How do cruise ships survive heavy storms?

Question

Or in general, how do they go through unexpected earthquakes or anything of the sort, since we rarely hear about cruise ships crashing?

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Answer 1

Cruise ships are also very big and heavy, this gives them a lot of brute force to punch through big waves, the crew point them into the wind and just crest each wave as they come.

As an example, Royal Carribean’s Wonder of the Seas displaces over 230,000t, Titanic was 46,000t, Even the US Nimitz class aircraft carrier only weighs in at 100,000t.