Norwegian Jewel Webcam – See the Ocean from the Bow

The Norwegian Jewel Webcam is a forward-facing camera mounted high on the superstructure of Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Jewel, looking down the length of the bow and across the water ahead of the ship. The frame takes in the forward sundeck, a hot tub set into the deck below, the mast and the forward rails, with the horizon running across the upper third. Norwegian Cruise Line refreshes the image continuously, so the scene changes with the ship’s position, the time of day and the weather. Out at sea the picture is open water and sky. Closer to land it fills with coastline, islands and the traffic around a harbor entrance. The camera has no controls and no archive: it shows whatever sits in front of the ship at that moment.

About Norwegian Jewel

Norwegian Jewel is the lead ship of Norwegian Cruise Line’s four-vessel Jewel class, built by Meyer Werft at Papenburg in Germany as yard number 667. Her keel was laid on 28 October 2003, she was launched on 12 June 2005, and she entered service in December 2005. Norwegian Jade, Norwegian Pearl and Norwegian Gem followed on the same hull over the next two years.

At 93,502 GT and 294.13 meters (965 feet) long, she carries 2,376 passengers at double occupancy with a crew of about 1,072 across 15 decks. Propulsion is diesel electric: five MAN B&W engines generate the power and two Azipod units deliver it, which is what lets the ship maneuver without conventional shafts and rudders. She is registered in Nassau and flies the Bahamas flag. In late 2018 she spent two weeks in dry dock at Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore for a refurbishment.

Norwegian Jewel Details

What Can You See on the Norwegian Jewel Webcam?

Out at sea the Norwegian Jewel Webcam looks across open water to a flat horizon, and over an hour the only things that change are the light, the cloud and the sea state. The bow pushes a wake that spreads to either side of the frame. Near land the picture is busier. Headlands, islands and wooded shorelines cross the upper half, small boats and other ships appear on the water, and terminal buildings come into shot as the ship works toward a berth. Sunrise and sunset put the strongest color into the frame, though the camera follows the ship rather than the clock, so that timing shifts with wherever she happens to be.

Panamax Dimensions and the Jewel Class

The Jewel class was built to Panamax dimensions, meaning the hull fits the original Panama Canal locks. That constraint set the 32.2 meter (106 foot) beam, and it is why these ships look narrower than the larger vessels Norwegian Cruise Line has ordered since. It also keeps repositioning between the Atlantic and the Pacific straightforward, which is part of why Norwegian Jewel has worked such a spread of regions, among them Alaska, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and the South Pacific.

The class was also the second group of Norwegian Cruise Line ships to carry hull art, a large painted design across the hull built around each ship’s name. The bow camera sits above and behind it, so the Norwegian Jewel Webcam never shows the artwork itself.

Related Live Webcams

Other cameras on Norwegian Cruise Line ships cover the same kind of view from different hulls.

• Norwegian Bliss Webcam
• Norwegian Breakaway Webcam
• Norwegian Escape Webcam

Source: Norwegian Cruise Line