Why are they going so fast?

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The linked vid on the right showing the container ship's hull flexing under rough conditions was neat.

FYI, that wasn't all of just one ship. compare the ship in the last shot to the ship in the first shot.

The gales of November come slashin?

jbrooks544: FYI, that wasn't all of just one ship. compare the ship in the last shot to the ship in the first shot.

Lay off it man! Enough with your "conspiracies" already!

Reminds me why I remain a landlubber

//hot sexy landlubber...

I figure.. oh, maybe 10-15 minutes of that.. and, I'd be barfing so hard that I'd be inside out.

/then once I was insides-out, I'd run around the ship scaring the hell out of everyone, yelling "BRAIIIINS!"

Archie Goodwin: baka-san: Must have been fun trying to sleep.

Sleeping is the easy part. Try eating, walking, working...

Or peeing straight.

NittLion78: The linked vid on the right showing the container ship's hull flexing under rough conditions was neat.

I don't really get seasick but THAT video freaks me out. I'm not sure I could take being on something that bends that much. The logical part of my brain says "flexing is good, flexing is much preferable to breaking", but the primitive monkey brain says "DO NOT WANT GET ME OUT OF HERE".

The cook came on deck around 7 pm and said "fellas it's too rough to feed ya."

Thou Swell.

Marshall Willenholly: The cook came on deck around 7 pm and said "fellas it's too rough to feed ya."

at 11pm a main hatchway gave in, he said "fellas it's been good to know ya."

MorrisBird: John Paul Jones: So who was shooting this video then?

Ariel.

Nice... I snorted.

Imagine being tethered by a shiatload of bungee cords in a large room!

Damn....what kind of image stabilizer was used on those cameras?

ritalinchild 54: Imagine being tethered by a shiatload of bungee cords in a large room!

/There is a key at your feet.
//Pick it up.

ecmoRandomNumbers: My dad came back from Korea (South, not Best) on a personnel carrier and told me that a bunch of the troops were running down a long corridor and trying not to collapse. They went at a dead run. He said that his legs barely touched the floor, and all-of-a-sudden, smash your face into the floor.

umm...maybe they should try walking next time?

Normally you don't run that fast in heavy seas unless you want to bend up your boat and break things.

Something tells me it was showoff day.

studebaker hoch: Normally you don't run that fast in heavy seas unless you want to bend up your boat and break things.

Something tells me it was showoff day.

Well that and the fact they had a helicopter up complete with a nice stabilized camera and likely a professional crew, as opposed to some door gunner with a handheld.

/I was caught in a typhoon while cruising around on a LHD once
//tried to volunteer for submarine service after that one
/turns out they didn't want Marines on subs, who knew

mistersnark: Angry. Like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

Ha ha! Like a castrated man delivering old soup at the dairy! Classic!

Fake.

Dear Ha-ha-guy,

I was a Navy dolphin and Navy Corpsman FMF. I liked my Marine buddies and stitched 'em up, but what would we do with you mugs bumbling around in an SNN? You could guard the flux capacitor. We could fire you out of the tube to board some Somali Pirates. Yes, that's the ticket.

Keep your gun clean Marine.

BKK: Dear Ha-ha-guy,

I was a Navy dolphin and Navy Corpsman FMF. I liked my Marine buddies and stitched 'em up, but what would we do with you mugs bumbling around in an SNN? You could guard the flux capacitor. We could fire you out of the tube to board some Somali Pirates. Yes, that's the ticket.

Keep your gun clean Marine.

wat

BKK: Dear Ha-ha-guy,

I was a Navy dolphin and Navy Corpsman FMF. I liked my Marine buddies and stitched 'em up, but what would we do with you mugs bumbling around in an SNN? You could guard the flux capacitor. We could fire you out of the tube to board some Somali Pirates. Yes, that's the ticket.

Keep your gun clean Marine.

My unit got to "guard" a Sturgeon SSN that popped into Korea on a goodwill visit once. We got in trouble for directing the drunken crewmen over to the Korean SSKs that were moored a few peers down.

Us: Oh no, this isn't your sub, it's over there *points to Korean SSK* Here have another beer though before you walk over.
Sailor: Thanks guys!
Us: *sit back and wait for the angry yelling between the Korean MPs and drunken USN sailors.*

Well that and telling the USN sailors they wanted to take the train to Chojin (a city in North Korea) and check out their famous massage parlors. So some Navy Intel type heard a bunch of sailors talking about going to Chojin and flipped out because the crew was going to defect.

At the end of your day if a full braid Navy captain isn't scurrying somewhere in a panic, you haven't done your job as a Marine.

/got along great with the guys that sailed our LHDs though

Certainly not big ships or even particularly heavy seas. It looks like an ocean-going tug and a frigate plowing through about 20-30ft swells. Not a lot of fun, but almost certainly someone, somewhere, is right now is in the middle of much worse.

Dear lord, imagine the smell in the corridors...

It's all about visible horizons right? Years back, when crossing the Irish sea on a ferry, I felt absolutely fine when standing outside as the ship was bouncing up and down. As soon as I sat down inside, I felt dodgy.

In '87 I was in the North Sea on the USS Wainwright, and what a fun ride it was, I got to see green water come over the bow.

Sleeping in the berthing near the bow of the ship was a a carnival ride, a constant 15 second swap heavy and light gravity. The ship had a peculiar shudder when it settled down in the water, which gave my little bunk a through shaking.

Occasionally, we would hit a wave at an odd angle, causing anything not stowed away to fall to the floor, including an occasional shipmate. I'll tell you, even with a pretty good set of sea legs, I spent a lot of time trying to peel myself off a bulkhead.

The one thing I most remember was a piece of equipment brought on-board for testing. It was about 5 feet tall, three feet wide, and had a nice little display on the front of it where an Operations Specialist would sit. It was just so of, dropped into the CIC, It wasn't bolted down, so when the ship took a bad wave, the inevitable happened. It fell on the guy watching it.

We were in the computer room, grabbing onto something and watching the table we were sitting at clear itself of it's contents, when we heard a massive crash above us. We scrambled up into the red darkness that was the CIC. The equipment was laying across the floor, with a couple of legs under it. Dark liquid was spreading out from underneath.

Thinking the worst, we lifted up the heavy son of a biatch and found the guy, on his back. He wasn't even scratched. Somehow the little keyboard table attached to the front of the machine had kept him from being crushed.

It turned out that he had been drinking a Hawaiian Punch while sitting at that damnable machine. The emptying can gave a really grisly look to the the whole scene.

Now the ship is a coral reef, and for all the sleepless nights, the puking my guts out, the drills, the exercises, and Operation Praying Mantis, the most terrifying day of my life, I miss it.

RadicalMiddle: In '87 I was in the North Sea on the USS Wainwright, and what a fun ride it was, I got to see green water come over the bow.

Sleeping in the berthing near the bow of the ship was a a carnival ride, a constant 15 second swap heavy and light gravity. The ship had a peculiar shudder when it settled down in the water, which gave my little bunk a through shaking.

Occasionally, we would hit a wave at an odd angle, causing anything not stowed away to fall to the floor, including an occasional shipmate. I'll tell you, even with a pretty good set of sea legs, I spent a lot of time trying to peel myself off a bulkhead.

The one thing I most remember was a piece of equipment brought on-board for testing. It was about 5 feet tall, three feet wide, and had a nice little display on the front of it where an Operations Specialist would sit. It was just so of, dropped into the CIC, It wasn't bolted down, so when the ship took a bad wave, the inevitable happened. It fell on the guy watching it.

We were in the computer room, grabbing onto something and watching the table we were sitting at clear itself of it's contents, when we heard a massive crash above us. We scrambled up into the red darkness that was the CIC. The equipment was laying across the floor, with a couple of legs under it. Dark liquid was spreading out from underneath.

Thinking the worst, we lifted up the heavy son of a biatch and found the guy, on his back. He wasn't even scratched. Somehow the little keyboard table attached to the front of the machine had kept him from being crushed.

It turned out that he had been drinking a Hawaiian Punch while sitting at that damnable machine. The emptying can gave a really grisly look to the the whole scene.

Now the ship is a coral reef, and for all the sleepless nights, the puking my guts out, the drills, the exercises, and Operation Praying Mantis, the most terrifying day of my life, I miss it.

Cool story, Ishmael.

RangerTaylor

Reminds me of damn near every underway on the USS Augusta in the fall/winter in the Narragansett Bay Op Areas, people who stay on the surface in that shiat are crazy.

Some of us work very hard to remain on the surface during storms.

/And at all other times.

"Listen up carrier boy pecker-checker, there's submarines and there's targets," the old CPO's first words on meeting me in my new SSN posting. My riposte was,"How did you pass the psych test?" After a good storm, we would torment the tin cans and torpedo sponges with "How's the weather been up there? Feeling poopsick?"

that actually looked fun. Been in some rough seas off SE Alaska. I still have my unopened pack of Dramamine.

RadicalMiddle: In '87 I was in the North Sea on the USS Wainwright...

So you served on a Belknap class Guided Missile Cruiser.

I used to have a naval battle simulator called 'Strike Fleet' on a Commodore 64, back in the mid to late '80s. Some of the missions let you select Belknap cruisers as part of your fleet, which I often did. The simulator implied that this class of cruiser could take a hit and hold together better than just about anything else in its displacement class.

My favorites were the USS Horne and USS Sterett. No USS Wainwright to choose from, though.

Most of the USN ships represented in that simulator are now decommisioned *sigh*. Time marches on.