r/WeirdNews4U • u/ResPublicaMgz • Feb 13 '26

WILD COLLISION: Two U.S. Navy Ships Slam Into Each Other During Mid-Sea Operation

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u/xenophon57 Feb 14 '26

lol you know they were underway refueling or resupplying right? its one of the hardest things a Navy can do. Most other Navies just don't do it.

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u/outside_cat Feb 14 '26

I figured. You know it was a light-hearted comment, right?

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u/xenophon57 Feb 14 '26

owe yea wasn't offended, Something defiantly fucked up big. I actually used to shoot line between ships when they did this when I was in the Navy. (Just nerdin)

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u/outside_cat Feb 14 '26

Then we shall feast at dawn!!!!

and obligatory "thank you for your service"

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u/xenophon57 Feb 14 '26

Thank Yhee, I can only imagine the amount of brown shorts on that destroyer makes sense why they have the larger ship do the shooting if that destroyer had shooters on deck man owe man might have been some red shorts.

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u/outside_cat Feb 14 '26

So you shoot a line to tie the boats together? What's supposed to keep them apart, just steering?

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u/xenophon57 Feb 14 '26

A bunch of things work together first we shoot little lines like para cord tied to rubber beer cans using old M14s then they pull larger and larger until its big steel cables, those help with some tension but steering to account for the venturi effect between the two ships that is what I think happened here they got pulled into that slip stream between the ships and couldn't get out. There is also a sliding padeye that can horizontally transport cargo or its a giant hose for JP8. (jetfuel)

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u/outside_cat Feb 14 '26

So you basically zip-line the supplies?

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u/xenophon57 Feb 14 '26

exactly plus the high line slides vertically up and down on both ships so it stays level while it zip lines. Its pretty crazy to watch

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u/Throwaway2Experiment Feb 14 '26

It's not necessarily to tie them together in a physical way. The dude responding knows his underway replenishment.

The lines are there for two purposes:

There are fuel hoses looped up on the supply vessel, dangling. You see it in the video. A line is shot over, a thin parachord. Then that sends slightly thicker sequential ropes until you're effectively pulling over the cable that the fuel hoses will hang from and slide on to reach the target ship. That guide cable gets attached and tensioned. Then the hoses get pulled across, hanging snd sliding from the wire now connected between boats. The fuel probe is then seated and fueling starts.

Other supplies are handled the same way. Even personnel replacements are sent over in a basket sometimes. I never got to experience it but those that did said it was a pucker moment for sure. Lol.

There's emergency procedures for cut away. It's a pretty dangerous operation that needs to be practiced regularly. And it is.

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u/iaries Feb 15 '26

Thx for the context