(NEW YORK) Tom and Pam Trusdale were enjoying a bucket list trip to Antarctica, until their trip of a lifetime turned into a deadly disaster. "It was going real smoothly, and we were only anticipating nothing but smooth going forward," Tom Trusdale told ABC News. The Trusdales were passengers on the Viking Polaris cruise
Deborah Terry, 69 and her wife Tamarah Castaneda, 61, were in their cabin on the third floor of the ship - number 3023 - getting ready to retire for the night when the massive wave hit the boat around 10.40pm.
Numerous passengers onboard the ship said the impact of the wave was so violent they initially thought they had struck an iceberg. The woman killed was identified as American woman Sheri Zhu, 62.