Throughout history sailors on the high seas have told stories of giant solitary waves that came out of nowhere and sank ships Until recently these stories were thought to be legends or tall tales ...

Cruise ship captain Wendy Williams rates eight cruise ship disasters in movies and television shows ... and tsunamis in "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972); the sinking scene in "Titanic" (1997 ...

After "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972), in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While there are passengers still on-board waiting to be rescued ...

It is New Year's Eve, and over 2,000 passengers & crew are ringing in the New Year aboard the huge cruise ship 'Poseidon' when it capsizes on the open sea in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean!

As a result, "The Poseidon Adventure" couldn ... It's a bold choice to give a disaster movie about the survivors of a giant wave toppling a ship making their way through an upside down vessel ...