Passengers killed by broken glass and debris as 10-metre waves batter pleasure boat Passengers have described their terror as freak waves smashed into a Mediterranean cruise ship, killing two people as cabins flooded and windows shattered. Claude Cremex, 73, of Marseille, France, said he was in his cabin resting because of rough seas when the walls of water hit the Cypriot-owned Louis Majesty, which was carrying 1,350 passengers and 580 crew off the north-east coast of Spain. The ship’s owner and operator, Louis Cruise Lines, said the vessel was struck on Wednesday by three “abnormally high” waves more than 10 metres (33ft) high that broke glass windshields in the forward section. Two people died and 14 were hurt, the company said. Marta de Alfonso, an oceanographer with the Spanish government, said large waves were common in the Mediterranean but ones that size occurred only once or twice a year. Cremex said he did not see the waves himself but later viewed the damage. “It was spectacular,” he told Associated Press as passengers sunned themselves on deck in Barcelona’s port the day after the accident. “A lot of water came in. Many cabins were flooded,” said Cremex, who was travelling with his wife. “Many people were very frightened.” Claudine Armand, of France, who was in her cabin when the waves struck, said: “Suddenly we saw a wave that went up above our level, and I said to my husband, ‘Tonight we will not have to wash the windows.’ Right then we heard we heard a loud noise, and it was the wave that hit us,” she told Associated Press television news.

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