I sailed as on officer on a cable ship in the north Atlantic in 1999 and 2000. I know the area of Rockall very well. They storms in this area are intense. I remember we had a storm that was so bad in 2000 that it destroyed a number of our computers, broke some port holes and knocked the crane out of its cradle and we had to go on deck to secure it. I remember having to go through the bowels of the ship during the storm to make sure we were not taking on water. I remember we had a bunch on young tough street guys who were hired on board for their first voyage. A few of these tough hood guys were crying thinking they were going to die. I told them not to worry because our ship could handle this with no problem but I was scared too because going through the ship checking for leaks was not a normal thing. We ended up in a storm with 40 ft plus seas. The ocean is no joke.
That sounds fearsome. I've merely taken the ferry fron Oslo to Copenhagen and even then the boat has been smacking into the waves all the way there and l was fine. Got stoned and watched the film. However if the conditions had been worse to the point where l should have somehow known that a crewman was perhaps actively checking for leaks with some concern l probably would have hidden in a bar. What a freaking job sailors do.
In the early 1990’s, there was a program that explained why Rogue Waves were mathematically impossible. The real insult was the condescending way they spoke of those who had reported the waves. When the Rig was hit in ‘95, I chuckled. Whenever humans say something is absolute, eventually it gets proven wrong.
The program used flawed data to start with. I worked with engineers who designed. Superstructures based on tables that were based on probability. Do you design all houses to survive the 1/100 year hurricane or do you design and build it to the hurricane/storm that you get every 5 years. The problem was no one knew the frequency. Ships that hit these and sunk never recorded what exactly happened. Those that did they treated it as rogue. Rogue does not fit within the frequency model. 15:24
@@isaacg901 Errr no. Ocean modellers and physicists were already looking at the possibility of such waves then in the late nineties. Using physics and computer modelling they determined how such waves can occur in the open ocean. Virologists and immunologists instituted the lockdown measures to prevent spread while searching for a vaccine. Which funnily enough has meant the world has returned to normal far quicker than ever before with advances in mRNA vaccines. Funny how real science works as opposed to all the pseudoscience and pseudoscientists that perform their charlatan act on social media.
When i worked on a container ship we got absolutely bodied on the starboard side at a 45° angle by a 43m/141ft rogue wave off the west coast of Ireland. We lost all electrics and were adrift for nearly 3 hours before we got th generators running again. Scariest thing ive ever experienced. Came within 1 and half degrees of capsizing us.
That's absolutely insane. I try to stay rational, it's why I don't fear airplanes. But rogue waves would make me feel utterly powerless on a ship haha.
I spent almost 50 years as a Deck Officer and Captain going to sea on a wide range of large ocean going ships. The way the very worst winter storm seas would sweep over the decks of even a deep loaded 1100 foot VLCC (large supertanker) had to be experienced to believe. I remember the midship cranes completely disappearing under green water just before the same wall of water smashed into the house (located aft). In that particular storm we suffered serious damage to one of our two lifeboats and a good deal of twisted steel on deck. Oddly, I still miss it.
Heading to Japan years ago I was on a usns ship we got hit by a Rouge wave whole ship lurched...I ran on deck it was a bright full-moon night...it kept traveling a white crest I'll never forget that
Thats a beautiful thing the sea- highky addictive' the scent amd.smell of saltwater- the blasting wind- best sleep i ever had was on the ocean onboard ships
German were and are the best craftsmen, theyre amazing Thr lusitania was sunk because it was running weapons to britain thru the blockade - the belly was.not full of peagravel ballast- more like tanks guns and ammo
When I lived in Alabama, we had a tornado warning. I was watching TV when I heard a knock on my door. It's the middle of the night, and it's clearly tornado weather, so I was a little bit curious. Turns out it was my elderly neighbor. He brought a bottle of Jack Daniels, and asked if I wanted to share it with him on the porch. So I did. Lightning hit the tree about 20 ft away from us three times. And a tornado flew over our houses and hit a cemetery. One of my favorite memories. Well at least the parts I can remember. We also finished that bottle. Good times.
What's this got to do with the price of fish? What a ridiculous comment. 1. This video is about freak waves, not torpedo attacks. 2. The Lusitania, whilst (on balance of probability) very likely carrying a quantity of small arms ammunition, and thus a legitimate target, was not carrying tank guns. Why? Because, at this time (1915), the tank wasn't yet 'a thing.' The original tanks, the Mk1, were being developed, and would be used for the first time the following year, on the Somme. Incidentally, the guns for these tanks were redundant British naval guns, and would not have needed being imported. 3. Are you one of those Yankee Nazi fanboys? Whilst casting no aspersions upon German craftsmanship, other nations, the British, the Japanese, and even (occasionally) the Americans are just as capable of producing ships, cars and aircraft of equal quantity to one another.
Most in-depth video on it I ever saw was part of the TV show Deadliest Catch. It's about crab fishing boats... do crab fishing... mostly. Well one episode had a scene where, as the captain's daughter is cooking in the kitchen, she gets knocked off her feet so hard she breaks one of the cabinet doors with her elbow. Why? the ship had been hit with a rogue wave so hard that the diesel engines stalled and they had to patch up the engines with emergency repairs before limping to port to reattach part of the deck.
@@rredeyee2460 I've looked into that wave model he talked about. It has several assumptions that, while they make sense, don't fully encompass every possibility. The issue is people thought it was actually complete... when like you say... it was made by people with limited experience.
There's a lighthouse on Flugga (Shetland islands) & the door is around 190 foot above sea level. The door was 4 inch thick steel & it was smashed in with a lump of water one night.
@Ronin4614 not true. Sort of. The Coast guard have boats as long as it don't ground out or be tossed into the bottom rock, it is unsinkable. Which, we should have had Ling ago. Double triple hull with steel airbags steel an airbags again an low top speed, nothing can sink it. As far as the coast guard boat they get tossed around in hurricanes 🌀 an the ppl are strapped an move in a 360° ball. For now, most are sink able
Been on the queen Mary 2 as a teen years ago, beautiful ship at least from my limited child perspective of nice 😂 you never really get a full sense of scale of these ships until you're standing next to one feeling like an ant and being in awe of the forces at play with the mooring lines and other things
I spent one summer in the Gulf of Alaska. We gill-netted out of a skiff in a remote location that was considered undesirable by most fishermen. One opener we had our gear strung out into open water during a blow. We had debated whether we could manage the 8-10' chop in our skiff but went out anyways to see whether it was possible to pick fish in those conditions. After struggling for about 20 minutes in marginal conditions, we had just pushed back off the gear and were talking about heading back to the beach. I had my back to the bow, my fellow crewman was pull-starting the outboard to to keep the skiff pointed into the waves when I saw him look up behind me with his eyes wide. "Wave!" was all he had time for and I felt the skiff sink down into a trough before shooting back up a wave that was well over 20 feet. It broke just as we started sliding down the backside. It's nowhere near the size of the waves described in these videos but it would have seriously wiped out our small skiff had it broke seconds earlier, floatation gear or not. It's the surprise element of rogue waves that makes them lethal.
This just made me think of an old WW2 navy vet ... Signalman on HMCS Brandon .... He mentioned casually while we quaffed ale ... During the war Brandon was swallowed by a rogue wave in the north Atlantic ... Casey said ... he thought he was finished and Brandon popped out of sea !.... Severely damaged Brandon struggled to England for repair and refit ... Any inform on the Brandon's adventures would be appreciated ... Casey ...gone now... had a life long quest ... He wanted acknowledgement that, the Brandon engaged and sank a U boat off the coast of Portugal ... Love your channel !!!
@@Rockribbedman and what about the home projectors that you had to have the wheel of tape and slide it through and wind up the other wheel? And then had that little lever you had to push up and down whenever picture started flickering! I thought they were just the so wonderful! If someone had one at their house, I would watch all their home movies if they wanted me to. Most of the basic ones had no sound, everyone in the film was just always waving. Lol
I watched a few episodes of this series with my folks visiting them one evening. I lost my appetite for crab afterward seeing what these crews go through to obtain it. I know they’re all paid relatively well for their trouble, but YIKES!
Merchant mariners are a different breed and they have my absolute respect. Generally, I'd say the ocean is an incredibly awesome workplace, but when its not, boy it's not. Bet it makes you wish you were a plumber or something on land. Great work Big Old Boats, and thank you to all the merchant mariners out there.
"A typhoon is when the sky and the sea become one. Sometimes a ship goes into a wave and it never comes out." The words of a 28 year navy veteran, 1920-1948.
@@MsAdventure531 It's only a real quote if the person it's attributed to actually said it. A Google search will tell you that OP was the first person to say these words, verbatim, and I highly doubt that OP is an unnamed 28 year-old navy veteran that died in 1948. No, it's a fake and invented quote, however clever.
I was working with Land's End Coastguard at the time of this incident. Certainly, by far, the largest Search and Rescue I was ever involved with (including the Fastnet incident). Land's End Coastguard, at that time, had responsibility for co-ordinating S&R throughout the entire north east Atlantic. Despite all the efforts by the RAF Nimrods, and several surface ships conducting various known to be effective search patterns my colleagues and I, aswe plotted the search area coverage could not believe a ship of that size could be lost without trace. Haunting. RIP the crew.
Although seen before in various segments, I am still impressed with this wonderful presentation of maritime history that is always fascinating! Thank you for this "re-load". It's better than watching any TV programs on any given Sunday!!!!
Facts!!! TH-cam creators put television to shame. I'm glad that so many of them get far more views than TV these days. I just wish they could be compensated accordingly. TV makes far to many advertising dollars for the amount of people who actually watch it now
I’d like very much to know what happened to the SS Poet. Left Philadelphia October 1980, bound for Egypt with a load of grain. After departure she was never heard from again. No trace of her has ever been found. I suspect she was capsized and sunk quickly, taking her EPIRP and lifeboats with her to the bottom, along with her crew. A rogue wave I suspect. I was scheduled to sail aboard her as Radio Officer. By the merest chance I was delayed in Texas by a snowstorm and was unable make ship sailing. My union hall had to replace me with another (unlucky) ‘Sparks.’
I fish 5 yrs of the north east coast of Newfoundland and the coast of Labrador with my ex husband in a 20 foot open boat. Believe me I kiss the ground more than once when we reach safety on land after beating through a storm. Fishing in that size of a boat, every wave became a chance of being a rogue wave. If it had a white cap, it had the possibility to capsize us.
I had the pleasure of sailing on the Michaelangelo's sistership the Raffaelo from New York to the Med and ultimately to Naples when my dad retired from his career as a U.S. Navy captain. The Italian line was great, the food, the service and entertainment top notch. My folks had previously sailed to Europe some years before on the Leonardo DaVinci, sister ship and fellow Italian liner of the ill fated Andrea Doria which coincidentally was aided by my dads destroyer at the time out of Newport, Rhode Island.
That's got yo be one of the most terrifying experiences. To be out in the middle of all this water,and you know your vessel is going down. I couldn't even imagine something like this.
Back in 1979 I think it was, working on the Canadian Weather Ship Quadra out at station P in the North Pacific we hit a big storm. We were in 60 foot seas and then we got smashed by a rogue wave our meteorologists measured to be 100 feet. It was the highest recorded wave at that time. It smashed a wheelhouse window in, tore off a dogged down water tight door off and we shipped water down the stack. It was truly awesome.
@@uurkisme dude, that's the worst theory in existence and *unrealistic* that can't workers at the dock yard couldn't even achieve in the limited time the two ships were even near each other. So drop the dumb theory. RMS Olympic is always RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic is always RMS Titanic. No switch even happened. Theory is debunked, the end.
My dad took green water to the pilothouse of the 200 ton support vessel he was running in the Bering Sea. Said it was the only time he was ever worried they might go down.
Yes, it did happen; but is was kept quite quiet at the time and didn't receive much, or any, publicity. At Lands' End Coastguard we became aware that her bow rails had become stove in ! Nothing more, but hugely significant on a vessel of that size.
My friend's family were caught in a sailboat in a rogue wave 100ft high off coast of Florida and swamped boat one drowned. The USCG rescued the others by helicopter cage. The survivor said they had a hard time watching The Perfect Storm movie because thats what she experienced. They all got PTSD. No one did therapy back in the early 70s you just gone on with things.
When a sq meter of water weighs a metric ton, it doesn’t need much imagination to realise the power of moving water, a inches of it will knock you off your feet, I worked on Gas platforms in the North Sea, and the sea used to knock them around like a ball, they were designed to move with the sea, or they wouldn’t last a day.
Fascinating stories. I had to shake my head that those on land would not believe the mariners prior to modern technology when it was able to back up and prove the stories. I know you have mentioned that before but it always gets me that the land based bosses would assume the brave crews who lived and worked on the vessels were just telling tall tales. You have to wonder how many lost vessels in history were victims of rogue waves. Love your videos! Thanks so much for this one.
i was on a us navy warship in the north atlantic in 1986 when we took a green water wave over the bridge. on the o4 level about 60 feet above the waterline. we took a 39 deg roll in that same storm. a ships record at the time
I spent just over 20 years working the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico in various fisheries on various sized and type of boats. Rogue waves happen all the time. I'm not sure what phenomenon caused then. It's conflicting currents or something. But if you're at Sea and your average wave height is 3 ft with a period of every say 10 seconds and all the sudden you get hit by a 6-ft wave which is usually coming perpendicular to the other waves that is rogue wave. They are incredibly common off the coast of New England. The Gulf of Maine is the place I've probably seen the most. I have had the Good Fortune to never see one that was 80 ft high
And by the way, it's A rogue wave not because it's coming perpendicular to the other waves, it is considered a rogue wave because it is twice the height of the other waves in that area
My dad is an experienced sailor mainly on the waddenzee and Noordzee with his 9 meter ship. He explained me that it is not the height of the wave that is the danger but the shape and distance between them that is in some combinations unsafe for any ship. It is the result of currents that are different in the top layer warm water and bottom layer cold water. They can flow even comepletely opposite directions, combided with wave forming by wind direction, and on open sea also Hill like waves that are very long, they are mostly by moon gravity wich is sometimes very strong also. In Holland we call it Springvloed, since the water sea level can be meters higher as normal since the gravity puls the water to 1 side of the planet. the waves can also be very dangerous or safe depending on how deep the water is, deep water is safer. Anything that influence the water currents for example ilands or coral banks can be very dangerous. High tides or low tides are also very important to understand. The waddensee northern coast of holland has a few ilands and then turn into the northsee, when the tides are strong and sailing 6 knots against the current you are not able to enter between 2 ilands to the northsee. Real speed is 0 or even less.
@@PyrotechnicsNL Yes, wave. Is somewhat more dangerous even if the waves aren't super high. Although it typically makes for a rougher ride than it does to put the boat in any danger.
I've been on the receiving end of one of these waves in the Norwegian sector....the boat was lost but thankfully we were all airlifted in the nick of time.....crazy time....
Thank you so much for including imperial measurements. This fascinating information would mean nothing to me without any idea of size and scale. I appreciate that you make this knowledge accessible for folks like me.
I realize the waves aren't the same but I always wanted to go to Nazare' Portugal and see those at their peak and the mad folks that surf them. Great video..thank you. ⚓
My older brother was on the USS Contellation. He told of waves that would break well over the flight deck,which was 72 feet above the water surface. He said those poor guys on the destroyers were submerged half the time. He said they looked like a cork in white water of a river
My dad was on a destroyer. I think it was called the Noa or Noaa or Noah. Lol! He's been a retired cmdr for years now. He's about to be 93. Still sharp as a tack.
Got my tee-shirt in '87 when Michael Fish said "no high winds" 😂😂😂😂😂 Nth sea was hairy , waves higher than our bridge , lost 1/2 the deck cargo of timber. Took 6 days to do a 3 day trip , hove-to a lot ...hearing maydays on the vhf , the works. Good dutch shipbuilding 😊
Although I've never been on a ship in rough seas, I had a similar and relatable experience in an 8' Alumicraft Run About or John Boat. We were returning from Moose hunting and crossed a stretch of ocean next to Fire Island by Anchorage AK. On our return trip, the weather quickly turned sour unexpectedly and I was caught in 8' seas in an 8' boat. I was with and following a large boat as we ran into headwinds. To cross this short section of water I had to scurry to the very bow when traveling up the swell and hang over the outboard on the downside of the swell. My partners in the lead boat didn't realize the difficulty I was enduring until we had a great deal of separation between us causing them to have to return to provide me with the much needed help. This happened nearly 5 decades ago now and I have a great deal of respect for the power of the ocean and those who make their livelihood on it. This was a trip that I didn't think that I was going to be coming back from. Seeing these large ships hit with these massive waves sends chills and shivers running up and down my spine.
Yes the size of the boat definitely affects pucker factor even with single digit waves. Took my old 455 Olds powered jet boat around Grosse ille Michigan at the mouth of the Detroit river. On the other side toward the shipping channel is what they call the cross dyke, where people tie off to each other and party. We were gangsters that day rolling thru with the open header wet exhaust over the transom, engine just a loping along at idle. Down near the end I turn hard port then pin the throttle along the wall between the cross dyke and shipping channel throwing a huge 200ft roost from the old Berkeley jet. We played around like that all afternoon, then time to head back to the east side of the island and put her on the trailer...we left that cross dyke protection into lake Erie with a summer storm brewing....8 ft waves in a 17 ft boat with about 8 inches of freeboard is NOT fun. I'm scared shitless while the two with me are laughing their asses off. Maybe they knew something I didn't...I know it's not very deep where we were at but to me it was scary. We made it back without harm in the end. Got caught in a friend's bass boat in the exact same waters under a similar situation...we went fishing over by the cross dyke and sure enough a similar storm popped up soon as we left there headed back. The bass boat didn't fare much better than the jet boat but I will admit both made it home
Since it seems only you and me on here are talking about being scared in 8ft waves I'll tell another story. When I was young right out of high school I got a job on the JW Westcott Detroit river mailboat. Worked there 4 seasons after high school while going to community college. I'd take any shift that I wasn't in class. One November on the river we had a major storm. That 45ft tug, then powered by a 6-71 Detroit Diesel was taking on 12ft plus waves and crashing the pilot house like no tomorrow. I honestly didn't think we were gonna make it back that day, but thanks to the captain on duty that day we made it back. Thanks crabby Dave. Crew only consisted of the captain and a deckhand...and I wasn't the captain. I was the one out on deck delivering the mail in such conditions.
One time my aunt Sheila got drunk and busted a seam out on the pool and it created a wave that swept my little sister down past the shed and knocked over Skeeters dirt bike.
I was in the Navy in the 80’s and two places where the ocean showed me personal who was Boss? The Sea of Japan and The Aleutian Islands near Alaska. We were on a 762ft Guided missile cruiser no small ship and I can tell you the waves kicked our ass, had me praying to Jesus a few times for sure! I saw the front now of the ship go underwater twice and it tore things off the wall and moved furniture around like it was nothing. I respect the ocean it is nothing to underestimate that’s for sure and when you consider that 74 percent of the earth’s surface is water you really start to understand how small we really are in this planet.
My grandfather served in the Coast Guard in the Atlantic before and after WW2, and in the Navy in the Pacific during the war. I wish I could ask him about his experiences at sea during his service, but he passed away in 2000 and had dementia for several years. Before that. The power if the sea is both fascinating and terrifying.
For those interested, look up the Horizon documentary (from BBC2 around 15/20 years ago) on rogue waves, truly fascinating. Back in the days Horizon made top notch doc's! I'm sure it'll be on YT!
Yep! It's the best docu on the subject I've ever seen, and I've rewatched it over and over since. There was also the Nat Geo rogue wave docu which from what I understand came as a special on the 2006 Poseidon DVD. Used to be on YT and it was also really good, but it's been taken down and I haven't seen it since.
ah, yes, i've been waiting for this counterpoint to Big Old Boats' last compilation: "5 Really Fun and Enjoyable Rogue Wave Strikes That Everyone Loved A Lot"
When I wX in the US Navy,we were steaming back from GETMO in Cube. Were off the Florida coast when the ship went to GQ and before the ChENG could get out "BRACE" we took a 75 ft wave over the bow. I was on a Destroyer tender which was about 640 long when we hit the wave the amount of water dumped on the ship caused it to drop,them pop up like a cork out of a bottle. If you were standing,you were flying. I was a Boiler Tech,and being at the bottom of the ship was advantageous😂
The way so many people throughout history and all across the globe immediately discount any story involving water as bullshit is just baffling. Certainly it is due to an inherent fear of open water and is one's way of rationalizing away a fear that can be overwhelming, even to someone that has never even seen the sea. There is no end of facts about this kind of thing now. The deadliest catch really shoved the reality and danger of rogue waves into the face of denial.
Regarding the München, could it have been that the choice of the odd frequency being due to damage to her aerials? If the transmission was on a different band, it could be that it had a working aerial that could transmit in the band but not (at least not efficiently) on the others. Also, it could be down to the extremely stressful situation and that frequency was the last one used before things got really hairy, and the operator transmitted on whatever was dialled in out of desperation.
Bro I gotta say I love your work I find your voice very soothing and entertaining and most of all I love your heart for people keep it rolling and stay safe brother
I was un the navy then I worked as an AB on container ships.then became a third mate I have about 25+ years going to sea and I have definitely seen some rogue waves. Up and down is ok but side to side sucks for sleeping
You do a really good job telling these stories, because your voice is easy to listen to and has feeling in it. I love these stories from the sea, even though many of them are tragic. They just seem timeless, like the men in these amazing boats, still part of the sea forever. Very enjoyable, thank you so much.
My husband has been trying to get me to go one a cruise ship but after seeing a few of THESE kinds of videos, there is No Way I will EVER do that. He’ll be going alone…
I was the chief officer of the SS minnow , took on a white squall plus a 7ft wave starboard side , I dragged the lines and set the sail in my coal steamer , unfortunately found a radiation leak in my engine room left me no choice but to pull up the anchor and drop the trolling motor . I'll tell you what the water was wet that day , wetter than ever . The kicker was to save A Buck our life jackets were swapped for sandbags and salted cod
My husband was a commercial crab fisherman up in the Bering Sea for 27 years. He didn’t talk about it too much while he was fishing but after he stopped going, he told me a lot of things that were so frightening. He was a brave person.
"Before 1995 it was thought rogue waves existed only in myth..." Well, yeh, that's what I heard too. So imagine my surprise when ther ewas a confirmed rogue wave 'attack" in 1965... It'd be pretty hard to write the Michelangelo damage off as anything else but a rogue wave. So sis they just sweep that incident under the table of history? Because I never heard about it before. Admittedly I'm not up on every maritime disasters, so it'd be pretty easy to fool me, but I'm surprised they never took it more seriously before then, given all the evidence. PS it's a great compilation of your videos. Very informative and enjoyable.
I bet this is what inspired the myths and legends of some giant sea creatures like the kraken which could swallow while ship! Epic videos my man I got sea sick just watching it!
I saw a demo on YT of the naval wave pool at.. Annapolis(i think) in which a perfect scale model of the Edmund Fitzgerald was floated. They said they had near perfect recreation of things like shore lines, depths etc etc. They started up the simulation based on the weather data from that day...and...man....a couple decent waves rocked him and then a monster, not just in height but it was...fat? It had sort of multiple crests and it came up from behind, the stern and just swatted that little boat straight to the bottom. Not even spectacularly. Just like a lucky strike of a horses tail on a fly. CAN NOT FIND THE VIDEO ANYWHERE!! I can find lots of others using that wave pool. Not that one. Any chance anyone else remembers it? I feel like I imagined it. Or dreamt it. Or got mandela'd. It seemed So conclusive....
It just proves the fact that to refer to a ship as unsinkable, or well nigh, is a very bad idea. It seems that the sea takes up the challenge, and wins. I was in the Navy and had friends stationed on carriers and other huge ships and they said that routinely, during bad storms, that they would get "green water" over the bow. That's a serious wave, considering the height of the deck above the water line.
I accidentally took a nap at like 4 pm that ended at 11 pm, and now I'm spending my hours of nighttime solitude listening to ocean disasters. I don't think I need to be a doctor to know my diagnosis.
As some one who sat on a gun turret on a truck in Iraq, have survived 20% of my body covered in 2nd degree burns theres one place you cannot pay me to go, thats the open ocean.
The roge wave phenomenon, which was not clearly known of, is similar to aircrafts clear air turblance CAT. The patterns of air are as unknown as in the sea. Thanks for a well documented video. RIP the crew of the MS Munnchen.
I sailed as on officer on a cable ship in the north Atlantic in 1999 and 2000. I know the area of Rockall very well. They storms in this area are intense. I remember we had a storm that was so bad in 2000 that it destroyed a number of our computers, broke some port holes and knocked the crane out of its cradle and we had to go on deck to secure it. I remember having to go through the bowels of the ship during the storm to make sure we were not taking on water. I remember we had a bunch on young tough street guys who were hired on board for their first voyage. A few of these tough hood guys were crying thinking they were going to die. I told them not to worry because our ship could handle this with no problem but I was scared too because going through the ship checking for leaks was not a normal thing. We ended up in a storm with 40 ft plus seas. The ocean is no joke.
Holy hell. That’s an intense job.
It's funny how ""tough guys "" are always the first to break down when shtf 😅
That’s a crazy memory. Thanks for sharing!
That sounds fearsome. I've merely taken the ferry fron Oslo to Copenhagen and even then the boat has been smacking into the waves all the way there and l was fine. Got stoned and watched the film. However if the conditions had been worse to the point where l should have somehow known that a crewman was perhaps actively checking for leaks with some concern l probably would have hidden in a bar. What a freaking job sailors do.
@@joshuarisker5525they're not. there's just different levels of 'tough'. plus some just save the freaking out for later when they're alone.
"JP Morgan who you may know from that $100 fee on a $2 overdraft"
Priceless.......
Great watch, even the second time around. Top notch work.
In the early 1990’s, there was a program that explained why Rogue Waves were mathematically impossible. The real insult was the condescending way they spoke of those who had reported the waves. When the Rig was hit in ‘95, I chuckled. Whenever humans say something is absolute, eventually it gets proven wrong.
Kinda like covid amiright
The program used flawed data to start with. I worked with engineers who designed. Superstructures based on tables that were based on probability. Do you design all houses to survive the 1/100 year hurricane or do you design and build it to the hurricane/storm that you get every 5 years. The problem was no one knew the frequency. Ships that hit these and sunk never recorded what exactly happened. Those that did they treated it as rogue. Rogue does not fit within the frequency model. 15:24
@@isaacg901 Errr no. Ocean modellers and physicists were already looking at the possibility of such waves then in the late nineties. Using physics and computer modelling they determined how such waves can occur in the open ocean. Virologists and immunologists instituted the lockdown measures to prevent spread while searching for a vaccine. Which funnily enough has meant the world has returned to normal far quicker than ever before with advances in mRNA vaccines. Funny how real science works as opposed to all the pseudoscience and pseudoscientists that perform their charlatan act on social media.
Besides absolute truth
Water wins every time, just a matter of time … builder - Australia
When i worked on a container ship we got absolutely bodied on the starboard side at a 45° angle by a 43m/141ft rogue wave off the west coast of Ireland. We lost all electrics and were adrift for nearly 3 hours before we got th generators running again. Scariest thing ive ever experienced. Came within 1 and half degrees of capsizing us.
That's absolutely insane. I try to stay rational, it's why I don't fear airplanes. But rogue waves would make me feel utterly powerless on a ship haha.
Whenever people try to talk me out of my thalassophobia, it's accounts like this one that remind me why I'm _right_ to fear and respect the ocean.
Awesome 👌 buzz 🙏🤠
👋 Waves! Glad you're OK!
@@Nitrinoxus Points for the use of thalassophobia. :) Getting on a ferry is a problem for me knowing how some designs are inherently unsafe.
‘Dare I say “weird ass funnels”’. Was funny and the delivery of it was perfect
I came here to say this too 😂
No, it wasn't. Not even a little bit
I spent almost 50 years as a Deck Officer and Captain going to sea on a wide range of large ocean going ships. The way the very worst winter storm seas would sweep over the decks of even a deep loaded 1100 foot VLCC (large supertanker) had to be experienced to believe. I remember the midship cranes completely disappearing under green water just before the same wall of water smashed into the house (located aft). In that particular storm we suffered serious damage to one of our two lifeboats and a good deal of twisted steel on deck. Oddly, I still miss it.
Heading to Japan years ago I was on a usns ship we got hit by a Rouge wave whole ship lurched...I ran on deck it was a bright full-moon night...it kept traveling a white crest I'll never forget that
Thats a beautiful thing the sea- highky addictive' the scent amd.smell of saltwater- the blasting wind- best sleep i ever had was on the ocean onboard ships
German were and are the best craftsmen, theyre amazing
Thr lusitania was sunk because it was running weapons to britain thru the blockade - the belly was.not full of peagravel ballast- more like tanks guns and ammo
When I lived in Alabama, we had a tornado warning.
I was watching TV when I heard a knock on my door. It's the middle of the night, and it's clearly tornado weather, so I was a little bit curious.
Turns out it was my elderly neighbor. He brought a bottle of Jack Daniels, and asked if I wanted to share it with him on the porch.
So I did.
Lightning hit the tree about 20 ft away from us three times.
And a tornado flew over our houses and hit a cemetery.
One of my favorite memories. Well at least the parts I can remember. We also finished that bottle.
Good times.
What's this got to do with the price of fish? What a ridiculous comment.
1. This video is about freak waves, not torpedo attacks.
2. The Lusitania, whilst (on balance of probability) very likely carrying a quantity of small arms ammunition, and thus a legitimate target, was not carrying tank guns. Why? Because, at this time (1915), the tank wasn't yet 'a thing.' The original tanks, the Mk1, were being developed, and would be used for the first time the following year, on the Somme. Incidentally, the guns for these tanks were redundant British naval guns, and would not have needed being imported.
3. Are you one of those Yankee Nazi fanboys? Whilst casting no aspersions upon German craftsmanship, other nations, the British, the Japanese, and even (occasionally) the Americans are just as capable of producing ships, cars and aircraft of equal quantity to one another.
The wild part is for hundreds of years before Draupner, they said everyone that saw these, the few who lived through them, were deemed crazy
Most in-depth video on it I ever saw was part of the TV show Deadliest Catch. It's about crab fishing boats... do crab fishing... mostly. Well one episode had a scene where, as the captain's daughter is cooking in the kitchen, she gets knocked off her feet so hard she breaks one of the cabinet doors with her elbow.
Why? the ship had been hit with a rogue wave so hard that the diesel engines stalled and they had to patch up the engines with emergency repairs before limping to port to reattach part of the deck.
Yeah but "experts" said its impossible, So it must be🫤.
Experts that probably never been on a ship or near one 🤦♂️
@@rredeyee2460 I've looked into that wave model he talked about. It has several assumptions that, while they make sense, don't fully encompass every possibility.
The issue is people thought it was actually complete... when like you say... it was made by people with limited experience.
And then when we got satellite monitoring of waves we discovered that they were actually common in certain areas.
Because hundreds of years and thousands of sailors don't know what they're talking about. You need scientists to make real 🙄
There's a lighthouse on Flugga (Shetland islands) & the door is around 190 foot above sea level. The door was 4 inch thick steel & it was smashed in with a lump of water one night.
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A lump of water?
Crikey
Spent a few nights in the Balty Towers back in the day.....
@@2ndFcRecon2006 You should drink at least 8 lumps of water a day to stay hydrated.
The Queen Mary 2 is designed to cope with 90' waves . . . but please don't call her unsinkable. The term appears to be bad luck.
There is no vessel man builds that the seas can not destroy.
@Ronin4614 not true. Sort of. The Coast guard have boats as long as it don't ground out or be tossed into the bottom rock, it is unsinkable. Which, we should have had Ling ago. Double triple hull with steel airbags steel an airbags again an low top speed, nothing can sink it. As far as the coast guard boat they get tossed around in hurricanes 🌀 an the ppl are strapped an move in a 360° ball. For now, most are sink able
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Sink and destroy have different meanings. Just Saying. 😊
Been on the queen Mary 2 as a teen years ago, beautiful ship at least from my limited child perspective of nice 😂 you never really get a full sense of scale of these ships until you're standing next to one feeling like an ant and being in awe of the forces at play with the mooring lines and other things
That's the term that gets the sea to get up out of her chair and go *"Is that right?"* XD
I spent one summer in the Gulf of Alaska. We gill-netted out of a skiff in a remote location that was considered undesirable by most fishermen. One opener we had our gear strung out into open water during a blow. We had debated whether we could manage the 8-10' chop in our skiff but went out anyways to see whether it was possible to pick fish in those conditions. After struggling for about 20 minutes in marginal conditions, we had just pushed back off the gear and were talking about heading back to the beach. I had my back to the bow, my fellow crewman was pull-starting the outboard to to keep the skiff pointed into the waves when I saw him look up behind me with his eyes wide. "Wave!" was all he had time for and I felt the skiff sink down into a trough before shooting back up a wave that was well over 20 feet. It broke just as we started sliding down the backside. It's nowhere near the size of the waves described in these videos but it would have seriously wiped out our small skiff had it broke seconds earlier, floatation gear or not. It's the surprise element of rogue waves that makes them lethal.
Umm, yeah, no thanks
This just made me think of an old WW2 navy vet ... Signalman on HMCS Brandon .... He mentioned casually while we quaffed ale ... During the war Brandon was swallowed by a rogue wave in the north Atlantic ... Casey said ... he thought he was finished and Brandon popped out of sea !.... Severely damaged Brandon struggled to England for repair and refit ... Any inform on the Brandon's adventures would be appreciated ... Casey ...gone now... had a life long quest ... He wanted acknowledgement that, the Brandon engaged and sank a U boat off the coast of Portugal ... Love your channel !!!
I love the slide projector sound at the beginning of the video. I guess I must be old to even know that
I still use a slide projector!
I remember from school. The little remote control the teacher used to switch to next picture. I thought was the coolest thing ever. Still do.
I think that they are still made. Not positive though.
@@Rockribbedman and what about the home projectors that you had to have the wheel of tape and slide it through and wind up the other wheel? And then had that little lever you had to push up and down whenever picture started flickering! I thought they were just the so wonderful! If someone had one at their house, I would watch all their home movies if they wanted me to. Most of the basic ones had no sound, everyone in the film was just always waving. Lol
There is footage of a rogue wave on The Deadliest Catch series with The Aleutian Ballad you can find on TH-cam.
That was terrifying to watch.
I watched a few episodes of this series with my folks visiting them one evening. I lost my appetite for crab afterward seeing what these crews go through to obtain it. I know they’re all paid relatively well for their trouble, but YIKES!
There is footage of dozens of them on that show. It really made a lot of people realize that rogue waves and fishermen aren't all bullshit.
Yup and the Cornelia Marie took one too that ultimately lead to the death of Phil Harris
Merchant mariners are a different breed and they have my absolute respect. Generally, I'd say the ocean is an incredibly awesome workplace, but when its not, boy it's not. Bet it makes you wish you were a plumber or something on land. Great work Big Old Boats, and thank you to all the merchant mariners out there.
I still miss the rough seas from my youth as a sailor.
Make the bucks too!
YES ALL THE RESPECT 🙏 IN THE WORLD SO APPRECIATE DOING THESE STORYS IM NOT AT ALL A SHIP GOER BUT I LIKE TO WATCH AN LEARN THESE ARE UN SUNG HEROS
The sea is a desert of waves.
A wilderness of water.
-Langston Hughes
One of the best writers ever.
Langston knew what was up. It's a shame he was blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
Sunday no work no school, Big Old Boats uploads. Life is good.
"A typhoon is when the sky and the sea become one. Sometimes a ship goes into a wave and it never comes out." The words of a 28 year navy veteran, 1920-1948.
Obviously not a real quote but DANG is that grim.
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If someone speaks it it’s a real quote. 🤣
@@MsAdventure531 It's only a real quote if the person it's attributed to actually said it. A Google search will tell you that OP was the first person to say these words, verbatim, and I highly doubt that OP is an unnamed 28 year-old navy veteran that died in 1948. No, it's a fake and invented quote, however clever.
I was working with Land's End Coastguard at the time of this incident. Certainly, by far, the largest Search and Rescue I was ever involved with (including the Fastnet incident). Land's End Coastguard, at that time, had responsibility for co-ordinating S&R throughout the entire north east Atlantic. Despite all the efforts by the RAF Nimrods, and several surface ships conducting various known to be effective search patterns my colleagues and I, aswe plotted the search area coverage could not believe a ship of that size could be lost without trace. Haunting. RIP the crew.
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Although seen before in various segments, I am still impressed with this wonderful presentation of maritime history that is always fascinating! Thank you for this "re-load". It's better than watching any TV programs on any given Sunday!!!!
Facts!!! TH-cam creators put television to shame. I'm glad that so many of them get far more views than TV these days. I just wish they could be compensated accordingly. TV makes far to many advertising dollars for the amount of people who actually watch it now
The floor of the ocean is full of "unsinkable" ships ...
That's because they are reclassified as submarines
Titanic, Bismarck, Yamato, Musashi, Munchen, etc. lol
Seems like mother nature humbled them tbh
That is correct nothing is "unsinkable." They are still sailing beneath the waves❤
Well said,well said👊
I’d like very much to know what happened to the SS Poet. Left Philadelphia October 1980, bound for Egypt with a load of grain. After departure she was never heard from again. No trace of her has ever been found. I suspect she was capsized and sunk quickly, taking her EPIRP and lifeboats with her to the bottom, along with her crew. A rogue wave I suspect.
I was scheduled to sail aboard her as Radio Officer. By the merest chance I was delayed in Texas by a snowstorm and was unable make ship sailing. My union hall had to replace me with another (unlucky) ‘Sparks.’
I fish 5 yrs of the north east coast of Newfoundland and the coast of Labrador with my ex husband in a 20 foot open boat. Believe me I kiss the ground more than once when we reach safety on land after beating through a storm. Fishing in that size of a boat, every wave became a chance of being a rogue wave. If it had a white cap, it had the possibility to capsize us.
"she was considered practically unsinkable." yeah so was the titanic XD
I had the pleasure of sailing on the Michaelangelo's sistership the Raffaelo from New York to the Med and ultimately to Naples when my dad retired from his career as a U.S. Navy captain. The Italian line was great, the food, the service and entertainment top notch. My folks had previously sailed to Europe some years before on the Leonardo DaVinci, sister ship and fellow Italian liner of the ill fated Andrea Doria which coincidentally was aided by my dads destroyer at the time out of Newport, Rhode Island.
That's got yo be one of the most terrifying experiences. To be out in the middle of all this water,and you know your vessel is going down. I couldn't even imagine something like this.
Back in 1979 I think it was, working on the Canadian Weather Ship Quadra out at station P in the North Pacific we hit a big storm. We were in 60 foot seas and then we got smashed by a rogue wave our meteorologists measured to be 100 feet. It was the highest recorded wave at that time. It smashed a wheelhouse window in, tore off a dogged down water tight door off and we shipped water down the stack.
It was truly awesome.
There is also a story of a rogue wave encounter by the RMS Olympic in 1926.
@@uurkisme dude, that's the worst theory in existence and *unrealistic* that can't workers at the dock yard couldn't even achieve in the limited time the two ships were even near each other. So drop the dumb theory. RMS Olympic is always RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic is always RMS Titanic. No switch even happened. Theory is debunked, the end.
@@uurkisme Project Hanniball
My dad took green water to the pilothouse of the 200 ton support vessel he was running in the Bering Sea. Said it was the only time he was ever worried they might go down.
QE2 had to surf a rogue wave over 90 feet high during Hurricane Luis in September 1995.
Yes, it did happen; but is was kept quite quiet at the time and didn't receive much, or any, publicity. At Lands' End Coastguard we became aware that her bow rails had become stove in ! Nothing more, but hugely significant on a vessel of that size.
Wow that's incredible. I went on a cruise on QM2 years ago and I never would've known it survived such a wave
That's actually one of the events I covered in my upcoming book about the ship's life, told through her eyes.
@@impaler331 He said QE2, with an E: Queen Elizabeth 2, NOT QM2 (Queen Mary 2). Unless you just made a typo.
I think the worst thing about rogue waves isnt how big they are, it's that they can come in at really weird angles.
I enjoy your compilation videos. It's nice to have a long-form version to rewatch while doing chores, etc.
My friend's family were caught in a sailboat in a rogue wave 100ft high off coast of Florida and swamped boat one drowned. The USCG rescued the others by helicopter cage. The survivor said they had a hard time watching The Perfect Storm movie because thats what she experienced. They all got PTSD. No one did therapy back in the early 70s you just gone on with things.
When a sq meter of water weighs a metric ton, it doesn’t need much imagination to realise the power of moving water, a inches of it will knock you off your feet, I worked on Gas platforms in the North Sea, and the sea used to knock them around like a ball, they were designed to move with the sea, or they wouldn’t last a day.
Fascinating stories. I had to shake my head that those on land would not believe the mariners prior to modern technology when it was able to back up and prove the stories. I know you have mentioned that before but it always gets me that the land based bosses would assume the brave crews who lived and worked on the vessels were just telling tall tales. You have to wonder how many lost vessels in history were victims of rogue waves. Love your videos! Thanks so much for this one.
i was on a us navy warship in the north atlantic in 1986 when we took a green water wave over the bridge. on the o4 level about 60 feet above the waterline. we took a 39 deg roll in that same storm. a ships record at the time
I spent just over 20 years working the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico in various fisheries on various sized and type of boats. Rogue waves happen all the time. I'm not sure what phenomenon caused then. It's conflicting currents or something. But if you're at Sea and your average wave height is 3 ft with a period of every say 10 seconds and all the sudden you get hit by a 6-ft wave which is usually coming perpendicular to the other waves that is rogue wave. They are incredibly common off the coast of New England. The Gulf of Maine is the place I've probably seen the most. I have had the Good Fortune to never see one that was 80 ft high
And by the way, it's A rogue wave not because it's coming perpendicular to the other waves, it is considered a rogue wave because it is twice the height of the other waves in that area
My dad is an experienced sailor mainly on the waddenzee and Noordzee with his 9 meter ship. He explained me that it is not the height of the wave that is the danger but the shape and distance between them that is in some combinations unsafe for any ship. It is the result of currents that are different in the top layer warm water and bottom layer cold water. They can flow even comepletely opposite directions, combided with wave forming by wind direction, and on open sea also Hill like waves that are very long, they are mostly by moon gravity wich is sometimes very strong also. In Holland we call it Springvloed, since the water sea level can be meters higher as normal since the gravity puls the water to 1 side of the planet. the waves can also be very dangerous or safe depending on how deep the water is, deep water is safer. Anything that influence the water currents for example ilands or coral banks can be very dangerous. High tides or low tides are also very important to understand. The waddensee northern coast of holland has a few ilands and then turn into the northsee, when the tides are strong and sailing 6 knots against the current you are not able to enter between 2 ilands to the northsee. Real speed is 0 or even less.
@@PyrotechnicsNL Yes, wave. Is somewhat more dangerous even if the waves aren't super high. Although it typically makes for a rougher ride than it does to put the boat in any danger.
The Munich story still sends a chill down my spine.
…my cat loves listening to your channel. If he hears you, he flops down and puts a paw on my phone.
I've been on the receiving end of one of these waves in the Norwegian sector....the boat was lost but thankfully we were all airlifted in the nick of time.....crazy time....
Thank you so much for including imperial measurements. This fascinating information would mean nothing to me without any idea of size and scale. I appreciate that you make this knowledge accessible for folks like me.
I realize the waves aren't the same but I always wanted to go to Nazare' Portugal and see those at their peak and the mad folks that surf them. Great video..thank you. ⚓
Those waves are monstrous!
My older brother was on the USS Contellation. He told of waves that would break well over the flight deck,which was 72 feet above the water surface. He said those poor guys on the destroyers were submerged half the time. He said they looked like a cork in white water of a river
My dad was on a destroyer. I think it was called the Noa or Noaa or Noah. Lol! He's been a retired cmdr for years now. He's about to be 93. Still sharp as a tack.
Got my tee-shirt in '87 when Michael Fish said "no high winds" 😂😂😂😂😂 Nth sea was hairy , waves higher than our bridge , lost 1/2 the deck cargo of timber. Took 6 days to do a 3 day trip , hove-to a lot ...hearing maydays on the vhf , the works. Good dutch shipbuilding 😊
Although I've never been on a ship in rough seas, I had a similar and relatable experience in an 8' Alumicraft Run About or John Boat. We were returning from Moose hunting and crossed a stretch of ocean next to Fire Island by Anchorage AK. On our return trip, the weather quickly turned sour unexpectedly and I was caught in 8' seas in an 8' boat. I was with and following a large boat as we ran into headwinds. To cross this short section of water I had to scurry to the very bow when traveling up the swell and hang over the outboard on the downside of the swell. My partners in the lead boat didn't realize the difficulty I was enduring until we had a great deal of separation between us causing them to have to return to provide me with the much needed help. This happened nearly 5 decades ago now and I have a great deal of respect for the power of the ocean and those who make their livelihood on it. This was a trip that I didn't think that I was going to be coming back from. Seeing these large ships hit with these massive waves sends chills and shivers running up and down my spine.
Yes the size of the boat definitely affects pucker factor even with single digit waves. Took my old 455 Olds powered jet boat around Grosse ille Michigan at the mouth of the Detroit river. On the other side toward the shipping channel is what they call the cross dyke, where people tie off to each other and party. We were gangsters that day rolling thru with the open header wet exhaust over the transom, engine just a loping along at idle. Down near the end I turn hard port then pin the throttle along the wall between the cross dyke and shipping channel throwing a huge 200ft roost from the old Berkeley jet. We played around like that all afternoon, then time to head back to the east side of the island and put her on the trailer...we left that cross dyke protection into lake Erie with a summer storm brewing....8 ft waves in a 17 ft boat with about 8 inches of freeboard is NOT fun. I'm scared shitless while the two with me are laughing their asses off. Maybe they knew something I didn't...I know it's not very deep where we were at but to me it was scary. We made it back without harm in the end.
Got caught in a friend's bass boat in the exact same waters under a similar situation...we went fishing over by the cross dyke and sure enough a similar storm popped up soon as we left there headed back. The bass boat didn't fare much better than the jet boat but I will admit both made it home
Since it seems only you and me on here are talking about being scared in 8ft waves I'll tell another story. When I was young right out of high school I got a job on the JW Westcott Detroit river mailboat. Worked there 4 seasons after high school while going to community college. I'd take any shift that I wasn't in class. One November on the river we had a major storm. That 45ft tug, then powered by a 6-71 Detroit Diesel was taking on 12ft plus waves and crashing the pilot house like no tomorrow. I honestly didn't think we were gonna make it back that day, but thanks to the captain on duty that day we made it back. Thanks crabby Dave. Crew only consisted of the captain and a deckhand...and I wasn't the captain. I was the one out on deck delivering the mail in such conditions.
One time my aunt Sheila got drunk and busted a seam out on the pool and it created a wave that swept my little sister down past the shed and knocked over Skeeters dirt bike.
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Nothing like reminiscing about the good times.
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We do not care
@@christiandzurilla4743 Who's this "we" you're talking about? Is that a game console?
"weird ass funnels" is the perfect description
I was in the Navy in the 80’s and two places where the ocean showed me personal who was Boss? The Sea of Japan and The Aleutian Islands near Alaska. We were on a 762ft Guided missile cruiser no small ship and I can tell you the waves kicked our ass, had me praying to Jesus a few times for sure! I saw the front now of the ship go underwater twice and it tore things off the wall and moved furniture around like it was nothing. I respect the ocean it is nothing to underestimate that’s for sure and when you consider that 74 percent of the earth’s surface is water you really start to understand how small we really are in this planet.
Don’t worry. The “experts” who said these waves were tall tales until a few years ago say that man controls the planet now.
Cool! Rogue waves are an interesting phenomenon.
My grandfather served in the Coast Guard in the Atlantic before and after WW2, and in the Navy in the Pacific during the war. I wish I could ask him about his experiences at sea during his service, but he passed away in 2000 and had dementia for several years. Before that. The power if the sea is both fascinating and terrifying.
For those interested, look up the Horizon documentary (from BBC2 around 15/20 years ago) on rogue waves, truly fascinating. Back in the days Horizon made top notch doc's! I'm sure it'll be on YT!
Yep! It's the best docu on the subject I've ever seen, and I've rewatched it over and over since. There was also the Nat Geo rogue wave docu which from what I understand came as a special on the 2006 Poseidon DVD. Used to be on YT and it was also really good, but it's been taken down and I haven't seen it since.
ah, yes, i've been waiting for this counterpoint to Big Old Boats' last compilation: "5 Really Fun and Enjoyable Rogue Wave Strikes That Everyone Loved A Lot"
Oh I loved that one ☝️
@@Nutterlie thank you :-D
Never watch a BOB video at work… you’ll never get anything done ❤
Why would you be watching anything at all when youre being paid to work not watch youtube?
Ironic the Michelangelo faced the horrible weather, on April 12th same day as Titanic
I caught that too.
No it’s not it’s just coincidental!
To be ironic is to say something you don’t mean, like sarcasm, often in an attempt at dry humor
Titanic met the iceberg on April 14th and sank on April 15th, so you're 3 days off.
Nothing "ironic" about it but go ahead and keep making things up as you go 😂
When I wX in the US Navy,we were steaming back from GETMO in Cube.
Were off the Florida coast when the ship went to GQ and before the ChENG could get out "BRACE" we took a 75 ft wave over the bow.
I was on a Destroyer tender which was about 640 long when we hit the wave the amount of water dumped on the ship caused it to drop,them pop up like a cork out of a bottle.
If you were standing,you were flying.
I was a Boiler Tech,and being at the bottom of the ship was advantageous😂
The way so many people throughout history and all across the globe immediately discount any story involving water as bullshit is just baffling. Certainly it is due to an inherent fear of open water and is one's way of rationalizing away a fear that can be overwhelming, even to someone that has never even seen the sea. There is no end of facts about this kind of thing now. The deadliest catch really shoved the reality and danger of rogue waves into the face of denial.
my husband & I love ship stories! we’re so excited about your channel! thank you so much for the great content! 🎉
Regarding the München, could it have been that the choice of the odd frequency being due to damage to her aerials? If the transmission was on a different band, it could be that it had a working aerial that could transmit in the band but not (at least not efficiently) on the others. Also, it could be down to the extremely stressful situation and that frequency was the last one used before things got really hairy, and the operator transmitted on whatever was dialled in out of desperation.
So we knew what a tsunami was but couldn't believe in a rogue wave?
Yep! XD
Bro I gotta say I love your work I find your voice very soothing and entertaining and most of all I love your heart for people keep it rolling and stay safe brother
Can never learn enough about Rogue Waves. Facinating yet terrifying
RMS Homeric also encountered a rouge wave in the 1920s
I was un the navy then I worked as an AB on container ships.then became a third mate I have about 25+ years going to sea and I have definitely seen some rogue waves. Up and down is ok but side to side sucks for sleeping
You do a really good job telling these stories, because your voice is easy to listen to and has feeling in it. I love these stories from the sea, even though many of them are tragic. They just seem timeless, like the men in these amazing boats, still part of the sea forever. Very enjoyable, thank you so much.
10:10 was pure misery for headphone users
I had a feeling JP Morgan would be mentioned but not the overdraft lol thanks for the laugh!
The captain of SS flying enterprise a cargoship kept the claim of a rouge wave casing his ship to sink off the coast of England (uk)in the 1950's
My husband has been trying to get me to go one a cruise ship but after seeing a few of THESE kinds of videos, there is No Way I will EVER do that. He’ll be going alone…
I was the chief officer of the SS minnow , took on a white squall plus a 7ft wave starboard side , I dragged the lines and set the sail in my coal steamer , unfortunately found a radiation leak in my engine room left me no choice but to pull up the anchor and drop the trolling motor . I'll tell you what the water was wet that day , wetter than ever . The kicker was to save A Buck our life jackets were swapped for sandbags and salted cod
0:14 - That looks terrifying…! what a drop & a Slam that was… 😮 Sheesh…🌊🌊
Nice shots of the ‘Meekleangelo’😊
My husband was a commercial crab fisherman up in the Bering Sea for 27 years. He didn’t talk about it too much while he was fishing but after he stopped going, he told me a lot of things that were so frightening. He was a brave person.
Congratulations. An excellent presentation style both vocally and technically…..splendid content and superb visuals. Thank you.
You have outdone yourself with this excellent and captivating documentary! Subscribed! 👍🏻
😢 Horrific situations for mariners and passengers as well. Good job producing this video.
This was amazing. Good Job!
Really well told accounts of rogue waves. Great job.
This was riveting! Thank you so much.
"Before 1995 it was thought rogue waves existed only in myth..." Well, yeh, that's what I heard too. So imagine my surprise when ther ewas a confirmed rogue wave 'attack" in 1965... It'd be pretty hard to write the Michelangelo damage off as anything else but a rogue wave. So sis they just sweep that incident under the table of history? Because I never heard about it before. Admittedly I'm not up on every maritime disasters, so it'd be pretty easy to fool me, but I'm surprised they never took it more seriously before then, given all the evidence.
PS it's a great compilation of your videos. Very informative and enjoyable.
I bet this is what inspired the myths and legends of some giant sea creatures like the kraken which could swallow while ship! Epic videos my man I got sea sick just watching it!
RIP to all that lost their lives or got injured to such violence. It’s amazing what Mother Nature has waiting just beyond what is not seen or seen
Great video, great storytelling, great sounddesign, subscribed
I saw a demo on YT of the naval wave pool at.. Annapolis(i think) in which a perfect scale model of the Edmund Fitzgerald was floated. They said they had near perfect recreation of things like shore lines, depths etc etc.
They started up the simulation based on the weather data from that day...and...man....a couple decent waves rocked him and then a monster, not just in height but it was...fat? It had sort of multiple crests and it came up from behind, the stern and just swatted that little boat straight to the bottom. Not even spectacularly. Just like a lucky strike of a horses tail on a fly.
CAN NOT FIND THE VIDEO ANYWHERE!!
I can find lots of others using that wave pool. Not that one.
Any chance anyone else remembers it?
I feel like I imagined it. Or dreamt it. Or got mandela'd.
It seemed So conclusive....
Does anyone know how deep the Atlantic is where the München sank?
Rogue Wave, well that’s my new Spotify playlist sorted.
Riveting story and very well presented and narrated. Thank you for posting this video !
It just proves the fact that to refer to a ship as unsinkable, or well nigh, is a very bad idea. It seems that the sea takes up the challenge, and wins. I was in the Navy and had friends stationed on carriers and other huge ships and they said that routinely, during bad storms, that they would get "green water" over the bow. That's a serious wave, considering the height of the deck above the water line.
Why did the 🐓 cross the road? To come over to my house to watch the latest episode of big old boats
Kek
I've just been watching a solo Atlantic crossing in a 16ft timber dinghy. Think about that!
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PLEASE dont do that stuff at 10:00 again, i was in the gym, pretty high volume on headphones, holy HELL it actually hurt to hear that
I was cleaning with headphones on and thought my brain was going to explode
I accidentally took a nap at like 4 pm that ended at 11 pm, and now I'm spending my hours of nighttime solitude listening to ocean disasters.
I don't think I need to be a doctor to know my diagnosis.
Great video. Man I love this. You put together some great history. Thanks for all your hard work.
As some one who sat on a gun turret on a truck in Iraq, have survived 20% of my body covered in 2nd degree burns theres one place you cannot pay me to go, thats the open ocean.
absolutely facinating stories, i really do enjoy this channel!
“Trust the science. Our modeling shows that this is impossible”
Yup.
I love the very straightforward and factual name of this channel!
The roge wave phenomenon, which was not clearly known of, is similar to aircrafts clear air turblance CAT.
The patterns of air are as unknown as in the sea.
Thanks for a well documented video.
RIP the crew of the MS Munnchen.
I love these stories
That was amazing! I love that there was a human narrator; who did a great job.
Was just hoping for a new video and BAM! 🎉🎉🎉
"..who you may know from the $100 fee on the $200 overdraft.." LOL!