Norwegian Getaway Webcam – Bow Views from a Breakaway Ship

The Norwegian Getaway Webcam is a forward ship camera on Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Getaway, the second of the two Breakaway class ships. It looks out from high on the superstructure, with the point of the bow rising at the bottom center of the frame and the sea filling everything above it. NCL publishes the camera as a still image, with the ship’s name, the date and the time in a small black box at the top left. The view changes with the voyage: open water and horizon on a sea day, then islands, harbor entrances and terminals near land. After dark, deck lights mark the bow while the rest of the frame turns to grainy grey, and reflections from the glass in front of the lens can appear as faint shapes across the picture.

About Norwegian Getaway

Norwegian Getaway is the sister of Norwegian Breakaway. NCL ordered her on September 24, 2010, and Meyer Werft built her at Papenburg in Germany, where a fire broke out at the shipyard in March 2013 without injuring anyone or delaying delivery. NCL took the ship on January 10, 2014, and at her christening she ranked as the ninth largest cruise ship in the world.

She measures 145,655 GT and 326 meters (1,068 feet), with 18 decks, 3,963 passengers and a crew of 1,646. The Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders served as her godmothers at a ceremony in Miami on February 7, 2014, and she left on her maiden voyage the next day. She has spent much of her career in the Caribbean from Miami, and NCL also scheduled a summer of Scandinavia cruises from Copenhagen for 2019.

Norwegian Getaway Details

What Can You See on the Norwegian Getaway Webcam?

The lower part of the Norwegian Getaway Webcam frame is the ship’s own forward section, with the rail curving up to a point near the center and deck lights set around the foredeck. In daylight the grey deck shows a large yellow smiley face painted on the winch area, next to the words “WINCH ONLY”, which read upside down from the camera. Pale structures sit in the lower left corner. Above the bow, the picture is water out to the horizon, and the look of the sea tells most of the story: flat and silver in calm conditions, broken and streaked in wind. Near land the frame can hold a coastline, a breakwater, a terminal or another ship alongside. At night the bow lights stay visible as bright points while the water fades out, and reflected shapes from inside the ship can float over the image. A sequence of stills gives only a rough record of a port call, with the scene jumping between one frame and the next.

A Name Picked by Contest

Her name came from a public competition, won by Dennis Hultman of Vienna, Virginia. The artist David “LEBO” Le Batard was commissioned to design the mural on her hull. On her first trip to the United States she went straight to work as a hotel: during the week of Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014 she docked at the New York Passenger Ship Terminal, temporarily renamed the Bud Light Hotel, and housed 4,000 people.

The ship also features in a rescue story. On June 30, 2018, a crew member fell overboard northwest of Cuba, and NCL and the U.S. Coast Guard began a search. A steward on another cruise ship spotted the crew member the next day, alive after nearly 22 hours in the water.

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Source: Norwegian Cruise Line