The Brief. A cruise ship faced massive 30-40-foot waves in the turbulent Drake Passage. Passenger Lesley Anne Murphy captured footage of the wild ride, showing passengers falling and sliding.

Travel blogger Lesley Anne Murphy captured dramatic footage of the "trip of a lifetime," which passed through the notoriously rocky Drake Passage ...

Passenger Lesley Murphy took video of the wild adventure. The video she shot on the Ocean Explorer showed heart-stopping 40-foot waves, enough to knock fellow passengers off their feet.

Lesley Anne Murphy posted clips to Instagram on March 26 that appeared to show the ship rocking back and forth, a woman sliding across the floor as the vessel lurched, and a TV slamming into a wall.

Lesley Murphy, an American travel journalist, recently experienced the ocean’s wrath on a commercial polar expedition when her ship was rocked by 35-foot waves in the Drake Passage.

Murphy went on to explain the often rough nature of the Drake Passage in her own words. "If you’re lucky," she said, you get the much calmer "Drake Lake,” and “if you’re like us, you get ...

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.