Watch as a cruise ship gets battered by Hurricane Michael
Once again, rough weather has disrupted what should have been a leisurely cruise. The outer bands of Hurricane Michael tossed a cruise ship around, jostling hundreds of vacation-goers in the Gulf of Mexico.
Royal Caribbean’s Empress of the Seas ship was caught up the roiling seas just off the coast of Isla de la Juventud, Cuba, according to CNN.
One passenger caught video of the choppy water.
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Hurricane Michael is a powerful storm that sprung up in the southern Gulf of Mexico and is now heading toward a landfall on Wednesday along the Florida panhandle, possibly as a major hurricane.
In February 2016, another Royal Caribbean cruise ship was caught in rough seas in the Atlantic Ocean, with passengers sharing harrowing video of the storm rolling through gigantic waves.
And a series of storms in the Gulf in 2017 also disrupted travel for the cruise lines.
The passenger on the above ship told CNN the ship hung out for a few hours waiting for the bands from the storm to pass and then continued on its way.
Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
