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

[Anubis]

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!

curious as you were on an carrier and they are massive, are they really effected by waves like that or no?

 

[Rubycon]

curious as you were on an carrier and they are massive, are they really effected by waves like that or no?

It's not the size of the ship, it's the size of the wave.
All ships, even the largest; are still affected by waves. 20 meter seas are monsters and to a ship displacing millions of pounds, the ship is still like a toy. Better hold on!

 

[Dominato3r]

curious as you were on an carrier and they are massive, are they really effected by waves like that or no?

http://youtu.be/7TBabNkWDBM?t=34m32s

Another great documentary, this time from PBS - 10 part series following the lives of men and women on board a carrier. It's linked to the time when the deck is pitching like mad and the pilots are trying to land.

 

[KLin]

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

I was going post this.

 

[Specop 007]

That looks ridiculously fun.

Not sure why anyone would shit their pants, it looks adrenaline pumpingly awesome.

Most people dont get to "enjoy" that weather up in the bridge with a good view.

 

[OutHouse]

http://youtu.be/7TBabNkWDBM?t=34m32s

Another great documentary, this time from PBS - 10 part series following the lives of men and women on board a carrier. It's linked to the time when the deck is pitching like mad and the pilots are trying to land.

that actually got my palms sweaty.

 

[adlep]

http://youtu.be/7TBabNkWDBM?t=34m32s

Another great documentary, this time from PBS - 10 part series following the lives of men and women on board a carrier. It's linked to the time when the deck is pitching like mad and the pilots are trying to land.

thanks for the link. I've enjoyed watching this. Night landing a jet on an aircraft carrier during the storm...

 

[BUTCH1]

Iatolla of puckahola get me off this thing!!

 

[Thebobo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4w2o3LJleo

Watch the lady on the upper right in the black pant suit

 

[a777pilot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4w2o3LJleo

Watch the lady on the upper right in the black pant suit

....and they paid to be there.

 

[dr150]

My father was a passenger on a battle cruiser heading from Southern Chile to Antarctica (the world's most dangerous water due to two oceans colliding) and he said at night when he was sleeping, his legs (unless strapped down) would swing up to the ceiling from the vertical movement the boat was doing in pitch black night.

You have to hand it to the balls of steel sailors that can navigate in such treacherous waters, especially in darkness.

I cannot FATHOM the bravery Spanish sailors had hundreds of years ago to traverse this South American death zone in their wooden ships!

 

[pcgeek11]

IMO you haven't seen a storm until you have been in a Northern Atlantic Storm.

On a Submarine > 100 ft deep and still rolling around enough to nearly walk on the bulkhead.

 

[OutHouse]

IMO you haven't seen a storm until you have been in a Northern Atlantic Storm.

On a Submarine > 100 ft deep and still rolling around enough to nearly walk on the bulkhead.

i have always wondered about that.

 

[pcgeek11]

i have always wondered about that.

I have often felt sorry for the poor bastards that had to ride it out on top.

 

[twinrider1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4w2o3LJleo

Watch the lady on the upper right in the black pant suit

And the Rod Stewart is fine, but I would have gone with Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity.

 

[tranceport]

That looks like so much fun! Sure beats a cruise ship ride, that's for sure. Sign me up!

With that music near the end, I was waiting for Captain Jack Sparrow to pop out somewhere.

I saw him on his raft. You didn't?

 

[deanx0r]

curious as you were on an carrier and they are massive, are they really effected by waves like that or no?

Carriers are equipped with gigantic spinning gyros that are extremely efficient at stabilizing gigantic masses even in high seas (which is critical for carrier operations).

The military ship we see in the clip boasts a french flag and I think it may be a George Leygues class frigate used by the Marine Nationale like this one shown below.

I wonder why you guys keep browsing that wimp.com site which never gives credits where due. This clip is part of a nature movie called 'Oceans', released in 2009. I was already amazed by the BBC's Life and Earth documentaries, but Oceans goes far beyond them when it comes to cinematography and photography. It's a regal for your eyes. Disney is distributing the movie in north america, but I highly recommend watching the original uncensored french version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUWf4mSYq28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNQNBI2UyMg&hd=1

 

[shortylickens]

I been through that, in a Ticonderoga cruiser.

 

[Stifko]

I thought about this as well. I was like whotf is taking this footage.

I was wondering too and how they got such a steady shot. that is amazing footage.

 

[Lithium381]

who was the first culture to really use the oceans? the vikings or english? fscking brave ass mofos whoever they were . . .

 

[jagec]

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

I just learned that 1930s German battleships could do >30 knots in gale conditions on the North Sea.