Cruel sea

[Micke II]

Some spectacular views of a storm on the cost of Britanny (West of France) with a small fishboat, the emergency tow vessel Abeille Bourbon and the frigate Latouche Treville.

http://www.wimp.com/angryseas/

[spence]

Been there, done that. THRILLING and SCARY.

[sventhebold]

No thank you! I like it here right in the middle of the continent!

[tigercub]

Been sailing enough to be caught in 2 to small storms over the years...makes you feel alive after it passes!

Tigercub

[oldman45]

I went through one in the North Atlantic, that was enough for me.

[Chris21wen]

ORIGINAL: spence

Been there, done that. THRILLING and SCARY.

If you every been on a 300ft ship that's gone uphill you know that at some stage you have to come down. Dam right it's THRILLING and SCARY.

[JocMeister]

Wow! [X(]

[sprior]

That is Harry Roughers. Done that in the Bay of Biscay too.

of course you know it's really rough when you're on a submarine and the skipper takes her down another 200ft because there's too much motion on the boat.

[Gunner98]

Well that pretty much sums up why I joined the army! [X(]

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[Blackhorse]

+1

. . . we did have deep-water fording kits for our M60A3s -- allowed us to navigate depths of up to three feet, IIRC.
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ORIGINAL: Gunner98

Well that pretty much sums up why I joined the army! [X(]

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[PaxMondo]

Yech, choppy seas like that. Bay of Biscay is 'famous' for those. Of course when the swells are +60 ft, that doesn't exactly make you comfortable either ...

[Zigurat666]

I,m amazed at the technology behind the ships so that they dont get flipped or broken in two. I,m sure it happens on occasion but wow...that frigate looked like a good candidate.

On a side note there was only one human voice in the video and very quick...I think he was saying "I'm gettin the hell outta here!"

[casmithasl]

Three Hurricanes USS Waldron DD 699 1965 thru 1967, yep it was fun.

[Sardaukar]

On unrelated (or bit) question, how many of you get seasick?

Since I never did and know several who do.

[danlongman]

How come they always put all those rocks and docks and piers right beside the water? That looks dangerous when it is windy. Everything gets all wet.
I don't get seasick but I've never sailed in those kind of waters. Ice is better. [:'(]

[dr.hal]

When I sailed my sailboat across the Atlantic, I went straight west out of the English Channel, incurring many hundreds of miles of more crossing for the very reason you see in that video, shoaling seas up to a coast that is open to the ocean are a killer.... and I don't mean figuratively. Hal

[Gunner98]

Spent two days aboard ship, HMCS Ottawa while on a Naval Gunfire course. They bunked the army guys in the bow for the night and then opened the Wardroom bar - it wasn't pretty. [:'(][:D] I'm much better swimming a track or floating on a pontoon raft [:D]

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[joey]

I spent two hurricanes on the surface on a sub. A class 5 hurricane on the surface is one incredible ride. I recommend no one else ever do it. It is like being on a roller coaster for 48 hours straight. It gets boring after about five minutes, but the ride won't stop.

[Sardaukar]

At least sub is safest thing to be in a hurricane.

[topeverest]

That all for one crap on or under the sea takes a rare breed, and that ain't me. 'Lost with all or most hands' spooked me. I aint got the 'right' stuff for a career on the sea. of course, I ended up joining the army.

As one of my navy puke friends used to like to say, "Its every last coward for himself in the Army!"

I always preferred to call it initiative and improvisation...
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