Several good videos here:
MILITARY VIDEOS, CARRIER IN OVERWASH SITUATION INCLUDED (4th one down)
Posted on 05/11/2012 9:37:32 PM PDT by Windflier
A video salute to all you sailors and mariners out there. You're the bravest people on earth.
As a former sailor (from a long time ago), I appreciate your sentiments.
I have been onboard a couple of vessels in sea’s like
this and I always wondered why the welds that held the
steel plates together didn’t pop when she would drop
into a forty foot trough over and over again.
you don’t get a lot of sleep waiting to get through one
of these monsters.
Sailors stay well to windward of the rocks. That’s what’s referred to as an iron-bound coast.
Some good shots there. Any idea if that is an excerpt from a longer video or movie?
Probably don't keep much food down, either.
My fear was not the welds, but the possibly of the darn thing turning over. I remember on one ship rated at 38 degrees before turning over, we hit a storm that put us at 42 degrees ... constipation was not a worry.
You bet, Doc. I admire all such hardy souls.
Several good videos here:
Thanks. I have a feeling I'll learn a thing or two on this thread.
Sorry, I have no other data. Whoever posted the video didn't add any links on the page.
Try again, Jeff. I just checked, and it's working fine for me.
I join in thanking you for your sentiments etc...
I rode an LST back in the 60’s, flat bottomed, speed of 12 knots - downhill with a heavy gale behind you - and had the pleasure of going through several typhoons while aboard.
IN rough seas she would plow ahead with the bow raising out of the water then slapping down on the sea, with the stern coming completely out of the water while the screws, going at full RPM would be squealing while trying to grab onto something other than air.
Interesting to say the least and one would get the impression she was going to break in half or even quarters.
I stood many a Radio Watch strapped in a chair while sitting a live circuit.....
Great fun, but then again, when people asked why you wasted your time in bars while ashore, you would just laugh at them — not that an excuse was really needed.
I never was a mariner. I crossed the north Atlantic in November on a high speed luxury vessel and the screws were out of the water a lot.
And I imagine that chair was bolted to the floor. Hard to believe the human body can even withstand such a ride.
I was never a mariner either, but I am a member of the Golden Dragon club.
My little brother and I sailed to Japan from California with our mom in 1954. Dad saved a nice little certificate they made up for me on the voyage.
Thanks for posting...
The Coast Guard Academy training ship is the ‘Eagle’, a sailing vessel acquired from Germany after WWII. It is tended by a cutter. In rough seas such as seen in this filming, the Eagle pulls away from the cutter, slicing through the seas with much less tossing about than the cutter gets.
I learned to sail on Lake Erie, in a 26 ft Pearson Commander, a full keel boat that was very forgiving in rough seas. Lake Erie can be rough! We sailed in all kinds of weather, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Nothing quite like that in the video, but thrilling, all the same.
I have also had some experience at ocean sailing on a larger boat, a Pearson 390, center cockpit. Sailing is the only way to go!
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