Ocean's Fury!

[dan filipi]

Man what a ride!

 

[brianinpa]

I DO NOT miss that stuff! I don't know which was worse... Sea of Japan in the winter or the Austrailian Bight.

 

[KYWinger]

For me it was the typhoons in the Pacific......

 

[joedrum]

Iceland my favorite and most respected country by me on the face of the earth ...if I could go anywhere it would be here ...roughest seas I was ever in was on a surfboard cocoa beach fla during hurricane weather ....sheesh what a fool I was had to save my friends life and we were both beat by the rocks we couldnt work for several weeks :heat: :nea: :ahem: didn't take a very big hat band for my brain back then :smilie_happy:

 

[brianinpa]

KYWinger » Fri Jul 26, 2013 9:23 am[/url]":xjuamg77]
For me it was the typhoons in the Pacific......

On the carriers we always seemed to avoid the typhoons... I'm not complaining, just sayin.

 

[mcgovern61]

When I worked on offshore clamming dredges (average 135' in length) we would find ourselves in this kind of weather for most of the winter. Don't let anyone tell you differently, the Captain gets seasick too! (Uhhh.....that would be me!)

 

[brianinpa]

True story...

Four guys were sitting at a table similar to the old style McDonald’s table on the mess decks of the USS Kitty Hawk. The ship rolled and the entire table slid 5 feet with the four guys sitting in it. If I remember right, this was also a storm that one of the helo carriers lost a helo overboard because the tie-down chains broke.

It is amazing how something can be so calm one day and then so ferocious the next and then back to calm the next day.

 

[KYWinger]

also true story....I remember opening up the water tight door to our shop ( which opened onto the stbd. main deck) after a particularly nasty run-in with a typhoon...and, to our amazement, saw that the bottle rack (held O2, N, H bottles) was completely stripped from the bulkhead.... scary stuff...

 

[mcgovern61]

Another true story....built new fast ferries for San Francisco up in Seattle. During the delivery, one vessel encountered some serious waves. There was a boarding platform up in the bow fastened to the deck when it left Seattle. Show up in SF missing a few items:

 

[toytender01]

I remember one trip to Germany aboard a troop carrier (USS Buckner) ,one day in heavy seas during Breakfast almost had to nail the trays to the table or it would slide off the table before you could grab it. The mess hall was a mess and pretty empty, as most of the guys worn't hungry (if you know what I mean) :smilie_happy: My trip to Korea was much beter. :Egyptian: :Egyptian:

 

[Ansimp]

brianinpa » Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:11 am[/url]":12u5iza8]
I DO NOT miss that stuff! I don't know which was worse... Sea of Japan in the winter or the Austrailian Bight.

Nothing worse than an Australian Bite Brian :smilie_happy:

 

[brianinpa]

Ansimp » Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:38 pm[/url]":219wd4x1]

brianinpa » Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:11 am[/url]":219wd4x1]
I DO NOT miss that stuff! I don't know which was worse... Sea of Japan in the winter or the Austrailian Bight.

Nothing worse than an Australian Bite Brian :smilie_happy:

When I was in Freemantle, there were a few there that I would have left bite me... :mrgreen:

 

[stanlw]

Crossing the North Atlantic in the winter onboard the Kennedy. Waves coming over the bow, was a very cold, rough trip..

 

[Ansimp]

Something about the west brings tears to all our eyes Brian!