Why MONSTER WAVES Can't Sink US Navy's LARGEST Aircraft Carriers During Rough Seas
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2023
- Aircraft carrier in rough seas is a sight to behold! Ever wondered how the massive vessels of the US Navy withstand the fury of nature?
Dive deep with us into the vast ocean of knowledge, where we shed light on how the mighty US Navy safeguards its warships, including the colossal aircraft carriers, from the wrath of monster waves and treacherous storms. Discover the intricate systems in place that ensure a ship's stability and the safety of its onboard equipment even when faced with the harshest conditions at sea.
Ever wondered how the sailors manage to stand firm and conduct operations on a ship deck that's constantly rocking in rough seas? Or how aircraft on these carriers are kept secured against the fury of the storm? We’ve got all the answers! From specially designed non-skid surfaces to high-tech advancements in naval engineering, we unveil the secrets behind the US Navy's prowess in tackling the fiercest challenges of the sea.
Get an exclusive peek into the future as we discuss the cutting-edge technologies that are poised to revolutionize naval operations, like adaptive hull surfaces and the integration of Artificial Intelligence in stability systems.
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I was on the USS Constellation in the 1970's. We were trying to out run a typhoon near Thailand and were caught on the outer edge. I worked the flight deck with VA146 with A7E's as a plane captain. My aircraft was being towed to the number 1 spot on the bow with me in the cockpit riding brakes. The swells were coming over the bow and my plane started to slide off the flight deck. The deck crew threw chains anywhere they could on my landing gear and tug The plane finally stopped sliding with one of my 3 main wheels hanging in midair. My buddies had to pull me out of the cockpit I was shaking so bad I could not move. They had to medicate me in sickbay I was so bad. Seeing what mother nature can do to a 100,000 ton carrier is something you will never forget.
And on today’s episode of things that didn’t happen
CGI much?
I think we operated with your ship in 69. I was a radarman on the Galveston GLG-3. We were doing shire bomb, monitoring Hanoi airport and vectoring FACs. We hit the tail end of a typhoon and the ship did a 35 degree starboard roll and stayed there for about 20 seconds. I thought we were going to capsize but it slowly came back up.
That is terrifying, sir. I am glad you made it out of that situation.
Are will never be a ship that will out do the forces of the ocean
I served on the USS John F. Kennedy while attached to a S3 Viking squadron. We hit a storm off Morocco where we were still doing flight ops and the shooter was timing launching the planes between the waves. I was aft on the flight deck with one of our S3s as a plane captain turning and burning, my shipmate holding onto a pad eye with one hand and the other on my belt. I watched the shooter mis-time the waves and send a tomcat straight into a wave, the bow went up and i thought the tomcat was in the water. As the bow went down again i saw the tomcat pulling up barely above the sea, somehow avoiding going in the drink. That was the last flight we launched that day. Good times.
And that is what sets our Navy in a league of its own.
Not only can we drop air power anywhere on the planet, we can do it under just about any condition - on demand.
What year was that? I might have been stationed on the Kennedy at that time "91-"93
@@johnmorgan3083 92-93 Med / Adriatic Sea Cruise. You may remember us visiting Italy five times.
Was on her ships company but during our 86-87 Med cruise I ran the DATS bench for VS-22. I remember during hurricane Gloria watching our cruiser escort go completely under and pop back up on ships tv
@@Thultarn Yep, that was my squadron. The Checkmates of VS-22 out of NAS Cecil Field Jacksonville, Florida.
I was a meteorologist aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise CVAN65 during the Viet Nam war. Many stories, but 2 particular. On second deployment we left Pearl Harbor for the Philippines and a few days out were headed right into a typhoon. Support ships with us were too small and turned around back to Pearl. Ship was buttoned up and all equipment and personnel confined inside; except me. I had to go outside the Captain's bridge to take observations and had to wear a safety harness. The flight deck is 85 feet above water, and we were punching through the top of the waves! The anemometer in the office was pegged at 100kts, so we don't know what the actual wind was. If anyone went overboard there's no way they could have been rescued. I went out the balloon launch rack midway from water to flight deck and when the stern was down in a trough I couldn't see the sky.
Enterprise always left San Francisco (Alameda) in January and one February in the Gulf of Tonkin the USS Pueblo got commandeered by North Koreans. We were outfitted for Monsoon weather and not a shred of foul weather gear. We arrived off the coast of N. Korea in freezing, snowy weather and had to stand watches outside for 6 hour shifts. Freezing water on the deck sloshing over our work shoes and dungaree pants. Most of us got so sick after awhile the weather officer agreed to let us observe through a porthole and just step outside for a few minutes twice an hour. 40 days and 40 nights.
On another deployment we left Pearl early morning on a beautiful day for live ammo training exercise. One flight deck crewman parked his APU with hot exhaust discharging on a AIM9 Sidewinder missile and short circuit fired it down the flight deck. Hit a fighter, sprayed fuel all over flight deck, and detonated eight, 500 pound bombs. 29 men killed in that disaster.
But I loved my ship. So sad that they dismantled it.
Hi Ronald my name is Col Donnamarie Fuentes Dumont Lavallee and I am a retired US Army Air Corps combat pilot and flight leader and I have and own 2 vintage fighter bomber air craft A P-47 D and a F4-u Corsair N and I am going through the navy comments of being aboard ship's in gale and full Gale storms and typhoon type weather and I came across you on the CVN 65 Enterprise and I think you might have known my dad his name is senior chief Russell R Lavallee he was in charge of ordinance of all air craft and he also served on the Lexington I hope you both got to know each other He was a great and blessed wonderful man He past 6yrs ago and is very much missed I am very proud of your navel service and your extremely important but dangerous mos field you were in I hope you and your family are doing well and I hope you and your family stay safe and healthy My love 💕 to you and your family and all sailors of WW II and their families too sempre fi COL Donnamarie Fuentes Dumont Lavallee
The enterprise isn't dismantled yet. It's sitting on Pier 3 of newport news shipbuilding with a small team babysitting her. Ask me how I know. Actually, I'll save you the breath. I walk by the rust bucket every day on my way to work
It use to be in Alameda Naval Base
I heard some of the steel went into the new Enterprise (cvn-80). I was stationed aboard from September 1985 to March 1987 (ships company - AIMD).@@nukewurld
@@nukewurldthat’s sad, she was an awesome boat. Could turn & burn like no other boat I’d ever been on.
I was on the CVN-71 as a reactor operator. During a hurricane we received a distress call when we turned into the storm while the escort ships had to go around. We had waves that would come over the bow and land on the stern (granted we were really pushing the speed). An HY-80 steel door wasn’t dogged properly when a wave caught the edge and peeled it like made out of aluminum foil. The power of waves is staggering.
88-92. I had to help shore that door up. Off the coast of France. BM3, 2nd Div Deck.
Peeling 80kpsi steel is some serious power
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I have a vivid memory of one particular storm that threw CVN-71 around, as we were sailing back from a North Atlantic cruise in 1988. I was stationed on the lifeboat davits for general quarters. It was a pleasant GQ station, normally, being outside the skin of the ship with lots of fresh air. But this evening we were at GQ only because of the rough seas. The Executive officer appeared on the davit that night, and ordered us to leave our normal post and come inside the skin for safely. I'm glad he brought us inside: the lifeboat davit was hit by a huge wave that night, one that might have washed us overboard, if we were still outside.
That is the only storm I remember tossing the Roosevelt around like a toy. I appreciate the effort the Navy goes to to avoid rough seas! Most of my experience on CVN-71 was literally smooth sailing.
Soooo... I apologize, Squids... and I mean that term sincerely ok?... bc I'm just a regular ol' Army 11B grunt digging in the sand ok? Except: FOBs & so I didn't have to dig lol. And also, I didn't have to call a tossing, twisting, turbulent "boat" my home. IDK why you weirdos do it lol. SUCKS TO BE YOUUUU!!!! Other Sailors have commented, so I'm just following the swails ok... read below...
I was serving on the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) when Hurricane Iwa followed us into Pearl Harbor in ‘82. The day before I was helping an aircraft plane captain tie down his plane to 24 points. A wave came over the angle deck. I was about 30 feet from the edge of the deck and, in the brief second I saw it, it looked to be about 50 feet tall (no joke!). Plus, there’s another 90 feet from the flight deck to the waterline to consider. My shipmate saw it coming, yelled at me, and just dove on me knocking me to the deck and we both scrambled to grab a nearby tie down chain. That Airman probably saved my life that day!
Mother Nature and I have established a different relationship since that day to be sure.
I’m on the 70 now haha
@@JacobGodlywell good on you, shipmate! Fair winds and following seas. 🫡
I was onboard the Chucky V during that cruise.
@@johnbwright Hopefully not working the flight deck. 🌊
@@RufusGRufus I worked in the Armory. I have a lasting memory of how solemn the docking into Pearl was especially with the bubbling oil pockets bursting up through the blue waters of the harbor.
Not a sailor but you might enjoy this. I was a med-evac pilot in I Corps VN in 1970. When the hospital ships, Sanctuary and Repose, were on station we would deliver severely wounded to the ships. They were so far off shore we would FM home on them half the time. On a couple of missions, I had to land on their tiny decks when the props were coming almost entirely out of the water. Big pucker factor but they always brought my crew ham and cheese sandwiches and a Coke. Happy times but wouldn't have wanted to live on those ships in those conditions.
One of my Commanders served on the USS Repose as a surgical nurse during the Vietnam War.
I weathered a typhoon in the Sea of Japan during the early 1960's aboard the USS Dixie! We had 40-to-50-foot seas and 100 knot winds!!! The ship came within 2 degrees of capsizing!!! It was scary as hell to be honest!!! It went on for most of three days!!!
I visited a friend of mine stationed on the USS Dixie. That was the first navy ship I ever stepped foot on. And only one of two that had
wooden decks. The person I visited was a store keeper named Reynolds.
I was on the USS Wisconsin BB 64, and that also had wooden decks.
I retired in 1994.
The Devil's Sea.
Man that sounds scary as hell man.
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I was blown off the poop deck when our destroyer was passing Tahiti. No one saw me go overboard. A canoe filled with topless Tahitian women rescued me and took me to one of the uninhabited out islands. I was their love slave for 6 months. Then a passing yacht took me onboard and we sailed to Australia. I'm still here. True story.
Sick bro that's some good luck my guy
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Too bad you were GAY!
I was on the USS Mt.Baker, an ammunition ship, in 1972. It was our first deployment to the Med, and we had been ordered to make best speed across the Atlantic to deliver arms to Isreal. On the way we ran into a large storm, and the waves were high enough that when on fantail watch I had to look up to see the tops. After getting off of that watch I went to the bridge to check on a radar I maintained, and while there I saw the forward king post for the underway replenishment gear (STREAM) have green water come over the top of it. As this was about 100 feet above the water line, I took it as a sign I was going to going to die, and decided I might as well be comfortable to went to my rack. I had a bottom rack next to a padded weather bulkhead, and was able to wedge myself in. At reville things had calmed down, but when I went out to look at the bow the next day all of the deck gear except the anchor had been swept away, and the hull plates had been warped.
When did a deck seaman take care of radar gear?
...or, how badly did an RM or ET screw up to have to stand after lookout?
I have served on three fast attack submarines, and have spent one fifth of my total life underwater, decks awash. There are a few hurricanes we encountered, and one of the blessed things about submarines is that you can submerge beneath them. However, the energy put into the water by hurricanes reaches very deep, and even at very deep depths, you can feel the waves. We have seatbelt style straps that you can wear while sleeping in the racks, to help with the storms. If we are at periscope depth, at a relatively mild sea state, 2 or 3, the ship can throw you out of the rack if you are not strapped in. Keeping everything stowed for sea is vital to crew survival during heavy seas or impacts. Note the collision of the USS San Fransisco.
Thank you for your service.
Yes Thanks for sharing and your service. God Bless
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Thank you for sharing
Must of been thrilling at times. Thanks for your service & your experience well serving. 🇺🇸 🌎
Look up Typhoon Cobra, aka Halsey's Typhoon. Hit TF 38 in Dec of 1944, sank three DD's killed nearly 800 sailors, damaged 9 ships and destroyed hundreds of aircraft. Since then the USN has diligently employed the only successful tactic to mitigate storm damage from typhoons. Avoid them completely. With modern satellite technology the Navy simply goes where the typhoon isn't. It's worked well so far.
My father's ship was in that typhoon. It took 46 degree rolls. The carriers took 70 degree rolls. Some DD's took 90 degree rolls with seawater entering their stacks. Surprisingly, the DE's did better than the larger DD's.
Halsey's Task force was low on supplies and needed to refuel at sea as its ships headed into the eye of the storm.
Halsey claimed to be unaware of the worsening weather. -- despite aviator and meteorlogist reports. A board of inquiry on the Cascade assembled. MacArthur and Halsey supported supported each other, The losses were glossed over and he was given another task force --and he repeated the same mistake but with less fatal results.
Halsey blamed the Navy for not having an origanization he could call upon for the precise location of Hurricanes.
Nearly three years earlier, Halsey was in command of the Task Force to defend Midway, but he had a bad skin rash and Ray Spruance went in his place. Ray planned the surprise that sank three of Japan's carriers in four minutes. He sank the last one a few hours later. It was the turning point of the war.
Rewards went out at the end of the war. Who would get the Navy's third 5-star? Spruane deserved, but Halsey wanted it.
Mac left Gen. Johnathan Wainwright in his place at Corrigador when he left for Austraila where he got a CMOH which is something Wainwright deserved. Nimitz, proposed Wainwright for CMOH, bur Mac blocked in until Spruance said he didn't mind if Halsey got the 5th Star. Is this familiar?
I met a person many years ago who grew uo on Corranado Island and knew both of them. Ray Spruance was a generous genius.
The DD's that sank were top heavy due, mostly, to added AA guns and radars.
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To all Sailors; Maritime and Navy all over the world, thanks for your service. I too served on many US Navy ships from small boys (DDG/DD) to large deck (LHD).
Thank you for your service!
Thank you Sailor, from Another ret. Usndv. Vietnam era, and I Respect your Service! SEMPER FORTIS FAMILY NAVY VETS. MY DAD WW2 PEARL HARBOR, 35 YRS. MY BROTHER 4, ME 4. ITS A HONOR TO SALUTE MY COMMRADES AT SEA. USNDV. LA CALIF. STAY HEALTHY BROTHER and GOD BLESS UR FAMILY. / ALL MILITARY!❤
Sir, May your retirement be a blessing and happiness to YOU, AND ALL OUR SHIPMATES. ACTIVE DUTY, AND US VETERANS. MAY YOUR SERVICE TO UNITED STATES BE A INSPIRATION TO OUR YOUTH! HOOYAH"""
1982 November ,USS Forrestal returning from our 6 month Med cruise. Sailing west in the Atlantic headed for Jacksonville Fl. Rode the storm for about 4 days. We had water in the hanger bay. Felt bad for the F4’s and A7’s tied down on the flight deck, they really got a salt water bath. Sleeping in my rack was like sleeping in a rocking chair, loved it. 😊
Was aboard Shipmate.
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DCC POOW/ Chopstix/
GQ Repair locker #4mmr/ #1 nozzleman.
Load of Tigers onboard🤢🤢🤮🤮
I WAS STATIONED AT NAS JAX THEN VP 16 WAR EAGLES
I was on the FID that cruise, shipmate, in G-3 Division.
I was on that crossing it has been 40 years I was aboard as an 11 year old tiger cruise kid along with my retired grandfather a WWII CAPT. and my late father retired Comander! Who was at that time a LTComander who was deployed as an aviator in the prowler squadron! I saw things my young mind could not have ever imagined. Some 40+ years later some of which i can recall as clearly as if they had been yesterday. I very much enjoyed of it too. Thank you to all no matter where you may have served. Every single one of you deserve it and much more. Thank you all, from a grateful Navy Brat...
I remember my dad who retired as a senior O-6 at the end of Vietnam tell me as an ensign right after the war, he was on U.S.S. Hughes which was an old single stack pre-WW2 destroyer even smaller and lighter than the Fletchers. They were sailing her out to Bikini where she was eventually in the target fleet for both the airburst shot(The Able test) and the underwater lagoon burst(The Baker test). Incredibly after surviving the entire conflict and then both atomic blasts, she was finnaly taken back to Bremerton Wash. where she was finnaly sent to Davey Jones locker as a target for Navy TBM bombers but not before taking multiple 500lb. bomb hits and torpedoes. I know because i read her final cruise book my dad had. One tough little ship she was lol.
I was attached to the Ike in early 80’s and hit a storm in the North Atlantic above the Arctic Circle and the waves were huge. We had water coming over the bow and the screws were coming out of the water. No flying but everything else was operating normally. Trying to eat was a challenge sleeping was great. Rocked to sleep.
Could you hear it loud thru the hull? Yeah, very relaxing hearing waves crash & rocking. Ass long as it wasn't violently moving you in a smaller ship.
I was on board the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, in the early 90s. We left the Persian gulf, and headed for the north Atlantic. I was an ABE, flightdeck duty. We were supplied extreme weather gear. I was working bowsafety, harnessed to the ship. The waves were breaking the bow, that's over 90 foot waves. I was so scared, and so cold, but it was awesome. God bless America.
Thanks for the story. That's scary stuff! Thanks for your service.
What’s up V-2 shipmate? I was a lens ic- man onboard Nimitz…. Loved you grease eatin ABE’s…. Funniest and toughest dudes on the ship! Consumed enormous amounts of alcohol with you guys…. Green shirts are the lords of the flight deck! FTN, TPS lol…. Man up recovery stations, man up recovery stations, let’s man ‘em up! Groove, short, ramp!!
@@andyleotell Love ya shipmates. Have a great Navy day, haha.
I was on the USS Bainbridge during this same cruise. The rest of the battle group pulled into England but we went with you because we were nuclear powered and bottom heavy so more resistant to heavy seas. The weather decks were secured due to the high seas. I as a reactor operator and rarely went up to the bridge but went up for about 5 minutes. We could look up and see the crest of each wave. The seas would hit the windshield when we hit the trough. It was terrifying. We hit a 47 or 49 degree roll. I was in line for Midrats when it happened. It was a scary time but we got to pull into a fjord off the coast of Norway and that was incredible.
USA 🇮🇱 #1
I was on a naval oil tanker that went aground off the lighthouse entering Newport RI, Naval Base. After 3 days we were pulled free of the rocks yet suffered hull damage. To make a long story short, we were bound for Boston dry dock but had to pull out to sea as, there were hurricane winds coming over the next 2 days. Being a lead helmsman, it was scary looking through the Bridge windows to see the bow literally sink into waves that were reportedly in excess of 80 feet high. It was up and down a wave for a dozen hours. My orders were to steer a course directly into waves and not allowing more than a 10 degree run in course. The engine order telegraph was a huge asset to keep waves from pushing the bow left or right beyond the 10 degrees that had the capability of sinking the ship. It would have been easier if we were loaded with oil and aviation fuel however we were moving to home port, essentially empty.
Para el mar cualquier varco es una cascara de mani... Es impresionante una fuerte marejada... Soli cruzar. El paso de los vientos en un barquito bananero. Y ahi conoce uno la naturaleza y el poder de Dios
@@luisfernandoriveragallegos7282 I don't speak Spanish and yet you speak English. Some reason why you sent a reply in Spanish?
1973 USS Enterprise CVAN 65, return from Veit Nam cut straight through a typhon doing 48 knots. Water over bow at times and 68 foot roster tail. The only time I got sea sick. Went to head, barfed then returned to work. One hell of a ride. Thank you Capt )now admiral) Tissot. One hell of an sailor.
I was aboard that WESPAC deployment and rode through that storm. We had it good compared to the esscorts.
Oh Yeah, I remember it well. Like it was yesterday. Later that evening the boatswain mate whistle ( very long) sounded. Stand by word from the Captain. Captain Tissot came on telling the crew about the event of the day. Having our escorts to get behind the Big E and ride out the storm. That the Enterprise was going to have all four screws to churn the waves to create a smooth ride for the escorts. Waist Catapult V-2 Being on the angle deck, under the catapult area is all ocean. And you can her the wave hit the side of the ship.🎌
I was on the USS constellation in 1963 going around the Horn of South America, and ran into a terrible storm, which lasted about three days. We had one wave, and it tore the starboard catwalk off. it was hell. Never will forget it.
My sister's husband was on the Connie 62-66 and he talked about riding out a typhoon several times
I was on a Gearing class destroyer (DD845) that frequently escorted the USS Midway. Our procedure was to go over one wave then under the next. There were always footprints on the lower bulkheads after a storm. 30 degree rolls were not usual. I had two canvas straps to tie myself into my bunk. The Good Old Days 😳
Why I joined Army.
I was on the Meredith (DD890), last of the Gearing class. We should have dot sub pay!!!
I was on a Destroyer . Like being on a cork in a water fall. Walking on the bulkheads was common practice. I always tried to have a bottom bunk.
I worked the flight deck on the USS Independence CV-62. Had water coming g over the bow, and life boats carried away from the waves. The ship was moving, but felt rock solid.
I was ships company on the Indy front 1964 to 1968. Water around South Africa threw us around like we were a tooth pick. We had to tie down in our bunks. Roughest water I was ever in.
Were you scared
I worked in 3MMR. We had just finished going through SLEP in Philly and were getting re-homeported to San Diego so we had to round south america... must have been 89'. I think it was the only time I really felt the ship pitch.
2000-2001 was stationed on the USS Enterprise, we were returning from an exercise in Atlantic Ocean. A hurricane was moving up from the south and heading north east up the coast line. We held off for a day returning to Norfolk because we would have went through the eye. The battle group push on and we hit tail end of storm . I remember looking out on the catwalk and the waves were a few feet from them. 60+ foot waves were over the bow and the small boys were getting bashed . You could see bow almost at 90 degrees up then the destroyers would disappear. It was really nothing on the carrier, but after talking to some of the sailors in the battle group, stationed on the smaller ships, they said it was hell!!
You don't happen to remember an AS3 Baxter from that time, do ya? He was a good friend of mine, went to A school and C school together, and was also my roommate for 6 months or so before a cruise around that time. He went to Enterprise around the same time I went to the Eisenhower. He was a true cowboy from Montana. Nice as hell. Probably worked in IM-4 for the most part, but not sure if he TAD'd anywhere else aboard.
All of this technology on modern carriers makes me have even more respect for our sailors of earlier times. Specifically the Pacific campaign of the second war.
I was onboard The Nimitz off the coast of South Carolina when Hurricane Hugo made landfall. When ever a bad storm like that approaches, ships like the Nimitz always put to sea with it's escourts. (This is to protect smaller ships at port, from being damaged by the big ships movements) We were in 40 to 60 ft seas and the weatherdeck of the Nimitz barely seemed to be moving at all. I looked off to port and saw one our destroyer escorts. The entire front keel of the ship came out of the water with every wave. I felt sorry for the crew onboard her. I knew they were getting beat to death.
I was on USS Ranger CV61 in 1976 when we put out from Subic to ride out a typhoon. It was the only time I felt the swells cause a roll. It was quite gentle, and in fact comforting when I turned in that night.
I would go out and watch during resupply the small boys bow would plunge under the water and back up and out again when we felt like we were riding on glass. Just insane.
Thank you for your service, from your brother to the north.
My experienced on board a surface ship is getting seasick as a recruit the day we leave port, until we arrived to the our destination Treasure Island to boot camp San Diego, CA. I felt, I only have skin/bones holding me together. Recruited by the Submarine Services after boot camp and stayed on for 22 Years, until retirement. Quite a hellish experience crossing the Pacific Oceans on board the USNS Gen. C. G. Morton T-AP 138..
One minute you're a Destroyer. Next minute you're a Submarine.
I was on the USS Theodore Roosevelt up north of Hamburg Germany (yes, got my Blue Nose card) and we were in 25 to 30 foot swells. About every third wave the bow would bite hard into the sea and we actually had waves breaking over the flight deck that covered half the ship. It was insane. We sustained minor damage but she rode it out like a champ
I was there with you that night, shipmate, in the fall of 1988! We paid a visit to Wilhelmshaven and Hamburg, then sailed up the coast of Norway where we saw the northern lights and were initiated as "tried and trusted, ice and brine encrusted" blue noses. As we steamed back across the Atlantic, the seas were so rough that our escorts took a different route around a storm, while Captain Ritt chose to steam right through part of it.
We spent most of one night at General Quarters. I was stationed on the starboard lifeboat davit for GQ. Normally, spending GQ on a lifeboat davit meant fresh air, sunshine and relative relaxation, compared with most GQ stations inside the skin of the ship. But this night we were at GQ because of the dangers posed by this storm. After dark, the Executive Officer came out on the davit and ordered us to come inside the skin of the ship for safety. A wise choice, as the davit was hit by a big wave that night, and we might have been washed overboard if we were still outside the skin of the ship. Instead, we were right inside a weathertight door when the huge wave hit, and the sound of the wave crashing against the bulkhead behind us was deafening!
@@tedpreston4155 Nice to hear from a shipmate! I was in the G-3 Department, Weapons division. I was a "Mag Rat" red shirt. The Wilhelmshaven/Hamburg was my first port of call. I took 2 days leave and spent it in Hamburg. So much fun. Take care shipmate!
@@valuedhumanoid6574 I was in Engineering Department, A Division. I'm the guy who kept the small boats and the emergency diesel generators running.
Wilhelmshaven/Hamburg was my final port visit. When we returned from the North Atlantic Cruise, I finished my enlistment, became a veteran on Veteran's Day that year, and went back to Wyoming to college.
I was in a super typhoon aboard a 370 foot WW2 destroyer in the Taiwan Straits in the 1960's. 90-110 foot swells - one over 120 foot. The swells seemed about a mile apart. After you crested one and started down the oncoming wave would slowly rise in your view till it passed the top of the windows on the bridge. The bow would dig in and seem like it wasn''t going to stop but then it popped up like a cork. We went beyond our point of no return in one roll, but we didn't capsize because the captain had the ship topped off in Kaohsiung. He had to radio for special permission because they didn't have the fuel we usually used (NSFO)., we also topped off with everything else we could. But we had to go out because at the time the US had a treaty with the Republic of China to keep a destroyer in the straits, and that was us this time. I also almost got washed overboard in that same storm. I just managed to get my knees and elbows locked around a stanchion for the life line , which I did because I had been in undertow before and knew how strong it was.
Incredible & glad you survived. Thanks for your service.
Your Captain saved your ass, empty fuel tanks will kill you in a Typhoon. As the ships Oil King I was responsible for keeping the tanks either full or empty and ready to ballast with sea water if needed. Half empty tanks are minimized due to the free surface effect as the ship takes heavy rolls.
When the Great East Japan Earthquake hit Japan in 2011, it was a US aircraft carrier that overcame the "tsunami" and transported various supplies. I watched the footage of that time, and I still remember how moved I was
I was in the Navy onboard USS Nimitz back in the early 80's. We had to leave port when a hurricane was moving up the east coast. We did a wide circle out of port and then someone decided we would launch aircraft outside the storm, proceed into the eye, launch more, leave the eye go recover the outer aircraft, then go back in and recover those aircraft.
There were waves cresting the bow of the ship and it barley moved. When the ship was turning about and the wind and waves were broadside it was hard to walk a straight line but still no major motions. The high speed turns during work ups is much worse that that was.
As far as all the gear moving that was all properly secured long before weather could even show any more that a gentle rain.
My ex was on the nimitz in the 80's. He talked about how they had to go out to sea due to a hurricane and they didn't want to be tied to the pier during the storm.
@@justinegorski2703 Yup tied to a pier is the worst place for big ships to be when big storms hit.
@borgonianevolution9164 why is that 🤔 exactly. Being tied to pier in storm.i imagine because ship's are tossed and smashed into pier.very interesting 🤔 stories. And I convey my respect 🙏 to all . That served and are serving
I was on a Canadian warship which passed thru the tail of a hurricane we hit waves of a height of 55ft . We were loaded heavy leaving narvik Norway. After passing thru the storm we deverted to England for repairs.
I love how many sailors are watching this
I’m guilty as charged 😂
I am very proud of our Navy and jealous at the same time. I served during the Vietnam Era and as a female was never allowed on a ship. And maybe that was for the best! :) Still proud to have served at VT6!! NAVY, YOU ARE AWESOME!!
El Faro was located at a very deep depth a sad loss of life may they rest in peace
The Roughest Seas was off the Coast of Japan for myself,. Not allowed top side for a couple of days, top Rack broke loose and fell on my head while asleep. Got stiches from the Master at Arms ⚓⚓⚓🦈🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Poor bastard
Wow 😳 that's crazy and thank you for your service.
Years ago I was a UK side trawler fisherman working the North Sea,Norwegian waters and north of Iceland in winter weather,a lot of the time in heavy seas with gale force winds.a side trawler lays beam on to these seas in order to haul the nets aboard..so the ship is often rolling through 90 degrees of arc.trawler’s were built to take a battering,but one has to get used to the discomfort as a way of life.Roly🇬🇧
It’s always fun to eat in the galley during rough seas where one hand is holding on to the table and the other with a fork. Probably the worst I’ve been to was in the English Channel. One of the forklift came loose after tied down and the fork hit a sailor on the thigh and his leg had to be amputated. Rough seas are no joke and sea sickness is the least of your worries.
This is bilge water. Any ship no matter how big, can and do sink. They real key is avoiding the storm in the first place.
The U.S. Coast Guard Sailors & other countries coast guard sailors have my 100% respect. They have to put everything on the line everyday. Shalom
Thank you guys for your service,I have four brothers that served,enjoyed reading your life stories.
As a submariner, I was never in rough seas - I was under them. But I have been a sailor most of my life, and being in a 21 foot sailboat on Lake Michigan in ten foot seas counts, I would say. This was especially true as it was late November and the water was deadly cold. I will admit that we were stupid to be there in the first place, but it took all my skills and those of my friends to get us back to Muskegon Lake in one piece.
Say, you're from my neck of the woods. I live only a few miles from Muskegon Lake.
Your story sounds terrifying.
I got caught on Lake Michigan when a storm came up unexpectedly. We have a 27ft cabin cruiser. Luckily we weren't far from the break water and channel, so we got the boat in before the worset of the storm hit, it was scary!
The one thing you learn from living here, as I have all my life is you have to have respect for that big body of water, because it can kill you.
@@captainkirk4514
Yeah, I thought I knew about respecting the big lake before that happened - then it hit home. In years since even with bigger boats I have been more cautious than I was then.
I'm curious, was your 27 a sailboat or a power boat? Advantages to both of course - a 27 foot sailboat with a full keel can weather a storm better than a power boat, but a power boat can get back to safety faster and more easily.
@@pdoylemi It is a power boat.
I seen a lot boats get into trouble on that lake. A lot of people drown. I myself have been cought in a rip current while swimming as teenager and it was pretty scary, and I'm a very strong swimmer. Rip currents are not to be taken lightly.
The Great Lakes can get plenty deadly! I'm sure we've all heard the stories.
we buried our bubble in a hurricane.. someone thrown across the mess decks.. a stupid ood (in pacific). then the transits in and out of holyloch (atlantic) could be hell in rough seas.. pure hell.. bobbed like a cork not a ship.
I Was An ABH3 Aboard The USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN-69), In Air Dept/V-1 Div From 1980 - 1984. We Encountered Rough Seas Like Those In The North Atlantic. We Weathered It Fairly Well Because Of Our Size, But Our Little Destroyer Escorts Were Getting Tossed Around Like Toy Boats! ⚓
I was on the Eisenhower in 85-89 and have encountered rough seas as well.
Thank you so much, and I wish you well too. I wasn't too social in those days and didn't get to know shipmates other than my own department. Sounds like your dad had a very dangerous job, too. Especially when the Big E caught fire; hope he stayed well too. I found out from the VA that some of my health problems were due to exposure to Agent Orange, and the constant loud noise like from F-4 Phantoms taking off with full after burners just feet from my position. But the VA has improved so much in the last 10 or so years and taking care of me well. I have so many interesting experiences from military duty, probably the best was growing up/maturing. I developed a work ethic that has done me well, even now in retirement. My biological father was a ferry boat captain in San Diego, and my adopted father was also in the Navy and then worked at NAS North Island where I was born and lived my first 14 years. When the Enterprise went into dry dock in Bremerton, WA. I married my first wife during that time. It was truly amazing seeing those 4 propellors in the open air! Geez they were humongous. I think about 25 feet in dia., and solid brass. And the Enterprise the first carrier nuclear powered. So nice to not have that black smoke billowing out of smoke stacks. What a mess for other ships.
How cool you have 2 planes. Radial engines, other than the RR V12 in the Mustang, are my favorite. When I was 18 my Air Explorer scout troop got to fly some at the Navy base. I flew an S-2F Tracker submarine hunter. Throttles overhead, push forward for full power, and the sound and feel of that rumbling, I'll never forget.
Well, nice chatting with you, and bye for now
Ron Hartigan
Thank you so so much for contacting me Ron I am so so happy to hear from you you made my evening and I hope you and your wife and family are doing well and healthy I see someone else loves screws that shine out in brass just like me I am nuts on huge screws especially the 20-30 ft diameter screws I think they are 50-100 tons each thay are really beautiful and I'm so happy you met your lovely wife there and married so sweet and beautiful I wish you both all the great things that life can give you Thank you all so much to complement on both my vintage fighter bomber air craft that made me feel so happy and I'm so glad that you got to be a pilot too so happy for you those top throttles are my favorite and when you give those throttles the juice to those engines you feel the world just slip away and you got all the power and control of the world 🌎 in your hands I'm so happy I have a wonderful and blessed and amazing brother and friend as you Thank you so much for sharing your life and past with me I'm so happy I'm very tired and I have to get to bed and get some sleep So I hope you and your family stay safe and healthy and well and I will get back to you again soon and I hope you and your family have a wonderful weekend and a delightful tomorrow My 💕 love to you and your family COL Donnamarie Fuentes Dumont Lavallee
In the early 70s on board USS MIDWAY headed to the south China sea big storm tore the gun tub from mt 51 all but off. Spent a week in Pearl for repairs.
I made several deployments on boards these behemoths... I was a weather forecaster (AG) so it was my responsibility to ensure the Captain was informed of any inclement weather the ship may encounter. In October 2005 I was doing workups with the USS Enterprise and that year was the most active Hurricane season on record (Still valid to this day).
I remember vividly finishing my "watch" as the ship weather forecaster... leaving a tropical storm named Wilma as a 70kt storm about to become a hurricane in the western Caribbean. When I returned the next morning, the night watch turnover the 70KT is now a monster Category 5 Hurricane with a central pressure of 882 mb!!! In less than 24 hours almost a 100 mb pressure drop. We tracked the storm as it recurve into Florida as a Category 2 storm... race across it, and regain Category 3 as it emerge over the Gulfstream.
At that time the Enterprise was between Bermuda and the North Carolina coast doing a logistic unload... I informed the Captain... the monster that was racing towards our location at 30+ Knots. I finished my watch thinking "everything will be okay once we head west to the coast at best speed"
Well I wake up counting up to 18 seconds feeling as I weigh 200 lbs more... followed by 12 seconds of free fall. My bunk was all the way forward in frame 40 so the ship motion was amplified. I was thinking to myself... what the hell is going on?! I crawl to the walls trying to brush my teeth in the head... stagger along the walls trying to make it to frame 180 where my office was... and once I reach it... the night forecaster said... Yeah we didn't make best speed... we only did 8 knots and the hurricane is now 20 miles from us! A category 3 Hurricane Wilma (Once the strongest Hurricane in the Atlantic Basin) almost on top us.
I look at the flight deck camera and we had gust almost to 110 knots with waves breaking over the bow. Thankfully we had no air wing, we were full of fuel, and everything was "secured for sea". Still we were experiencing extreme movement more than 30° rolls. I briefed the Captain on the bridge that we were now in Hurricane conditions basically balancing myself between the 30° rolls and he just had the biggest grin in his face (He was an aviator) and drinking his coffee. We can only recommend but the Captain has the ultimate responsibility. He probably think everything will be fine with no air wing. Eventually we made it to the coast not before crossing the (600 ft /182 meter ) depth curve... at that depth the biggest waves break... but once you cross that depth into shallow water the seas just abate considerably since there not enough depth to get the full height of the waves. So that was the end of that ordeal.
On another occasion in 2006, the same Captain try to Maverick though 26 ft swells but this time we had the air wing onboard and in swells like that... chains usually don't hold the expensive aircraft down and costly mishaps happen... the Captain doesn't want the backlash when we already recommend him not to go. So almost 9/10 they will follow our recommendations. When the weatherman is wrong... oh boy! But we do a pretty good job.
TLDR: To answer the Video question...Why MONSTER WAVES Can't Sink US Aircraft Carriers? Well it's all about buoyancy. These behemoths can compartamelize themselves in such a way that they are basically unsinkable. But that doesn't mean the things inside don't move around. 😅
US Navy also has the most accurate real time weather monitoring systems on the planet. Carrier groups are updated constantly to keep them in calm seas. They are not going to drive through heavy seas or storms.
They go where they choose to go. When they choose to go.Katrina was 600 miles wide...it won't be outrun.
@@MichaelThorpeNJ
Heck Yeah!
Until there is a reason to be somewhere! Funny how quickly the rules can see to change!
@@williambrodmanvi5944
They plan for it. Not trying to rain on your parade, but the US Navy has the best real time weather tracking systems in the world. They are on point 24/7 around the world where ever their ships are deployed.
I was on the USS TULARE LKA112 in a severe storm in the South China Sea when a young FA opened a weather tight door on the after quad and couldn't get it closed as the weather decks were secured. It flooded the mess deck, and we were called to general quarters to control the flooding.
It was a large enough ship that the waves didn't bother me, but many others were seasick.
One of my favorite pastimes was to go to the bow and feel the gravitational differences as we went over the high waves and swells.
Never under estermate the power of the sea.
When I was a small kid, I was in an ocean liner caught in a storm in the Indian Ocean. I, and my parents, all got sick. When we emerged from our cabins, three days later, going on deck I can remember the waves towering above the top of the ship when we were in a trough. It was a 30,000 tonnes ship, so not small. All I remember hearing was being told that the ship’s external stabilisers had broken during the storm. We got to our destination safely, thereafter.
That dudes face firing the 50 call at 6:44 is awesome!
i saw that lmao
I was on the USS Midway in the late 70s we ran into a few typhoons and had no issues, kinda fun to watch from the hanger bay.
Spent 3 years on board her, 81-83, the best ship I was on due to the great crew, we were the tightest, best trained crew in the Pacific. A real tough old gal!!!
I was on the USS SHANGRA LA CARRIER IN 1955 to 1957ans se waves coming over the flight deck on the bow and on the stern when this happened you could not stand up due to the vibrations. The ship was the first angle ( permanent) deck.
l sailed in the British Merchant Marine from the mid sixties into the seventies. l did six month or more trips to various parts of the world. Ships of 35,000 tons to VLCC...(very large crude carriers) of over 200,000 tons. During my time l experience some pretty scary weather, high seas, massive swells and hurricane force winds that sent huge waves rolling along the deck...very uncomfortable and noisy. To be on open deck space meant certain injury and/or drowning by being washed overboard. so was to be avoided unless absolute emergency. Any vessel that floats can sink given the right circumstances...Having said that, l loved my time in the Merchant Navy, have fond memories of my youth, some great times with some great crews...
Thank you for serving our country. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
As a young marine , over 60 years ago ,at sea from Hawaii to Philippines we encountered waves higher than our ship. Down one side and up the other 😢. Sleeping on canvas racks and holding on to stop from rolling out of the rack. Watching the salt water running from one side to the other in the urinals that are also full of vomit from fellow grunts😮. Too sick to report for our man over board drill and no one even noticed. After wards dealing with the sea legs ! That was once after 18 days at sea, if I remember correctly
It's funny that we've been Salling carries on the high seas for almost 100 years, and we've never lost a carrier to a storm yet. it's not impossible but our sailors are professionals.
“Stand by for Heavy Rolls.... Batten all Hatches and secure all Gear Adrift."
I was on an Adams Class Destroyer (DDG-15) and indirectly skirted a typhoon off of Luzon on more then one occasion. On the Beaufort Scale it was a sea state of 9 or a 10--approximately 35 to 45 foot waves and high winds. The destroyer that I was on was about 440 feet long and 50 feet at the beam. In high seas the bow would lift into the air and expose the sonar dome. As the ship crested the bow would pitch sharply downwards into the oncoming wave and the sonar dome would loudly slap against the water. Above decks a wall of water would slam into the bridge and go over the 0-4 level. The lookouts would literally be tied to their posts so they wouldn't wash overboard. As the bow submerged the aft portion of the ship would lift the screws fully out of the water. I still distinctly remember the shiver that would vibrate down the keel from bow to stern when the sonar dome would hit the water. When you were in aft steering you could hear the screws lift out of the water and then descended back into the sea, it sounded like a loud "thwap thwap thwap." The two tandem screws on an Adams class destroyer were each about 10 feet in diameter. We'd pitch back and forth at a 45 degree angle. When it was really bad we'd go to 'dog zebra' to ensure that we'd maintained water tight integrity if the hull got breached. Everyone would be locked into their compartments. Once on the bridge I experienced a 57 degree role--at 60 degrees the turrets were designed to fall off of the ship to keep it upright. The racks that we slept in had seat belts that we used so we wouldn't fall out of bed as we slept. The whole experience was insane. I was almost washed over the side of the ship on two separate occasions.
every time someone say's waves can't sink a ship , i hear mother nature say , hold my beer .
Very nice ,. I was lucky enough to dive underneath F.F.G. 3 ( SCHOFIELD). In the Persian Gulf 83 to cut fishing rope from Fin Stabilizer,. Ships Diver ⚓ No mobile dive team at that time 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤿🤿🤿🤿
Any ship, no matter its size, can be sunk in ocean storms. Four U.S. Navy ships were sunk by a Typhoon in WWII. They said the Titanic was unsinkable too.
I was on the USS America CV-66 in the 80's and I went through a few storm's during my time onboard.
Another intriguing video today. The carriers are amazing vessels. Thank you for the video today! ❤😊
I don't know much about sailing, but...
Once when this subject came up, Marines who had been aboard a nearby destroyer told me that they were hanging on for dear life during a storm in which I had never felt a thing - as I was aboard an LHA (a ship which carries stuff like aircraft, landing-craft, & troops: it's fairly large 'though smaller than a full-sized aircraft carrier... & much larger than a destroyer).
Size makes a difference.
Terrible
Size does very much matter right up until it just doesn't!1982 CV-59 Mid Atlantic Re-turn from Rodda Spain to Jacksonville Florida USA! A canoe is a canoe is a canoe...
I spent 2 1/2 years onboard the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). I had 2 WestPacs and 1 world cruise while I was onboard. We never bothered to tie down the computers sitting on our desks because the ship had always been so stable that you rarely felt the ship pitch or roll.
Then during one WestPac we were going from Gonzo station (outside the Persian Gulf) to a port visit at Perth Australia. Unfortunately there was a typhoon in the middle of the Indian ocean at the time. Normally we would sail way around it, but we were late going off station and didn't want to miss the port visit in Perth. So we did a chord line across the typhoons path and had really bad rocking and the computers started falling off desks. That was the ONLY time I felt the ship rock and roll. Needless to say we tied down the computers after that.
I was on board the USCGC Edisto during Deepfreeze 69/70 and I experienced many times having to deal with bad weather at sea. When our ship had to go back to rescue a stuck Japanese on the other side of the ice in Antarctica. We were battling rough seas almost the entire time going there but we didnt have to go the whole way because the ship in question got out on there own.
I was on a quite common ferry from Poland to Denmark. The captain decided to set sail at 10 degrees Beaufort, even though many vessels stayed in port because there were reports of accidents at sea. (On this route, one ferry had already sunk several years ago) On the high seas, I was standing on the upper deck of a rather large ferry and could see the crests of the waves in my line of sight as the ship plummeted to their bottom. I knew that whatever happened I had no control over anyway, so I smoked a cigarette and enjoyed the gloomy beauty of the situation which nobody can doubt while the rest of the passengers bounced inside against the walls and got seasick.
All this maintenance is oblivious. Yet, you have forgotten the first rule of the sea. If the sea wants you it will take you.
The US Navy avoids storms whenever possible, and "advises" the US Coast Guard to avoid storms also. Needless to say, The US Voasy Guard Cutters's OOD's and CO'S thank their Navy Counterparts for the warnings, strap themselves into their racks and chairs, and go through the storms! It's a dangerous job, but somebody has to do it!
Did 4 yrs on an LST...when they said tie down for sea ...they meant it. I was a Hull Tech...one time lost 32 55 gal drums of lube oil over the side in the sea of japan.
Caught on after lookout on a Destroyer during a storm that rocked us in 30° rolls, had to tie myself to a welded to deck stancion with the ships wired comm system. Fell unconcious for 2 days and spent a week recovering from the traumatic experience of 30' t0 40' waves that crashed down on me for 3 hrs.
I was onboard an eleven hold bulk carrier in a force eleven hurricane off the Norwegian coast in the early eighties. We had lost the engine due to a jammed valve. The ship was fully laden, her back was breaking. We needed to make the jig to remove the jammed valve but all the cutting gear was in the forecastle. We were calling Maydays. A very brave Norwegian crewman volunteered to go out on deck to get it. I went to the bridge to stand watch. One minute you could see him, the next he was under water. He made it back with the cutting gear. We got our power back just in time. The ship had been pushed to within a couple of miles of the rocky Norwegian coastline. That crew member was a hero. He deserved a medal.
The El Faro was located after a 12-day underwater search. You even showed a picture of it at the bottom of the ocean while saying it was never found.
I caught that one also, i was like what do you mean you just showed footage of as you said it was still missing at sea? Wthecklefish...
Bless our Vets 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
We came out of Australia in1977 into a typhoon. Only wish we had some of the stabilizing stuff. The sonar dome came out of the water regularly. This made the ship shutter from stem to stern
Me to brother
Yea, the Knox class had a big sonar dome, when it came out of the water always made me think of a dog shaking a big bone!
Service USS AMERICA CVA-66 1965-1968! LTJG COMMUNICATIONS! LOVED THAT RIDE! The video(?),.... perfect any/all conditions!
I was on board her ‘88-90’ MM3
I ❤ the Navy!!! RIP Master Chef Dad
1970, last cruise of cva31 ,Bonnie Dick, typhoon coming out of Singapore, 3 days in typhoon, had all our exterior cat walks ripped off ,all the way to mid ship gun tubs. Was keep very hushed up, no disciplinary action, she went from subic to San Diego. We threw all stores over the side, she was going to scrape after a fuel stop in Hawaii and 😊eventually Washington .this was a BIG COVERUP.
I was on a Spruance Class, and we hit some waves in the Pacific, somewhere between Hawaii and Japan, that were out of this world. We had green water going over the forward gunmount. About every third wave would submerge the entire gunmount. We rocked and rolled for a couple of days. It was hard to stay in your rack, eat or walk. Although I have to say I do miss it.
Desron 23. The Little Beavers.
@@toddrich9278 DESRON 23 is a notable Squad for sure. Thanks for bringing that up. We were part of DESRON 9 out of Terminal Island in Long Beach. I had a blast. As hard as some days were I do miss it.
I was on the U.S.S Guadalcanal in 91 patrolling the Mediterranean. We went through a typhoon and I didn’t know a ship that size could get tossed around like that.
I was on CVN-73 and we got a storm and waves were coming up over the flight deck and smashed in a door before the LSO platform
I served on an LHA flat bottom amphibious ship I went thru a few hurricanes it wasn't fun
At 3:05 you say the El Faro wreck hasn't been located, while the video shows underwater footage of the wreck (which has indeed been located). 😂😂😂
Was on USS Barbey FF 1088 chasing hurricanes off Baja California to test ECCM gear. Small ship even 60 knot winds was tossed around cuz had big bubble on flight deck, to house the top secret gear. Went out 5 times to test...
I was on the USS Inchon an LPH. We were in the perfect storm back in 1991 near Bermuda while underway to the middle east. We brought the helo's inside and battened down the hatches. As much as 45 degree roles. Strong enough that i saw it rip a DC locker that was bolted to a steel wall right off it. I had no desire to go above and see the waves. Nobody was walking a straight line down the passageways. Lots of shoulder injuries and sea sick sailors/Marines.
Onboard Barbour County (LST-1195) in heavy seas, transiting through the south China Sea, we took several rolls exceeding 52 degrees. Not good for a flat bottomed vessel. Suffered wave damage stbd side foc'sle where the bulwark was pushed inward about 15 degrees. Lost a ladder and some rigging amidships. The possibility of capsizing had us all pretty focused.
Walken on the walls!, been there done that Ride a Destroyer through a typhoon some time. Fun for all.
On a aircraft carrier ( Cv-60) on a med cruise in early 90’s a rouge 6:50 wave came suddenly and took a tractor off the deck. We also had a sea sparrow sponson partially ripped off. While I didn’t see heavy weather, I appreciated climbing ladders as the ship fell in a trough. It was funny watching ensigns get sea sick when we rocked slightly. My friends stationed on DD’s share tales of Listing almost to non self righting angles and walking on the bulk heads. Sea states are not to be trifled with
You mean the USS Saratoga? I was ships company USS Ranger CV-61 85 to 88. Same class (Forrestal).
Yes, experimental boiler plant at 1200psi super heated main steam
Me encantan los portaaviones, es una pequeña ciudad flotante, ya me imagino las odiseas que han de vivir la tripulación, cuando se enfrentan a fenómenos meteorológicos, ahí demuestra la tripulación todas sus capacidades y destrezas..!! Excelente documental..!! Excelente video..!! Saludos
Number 1 rule of damage control. Have faith in your ship to survive.
Thanks folks for sharing as I really enjoyed the video and comments.
Anyone here that served on or had a relative serve on the William Wood? My Pop William T Smith did a few world tours on her but sad to say he never talked about his service that much to me or my brother.
I would love to see some personal photo’s you may have of her and hear some stories.
Thanks and May God Bless
Too many to count. Life on a DDG.
Yes. Across the bay from San Francisco, on East side same as Oakland Raiders. Alameda is where the Enterprise was based when I was stationed on it. I met my first wife-to-be at the USO Club in San Francisco, and when the ship returned from the next deployment to Viet Nam she took a bus over to meet me at the pier. The E went to Bremerton, WA, for dry dock repairs; what a sight. We got to drive our cars onto the flight deck for the trip. I wanted the crew to launch my 1960 Ford Fairlane convertible off the deck with the catapult but they wouldn't comply. So I had to take it down with the aircraft elevator then drive down a ramp.
Went through that on a West Pac in the USS Jason AR8 between Hawaii and Japan ‘78-‘79
A sight to behold both bow and stern
Waves during hurricanes are NOT 300 feet! 😂
I like how he said 300 and the video showed 200 and neither are true
My 3rd cruise, 2nd on the TR, 1992ish we leave on schedule for the Med/Red sea and there is a 100yr storm in the way. The rest of the battle group lagged behind. The TR did well but the Jolly Roger supply officer was a bit of a puss, I hung some washers with spot tie from the overhead. The visual reference of the rolling sent Ltjg Sebring to sick bay. Good times!
i spent 25 years in the royal navy and yes went through many many rough seas and megga storm, whilst on the bulwark coming back from austrailer we had a hurricane white water over the flight deck gun mountains badly damaged that was 197 as i just turned 18, on HMS Salisbury in the bay of Bisca the waves where higher then our top mast but we road then out for nearly a week till the job was abandoned due to weather.
Kind of funny, a whole bunch of sailors on here telling there stories of the high sea's and not one of them ever encountered a 300ft wave. I spend the majority of my adult life in the navy and at sea, on all different types of ships, been through hurricanes and what the North Atlantic could throw at a ship. Went through a couple of rouge waves in my day, just maybe reaching 75ft, maybe a bit more, but I have never seen a 300ft wave in the middle of the ocean. Possibly tsunami at the shoreline could possibly reach this height, but I do not think you would find to many naval ships anchored in the way of a Tsunami. Now Naval vessels are designed differently than commercial ships and are made to handle the sea states at high speeds for maneuvering and doing tight turns in any sea state.
Yeah... rough seas can be hell on the human STOMACH. SOMETIMES causing headaches....the DOC'S would give us these pills in 1992, to overcome sea sickness but them shits didn't work for me. I would still get queasy.
I spent approximately 4 years on the USS MIDWAY (CV41) when we were stationed in YOKOSUKA, JAPAN.
Because MIDWAY was built during and launched after World War II, she ORIGINALLY had NO angle deck for jets. Afterwards, when I was onboard in the '80s, we could NOT carry FA-18 HORNETS.... DEFINITELY NOT F114 TOMCATS (they were too heavy and broke our catapults [one was repaired and the second just barely worked, used ONLY in emergencies]), so even during the '80s, we flew Vietnam era F4 PHANTOM IIs. Because of the jets, she spent over a year, maybe 2 {years} in drydock to install an angle-deck, causing her to have a "NATURAL" 8% list to the portside, so we were NOT supposed-to turn to the port, ...BUT we did once and she heaved like hell!,
ANYWAY....
One of our postcalls coming out of Hong Kong (...I think in '83?), we had an EMERGENCY PULLOUT, leaving about 284 personnel behind (I know because I was tasked to count them for almost 2 days) to be picked-up/recovered later, to avoid THE second typhoon in the area. We tossed 'N turned so much/our escort(s) were instructed to stand about 2 miles away because of the waves we created in the storm, ... I had to put my foot out of my rack to avoid falling-out. When I went to my office later, all the furniture was tossed to one side of the room; the waves swamped the flight-deck, all the planes that were tied-down held, but a series of conduents were left open and dumped gallons of water into several planes in the hanger-bey and partially flooded ,, about 2 inches of water.
This was only one of many storm events I experienced of my (4 +/-) years onboard (three (3) MAJOR TYPHHOONS and numerous other rough seas storms).
It was in the Phillipines when Midway had to flee port early in 83.
I got left behind and had to ride it out inside the Upper Mound quanset hut barracks above Cubi Point navel air station.
It would have been blown away if it wasn't fastened at all 4 corners.
Remember that well, shore patrol trying to round us all up from the very many bars ant tattoo places in Kowloon, I had to light off 1C boiler my self, half drunk, and we had to circle back to Okinawa to pick up the rest of the crew.
I was in a Hurricane on a cruise ship down in Mexico back in the 80s I think half the passengers were sea sick I was lucky it didn't bother me but it was a wild ride
I served with two naval AVIATION aircraft carriers and seen hugh waves which were unbelievable super big!