Posted on 03/23/2016 1:25:55 PM PDT by NRx
RIP to the sailors.
O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at Thy word,
Who walked’st on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
USNS Apache: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Apache_%28T-ATF-172%29
cool thx for the info
Apache began service with the Military Sealift Command in 1981 in the Atlantic. Among her early assignments was a mission in September 1982 towing the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Westwego, Louisiana, where Iowa began modernization work preparatory to her return to active service
oh and very cool my dad served on the Iowa. and went down to la to visit years ago when they had a reunion.
Shadow Divers. GREAT book, makes you realize just how crazy those guys were. Insanely dangerous stuff.
They would expect to get nitrogen narcosis, and...just deal with it. If the valve on a pipe turned into a leprechaun with fins and spoke to them, they would just shrug it off, while the hum in their heads got louder and louder.
Absolutely insane. And the bends....
Any ship on the ocean is in peril at any given time. Even military ships. Read “Halsey’s Typhoon” for a hair-raising account.
Our military loses people all the time in training accidents. If you train like you fight, it is going to happen. But when the time comes to fight, you are ready.
But to be ready, that is the price to pay.
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”
- Mark Twain did or didn’t say that but I experienced it.
The lone officer is Lt Jones. The four guys with bowties are Chiefs. The ones with neckties are, I think, Chiefs acting in the capacity of officer positions.
I would guess it would get pretty dank and raw there.
And that’s just talking about the people...:)
Sounds like you served, thank you.
Don’t remember the hp; probably around 40 from the small 4 cylinder. That day we finally hugged the north shore and made it through the eddies to calmer water,
Sailing from SF to MX is all down hill and coming back it’s easier to go out a thousand miles and go up hill to OR
lat and then come in and down. Or leave MX and go to HI.
Bottom row second from right.
Yep...I have sailed the ‘Patch’ numerous times and have never been sick. But this is after a year on Swift Boats in Viet Nam where we had to lash plywood to the pilot house windows to keep heavy seas from breaking the windows and filling the pilot house with fish.
Motion sickness is weird...I have never been sick on the water but get VERY woozy in a small airplane when the air is lumpy.
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