High waves are as difficult to video as skiing if this snippet on YouTube is anything to go by. There is a lot of spray but personally I find the sound more alarming than the waves.
Not that I am belittling what the passengers went through on P&O Cruises Australia's Pacific Sun when it hit bad weather on the way to New Zealand. It sounds like my idea of hell.
I thought I had it bad going over Drake's Passage to Antarctica last year. I couldn't stand but the bottle of water by my bed stood bolt upright throughout the whole two days!
Jane Archer
