Peggy and all, don't worry, we were on the Mariner coming back to Cameronis (sp?), Argentina from the Falkland Islands in the fall of 2003, when she did the circle So. America from San Francisco at that season. Overnight we hit a storm with 100 MPH winds and 40-foot waves; we were in an F or G suite, I think. We never even woke up. The captain (I don't recall who it was, unfortunately) announced it during breakfast, but few believed him it was so bad, because the ship took it so well. He did tell us he had changed course to due west from northwest, doing legs A and B of the triangle instead of C (the hypotenuse), thus avoiding the worst of the storm but getting us into Cameronis late. We still got to see all the cute little penguins. Till we got there, we got treated to a replay of the bridge instruments on several of the TV channels, all day long! With running commentary, yet.

The Mariner is a very stable ship, much better than the other two (Voyager & Navigator), even better that the QE2, which bounced all over one night in 2000 on the Indian Ocean off Durban - that action did wake us up, believe me.