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So, is that poor F18 the “alert 5″ bird… and what idiot left that SH60 up there on the bow cats?
THAT is some seas, baby. Wow!
The only thing worse is being at PD in those type of seas–visibility really sucks…
Great video, thanks for the link. Flashbacks to being a young sailor aboard Kennedy/America, (sorry, old(er) now and can’t specifically recall) , early eighties, watching the PLAT showing water over the bow somewhere off Bermuda skirting a storm. Moosbrugger(?) was behind us trying to seek shelter in our wake, [damaged shaft?] looked more like a sub than a DD). Relentless, impossible SLAMS! on the bow, rippling shimmy-shake down the keel; seemed to go on forever and I didn’t think it would ever end or that the ship could take much more. Felt mighty small out there that day. Learned a lot about respect for the seas, weather, naval engineering and real sailors (sez the airdale). Fun stuff. Glad I was able to live it.
Safe weekend to all.
I kept expecting that SH60 to be no longer on the bow after each wave.
BullNav –
That’s what I was thinking. PD sucks in stuff like that (I once come up on the edge of a Hurricane..woohoo!)
Videos like this also remind me of why I went subs… so I can go UNDER stuff like this, instead of through.
I’ll bet the destroyer screen is playing submarine!
Yep. Saw that once on the America during the North Atlantic cruise in 1974. Amazing stuff. Its hard to believe the waves that high unless you see them. We were taking maybe a 5 degree (each way) roll (calibrated string hung from the overhead…drove the susceptible to the nearest trash can. heh. O3 frame 59 thereabouts) Of course it could have been the S.O.S., greasy bacon/porkchops, sliders, or thoughts of the creamed pureed spinach that drove them over the edge also. (Had a bunch of fun in that shop we did.) Thanks for the memories!
The very first cruise I went on was on the USS Virginia (CGN-38) in ’82. We ran into a storm off Cape Hatteras and we could hear the screws biting air and waves were breaking over the bridge. We were wondering if the superstructure was going to break off or not. The guys on the Ike didn’t know there was a storm while the guys on the frigate with us lost their air search radar antenna. The old salt’s recipe for seasickness: sardines in mustard and tomato sauce with black coffee.
jdgjtr-
You missed it by two years — 1980, transit with the IKE CVBG (none of this CSG silliness back then), through the roaring 40′s in the teeth of a major extra-tropical storm. Green water over the angle on IKE and Virginia lost her sonar dome. Ended up going on to Guam (very slowly) for a replacement. It was — colorful.
- SJS
I love reading these short sea chanties … thank you all
So what are you saying?
Not a good day for flight ops?
You missed it by two years — 1980, transit with the IKE CVBG (none of this CSG silliness back then),
Sept. 1981 perhaps?
There was the confluence of 3 extra tropical storms.
The FID BG didn’t fare any better coming back either. The Caloosahatchee’s hull cracked on the way up to our PIM and had to return to England, so we all had to take fuel from the Mount Baker and FID.
A Soviet sub broached in the FID’s baffles. And I really felt sorry the Krivak…
My grandfather’s got one better. He was on the USS New Orleans in the typhoon with Halsey’s battle group. They lost a couple of DE’s in that storm. I learned from his experience and went subs.
Reminds me of the video shown at the P’Cola O’Club: a bunch of TINS stories strung together in an endless loop. A C-2 on the bow cat got launched right as the wave broke over the bow, and the plane just disappeared.
Fifteen seconds later you finally see the COD wallowing in ground effect trying to get altitude, with a blue streak behind it as the aircrew are chewing out the deckhands who mistimed the cat stroke. But the bird made it.
My last year in the navy, I was on Kitty Hawk for her last deployment before transferring from San Diego to Yokosuka. 1994 was a big year for Typhoons it seemed and we were always dodging just on the outskirts of a storm.
Being an EW I was out on the SLQ-32 Sponson jutting out from the port side catwalk near the angle deck (Forward of Fresnel lens setup) I had to secure the antennae gyro-stabilization. While I was out there I watched forward as the whole dang bow came out of a swell and I could see undisturbed water on the STARBOARD side of the bow. Then the plunge and the next oncoming swell. I sat on the deck and wrapped my arms and legs around the lifeline stanchions, and held on for dear life. The water came to maybe 10 feet from where I was then dropped away in the next trough. I got off the deck fast and back inside. Hell with the Antennae stabilization.
WOW! that is phenomenal! Not only is the sea green here but I think if I were there my face would be too! LOL! The sea is a powerful force. Never ceases to AMAZE me!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=neBVG7HUhT8
The Russians Kuznetsov is not immune to waves over the bow either.
That Sovremmennyy Destroyer is being tossed like a toy in a bathtub.
Anyone know what storm this is, or if it’s just generally shi**y weather? It would be interesting to know if this was a hurricane or just bad weather.
Jim C
Just since it was mentioned in this post, too.
Here’s a link to the vid of the Tracker going off the cat and through a wave. It’s about 1/4 up from the page bottom titled “Into a Wave”. (Command-F “Into a Wave” works nicely)
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/military_videos.htm
In 1965 the Midway was caught in a Typhoon while at Yankee Station. Storm formed south of us in the Philippine Sea and was on the Task Force before there was a chance to evade.
I remember the ship rolling, pitching and shuddering like some monstrous carny ride. Made my way up to Pri Fly and was blown away by the sight of blue water crashing over the bow. Caught sight of one of the tin cans about 1000 yards off the port side. It was disappearing in some of the waves and there were times when their screws were clear out of the water. Was very happy at that point that I was an airedale.
Wish I’d had a video cam. Would have made some good footage.
Heh. Good thing I’m not a sailor–I’m seasick just from reading/watching! I think it was the Russian video that finally did it… *urp*
I’m with SSG Jeff…thinking about those poor powerplants and corrosion shops in HS-whatever. Who spots a helo up there, really!?! As for an alert 5, that’s not your man in front of the island…unless the cats shoot sideways.
Ranger, Bi-Centennial cruise. Transit from Wake to Cubi, 60 foot seas, j.o., had the pleasure of the Plat Camera room all to myself. Unusual for an ElTee to have a single stateroom. Saw worse storms, but that was my first, so I remember it a little more than the rest. Thanks Lex for rattlin my cage. Always great to recollect the good times.