most insane high sea video i have seen. i feel sea sick from watching it

[bobeedee]

I cannot see the "video", care to link to a site like youtube?

Those are spinning windows. Idea is a spinning disk flings off the water continuously and allows better visibility than trying to wait for windscreen wipers to catch up.

Many thanks Rubycon. For years I've wondered what those things were.

 

[Powermoloch]

jesus

 

[yllus]

Am I a terrible person for laughing the entire time? :whiste:

I almost died laughing, so I hope not.

 

[glenn1]

And for the people that say they would like to go for it, knock yourself out! The people that say they would love to be on a ship in these conditions have never done it. Those that have and want more are just freaking insane!

I don't get motion sickness of any kind (including seasickness), but the ride in the OP's video looks as much fun as getting repeatedly kicked in the head and then the nuts. Looks even a lot worse than the tons of nap-of-the-earth flights I've taken that were complete vomit inducers for other guys in my stick.

 

[Triumph]

thanks, i'll take the submarine instead. man was not meant to reside on the seas.

 

[Exterous]

Starting at 2min with that warship was really crazy. Some really nice shots in there. :thumbsup: to the camera crews!

Am I a terrible person for laughing the entire time? :whiste:

I chuckled at parts

 

[IcePickFreak]

I've been on a lake when it got bad; as fun as it looks, there's a point beyond which you're scared shitless.

Yup, I've been caught on Lake Michigan in some nasty weather, and was only 2 miles out at most. It wasn't a fun experience, and that lake has sunk many boats/ships much that what I was on lol.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Seas like that aren't bad. Walking on the walls is kinda fun.
What sucks is that FPS's were out and I couldn't even play Warcraft III without getting queasy. So I was down to playing Utopia over INMARSAT.
The rest of my shop (and 3/4ths of the ship) would go SIQ with seasickness so it was also kinda boring. Eating's a real pain, too.

 

[sleep]

nature at its best.

we can't fight it, but go along for its ride.

 

[dawp]

Yup, I've been caught on Lake Michigan in some nasty weather, and was only 2 miles out at most. It wasn't a fun experience, and that lake has sunk many boats/ships much that what I was on lol.

I was stupid enough to take a canoe out on Lake Michigan once, going out wasn't bad but when it came time to go back in we had some problems getting turned around. this was with 3 to 5 foot swells or so near shore. never did that again. and yes beer was involved.

 

[a777pilot]

There is an old TV series called "Victory at Sea". It's about the naval battles of WWII. There is one on the fighting in the North Sea in the winter. Take the weather you just saw on that video and then imagine fighting a battle during that kind of sea conditions. They did it. How, I have no idea, but they fought, killed and died in those conditions.

 

[dennilfloss]

the tower/lighthouse shots were awesome

The guy manning it goes out for a ciggy every once in a while.

http://waterisbad.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/sleamjcxslim.jpg

 

[Ns1]

The guy manning it goes out for a ciggy every once in a while.

http://waterisbad.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/sleamjcxslim.jpg

seriously, HOW do you build this!?

 

[ConwayJim]

Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.

Awesome

 

[dennilfloss]

There is an old TV series called "Victory at Sea". It's about the naval battles of WWII. There is one on the fighting in the North Sea in the winter. Take the weather you just saw on that video and then imagine fighting a battle during that kind of sea conditions. They did it. How, I have no idea, but they fought, killed and died in those conditions.

The Scharnhorst was sunk in such conditions at the Battle of the North Cape, in the Arctic night and the Duke of York's main batteries displayed awesome gunnery during that battle: 13 hits out of 52 shells fired, at night in gale conditions.

http://www.scharnhorst-class.dk/scharnhorst/history/scharnostfront.html

 

[alkemyst]

going out way off the coast we always took "I never get seasick" with a grain of salt.

Fortunately you can still find work on many vessels even if you do.

I'd love to do something like that one day a month or so.

You take a major beating.

 

[skyking]

seriously, HOW do you build this!?

Lots of calm days. Big fricking anchors into the same rock that has withstood the onslaught for a million years.

 

[Dominato3r]

seriously, HOW do you build this!?

There's a BBC documentary on Netflix about how they built it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Industrial_World#Bell_Rock_Lighthouse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Rock_Lighthouse

 

[Ns1]

There's a BBC documentary on Netflix about how they built it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Industrial_World#Bell_Rock_Lighthouse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Rock_Lighthouse

A+, thanks.

Bell Rock Lighthouse is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse[2] and was built on Bell Rock (also known as Inchcape) in the North Sea, 11 miles (18 km) off the coast of Angus, Scotland, east of the Firth of Tay. It was built by Robert Stevenson between 1807 and 1810, and standing at 35 m high, the light is visible from 35 statute miles (56 km) inland.[1]

O_O

 

[Anubis]

There's a BBC documentary on Netflix about how they built it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Industrial_World#Bell_Rock_Lighthouse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Rock_Lighthouse

sweet

 

[BoomerD]

The Ar Men lighthouse took 14 years to build.

http://www.pelicano.com/armen-lighthouse.htm

(first one in this vid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7RSryuJAwE

 

[a777pilot]

The Scharnhorst was sunk in such conditions at the Battle of the North Cape, in the Arctic night and the Duke of York's main batteries displayed awesome gunnery during that battle: 13 hits out of 52 shells fired, at night in gale conditions.

http://www.scharnhorst-class.dk/scharnhorst/history/scharnostfront.html

Thanks. That was indeed most interesting. I was surprised at the amount of punishment that German BB took before it was sunk. I would say it was well built and they had good damage control.

 

[Ns1]

The Scharnhorst was sunk in such conditions at the Battle of the North Cape, in the Arctic night and the Duke of York's main batteries displayed awesome gunnery during that battle: 13 hits out of 52 shells fired, at night in gale conditions.

http://www.scharnhorst-class.dk/scharnhorst/history/scharnostfront.html

crazy, I read the whole transcript. That german ship sure took a beating.

 

[marvdmartian]

Used to watch Navy destroyers and frigates, when our battle group would go up to the north Pacific, and wonder how many foot prints they had on their bulkheads (walls), from rocking and rolling so much. Made me thankful I was on a humungous aircraft carrier!

No way can I imagine what it's like on a fishing trawler, that's 1/3 the size of a destroyer!

 

[n7]

Craziness!

Not something i could handle well