Cool video of rough seas

[ratpick]

Cool video of rough seas


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=4C0q30pYqbw

[Cadman]

Vel Sven, I dink ve need a bigger boat!

Those guys are not going to sail out of that crap in a few minutes.

Thanks Pat! I'll keep my job.

[flying dave]

Wow.

[Jethro]

The shot from dead above it was really well done...............NICE!!!

Thanks man

[Uncle Snake]

Been there, done that. Although it was in a forty foot sailboat and a LOT fuckin' scarier that it would be in a 150' ship........

[j1b3h0]

Reminds me of a story I heard from the sailor of a Merit 25 (small sloop) who was completely overwhelmed by a Pacific storm while sailing from Hawaii to California. Said he spent 3 days hove to, under bare poles, in the small cabin, with "one hand on the life raft, and one hand on the barf bucket." Yikes!

[Jethro]

I've been in rough water in many boats............but never that rough.................you know, 6 - 8 footers in my old 21 foot was hairy but fun.........
Really choppy in an old Tri hull getting bounced around .................rough water in shallow hull speed boat.............

But that............no way.....................I've never been in a boat in seas like that............I know it gets much worse and way bigger than shown here
but the way some of it was filmed really showed just how wild that must really be....................I would love to try that.............in a ship that could handle it
Seen some video of Coast Guard Cutters fighting some heavy water...........getting the whole vessel out of the water when crashing through the top of a 20 footer


Would love to hear more stories of people here who have been in it.....................

Eric?????????????

[Mike Heath]

I was in a typhoon on a carrier. Swells were well above the 90' flightdeck. Lost a couple of jets and a helicopter. Was very cool experience cause the idea of a storm sinking a carrier didn't cross my mind. Some of the other ships in my fleet took a serious beating.

[zrx24]

Man, I got nauseous just watching that.

[zrx24]

We ventured out away from the Galveston jetties one time in my 17' ski boat and quickly found ourselves in 8' to 10' high swales. Scared the piss out of us, and we wondered if we would be able to get back in. The scariest part was having to power down into the swales and losing sight of everything except a wall of water in front of us.

[Racer Gil]

Mother nature could be a wicked Bitch that's for sure. While in the USCG she decided to throw me around the inside of a
41'UTB (most commonly seen on tv shows) and proceed to snap my Femur 3X.. Seas estimated were 6-9' rollers with occasional 10' breakers.

But on a lighter note, we escorted the USS Kennedy into NY Harbor and caught some SERIOUS hang time on our 21'RHIB (think pontoon type)while taking advantage of it's wake. Sailors on deck had a good show..

The ocean will kick your ass.

[zrx24]

The ocean will kick your ass.

Hell, even some lakes will kick your ass from time to time. The Great Lakes come to mind.


Heck, I even had my ass handed to me one time on Lake Somerville here in Texas. Big storm blew in while I was crossing the lake on a jet ski headed back to the boat ramp. After fighting 6' swales for about 10 minutes and making no headway, I finally had to seek shelter on a nearby island and sit the storm out.

[flying dave]

Fugg the ocean. I slipped and fell getting out of the tub once.....

Alcohol may have been involved..

[Surfdancer]

Just a 'lil choppy out there...

[BlkZrx]

Coming back from Saipan to Guam, hit a big squall on a 41' trimaran, 12 -15' seas and winds over 40 knots. It sucked. This one's about 30', but similar..

[TurboChris]

My first boat was a old 71 Searay 24'. Coming south from Long Beach to Huntington Harbor late in the afternoon once we hit swells that were running from 6-10'. Maybe a little more...wind was against us...getting massive spray in my face...I was actually having to throttle up the swells and then back off as I went over the top. Probably the only time I ever made all my friends put the PFD's on. It got my attention that's for sure.

[Wolfman]

My father was captain of a 32 foot wooden boat owned by the Enviromental Protection Agency back in the late 60's, early 70's, used to pull in samples of various sea life for sampling. We were caught out about 1 mile from the mouth of the port at Pensacola Navy Yard. We encountered 12-15 foot swells and had the bell ringing. If the bell rang (mounted on the roof), it was time to hang on. We had to ride the storm out in the Gulf, THEN come into the shallower water of the port.
I will NEVER forget that. When you look UP to the wave in front, well, it's not fun.
Thanks for posting up that video. Brought back some cool memories. I will also NEVER ask to go on a ride again on a Coast Guard Cutter during high sea rescue!!! I was strapped into a "seat" in the standing position and don't remember much except that I thought we were gonna die. The shallow water of the Pensacola Bay made for some really rough seas. I saw the waves break ONTO the 3 mile bridge, while they tried to recsue a sinking boat.

[AV80R]

Sailing from San Diego to San Francisco, Sep 2003 I woke up at 5am to relieve my buddy at the helm and the seas were already 6-10 feet with 25 knots of wind just off of San Simeon. It's a pretty desolate stretch of coastline with nowhere easy to hide especially when you're moving at 4-5 knots.

By 9am it was blowing 40 knots and seas were 25-30 feet out of the north. Every 10 seconds the boat would launch off a wave, go weightless and then slam violently down shaking the mast and all the rigging. I was terrified at first, but eventually I had to just accept that the boat was either going to make it or it wasn't. They say sailing is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of sheer terror, and I definitely had some moments that day! I inflated my life raft and towed it behind me so that it was ready to go just in case and tried everything I knew to get to Monterey.

Close to shore the waves were huge, so I tried to head out to sea about 2 miles and the waves got BIGGER. Every once in awhile one would hit us just right and break right on top of the boat and filled the entire cockpit with water.

After 6 hours of making .5-1 knot progress towards Monterey, we decided to give up & turn around for Morro Bay.

Once we turned around it REALLY got exciting. Surfing 25+ foot waves on my 30 year old sailboat, the max speed recorded on the GPS was 14 knots. Doesn't sound fast, but the boat has a max hull speed of maybe 7 knots at best.

When we finally docked, everything in the boat was soaked and the Coast Guard was out looking for 2 other boats that had gone missing. Everything was soaked and it took a whole day hanging everything outside to get dry again.

As soon as we hit dry land, my buddy was gone I ended up singlehanding it for the rest of the trip after the weather calmed down.

[ratpick]

Great stories!

[Ca Pete]

The worst I ever had was out on a 80' fishing boat from San Diego, they go out about 150 miles off the coast of Mexico for some great tuna fishing. So they leave at night and you sleep on the way out, well I wake up in the morning by being tossed out of my bunk and onto the floor. Swells were 12-15 feet, have no idea if it was windy or not, never made it out onto the deck, threw-up for 6 hours while we made our way back to San Diego.

You'd think they'd have checked to see if there was a fricken hurricane heading towards Mexico before we headed out.

[sillyhillbilly]

I've been in rough water in many boats............but never that rough.................you know, 6 - 8 footers in my old 21 foot was hairy but fun.........
Really choppy in an old Tri hull getting bounced around .................rough water in shallow hull speed boat.............

But that............no way.....................I've never been in a boat in seas like that............I know it gets much worse and way bigger than shown here
but the way some of it was filmed really showed just how wild that must really be....................I would love to try that.............in a ship that could handle it
Seen some video of Coast Guard Cutters fighting some heavy water...........getting the whole vessel out of the water when crashing through the top of a 20 footer


Would love to hear more stories of people here who have been in it.....................

Eric?????????????

feb 1981, took trip from VA BEACH to charleston, sc. in an 18,000 ton salvage ship, 198 ft long it 32 ft from standard water line to top of the bridge, we were taking wave wash over the top on the bridge rounding cape hatteras

[HarleyJohn]

Shoot guys, that is just the TOP of the water, try hanging on a dive hose UNDER the boat.

As long as the seas were under 10 foot, (so you can stay at your decompression stops), we'd be in the water. If you were live boating (meaning the diver is off the bow of the boat, typically walking pipe, and the boat motors along behind him) after they'd pick you up off the bottom, they'd cut the engines to keep the dive hose out of the screws as they pulled you up and to the dive ladder. The boat would turn crossways to the swells and start rolling back and forth, which would stab the dive ladder down about 15 feet below the surface, and then jerk it up out of the watter. As the tenders would pull you towards the ladder, you'd be back peddling, trying to time the roll of the boat and the ladder so that the ladder would stab down in front of you and not on top of you. When the ladder would stab in front of you, you'd grab it and stand on it, and the ladder would jerk you completely out of the water. Great fun.

When you are on the back deck of the dive vessel, standing on top of the 10 foot high jet pump, and the swells are still taller than you are, you know you ain't diving that day.

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[SpceSpff]

Brings back memories. The sea is a cruel, cruel mistress....

This is always fun.