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Name the most life threatening or scary experience you've ever had.
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Life Threatening and scary as hell...1989 middle of the Med. USS Forrestal flight deck sun is down late evening no lights on carrier deck just red flashlights
..
I was pulling a weapons skid of 3 live MK20 Rockeye Clusterbombs..
headed to the aft end of the ship fixen to cross the arresting wires..
they are launching aircraft from the bow cats and the waist cats...
well some asshat yellowshit (enlisted plane handler) decides we are far enough away or he never saw us that he can turn a tomcat on us... as its headed to the waist cats
well the Tomcat powers up to make his turn and here we go flying down the flight deck with a live load of weapons ...into an area with more aircraft that have thier engines running... now I weigh maybe 175 soaking wet with full flight deck gear on the skid of weapons weighs about 1500 lbs... and its is nearly tumbling down the deck.. I somehow manage to not get sucked into any jet engines while tumbling about 75 feet down the deck towards the side and end up ass over teakettle falling 5 feet into the catwalk that rings the flight deck...
2 more feet and over i woulda gone =/
my friend that was guiding the back of the wep skid tumbled right next to me while thank god the Yellow shirt saw that the tomcat had tumbled us and told him to power down so we didnt get more momentum built up...
very close.... night time on a carrier moving 30kts to launch aircraft in a rough sea of COLD water...
man i coulda strangled that yellowshirt...
..
I was pulling a weapons skid of 3 live MK20 Rockeye Clusterbombs..
headed to the aft end of the ship fixen to cross the arresting wires..
they are launching aircraft from the bow cats and the waist cats...
well some asshat yellowshit (enlisted plane handler) decides we are far enough away or he never saw us that he can turn a tomcat on us... as its headed to the waist cats
well the Tomcat powers up to make his turn and here we go flying down the flight deck with a live load of weapons ...into an area with more aircraft that have thier engines running... now I weigh maybe 175 soaking wet with full flight deck gear on the skid of weapons weighs about 1500 lbs... and its is nearly tumbling down the deck.. I somehow manage to not get sucked into any jet engines while tumbling about 75 feet down the deck towards the side and end up ass over teakettle falling 5 feet into the catwalk that rings the flight deck...
2 more feet and over i woulda gone =/
my friend that was guiding the back of the wep skid tumbled right next to me while thank god the Yellow shirt saw that the tomcat had tumbled us and told him to power down so we didnt get more momentum built up...
very close.... night time on a carrier moving 30kts to launch aircraft in a rough sea of COLD water...
man i coulda strangled that yellowshirt...
thirdlegstump
Banned
I once fell into a rapid water river in Japan where shortly thereafter, there's a dam. I thought I was going to get sucked into the turbines and turn into Chinese food but my uncle pulled me out to safety after I got knocked nearly unconscious by hitting a bunch of rocks.
NuclearNed
Raconteur
Crater Lake
My wife and I hiked into Crater Lake (the equivalent of hiking down 70+ flights of steps), took a boat ride to Wizard Island and hiked to its top (800+ foot elevation gain). Then I hiked into the cinder cone of the island (its an extinct volcano). On the way out of the cinder cone, I started getting sick. I had food poisoning and started rapidly losing body fluids out of every opening in my body. I quickly used up our normally ample water supply and went into shock from dehydration. We made it back to the boat dock on the main (outer) cone, and everybody but us started climbing the trail back to the top. It was the end of the day, so everyone was gone except for one guy who ran a concession stand who refused to help us. My wife was in tears pleading with the man to call someone on his radio, which he eventually did. Some really nice fire fighters/park rangers climbed into the volcano and carried me out on a stretcher.
My wife and I hiked into Crater Lake (the equivalent of hiking down 70+ flights of steps), took a boat ride to Wizard Island and hiked to its top (800+ foot elevation gain). Then I hiked into the cinder cone of the island (its an extinct volcano). On the way out of the cinder cone, I started getting sick. I had food poisoning and started rapidly losing body fluids out of every opening in my body. I quickly used up our normally ample water supply and went into shock from dehydration. We made it back to the boat dock on the main (outer) cone, and everybody but us started climbing the trail back to the top. It was the end of the day, so everyone was gone except for one guy who ran a concession stand who refused to help us. My wife was in tears pleading with the man to call someone on his radio, which he eventually did. Some really nice fire fighters/park rangers climbed into the volcano and carried me out on a stretcher.
JonB
Platinum Member
Went whitewater canoing in the springtime. Upstate New York. Very cold, very strong current. After going halfway through a set of rapids, the canoe went sideways, caught some water and flipped both of us out. I was pushed up against a large rock and the canoe came to rest right on top of me. The water was directly on the canoe, so it was putting what seemed like tons of pressure on my chest. Couldn't breathe, couldn't move, getting very cold very fast, and I knew my buddies were already past me. I don't know how long I was like that for sure, but at some point, the canoe magically flew away like a feather. I don't do whitewater much anymore.
I fell through the ice as a kid and went all the way under. I've never been so scared in my life as when I reached up with one hand and felt ice. I couldn't see anything because of al the slushy ice that was all around me. Lucky for me my other hand found the hole I fell through.
Dave
Dave
Scary - Not noticing the ex's sloowwwww slide into mental illness
Scarier - Coming to the conclusion there was something really wrong with the situation, and attempting to deal with it alone, since I wasn't able to gather key family support (big time denial going on) or psyche help for ex (he refused to go).
Scariest - Trying to deal with his suicidal behavior at home and still maintain it at work and with kids. Feeling as if I were going crazy too.
Ahhhh... but life is good now.
🙂
Scarier - Coming to the conclusion there was something really wrong with the situation, and attempting to deal with it alone, since I wasn't able to gather key family support (big time denial going on) or psyche help for ex (he refused to go).
Scariest - Trying to deal with his suicidal behavior at home and still maintain it at work and with kids. Feeling as if I were going crazy too.
Ahhhh... but life is good now.
🙂
One stormy morning I was surfing 12 foot waves at Black's Beach in San Diego, CA with not a soul out with me.
After catching one big wave, I paddled back out and sat there waiting for another. Before I knew it, I turned around, and was about a quarter mile out to sea, and moving fast. The weather was not favorable, and I totally panicked trying to get back in against a rip current. I was moving about 10 yards back for every 5 yards I paddled.
As I am freaking out - in what felt like the middle of the ocean - a large grey body surfaces next to me and then quickly submerges. I thought, "It wouldn't be the first time a Great White Shark had been near La Jolla Cove." I was beside myself.
Paddling like a madman, I began to move sideways to the shore, got myself out of the rip current, and began making some progress back to the breakers. As I am imagining how long it will be before Jaws takes me alive, a Sea Lion popped it's head up out of the water and gave me a sniff. I was quite relieved to see him there as the shark imposter, and even happier since a shark would likely prefer him over me if given a choice.
Scared the living sh*t out of me! Oh, and yes, I made it back to shore, kissed the sand, and walked back up the long trail. I didn't go surfing for awhile after that one.
After catching one big wave, I paddled back out and sat there waiting for another. Before I knew it, I turned around, and was about a quarter mile out to sea, and moving fast. The weather was not favorable, and I totally panicked trying to get back in against a rip current. I was moving about 10 yards back for every 5 yards I paddled.
As I am freaking out - in what felt like the middle of the ocean - a large grey body surfaces next to me and then quickly submerges. I thought, "It wouldn't be the first time a Great White Shark had been near La Jolla Cove." I was beside myself.
Paddling like a madman, I began to move sideways to the shore, got myself out of the rip current, and began making some progress back to the breakers. As I am imagining how long it will be before Jaws takes me alive, a Sea Lion popped it's head up out of the water and gave me a sniff. I was quite relieved to see him there as the shark imposter, and even happier since a shark would likely prefer him over me if given a choice.
Scared the living sh*t out of me! Oh, and yes, I made it back to shore, kissed the sand, and walked back up the long trail. I didn't go surfing for awhile after that one.
StageLeft
No Lifer
Another "not to make light" of the situation post, but we were watching a movie last night and a guy put a gun under his chin about to kill himself and Mrsskoorb commented that it's the wrong way to do it; you have to put it in the mouth, otherwise what happened to your dad can happen.
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