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Cargo Vessel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmlTk_3NN_g&t=190s Tanker Vessel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAFNfG1VI94 No thank you! _________________________ | ||
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I Deal In Lead |
If they didn't flex, they'd snap in two, kind of like aircraft wings and tall buildings and Radio/TV towers. They sometimes do anyway. | |||
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Amazing the flex built into those ships, engineering has to be spot on... | |||
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SIG's 'n Surefires |
Claustrophobics need not apply... "Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up." -Kyle Farnsworth "Freedom of Speech does not guarantee freedom from consequences." -Mike Rowe "Democracies aren't overthrown, they're given away." -George Lucas | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
If you're inside the ship, you don't really notice it. Tables and chairs weren't bolted to the deck on the Enterprise. A couple of times we had to go through a storm, everything would slide from port to starboard and back. I think they shut down the chow hall during severe storms but a couple of times it was fun eating. You had to keep the table and your chair from sliding along with your tray and glass. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| I Am The Walrus |
That's some smart people to figure something like that out. Math and science were not my thing in school. I have a great appreciation for those who are good at it. _____________ | |||
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Video interesting. Annoying music and narration. Is that Putin's house band?? | |||
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| Run Silent Run Deep  |
On the sub, we’d loop a rope from bulkhead to bulkhead…twist it tight with a 24” wrench. Pluck it like giant guitar string. Submerge… Rope slacks about 6”, sometimes more. You could hear the new guys ass pucker. _____________________________ Pledge allegiance or pack your bag! The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher Spread my work ethic, not my wealth | |||
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Fascinating. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| Vote the BASTIDS OUT!  |
During my time in the USN I rode a flat bottomed LST with the bow doors back in the mid '60s. You could stand near the bow or on the fantail and get the feeling in your stomach just like when you'd ride an elevator that rose and fell too fast. John "Building a wall will violate the rights of millions of illegals." [Nancy Pelosi] | |||
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We just reaffirmed that I'll never be taking a cruise on a large ship. | |||
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Hahaha, we used to get underway in hurricanes! My first unit we had a 41’ utility boat. It was restricted to 13’ or less. My first ship was a 110’ patrol boat off Charleston SC. I was out and underway in the “storm of the century” all the way from Charleston past cape hatteras and into Newport News . My last ship was a 270’ medium endurance cutter…we sailed in everything. "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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That second video makes me sick to my stomach. I would be on the floor in the fetal position. | |||
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That was amazing to see. I never thought of this subject as it applies to ships, but it makes perfect sense. But I would have never imagined looking down a corridor and seeing that. Lover of the US Constitution Wile E. Coyote School of DIY Disaster | |||
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I did the North Atlantic in the winter on a Carrier, got my Blue Nose from it. That was a wild ride. Walking through the ship you just looked at your feet, looking ahead and seeing that you were walking on the walls kinda uncentered you. Everything was strapped down at all times. I was on deck one night when an E-2 Hawkeye slid into another one and sliced the wing off with the prop, scared the crap out of me when it happened, all kinds of debris raining down on us. Tore up a few aircraft on that trip. Our berthing was all the way forward and we got the crap pounded out of us when it was turned into the waves, only time that I strapped into my bunk to keep from getting tossed out of bed. The guys on the replenishing ships got the crap knocked out of them, I'm glad I wasn't on one of those. | |||
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Powermad, the nonrates on the patrol boat had seatbelts on their racks (they slept forward) Usually though, when it got rough, they slipped back aft and slept on the deck in a pile of mustangs suits or hot racked. On the bigger ships we had coffin racks and I had a DC make me a set of wedges to prop the rack open so I’d be pinned in the rack and wouldn’t get rolled out. Good times! "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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| Run Silent Run Deep |
Wedges? Nah, We’d use our boots under the mattress. _____________________________ Pledge allegiance or pack your bag! The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher Spread my work ethic, not my wealth | |||
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Wait, what? |
After seeing that flex, I can only imagine what being on the largest wooden ships of previous technology must have been like on big seas. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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Enterprise? Must be some heavy seas for that thing! When was this? | |||
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