom of the harbor. and i just, i pointed out to someone, we laughed about it and as we started walking out of the room, we felt the crash. we quickly met and as we were standing there, we saw a lot of people come up and they were
ships called sea diamond sailing smoothly through brilliant blue waters. its ten decks holds nearly,600 people which include jan and her daughter, alex. their cruise takes them to the pristine coast of greece on a relatively calm and sunny day. well, you could see it s a beautiful day and we were all excited. jan is chaperoning her daughter s high school trip on what so far has been a fantastic experience. but on april 6, 2007, their fourth day, alex doesn t have a good feeling. we looked really close to the bottom of the harbor. and i just, i pointed out to someone, we laughed about it and as we started walking out of the room, we felt the crash. we quickly met and as we were standing there, we saw a lot of people come up and they were dripping wet. they had actually come up from the second floor and the pool
had just kind of erupted with water. while waiting for the students, jan realizes something is wrong and starts recording on her new video camera. turns out, the sea diamond has gotten too close to shore and has rammed into the rocks, sheering a hole in its side. within half an hour, helicopters and local boats respond to the ship s distress call. we were close enough that a lot of boats came to our rescue, but no way you could just jump off that cruise ship and swim to shore. it was too treacherous of a situation from that spot. at that point, we were listing 20, 30 degrees. we had to balance. at this point, we were kind of like this, and this was upright for us. passengers are ordered to get into groups by gender and age. they actually said this over the intercom, we re going to be evacuating. it was an actual scene out of the titanic movie. it was women and children will be evacuated first.
another video from a helicopter shows an enormous ship tossed around in the ocean like a child s toy. you might imagine how things could go wrong in rough seas, but what if a ship is sailing on calm waters. less than five years before the costa concordia disaster, an eerily similar situation unfolds. while sailing through the greek islands another ship runs aground when it forces a hasty evacuation for hundreds of scared passengers. fear was just tremendous from her perspective. fleeing for safety before their ship sinks to the bottom of the sea. this promotional video for the cruise lines shows one of their ships called sea diamond sailing brilliantly through blue waters. its ten decks hold nearly 1,600 people which include jen and her daughter, alex.