Date: 3/17/2020
By momoney6628
I was walking around outside of a cruise ship and it was a beautiful sunny day. Everyone seemed happy on board and as I’m standing out on the deck next to the guard rail I see a smaller red ship passing by us with people on board. I could see all of the peoples smile aboard the other ship and everyone seemed happy. Suddenly I saw a change in their expression as everyone started to panic, yelling “Watch out!” & “Hang on!!”. Then out of nowhere a massive wave crashed into the side of us and rocked the ship tremendously. I glanced to the front of the ship and there were two giant walls of water as high as the cruise ship and we were riding the calm part right in between them. There was a person to my right who was younger than me and he was terribly frightened & there was another person to my left who was older then me & he was very calm. He was even telling us that we need to “lower our body energy” in order to ride out these waves. Then out of nowhere we get absolutely slammed by an on coming wave. So much that it lifted the cruise ship off of the water and every aboard went zero-gravity for a moment. In this moment I remember clutching the guard rail as hard as I possibly could and no matter what I didn’t let go. I also remember when this wave hit us, the kid to my right got flung so far and high off the cruise ship. He was at least 300 ft in high and I remember watching his body fly while being flipped through the air. I kept watching him because I wanted to see how he landed and he ended up landing face first in the water. The guy to my left immediately grabbed a life preserver and threw it too the kid. After that I left the deck and thought to myself “I wonder if the Captain knows that someone just fell off board of his own cruise ship?” I woke up soon after that.