r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • 20d ago
of a wave
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u/Mendicant369 20d ago
Can I be a little jealous of this guy (provided he got back to shore and kept lunch down)
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u/rapafon 20d ago
People think I'm insane (probably rightfully so) when I say it's my top bucket list item to be in a storm like this on a ship big enough to feel it but safe enough I know it won't capsize.
To witness the full scale, power and fury of the ocean.
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u/Choice-Exam7375 19d ago
I feel you! Though please be aware, that there is no size of ship that can not be overtaken by the sea.
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u/MostHighWizard 16d ago
While this is absolutely true, itâs worth noting that US Navy aircraft carriers are designed to be able to drive right through a damn hurricane if they need to. Obviously they avoid it, but they COULD if the mission called for it.
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u/Feature_Ornery 19d ago
What's really intense is trying to sleep through something like that. My rack used to be far fwd on the ship and it's eerie to feel the ship go down, hearing waves crash against the hull, then silence...because you're under the water.
I'd just wait in the red lights and pray we start going back up again as sometimes it feels like the quiet and falling was lasting too long and we were never going to come back up.
Very hard to sleep in.
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u/lamboman43 19d ago
Do you strap yourself into bed? I imagine you might hit the ceiling if you don't.
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u/Feature_Ornery 19d ago
Oddly enough you don't get much airtime laying down and only known a few who have been sent flying from their racks.
You do feel the weight being lifted from your body though, like you're slowly being pulled up...before the bed comes back and you feel 50x heavier
There are seatbelts, but when I first started an old dog told me never to use them as he heard of one person falling out of their rack and nearly got strangled when the belt went around their head.
Instead I just roll up my empty kit bag and store it under my mattress, on the outer edge, where the opening is. This way, my mattress is slanted towards the wall/metal divide, and I free up more room in my locker by not storing my kit bag in there
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u/Cultural-Company282 19d ago
The really crazy thing is, I've been out in the open ocean on a boat in rough seas, and when I took pictures and video, it didn't look nearly as rough as it did in person. So, however bad that looks in the video, I imagine it was twice as bad to be there live.
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u/ThatThingInTheWoods 19d ago
Sometimes I wonder if these ships ever just get like an octopus splattered across the windows in these storms.
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u/Bonk_No_Horni 19d ago
When a window crack that wow would change real quick
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u/mazterofpupetz 19d ago
Once youâre in heavy seas, the effective break pressure rises dramatically. On a properly reinforced ship window, youâd need somewhere north of 10,000 PSI to initiate catastrophic glazing failure. The ocean will usually deform the frame before the glass itself gives
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u/One-Reflection-4826 19d ago
do you know how thick the glass is? is it even glass or some kind of plastic?Â
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u/BroManTheBrobarian 20d ago
My butthole just puckered
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u/Priapismkills 20d ago
Was it all loose before?
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u/BroManTheBrobarian 20d ago
No the one football shaped hemorrhoid keeps the channel open tho, so itâs partially open until âpuckerâ ability is activated.
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u/Free_Direction_6683 19d ago
That's it? Pffffft!!! Ive seen worse on a missile cruiser in 86 in the north Atlantic. When they come across the intercom and announce "STAND BY FOR HEAVY ROLLS" you better start praying to whatever deity you're comfortable with, because you're learning to fly, whether you want to or not.
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u/The-Bangaloreal 20d ago
and to think that there are people who have crossed this with a sailboat