Several good videos here:
MILITARY VIDEOS, CARRIER IN OVERWASH SITUATION INCLUDED (4th one down)
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?
Several good videos here:
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.
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!
I HATE the ocean!
Nearest land 2 miles straight down!
Most unsettling
When it gets real bad like that, nobody is feeling real good. Some are outwardly sick, some get queazy, some just get grumpy but it pretty much sucks.
I served aboard a few naval vessels while I was in the Marine Corps. There were some pretty rough seas (especially in the North Atlantic in Spring time).
When I see this I wonder how men from several hundred years ago mustered up the courage to go to sea in ships much smaller than what we have today. Thank God for men like them.
“For Those In Peril,On The Sea”,AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
