Prayers for the Sailor and their Family. The water temp off the coast here is in the high 50's so time is of the essence.

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San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt searching for Sailor overboard

(KGTV) — Navy officials say the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is searching for a Sailor overboard off Southern California's coastline Thursday.

The ship started rescue efforts after a lookout spotted what they believed to be a person in the water at about 7:30 a.m., according to the Navy.

The Navy says one Sailor was unaccounted for during a command-wide roll call.

Three search and rescue helicopters and a Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat were launched to assist.

The U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy aircraft, USS Bunker Hill, USS Russell, USS Howard, and USS Charleston are also helping in the search and rescue efforts. The Navy says search efforts will continue through Thursday night.

No further information about the search efforts was immediately released.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt departed San Diego just days ago for a sustainment exercise ahead of its second deployment this year, according to USNI News. The ship is set to change its homeport from San Diego to Bremerton, Wash., for an overhaul in 2021.

Back in my days as an embarked Marine, we were told that Navy-wide, the survival probability for a man overboard was 50%. That included incidents in port! Kudos to the lookout who spotted the man and alerted the bridge. Hope they find the sailor.

Did anyone counts the buffers?

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Originally posted by Patriot:
Did anyone counts the buffers?

An attempt at humor?

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Originally posted by JackBlundell:
Back in my days as an embarked Marine, we were told that Navy-wide, the survival probability for a man overboard was 50%. That included incidents in port! Kudos to the lookout who spotted the man and alerted the bridge. Hope they find the sailor.

My thoughts too. The fantail watch or lookout watch can be very boring and it's easy to lose your concentration. The man overboard was spotted early so let's pray that they can find him.

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Originally posted by Patriot:
Did anyone counts the buffers?

An attempt at humor?

Humor? Fuck no!

There are beefs on ships...gangs, etc...

Buffers get used because they come with very long power cords...longer than normal. Plenty extra to tie a dude up and the weight, well, it does it’s job.

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Originally posted by JackBlundell:
Back in my days as an embarked Marine, we were told that Navy-wide, the survival probability for a man overboard was 50%. That included incidents in port! Kudos to the lookout who spotted the man and alerted the bridge. Hope they find the sailor.

Wow really 50%. That actually seems like much better odds then I would have imagined. I have been on a couple cruises and my thoughts were you go overboard you are done! Not to mention if you go overboard from high enough up you might as well be jumping into concrete.

I have jumped from the fantail of a little sloop type sailing vessel that was probably 25-30 feet off the water. I hit the water and all I could think was.....

“Your still going down......your still going down.....I hope this still going down stops soon....ok I need enough air to go back up.....ok this is starting to get scary at least we are slowing down. Good we stopped feet don’t fail me now get me the fuck back to mother oxygen.”

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Originally posted by Patriot:

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Originally posted by navyshooter:

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Originally posted by Patriot:
Did anyone counts the buffers?

An attempt at humor?

Humor? Fuck no!

There are beefs on ships...gangs, etc...

Buffers get used because they come with very long power cords...longer than normal. Plenty extra to tie a dude up and the weight, well, it does it’s job.

Thanks for the reply. I knew you were Navy and I didn't know why you said that and didn't want to blast you.

I'm expecting them to call off the search soon so we may never know what happened.

Something the size of a head is hard to see on the ocean when you get a little distance from the ship. Carriers operating at sea always have a following ship to pick up anyone that goes overboard.

If I recall, the flight deck is around 100’ above the water. Long way to fall.

Prayers said...

I’ve participated in SAR’s before. 200 feet over the water we spotted a guy. Drop a smoke on his location, do a racetrack back and he was basically invisible again. The ocean is scary.

Are Navy personnel required to wear life jackets while on the deck of a ship?

The idea of falling off a ship at sea and watching it leave you behind is one of the most horrible things I can imagine.

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Are Navy personnel required to wear life jackets while on the deck of a ship?

No, in my time only people on flat tops. Most ships have railings.

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The idea of falling off a ship at sea and watching it leave you behind is one of the most horrible things I can imagine.

In most time in small swells within 2 minutes Oscar (Man overboard dummy) was hit and miss to see him from the stern until the swells popped him up so the man overboard team got boat in water and headed in that direction.

(KGTV) — Navy officials say the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is searching for a Sailor overboard off Southern California's coastline Thursday.

The ship started rescue efforts after a lookout spotted what they believed to be a person in the water at about 7:30 a.m., according to the Navy.

The Navy says one Sailor was unaccounted for during a command-wide roll call. The Sailor's parents identified him as 20-year-old Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Apprentice Ethan Goolsby of San Antonio, Texas, Scripps affiliate KSAT reports.

The Navy has not officially identified the missing Sailor.

Three search and rescue helicopters and a Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat were launched to assist.

The U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy aircraft, USS Bunker Hill, USS Russell, USS Howard, and USS Charleston are also helping in the search and rescue efforts. The Navy says search efforts will continue through Thursday night.

No further information about the search efforts was immediately released.Link

Our guys ran over the dummy with the whale boat everytime we had "Man overboard" drills.

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Are Navy personnel required to wear life jackets while on the deck of a ship?

No, in my time only people on flat tops. Most ships have railings.

On the carrier we were required to wear the float coat always during flight ops and after the sunset.

I've seen four guys blown off the flight deck and all four recovered within 60 minutes. 60 minutes is a hella long time in the north Pacific - even in June.

One of the four noted one guy told me after being recovered, "the longest time ever in my life was between when I surfaced and; finally heard the man overboard alarm and saw the ship begin to turn."

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The idea of falling off a ship at sea and watching it leave you behind is one of the most horrible things I can imagine.

I’ve fallen off a ship at sea...it’s not the worst I imagined...I was also in the CG who are in the SAR(Search And Rescue) business, I know how hard it is to spot a volleyball sized object in the ocean...it’s hard even when it’s calm.

We were required to wear PFDs when outside the skin of the ship for good reason. I have been washed overboard once and fallen from two different ships...it’s not good. We also had pyro to help in our own recovery.

We had a guy jump off the ship when we were coming out of Pearl. The ship was the USS Truxton DLGN 35. From the deck to the water wasn’t much of a jump. I guess he found a girlfriend and couldn’t bare heading to the Gulf.

The OOD spun that ship around on a dime, healing over more than I ever believed possible. I was in the aft engine room at the time. Apparently they fished the guy out, beat the shit out of him and tossed him in the brig.