Norwegian Epic Webcam – Watch the Bow Deck at Sea

The Norwegian Epic Webcam is mounted high on the forward superstructure of Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Epic, angled down across the bow sundeck and out over the water ahead of the ship. The curve of the bow fills the lower half of the frame, with a small circular deck pool set into the planking and the rail running out to either side. Beyond it there is open sea. What sits in that sea changes hour by hour. Well offshore the picture holds nothing but water and horizon, the sun moving across the surface and shifting the glare as it goes. Closer to land it fills up with breakwaters, harbor entrances, terminals and other vessels. The camera serves a still image that refreshes through the day rather than a continuous video stream.

About Norwegian Epic

Norwegian Epic was ordered in 2006 and delivered on June 17, 2010 by the Chantiers de l’Atlantique yard at Saint-Nazaire in France, then operating under STX Europe. At 155,873 GT she ranked among the largest cruise ships afloat when she entered service. The hull runs 329.45 meters (1,081 feet) long with a beam of 40.64 meters (133 feet) and a draft of 8.7 meters (29 feet), carrying 19 decks. She sails with 4,100 guests at double occupancy and a crew of 1,724, and is registered at Nassau in the Bahamas.

Her deployment has moved around the Atlantic over the years. She began sailing Western Caribbean itineraries out of Miami, later shifted to Barcelona for Mediterranean seasons, and has since worked Caribbean routes from Port Canaveral. That range is worth knowing when watching the camera, because the coastline that eventually appears on the horizon depends entirely on which season she is in.

Norwegian Epic Details

What Can You See on the Norwegian Epic Webcam?

Out at sea the frame is mostly water. The bow cuts a line across the bottom of the picture and everything above it is ocean and horizon, with the sun tracking over the surface and throwing a band of glare that moves through the day. Weather shows up plainly here: swell steepens, whitecaps break across the approach, and squalls gray out the distance ahead of the ship.

Near land the scene changes character. Breakwaters and channel markers slide past the bow, island profiles and coastlines rise on the horizon, and port approaches bring terminals, cranes and other ships into frame. Arrival and departure are the busiest moments, when tugs and pilot boats work in close alongside the hull.

The Only Ship of the Epic Class

Norwegian Epic was ordered as the lead ship of a two-vessel class. The order for the second hull was cancelled and no sister ever followed, so the Epic class begins and ends with her. No other ship shares her plan. That makes the shape in frame, the particular curve of the bow and the deck layout directly below the camera, a view that exists on exactly one vessel anywhere.

More Cruise Webcams

Other ships on the site carry cameras pointed the same way as the Norwegian Epic Webcam, forward over the bow and out to sea.

• Norwegian Bliss Webcam
• AIDAcosma Webcam
• Crystal Serenity Webcam

Source: NCL