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,

They were cruising for a bruising. Passengers freaked out as 40-foot waves slammed into a cruise liner navigating a treacherous stretch of ocean off Antarctica, as seen in freaky footage on Instagram.

It was the passengers aboard Quark Expeditions’ Ocean Explorer ship that felt the true wrath of the waters as they went flying about, sliding across the floors and knocking into the walls. Lesley Anne Murphy, a travel blogger on board captured the footage showing her fellow cruisers experiencing Drake Passage during a return trip from Antarctica.