Passengers onboard a cruise liner were thrown into walls and sent flying across rooms when the ship they were traveling in hit huge waves in an area notorious for wild conditions. Quark Expeditions’ Ocean Explorer ship took a hammering when passing through the infamous Drake Passage,

The 342-foot cruise ship had been steaming through Drake Passage — a 600-mile channel between Antarctica and the Southernmost tip of South America — while returning from a voyage to the Frozen Continent.

A cruise ship was setting pounded as it sailed the legendary Drake Passage between the southernmost tip of South America and Antarctica. Passenger Lesley Murphy took video of the wild adventure. The video she shot on the Ocean Explorer showed heart-stopping 40-foot waves,