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What Sea State would you reckon this is?
There are about 100 hands on board, most of them between decks in the factory, serving the filleting and processing machines. Lots of sharp blades and tight spaces.
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What Sea State would you reckon this is?
There are about 100 hands on board, most of them between decks in the factory, serving the filleting and processing machines. Lots of sharp blades and tight spaces.
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Hard to say because the camera flattens the seas, but likely 4-6m based on how much of the bow is coming out at the crests.
There is a tendency for people to massively exaggerate the significant wave height, turing 5m Seas into 10m ones for their stories. The same happened in Kandahar... everybody was 200m from the rocket, it was hotter where they were, and the camel spiders were bigger.
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I agree with Furniture here. I think most people who have not experienced it don't know what 10 to 15 meters seas are. I almost want to say pray you never do, because they are the type of seas that give meaning to Gordon Lightfoot's words " Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
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I think that line is the most poignant line in modern music...
When you've been in actually frightening seas, and you know help is days away, it really brings things into focus.
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I was holding onto the handles of the Aft Gyro (doing rounds at sea) when we took a 42 degree roll on CHA back in the 90s.
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I mind a bridge I was on (a 600 footer - The Ocean Phoenix) and I was doing alternate deep knee bends trying to keep centred - Inclinometer was somewhere in the +/- 30 degree range.
I spent that night in the bunk with my leg jammed between the bunk and the bulkhead.
I also spent a good deal of time in these ships
The American Triumph
Northern Jaeger
I spent that night in the bunk with my leg jammed between the bunk and the bulkhead.
I also spent a good deal of time in these ships
The American Triumph
Northern Jaeger
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That last picture looks more submarine than surface ship.
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People who have taken a MCDV in to these seas have a deep appreciation for the crews of the WWII Corvettes
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