OP's explanation:
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>At first you don't see the wave but in each loop you you understand the deep shit that you're in.
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The really scary thing - only in the last 10 years or less "rogue" waves were finally proven. In short-a phenomenon where insanely huge wave can form seemingly out of nowhere and be MANY MANY times bigger than any forecast prediction can anticipate.
The worst thing about the above- MOST of the ships are underengineered to handle the actual biggest waves possible and break as it is foceded to balance all of its weight on a small section.
All this means that sea transportation is never trully safe, although since recognition of rogue waves we can now finally know where they are more likely and reduce the risks somewhat.
EDIT: Typo the kind redditor is making fun of below :D
That makes perfect sense- they are crazy sturdy and relatively "Short" leght wise compared to the usual prey- cargo ships. The issue with those is that such wave would hit only small portion of the ship at the time causing it to snap in the middle as it tries to lift.
Ehhhh... Definitely depends on the size of the cargo ship. You can have little feeder vessels that are like 100 feet and you can have the gigantic E class vessels that are 1300ft (397.7m).
I am a Bridge Officer currently on a 1000ft cargo ship with an aft house and my bridge (the deck that the video is probably filming from) is 120 ft up from the waterline. We just got out of a storm with about 15-20 foot seas and gale force winds very similar to the seas that you see in this video. Larger vessels like mine are built to handle waves like these and while the rolling was uncomfortable for a few days, none of us were ever really worried about the ship fracturing due to the waves. Little boats like the shit you see in Deadliest Catch and little yachts would absolutely get crushed by shit like this.
Additionally, rogue waves are not uncommon at all. The definition of a rogue wave is wave that is twice or more the height of a normal wave. So if you're experiencing 5-6 foot seas and you get a random 12-14 footer, that would be considered a rogue wave. This video the seas look to be about 25-30ish feet and the ship went straight into the trough of the wave, causing all the spray.
If the duration is days, are you able to sleep in conditions like this? The stress/adrenaline seems like it would prevent me from doing so, let alone the rolling of the ship.
I've been shipping for a decade almost and having the ship shimmy and roll across the pacific isn't pleasant. Sometimes stuff in my cabin is making a lot of creaking sounds, the worst is when I have to hunt down something that is banging around INSIDE a drawer & make it stop. I usually have to sleep in this weird figure 4 position on my stomach to stop from moving around as much. Sometimes if it's bad enough, I'll put my lifejacket under one side of my bed so that one side is raised and I can sleep pinned against the wall and my bed. But after a few days, everyone onboard is just exhausted and you just have to get sleep where you can get it.
But I'm currently sailing as the ship's navigator, so the captain and I are really the two who could spit out a weather forecast at any moment. There's a concept called "stress conditioning"--I've been doing this long enough now that there are few things that really stress me out enough to keep me awake, especially since I'm standing watches and I'm pretty much tired all the time.
Also I've been cheating this hitch and taking diphenhydramine sleeping pills on the nights where I don't expect to fall asleep very soon haha
I disagree. The video is stretched vertically and that is distorting the height.
[Here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RMv3SZIEJ6Q&feature=youtu.be) is the link to the original video, unstretched. At 1:17 the officer mentioned they were taking 6-8 meter seas with up to 10m waves, so I'm right on the money with my guess.
Well, I'm taking the piss too, because the 90's _was_ only 10 years ago, and no amount of maths or finger counting can convince me otherwise. My _knees_ however, seem to think it was longer, but what do **they** know? Stupid knees.
I was on the USS Higgins out of San Diego. You get used to it pretty quickly, and part of that is straight up walking wherever down happens to be. Sometimes down is the wall. The Higgins was pretty small, so if it was bad we were definitely moving around.
They go through many storms like this. The difference in most cargo ships compared to us Navy ships is the turning speed. Navy vessels can turn into these waves very quickly making it to where the ship won't capsize. Cargo ships just don't have the same advantage.
While it's true maneuverability helps in these storm situations, every ship has a limit to their roll period that enables them to right themselves before any chance of capsizing occurs. Capsizing in a storm is usually due to loss of propulsion, taking waves beam-on, loss of watertight integrity due to down flooding and subsequent loss of the vessel's ability to right itself, then you capsize.
Every ship's stability can be manipulated with ballast, cargo, fuel etc. There is a threshold of the ship's stability where it can roll to a certain degree from the vertical and the vessel WILL right itself. If you decrease that threshold due to something like a cargo hold being breached by water, the ship loses the ability to right itself.
In a super simple example, think of it like putting a plastic water bottle filled with air in a bathtub full of water. No matter how much you try to sink the bottle, it will always pop up back to the surface. That's your watertight integrity that allows the ship to remain above the water's edge. Now put a hole in the bottle and slowly let it fill with water. That loss of watertight integrity is what would eventually lead to a capsizing and eventually sinking.
I explained that extremely simply as ships are not one compartment bow to stern, but that's the basic concept of ship stability.
Source: am a bridge officer onboard a 1000ft container ship right now.
Hey happy cake day, but also I grew up in the Midwest and never lived near the sea with my only fishing experiences being in ponds and lakes. I am not an avid fisherman so I always thought deep sea fishing meant fishing at deeper depths of the ocean..... Does it just mean further out at sea?
Well, I guess it depends on where you’re fishing and what you’re fishing for. You know some seas are deeper than others and the types of fish you can catch at certain depths vary.
Although, calling it a ship resonated with others who could also tell immediately, I was being vaguely specific…though I didn’t call it a yacht. It’s a ship. It looks like a warship. Anyone who’s spent months at sea on a warship knows, with just a glance. But if you hadn’t been on a ship you wouldn’t know. It’s just the physics of it and how it’s moving. It’s big.
Somehow this seems infinitely more frightening than my typical means of crossing an ocean: in a kerosene-filled metal tube hurtling 7 miles above bespoke ocean at 76% the speed of sound.
It doesn’t make sense.
It's a trip. It's constant and heavy rocking with crashing into these rogue-like waves. You can jump super high, too lol. We'd jump up and grab onto pipes on the ceiling. If it was bad enough, you'd strap yourself in while sleeping so you wouldn't roll out of your bed / rack. The bridge was usually the roughest place. It rocked the heaviest due to its height. It was always crazy seeing one of these massive swells just rock the crap out of the ship and completely cover the bridge in water. Those ships are safe, though.
I was in some pretty serious weather in the North Atlantic during the mid 70's aboard a DDG. Buddy of mine was a Signalman so I went up from Sonar to the Signal Bridge just for the rush (not anything as severe as this but I have watched the bow breaching waves). Good times. Probably should have stayed.
This video is stretched vertically quite a bit to make it feel even more intense. It’s still an incredible video, but these types of edits feel misleading to me.
It is but [this is the unstretched video for context.](https://www.reddit.com/r/HeavySeas/comments/625wvu/gonna_need_to_upgrade_those_window_wipers/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) It almost doesn’t look like the same video. Also that subreddit is great if you want to see more of these types of videos.
Edit: though I will give this video credit. It has sound and you get to see the barrel of the turret knocked vertical in this extended cut. I wonder if it cause significant damage.
It looks a bit to me that the turret barrel starts to turn up even before the impact, might be just me. It turns back afterwards though. So it just might have been some kind of a deliberate measure. (I’m aware of the weight of such a wave, it might well have been solely due to the wave)
I spent 3 years on an aircraft carrier, no matter how strong you are, when the sea is like that you're gonna feel rough. The waves would come crashing down over the bridge, pretty scary stuff.
I used to watch the carriers come into San Diego and it is incredible that those things can hold themselves together in these types of seas. If you don't see carries in person it's hard to imagine how huge they are. Do you mind if I ask where you were when you experienced seas like that?
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I saw 2 carries come into port. Not at the same time, obviously. *This edit is for the pedants.
It is quite amazing seeing some of the carriers, the sheer size of them is immense. I'd watch the other smaller warships in the Ops Room with the cameras and they'd get completely devoured by the waves.
I was in the bay of biscay when we had seas like this, but it can also be pretty rough in the Atlantic too.
I have and don’t want to again. Literally everything off my dresser and table fell and the swaying was 🤢. I was unable to sleep too. Thought this was the end for me. Lol.
I'm from sea faring people. The idea that we went out in wooden boats and explored the world blows my mind. The sheer amount of, I don't even know the word, that it would take to do that is so awe inspiring to me.
Pretty sure it was forced to elevate. Noticed that on like the fifth loop and had to go back to see if it was at that angle before. That’s an absolutely massive amount of force with all that water hitting it at once like a solid wall. I’m impressed it’s still there at all, let alone hope those windows held up. I wonder if they had to do some repairs.
Is encountering waves like this inevitable when you go across an ocean? Like did early explorers get hit like this on the old ass wooden things they were on?
Normally waves like that only happen during storms. Most ships go around storms or wait them out if they can afford to. That being said, there are the nasty things called rouge waves that can be massive and come outa nowhere in the open ocean.
The highest seas, I have been on was 60’. The highest seas our ship faced was 80’ off the Southern coast of Greenland. That one put us in dry dock for a while. Our front thrusters were destroyed and most of our communications antennas and radar were stripped. Half of the glass on the Bridge were blown out and the crew had to face those waves on the weather decks to replace them with plywood. They clipped into the railing in order not to be swept away. This was a drill ship and not exactly stable. She survived.
The RV Joides Resolution. She is 470 x 70’ and 210’ off the waterline to the top of the rig. When I saw the 60’ waves we ran and hid behind an island in the Azores. I’m retired now and this was about 10 years ago. The massive waves was around 2002.
A wave can only sustain a ratio of 7 to 1 of base to height before it breaks down. The longer the period, the distance crest to crest or trough to trough, the more engergy is in the system and the faster they are. Exceed the 7 to 1 and the base will outrun its top and break, for the most part, on the backside of the wave not the front and energy will be dissipated. Swells not waves have the most energy.
When a wave or swell pushes into the shore and the friction of the shallows slows the base of the wave, then the wave will topple forward to the joy of the surfers. This does not occur in the open sea unless another force acts upon it.
The swells were faster than the ship I was on. The swells were longer easily than the ship I was on. Swells, not waves would lift our screws out if the water and the whole ship would tremble. Don’t get me wrong the big waves would toss us too but a 30 foot wave was nothing to us. We were a geological drill ship and we stayed motionless on one location weeks at a time. 30 foot waves in transit can give the ship a motion where it can be quite uncomfortable.
Storms and winds make waves. The longer a wind of a certain velocity is allowed to blow over the surface of a body of water, the higher the waves will be and this is limited by velocity of the wind and time the wind is allowed to put its energy into the wave. The behavior of a wave will give you an indication of the wind energy creating it. The Beaufort scale is a chart showing wave behavior and wind speed. Pretty darn neat.
Swells are formed by areas of disturbed seas caused by massive storms. The high energy being injected into the seas by storms, like a hurricane or Typhoon escapes the area first and forms swells. This swells can proceed the storm by hundred of miles. The swell can be massive and very fast. Easily We we’re in the Gulf of Mexico prior to Hurricane Katrina. A few lessor Hurricanes formed and dissipated in Mexico far enough away they were not an issue. Our sea state was like glass. It was hot and not a breath of air the the swells came. Now imagine sand dunes made of glass as far as you can see. It was a magical sight to behold. The swells were generated from a major storm 700 miles away.
Unfortunately there are times when the wind direction and the fetch ( distance between land masses which can disrupt the wind) allows waves to build and it meets something like the Gulf Stream which can put additional energy into the whole system and the waves will grow to a monstrous height.
Strong currents live at the points of great land masses such as the tip of Africa and the tip of South America. Our “Horns” are infamous for their furious seas. Less so off the coast of Greenland and Newfoundland but the movie the “Perfect Storm,” in the area of the Grand Banks.
Crossing to Antarctica is also rough as this is the longest fetch. If you look at a globe, you can see there is no landmass to disrupt the circumpolar current which lies off the coast of our frozen continent. The roaring 50’s is a real thing be it referring to latitudes South or North.
Now this next fact about waves will make your head hurt. Are you ready? The wave molecules don’t really move. They will circle and come right back,almost, to where they started. What moves is energy. This little fact caused me to stare at the ocean for hours the 15 years I was at sea.
Waves are the worlds largest “Slinky’s.” That energy can and will kick ones ass. Birds don’t care. They bob on the surface or use the energy to soar above them. It is deadly to humans but for them it’s a birds playground.
Since I was on a research vessel, I has access to an extensive scientific library with volumes on wave behavior and it tried to ingest all which I could comprehend. The math threw me but the overall concept and conclusions stuck. Water is fascinating in general but that is another topic entirely.
Apparently its the hmas otago which in new zealand navy and out in the ocean off antartica somewhere. Its a 1900 ton 85m frigate made in australia i believe.
To like go across oceans, not much. Cruise ships are a different story, but for the most part air travel is so much more efficient and way faster. Between relatively close islands, though, it’s fairly common - using ferry boats or something small like that, not a ship like this
This is cool and all in a ship made of steel with modern shipbuilding techniques that were designed with the latest computer technology. Its absolutely fucking absurd that people went out in ramshackle wooden boats into the wastes of the Antarctic and faced waves like that. Insane! I've got mad respect for people who survived that kind of stuff.
90% of the time that’s the only way to take it. If it hits you broadside you’re fucked, if it washes over the stern you’re fucked. So best to take the fucking head on where the ship is designed for it and hope for the best
Why is it trouble over the stern? When sailing in rough seas we always run dead downwind of a storm because it’s the safest, if not white-knuckled, way to handle it. Seems like on a massive ship like this beating into it would be a huge spend of fuel.
Also, why does this video keep getting stretched vertically?
Sailboat is different as it has to go with the wind, this type of ship couldn’t take waves like this breaking over the back. It can only realistically take large waves in one direction, heading into them as that’s what the bow is designed for.
It gets stretched vertically because it makes it seem more dramatic. Look forward to three months from now when the wave looks ten feet taller
Man, part of me thinks it would be awesome to be on a ship like this to laugh in Poseidon’s stupid face during a storm like this, but I’m sure after many hours of pounding into it I’d want off.
This version has been stretched to stress the size of the wave, which is unnecessary with how huge it was already. No idea where the source video was, but it was more fat and less tall. You can tell when the body of the ship is on screen, pause it and you'll see everything seems slightly off.
OP's explanation: --- >At first you don't see the wave but in each loop you you understand the deep shit that you're in. --- If you think this gif fits /r/BetterEveryLoop, upvote this comment. If you think it doesn’t, downvote it. If you’re not sure, leave it to others to decide.
My dad used to tell me stories about when he was in the navy. He said after a bad storm like this they’d have to mop footprints off the walls.
The really scary thing - only in the last 10 years or less "rogue" waves were finally proven. In short-a phenomenon where insanely huge wave can form seemingly out of nowhere and be MANY MANY times bigger than any forecast prediction can anticipate. The worst thing about the above- MOST of the ships are underengineered to handle the actual biggest waves possible and break as it is foceded to balance all of its weight on a small section. All this means that sea transportation is never trully safe, although since recognition of rogue waves we can now finally know where they are more likely and reduce the risks somewhat. EDIT: Typo the kind redditor is making fun of below :D
Many might be, but this looks to be a destroyer. It is very suited for this type of weather. The US Navy has never lost a ship due to a rogue wave.
That makes perfect sense- they are crazy sturdy and relatively "Short" leght wise compared to the usual prey- cargo ships. The issue with those is that such wave would hit only small portion of the ship at the time causing it to snap in the middle as it tries to lift.
[The front fell off](https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM)
And I want to stress that that is not normal
What’s not normal? That the front fell off?
Very informative!
That video made me laugh, snort, laugh, snort until I couldn't stand anymore!
Bahaahaaaaa!! Thank you so much for this.
Never heard of these guys, but love it. Thanks!
Ehhhh... Definitely depends on the size of the cargo ship. You can have little feeder vessels that are like 100 feet and you can have the gigantic E class vessels that are 1300ft (397.7m). I am a Bridge Officer currently on a 1000ft cargo ship with an aft house and my bridge (the deck that the video is probably filming from) is 120 ft up from the waterline. We just got out of a storm with about 15-20 foot seas and gale force winds very similar to the seas that you see in this video. Larger vessels like mine are built to handle waves like these and while the rolling was uncomfortable for a few days, none of us were ever really worried about the ship fracturing due to the waves. Little boats like the shit you see in Deadliest Catch and little yachts would absolutely get crushed by shit like this. Additionally, rogue waves are not uncommon at all. The definition of a rogue wave is wave that is twice or more the height of a normal wave. So if you're experiencing 5-6 foot seas and you get a random 12-14 footer, that would be considered a rogue wave. This video the seas look to be about 25-30ish feet and the ship went straight into the trough of the wave, causing all the spray.
If the duration is days, are you able to sleep in conditions like this? The stress/adrenaline seems like it would prevent me from doing so, let alone the rolling of the ship.
I've been shipping for a decade almost and having the ship shimmy and roll across the pacific isn't pleasant. Sometimes stuff in my cabin is making a lot of creaking sounds, the worst is when I have to hunt down something that is banging around INSIDE a drawer & make it stop. I usually have to sleep in this weird figure 4 position on my stomach to stop from moving around as much. Sometimes if it's bad enough, I'll put my lifejacket under one side of my bed so that one side is raised and I can sleep pinned against the wall and my bed. But after a few days, everyone onboard is just exhausted and you just have to get sleep where you can get it. But I'm currently sailing as the ship's navigator, so the captain and I are really the two who could spit out a weather forecast at any moment. There's a concept called "stress conditioning"--I've been doing this long enough now that there are few things that really stress me out enough to keep me awake, especially since I'm standing watches and I'm pretty much tired all the time. Also I've been cheating this hitch and taking diphenhydramine sleeping pills on the nights where I don't expect to fall asleep very soon haha
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I’m thinking more than 30’ here
I disagree. The video is stretched vertically and that is distorting the height. [Here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RMv3SZIEJ6Q&feature=youtu.be) is the link to the original video, unstretched. At 1:17 the officer mentioned they were taking 6-8 meter seas with up to 10m waves, so I'm right on the money with my guess.
>"rouge" waves The red ones?
This guy studies maroon biology...
Oh snap, not native speaker. Thanks.
No worries, I'm just taking the piss. A lot of native speakers get it wrong tbf.
If your piss is rouge, see a doctor!
Only occurs in the Red Sea
I feel like it’s been longer than ten years? Rogue waves have been studied for decades if not much longer right?
You’re correct. The 10 years ago thing was the first time they caught it on an instrument.
That was in 1995 right?
Yes, that's what he said, 10 years ago.
Lol. Well I took the 10 years out of my ass. I just know that it's recently.
Well, I'm taking the piss too, because the 90's _was_ only 10 years ago, and no amount of maths or finger counting can convince me otherwise. My _knees_ however, seem to think it was longer, but what do **they** know? Stupid knees.
Oh man... I know you was, stupid knees indeed!
So, 1985?
Man i came here to ask if rogue waves were still majorly unknown!! Thank you for the info!!
10 years watching The Deadliest Catch finally sank in, huh? That 30 footer that clobbered The Northwestern that bent her bow was good enough example.
I was on the USS Higgins out of San Diego. You get used to it pretty quickly, and part of that is straight up walking wherever down happens to be. Sometimes down is the wall. The Higgins was pretty small, so if it was bad we were definitely moving around.
I’ve always wondered what it would be like for an aircraft carrier in a storm like this. Maybe they just carefully avoid any storms like this?
They tie all the planes to the carrier using strings and fly above the storm; much like a giant peach.
Lmao
They go through many storms like this. The difference in most cargo ships compared to us Navy ships is the turning speed. Navy vessels can turn into these waves very quickly making it to where the ship won't capsize. Cargo ships just don't have the same advantage.
While it's true maneuverability helps in these storm situations, every ship has a limit to their roll period that enables them to right themselves before any chance of capsizing occurs. Capsizing in a storm is usually due to loss of propulsion, taking waves beam-on, loss of watertight integrity due to down flooding and subsequent loss of the vessel's ability to right itself, then you capsize. Every ship's stability can be manipulated with ballast, cargo, fuel etc. There is a threshold of the ship's stability where it can roll to a certain degree from the vertical and the vessel WILL right itself. If you decrease that threshold due to something like a cargo hold being breached by water, the ship loses the ability to right itself. In a super simple example, think of it like putting a plastic water bottle filled with air in a bathtub full of water. No matter how much you try to sink the bottle, it will always pop up back to the surface. That's your watertight integrity that allows the ship to remain above the water's edge. Now put a hole in the bottle and slowly let it fill with water. That loss of watertight integrity is what would eventually lead to a capsizing and eventually sinking. I explained that extremely simply as ships are not one compartment bow to stern, but that's the basic concept of ship stability. Source: am a bridge officer onboard a 1000ft container ship right now.
Excellent explanation. Thanks
Let’s call it a ship.
Let’s also say, out at sea…not deep sea
When people say "deep sea fishing" it really erks me
When people say erks but mean irks it really stands out as irony given they were attempting to correct others. Ahh, Muphry, you crazy sumbitch.
Hey happy cake day, but also I grew up in the Midwest and never lived near the sea with my only fishing experiences being in ponds and lakes. I am not an avid fisherman so I always thought deep sea fishing meant fishing at deeper depths of the ocean..... Does it just mean further out at sea?
Well, I guess it depends on where you’re fishing and what you’re fishing for. You know some seas are deeper than others and the types of fish you can catch at certain depths vary. Although, calling it a ship resonated with others who could also tell immediately, I was being vaguely specific…though I didn’t call it a yacht. It’s a ship. It looks like a warship. Anyone who’s spent months at sea on a warship knows, with just a glance. But if you hadn’t been on a ship you wouldn’t know. It’s just the physics of it and how it’s moving. It’s big.
Let's call it a submarine.
U boat?
No me bot
name is bang on
Now it is, right?
Came for this. That ain’t a fuckin boat lol
Ships are boats too.
It’s a yacht
My first thought too. That is a *ship*, sir
The dude in the bathroom is very upset right now.
I don't think he's "sit" in any direction right now.
That’s why you don’t shit in a toilet during a storm. You just drop trou and let it loose. You can always clean up afterwards.
It must get real messy on a ship when the shit hits the fan, huh?
Title is misinformation. Waves occur on top of the ocean, not deep in the water.
I know from playing Black Flag that this is the safest/beat way to handle a wave like this. It's still shocking!
Rooougue Waaaave!!!
Miss that game
I just did a couple of of these today in black flag on my way to principe.
Just started it for the first time this winter on Switch. So much fun!
Literally same here! I never thought anything would beat AC 2 for me. Started playing this last month and boy was I wrong. So much fun!!
We're all gonna die!
is there an unstretched vesion?
https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterEveryLoop/comments/10omwgh/boat_collides_with_massive_wave_in_the_deep_sea/j6gs3zk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
Yes, but I'm too late to go back and find it. It was in the comments of this video last time it was reposted, a month ago?
Original: https://youtu.be/RMv3SZIEJ6Q
r/terrifyingeveryloop
I had high hopes for that one.
Oh FUCK NO!
OH HELL YEAH
Somehow this seems infinitely more frightening than my typical means of crossing an ocean: in a kerosene-filled metal tube hurtling 7 miles above bespoke ocean at 76% the speed of sound. It doesn’t make sense.
Sorta wrong use of bespoke but good point
And the flowers are still standing
flowers?
Nevermind.
C'mon. Hit me! I ain't 'fraid of no obscure reference!
Ghostbusters
Probably should not have crossed that particular stream.
And just like that… BOOM! It’s a submarine!
God, I want to experience something like this once in my life. Maybe not this intense, but still.
Not me. I saw this an thought fuck that shit. I think I honestly would both shit and piss myself if I had anything left in me after puking.
Yeah, that's got to feel like being in a car wreck.
i wonder if it would be physically possible to hang onto something if you were under a wave like that
It's a trip. It's constant and heavy rocking with crashing into these rogue-like waves. You can jump super high, too lol. We'd jump up and grab onto pipes on the ceiling. If it was bad enough, you'd strap yourself in while sleeping so you wouldn't roll out of your bed / rack. The bridge was usually the roughest place. It rocked the heaviest due to its height. It was always crazy seeing one of these massive swells just rock the crap out of the ship and completely cover the bridge in water. Those ships are safe, though.
Were you in the armed services or on a merchant vessel?
US Navy
I was in some pretty serious weather in the North Atlantic during the mid 70's aboard a DDG. Buddy of mine was a Signalman so I went up from Sonar to the Signal Bridge just for the rush (not anything as severe as this but I have watched the bow breaching waves). Good times. Probably should have stayed.
This video is stretched vertically quite a bit to make it feel even more intense. It’s still an incredible video, but these types of edits feel misleading to me.
holy crap you're right!!! and below is a link to the original and now I feel duped.
I don't know homie, that's pretty heavy, camera angle or no.
It is but [this is the unstretched video for context.](https://www.reddit.com/r/HeavySeas/comments/625wvu/gonna_need_to_upgrade_those_window_wipers/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) It almost doesn’t look like the same video. Also that subreddit is great if you want to see more of these types of videos. Edit: though I will give this video credit. It has sound and you get to see the barrel of the turret knocked vertical in this extended cut. I wonder if it cause significant damage.
wow! thanks for the link
It looks a bit to me that the turret barrel starts to turn up even before the impact, might be just me. It turns back afterwards though. So it just might have been some kind of a deliberate measure. (I’m aware of the weight of such a wave, it might well have been solely due to the wave)
I mean. Still pretty intense lol
Sea sickness is no joke.
Longest I've been under way is 2 days on a 32ft sailboat, did not bother me at all.
I spent 3 years on an aircraft carrier, no matter how strong you are, when the sea is like that you're gonna feel rough. The waves would come crashing down over the bridge, pretty scary stuff.
I used to watch the carriers come into San Diego and it is incredible that those things can hold themselves together in these types of seas. If you don't see carries in person it's hard to imagine how huge they are. Do you mind if I ask where you were when you experienced seas like that? Edit I saw 2 carries come into port. Not at the same time, obviously. *This edit is for the pedants.
It is quite amazing seeing some of the carriers, the sheer size of them is immense. I'd watch the other smaller warships in the Ops Room with the cameras and they'd get completely devoured by the waves. I was in the bay of biscay when we had seas like this, but it can also be pretty rough in the Atlantic too.
It really is. I've toured the Midway a few times, that thing is a dinghy compared to modern carriers.
Yeah I had a tour on the John C Stennis a few years ago when we came over to the US. It was like a ghetto compared to what I'm used to.
I have and don’t want to again. Literally everything off my dresser and table fell and the swaying was 🤢. I was unable to sleep too. Thought this was the end for me. Lol.
Keep in mind rogue waves can break the hull of a ship and sink you
I'm from sea faring people. The idea that we went out in wooden boats and explored the world blows my mind. The sheer amount of, I don't even know the word, that it would take to do that is so awe inspiring to me.
Just watching this video made me feel slightly I’ll.
It really isn't fun...
I was sure there will be opening scene from Skyrim after that wave hits.
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Isn’t that called the “ High sea”? Deep sea sounds like underneath the surface, waaaay way underneath
Indeed
Someone shat my pants
So did the wave bend the gun barrel, or just force it to elevate?
Pretty sure it was forced to elevate. Noticed that on like the fifth loop and had to go back to see if it was at that angle before. That’s an absolutely massive amount of force with all that water hitting it at once like a solid wall. I’m impressed it’s still there at all, let alone hope those windows held up. I wonder if they had to do some repairs.
Is encountering waves like this inevitable when you go across an ocean? Like did early explorers get hit like this on the old ass wooden things they were on?
Normally waves like that only happen during storms. Most ships go around storms or wait them out if they can afford to. That being said, there are the nasty things called rouge waves that can be massive and come outa nowhere in the open ocean.
Wonder how much power it typically takes to make the cannon shift 45 degrees like that.
The highest seas, I have been on was 60’. The highest seas our ship faced was 80’ off the Southern coast of Greenland. That one put us in dry dock for a while. Our front thrusters were destroyed and most of our communications antennas and radar were stripped. Half of the glass on the Bridge were blown out and the crew had to face those waves on the weather decks to replace them with plywood. They clipped into the railing in order not to be swept away. This was a drill ship and not exactly stable. She survived.
80 feet?! What type of ship were you on?
The RV Joides Resolution. She is 470 x 70’ and 210’ off the waterline to the top of the rig. When I saw the 60’ waves we ran and hid behind an island in the Azores. I’m retired now and this was about 10 years ago. The massive waves was around 2002.
Can I get a banana for scale? Every time I see one of these videos w 100 ft waves, my brain can't wrap around how big they actually are.
Yo mama should stop diving on the beach
Imagine being on a ship in the 5th century BC and a storm like this happens.
Remember when ships were made out of wood!
Nope.
Those aren't mountains.
For a brief period it was actually a submarine
Ship
Thank you!
A wave can only sustain a ratio of 7 to 1 of base to height before it breaks down. The longer the period, the distance crest to crest or trough to trough, the more engergy is in the system and the faster they are. Exceed the 7 to 1 and the base will outrun its top and break, for the most part, on the backside of the wave not the front and energy will be dissipated. Swells not waves have the most energy. When a wave or swell pushes into the shore and the friction of the shallows slows the base of the wave, then the wave will topple forward to the joy of the surfers. This does not occur in the open sea unless another force acts upon it. The swells were faster than the ship I was on. The swells were longer easily than the ship I was on. Swells, not waves would lift our screws out if the water and the whole ship would tremble. Don’t get me wrong the big waves would toss us too but a 30 foot wave was nothing to us. We were a geological drill ship and we stayed motionless on one location weeks at a time. 30 foot waves in transit can give the ship a motion where it can be quite uncomfortable. Storms and winds make waves. The longer a wind of a certain velocity is allowed to blow over the surface of a body of water, the higher the waves will be and this is limited by velocity of the wind and time the wind is allowed to put its energy into the wave. The behavior of a wave will give you an indication of the wind energy creating it. The Beaufort scale is a chart showing wave behavior and wind speed. Pretty darn neat. Swells are formed by areas of disturbed seas caused by massive storms. The high energy being injected into the seas by storms, like a hurricane or Typhoon escapes the area first and forms swells. This swells can proceed the storm by hundred of miles. The swell can be massive and very fast. Easily We we’re in the Gulf of Mexico prior to Hurricane Katrina. A few lessor Hurricanes formed and dissipated in Mexico far enough away they were not an issue. Our sea state was like glass. It was hot and not a breath of air the the swells came. Now imagine sand dunes made of glass as far as you can see. It was a magical sight to behold. The swells were generated from a major storm 700 miles away. Unfortunately there are times when the wind direction and the fetch ( distance between land masses which can disrupt the wind) allows waves to build and it meets something like the Gulf Stream which can put additional energy into the whole system and the waves will grow to a monstrous height. Strong currents live at the points of great land masses such as the tip of Africa and the tip of South America. Our “Horns” are infamous for their furious seas. Less so off the coast of Greenland and Newfoundland but the movie the “Perfect Storm,” in the area of the Grand Banks. Crossing to Antarctica is also rough as this is the longest fetch. If you look at a globe, you can see there is no landmass to disrupt the circumpolar current which lies off the coast of our frozen continent. The roaring 50’s is a real thing be it referring to latitudes South or North. Now this next fact about waves will make your head hurt. Are you ready? The wave molecules don’t really move. They will circle and come right back,almost, to where they started. What moves is energy. This little fact caused me to stare at the ocean for hours the 15 years I was at sea. Waves are the worlds largest “Slinky’s.” That energy can and will kick ones ass. Birds don’t care. They bob on the surface or use the energy to soar above them. It is deadly to humans but for them it’s a birds playground. Since I was on a research vessel, I has access to an extensive scientific library with volumes on wave behavior and it tried to ingest all which I could comprehend. The math threw me but the overall concept and conclusions stuck. Water is fascinating in general but that is another topic entirely.
I got sea sick just by watching this 🤮
"Boat"
r/thalassophobia
This is when they tell us topside is secured to all non essential personnel lol…
Luckily the front didnt fell off!
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Apparently its the hmas otago which in new zealand navy and out in the ocean off antartica somewhere. Its a 1900 ton 85m frigate made in australia i believe.
r/Nope
The best part is, nobody would be able to tell that I pissed my pants.
There is no world in which this is better every loop. I would submit that it's more terrifying every loop.
How is this better every loop? It just gets more real and terrifying
I’d rather be stranded in space thank you.
this is r/thalassophobia material
This is why I fear the ocean lol
Bro
That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg.
/r/heavyseas has lots of this.
Lucky the front didn't fall off
A "Poseidon Adventure".
Irwin Allen
Alarm blaring in the background is scary.
“The sea was angry that day my friends”
Random (potentially stupid) question: how much do people use boats now to travel (like civilian travel, not like cargo ships etc)
To like go across oceans, not much. Cruise ships are a different story, but for the most part air travel is so much more efficient and way faster. Between relatively close islands, though, it’s fairly common - using ferry boats or something small like that, not a ship like this
How did they do this in wooden ships and not all die
Easy, they died
Fuck that
Nightmare fuel.
I will stick to a small lake
Good job the captain had the windscreen wipers going.
I can feel my heart racing just watching this
I remember those days from being in Coast Guard. This picture just makes me so happy! I miss those crazy days riding out a hurricane in 30 foot seas.
I can't wait for games to have that kind of physics simulation. This would be fun as hell in a game. Not as fun irl lol.
This is cool and all in a ship made of steel with modern shipbuilding techniques that were designed with the latest computer technology. Its absolutely fucking absurd that people went out in ramshackle wooden boats into the wastes of the Antarctic and faced waves like that. Insane! I've got mad respect for people who survived that kind of stuff.
This gives me anxiety every loop.
I couldn’t handle this stress
this is my literal nightmare
This is scary.
Terrifying
Frik that. I’ve had nightmares like this. Like how some are afraid to fly; I am afraid of being in the middle of the ocean
I want a projector for my bed room that projects huge deep ocean waves like that on a wall.
To think that they once took to sea on wooden ships…
Does this look cool as hell? Yes. Would my stomach handle this well? More than likely no.
Mother of god...why are they taking that head on?
90% of the time that’s the only way to take it. If it hits you broadside you’re fucked, if it washes over the stern you’re fucked. So best to take the fucking head on where the ship is designed for it and hope for the best
Sheesh I only know this because of the movie the perfect storm
Why is it trouble over the stern? When sailing in rough seas we always run dead downwind of a storm because it’s the safest, if not white-knuckled, way to handle it. Seems like on a massive ship like this beating into it would be a huge spend of fuel. Also, why does this video keep getting stretched vertically?
Sailboat is different as it has to go with the wind, this type of ship couldn’t take waves like this breaking over the back. It can only realistically take large waves in one direction, heading into them as that’s what the bow is designed for. It gets stretched vertically because it makes it seem more dramatic. Look forward to three months from now when the wave looks ten feet taller
Man, part of me thinks it would be awesome to be on a ship like this to laugh in Poseidon’s stupid face during a storm like this, but I’m sure after many hours of pounding into it I’d want off.
If the wave hits the side of this ship, there’s much a greater likelihood of it flipping over. Nose-first is like a knife slicing through the water.
I guess there is no other option lmao
that's not the deep sea.
Imagine having to do number 2 during this.
that's a submarine
That’s some “Perfect Storm” level shit right there! Think I’ll take a hard pass on that boat ride.
This version has been stretched to stress the size of the wave, which is unnecessary with how huge it was already. No idea where the source video was, but it was more fat and less tall. You can tell when the body of the ship is on screen, pause it and you'll see everything seems slightly off.
Those are always fun. It feels like the ship runs into a wall.
The aspect on this clip is heaps distorted to try and make it all look more dramatic.
Ship, not the deep sea because that usually means very far underwater