Chief Petty Officers and regular Petty Officers are not commissioned officers, and do not get saluted unless some really specific circumstances are met. Besides, you do not cease saluting until the salute has been returned by the officer (or if you are walking in opposite directions when you pass each other). On top of that, saluting is only done while both people are covered (wearing hats), and most people do not wear covers while underway, and only do so in specific circumstances (ie, standing watch). I understand you were making a joke, but all you did ws show that you do not understand Naval chain of command.
CurtisAlfeld 🤔....... You know what. Thanks for pointing that out. But still. To a lay person like me that is still a slightly funny thing to envision. Most of the time military rank and protocol has it’s logic and reasons why such rules exist. But sometimes they just border on ridiculous and pointless. I like to think of my self as humble....and being reminded of my “rank” after so many times would be annoying. I see to often in history how “rank” has gone to someone’s head. Sometimes the “upper ranks” need a remainder that they are human too. It’s good for them, helps them keep a leveler head, and in reality. All nations, cultures, ext suffer from this problem it seems. It’s causes at a minimum an annoyance, and other times gets a lot of people killed. Not to mention expensive. Even Colin Powell admitted this problem in his biography. His retirement really made him realize how “pampered” he had become. On the first day of retirement he had to fix his own leaking sink.....and he managed to run out of gas twice on the same day. “I cam plan an move entire brigades and regiments, but I can’t remember to fill up my own damn gas tank”. People get so used to being pampered and cared for my others they forget the basics. Like how old English Kings actually had a “Groom of the Stool”. This guys job was to actually wipe the Kings ass so he did not have to. Henry the 8th (I think) even had one executed. So the fact that Queen Elizabeth’s Grand Sons sometimes sneak out of the palace in disguise so they can do “normal things” like food shopping at a grocery store is impressive. Sorry. I got into the moment there. Point is I have realized that while rank has it’s purposes, it can seem ridiculous and tedious at times. My Grandpa fought in the Pacific during WW2, he was a Senior at West Point when Pearl was attacked. Saw Hell. Escorted McAuthor once. During the Cuban Missile Crisis he was in charge of one of the retaliatory buttons.....and afterwards retired a Brigadier General. He was the kindest old man I knew. Loved to travel, lived in a nice house in Arizona next to a massive stocked artificial lake in Arizona. But he never really bragged. Was quiet, and avoided talking about his service. Unless you took to long in the bathroom. Then he would tell you the story how a Japanese sniper shot his buddy in the head thru a ship port window when doing a number 2 on the toilet....... Apparently Grandpa left the Pacific with a phobia of Bathroom windows...but Dad made me shut up about that. I just wish Grandpa did not smoke so much. I think he could of lived longer and finally told me the stories he was reluctant to tell me as a little girl. Being slightly autistic I actually have a very strong stomach for gore and violence because welp...that’s history for you. Plus I got into forensics as a kid, autopsies and all. He was buried with full honors at West Point when he died. I did find 2 fascinating channels on TH-cam that I am watching because they give me a small window what my Grandpa and Great Grandpa saw in Combat. Look up “The Great War” channel and it’s newest sister channel “World War Two”. As a military person you may find it interesting. It explains some of the conflicts and grudges going on to this day!
When the ship kills all the weather deck lights and comes to a dead stop in still waters on a clear, moonless night. For every star you can see on a dark moonless night on land, you can see a thousand more at sea, because there is no light pollution that far from civilization. Not only can you see every. Single. Star. You can see it twice. One above, one below. The water becomes a perfectly smooth mirror. So the effect becomes like you're adrift in space. Standing upright becomes a challenge. Your eyes adjust to the darkness to the point that the galactic belt, which most people have never even seen, is as bright as the full moon. You can see by its light, it's that bright. I have never felt so small.
I was 10, and a dependent of a USAF Dad in the Azores. One nutty demand Dad imposed on us was NOT living American, so my family was the furthest from the base, and 3rd from the end of electrical service, meaning very low light pollution. Not only did I see how tightly packed the sky is with stars, but you left out the high number of shooting stars you see moment to moment. They cover a thousand miles in less than a second. Very long paths, very often.
One of my favorite getaways is to go down to Key West and there is a weekend camping trip out at Haunted Fort Jackson (look it up. Amazing history). The guide brings you out with your camping gear along with 10 or 15 other singles, couples or families. You get set up and spend the day snorkeling around the Fort. For dinner you bring your own food so omce you eat and clean up it's getting dark. There arent any lights at the Fort and because it's aways out in the water you get no interference from lights from the hotels and condos along the shore. You have never seen stars so big and beautiful and bright! The breeze and the calm splashing of the water as it gently hits up against the side of the fort along with the amazing lights in the sky and the occassional shooting star is worth everything! Now, if you get lucky you will have a ranger who will ask you if you want to do a night snorkel. It isnt a scheduled or planned outing so you just have to get lucky. But it's a once in a lifetime thrill. And the darkness along with the Fort's haunted history and the fact that you know in the back of your head that sharks are hungry at night all get the adrenaline flowing pretty good! I highly suggest this trip. But its not for anyone who is into glamping. There arent showers and that kind of thing. The boat comes by in the morning and the evening so you can shower. And they take your grocery list and return with whatever you ask for and ice - since there isnt anywhere to keep it from melting so you need to get more each time they come. The trip is inexpensive considering the prices to stay in Key West. Probably about $300 or so for 2 people plus expenses for food/drink. And you can always stay in miami and drive down for the getaway and head back to miami afterwards instead of paying 3 or 4 hundred a night for a Key West hotel. The Fort is an American treasure that bot a whole lot of people even realize is there for the taking. Even younger kids and teenagers, boys or girls have a great time. No cell phones or televisions work there so its truly a great family bonding experience!
My neck of the woods, that's almost as bad. Look up sometime how many people have gone into the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and fallen off the face of the planet. There are places in there you can be reasonably certain no human being has ever set foot...
My father served in the navy, on board the U. S. S. Sea-Cat, "one of the old Diesel electric submarines. " While the submarine was.. running deep.. he had been in the subs "bathroom"..when a waste-water valve had completely failed, causing ocean water to begin "rapidly" flooding the compartment. I still remember.. the expression on his face, when he talked about. "seeing the crew-men OUT-side of that compartment, quickly slamming shut and dogging down the hatch doors.." They were able to by-pass the faulty valve, and stop the flooding...and despite knowing, that those crew-men.. men you'd served with for years.. friends.. had sealed you inside the compartment... EVERYone on a submarine.. "KNOWS".that no matter, WHO, or.. how many men are inside any breached compartment... that ANY hesitation to close off that compartment & seal the hatches, could EASILY result in the entire ship sinking, and going down with ALL hands.
I saw this story in a sailing magazine called Latitude 38. This couple was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean when they heard someone yell, "Hey help me!" They had found a cargo ship's crewman who had fallen overboard unseen. The ship was not in site, but after rescuing what could be the luckiest sailor in human history they were able to contact his ship by radio. The guy hadn't even been missed yet. It happens sometimes, a crew member just vanishes off a ship at sea. Scary to think about how it must feel to fall into the sea, then watch your ship sail over the horizon.
The creepiest thing would probably be a rogue wave. Just imagine you're out in the ocean on a big ship and it's dealing with 10m waves no problem as they are designed to easily withstand that. But then all of a sudden some 25m behemoth charges at the ship from a different direction and all of a sudden you're in the very real situation of the ship capsizing and you falling into the raging ocean. No thanks.
@@osamaobama293 I actually haven't. Saw a documentary about "killerwaves" once and thought it's really fascinating. But that documentary contained the scene of Poseidon where the ship is hit and sinks XD
@@eph2vv89only1way They think that for a lot of ships now. Back then when mathematicians and scientists didn't think of those monster waves as possible (because they only used the linear wave model) it was always claimed to be either human error or some technical fault. But in 1995 the Draupner Oil Rig recorded a 26m wave which was significantly higher than the rest and after further sattelite data confirmed that rogue waves do exist they could no longer deny the fact that probably a lot ships habe been killed off by these waves.
the feeling you get when you are on the high seas is seriously something else. its somewhat eerie and humbling in general you cant compare it to anything else its magnificent! it took me a while to accept it that im here only on the good will of nature. i have never felt so alive before and after that
For first timers, some of the stories are like "NOPE, I'm out" kinds of things. But for the seasoned veterans, it's almost routine, a slight change can be quite entertaining(boredom is a b*tch)
Renzu ZG I’m glad to know I’m not the only one with that thought. I haven’t spent too much time in the deep ocean, usually staying in coastal waters but it can be hilarious to listen to people who have never spent much time on the water freak out over minor things.
@@freddy7304 I've been a sailor for 12 years and only witnessed someone went crazy once and another one died. Rocking the boat every now and then is entertainment on it's own, and there's this convo: Me: "Huge wave dead ahead sir" Captain: "Anyone on deck right now?" Me: "None, sir." Captain: "Let it come bow on. The decks need some washing up." Me: **smirks** "Aye, wave bow on."
USNavy. I've been in a storm in the North Sea above the Arctic Circle (we were above Norway). Waves 10 stories high on average from trough to crest. Freezing Rain. -40 degrees F ambient temp (-70 F with wind chill, because our weatherman could calculate lower). And at night it was so dark I could not see my own hand as it was touching my nose. We then got hit by a rouge wave at night. Another night we thought someone fell overboard. We listed 35 degrees starboard one night (the Island was supposed to break away at 33 degrees so it wouldn't capsize the entire ship, the ship righted itself). Had at least a dozen main hole fires that were all caught and extinguished in under 1 minute. Had 3 cracks in the Forecastle that went from deck to overhead and wide enough to put your arm thru without touching. 7 more cracks in the Island like that. And in general we were throughly beat the hell out of. Was told it was the worst storm the North Sea had had in 65 years. Would not recommend. Especially if this is your getting your Blue Nose.
"Had 3 cracks in the Forecastle that went from deck to overhead and wide enough to put your arm thru without touching." Hopefully nobody did... that kind of stress, the structure can be like a spring and is just waiting for something to give way and snap back. "Wow, that's a hell of a crack"... sticks arm in, there's a resounding thud and Seaman Skippy is short a limb that's now somewhere in an inaccessible area of the hull....
Can't say I had any truly *creepy* encounters at sea, but going topside at night on a warship that's completely blacked out without any kind of light, navigating only by feeling the bulkhead (wall). . . it's a little nerve wracking. On the other hand, once your eyes adjust it's really beautiful. Growing up in a small town, driving out into the country at night to see the stars, well, that had nothing on the view you get in the middle of the ocean. There is no light pollution whatsoever. Just stars, the Milky Way, and maybe a little Aurora Borealis. And then seeing the sun slowly rise after that? I don't think I'll ever see anything that beautiful again. Nothing, and I mean nothing, will ever surpass seeing the sunrise over the sea for the first time.
Humans' general understandings of physics is limited in scale until they've physically seen it... AND yes, the sea is a terrifying mistress... I was Navy, and worked on a ship that weighed roughly 650,000 tons. She was an amphibious vessel, designed to slip in close to land for the marines to have the shortest run possible to shore on their landing craft (LCU or LCAC)... AND that means a "flat bottom" compared to vessels like an aircraft carrier, meant for deep ocean only... Yet, even as heavy as all that, a thirty foot sea would toss us around on board like a turd in a fish-bowl! It's hard to believe something so heavy and powerful could be so easily and quickly bounced around, until you've personally had to dance up one bulkhead, then down... then across the P-way, and up the opposite bulkhead and back down for the rocking of the boat... OR when you take two really heavy steps up a ladder, and on the third... whoomp... you're already up two levels from where you started... almost instantly... I know this doesn't seem possible. Most of those behind me will scoff. Wait until you get out there on a similar boat. ;o)
My dad worked on a tuna boat in San Diego in the 1970s he said the creepiest thing was being boarded by the Mexican Army with M1 garands with scuzzy beards and pointing their guns at the crew when searching the boat for contaband. They were very un professional and it was un nearving.
Scariest thing I ever saw at sea? The sea itself. I was on an amphib assault ship (basically a small aircraft carrier dedicated to helos and Harriers) headed for a Mediterranean deployment. Ran into a big storm only 24 hours off the east coast. Got stationed as aft lookout. From just below the flight deck I had to look UP at the incoming swells. The ship was being tossed like a toy in a bathtub. Weather just like that had sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald in the great lakes just a few years prior. Later that morning, the seas had carried away a CH46 and one of the adjacent catwalks, and seriously damaged the aircraft fueling station there. This was my first 'deep water' experience. We had been out on workups and certs and training up to that point, because the ship was fresh out of overhaul/SLEP, but this was the first time I'd been aboard when the ship was headed for an overseas deployment. Turned out this was all 'old hat' to the experienced crew, but the shock of seeing waves towering over the ship, for the first time, sure rattled me.
First time's always the most exciting. Ain't it? Was on the Trenton (LPD 14) myself... back in the 90's. Still remember the first turn at aft lookout in heavy seas. Still remember walking up and down the bulkheads for the rolls, struggling two steps up a ladder only to step onto the next level with the third... I've seen the "unrep post" fall and shear the platform next to the quarterdeck nearly off... One of the guys get yanked right through a set of chocks when he untied the sea-painter during a crane op' with a small boat... and a dragging anchor destroy the wildcat and hydraulics before we lost it... among myriad other "near misses" and disturbing things. I've always regarded the sea as the most terrifying thing I've seen out there... just the sea itself. I definitely hear you mate! ;o)
@Tabun 7668 There's little to no chance you'll spend more than a year at sea without something damned interesting to tell about! Be warned, you'll tell the stories, and get called out for lying or exaggerating the truth... BUT from rogue waves to abandoned emergency gear... there's a LOT out there to see and find interesting. Stay out of the bite of the lines, mate! ;o)
Burned out boats in the gulf are pretty common. Usually coast guard, ice etc pick up the occupants who are usually coming from Cuba or Mexico etc, detain them and torch the boat
"So, one night I'm on shift, trying to stay awake with Snickers and coffee, and it's so black you couldn't discern the horizon line." That sounds like my kind of coffee!
That's a new one. So are you afraid of all boats and what's scary about them? I just have a fear of water in the ocean I can't see my feet in and I can't dive cause that freaks me out. But I have swam in the open ocean this past year but that's cause of the beach we were at was so calm and dolphins nearby with my over 6"5 SO even closer. Lol I can't do that without him cause I know he's a better swimmer and can feel the bottom when I can't cause I'm short af plus he's a strong swimmer even tho I'm not. Mainly I'm stubborn and won't let my fears ruin all stuff for me. I'll never jump off a diving board but I hope to try scuba diving one time or even go in a shark cage.
Laver constantine It’s not really a phobia of boats, but man made object submerged in water (most of the time it’s the bottom of boats that scare people with this phobia)
I went deep sea fishing with my dad one summer and when it was getting dark we headed for shore. Halfway back there was a pod of dolphins that followed us. They were swimming and jumping out of the water so close to the boat i could almost touch them.
From what I understand about the doldrums, is it is two layers of different density and salinity water interacting which acts as a glue that stops ships from moving, the current hasn’t stopped but it can be a 100ft or so underneath the pocket of water which the ships is floating on and as a result you can’t move one way or another until they mix back together. It’s pretty damn creepy.
I went backpacking in British Columbia back in 2014 and our base camp was at an ocean inlet. At night if there was no moonlight if you went swimming in the water the algae in the water would allow it to glow when you moved in it. Was definently a cool experience.
most likely robbed by other dealers/pirates. I was surprised to hear that was off SD, grew up there. always heard about drug shipments + boats washing up, but this was heavier.
Had night terrors that would make me beat my rack up until I woke everyone in the division up. Was really crazy, had never happened before the Navy and has yet to happen again after getting out. Super creepy as all I could remember seeing was a solid black figure, and waking up with blood covered hands from banging my rack.
Zachary Jones I was paddling and I was going under a wave and I looked to my right and I saw it’s head right before I went under and I was like oh shit I’m gonna die cause normally crocodiles are super aggressive
If you ever sail on a naval ship at night and having to navigate the p-ways in black and occasional red light will know how ominous and eerie it feels. I would deliberately make "otherworldly" screeching to mess with my shipmates.
Less eerie and more scary and... Well, awesome. I was a mechanic during an operation to pick up some soldiers from enemy teritorry after they finished their own operation. Seas start getting rough, their boats start break down due to the waves. We use another boat to tow one of them, but the other loses the second engine and just goes dead in the water. None of the soldiers knows how to fix something like that. Suddenly my commander, an experienced NCO who is probably the best mechanic I have ever met, turns to me and tells me to help him get a zodiac ready. I help him, a bit confused, and once it's ready and in the water he tells me to get my tools and climb down. Long story short, twenty minutes later, 4 meter waves and we're both on that boat in the engine compartment trying to get it working. Dude pulls out a crazy trick, and we manage to get all the water in the engines vaporized and the boats start running again. I was honestly sure we were all about to sink there. The boat was definitely not built for storms and it was creaking like crazy. I love sailing but this was a bit over-the-top even for me.
On exercise in the North Atlantic, my previous submarine was dived. My current submarine was also dived, only much deeper. We passed directly below the other one. The cameras on the fin/sail/conning-tower picked her out. Being dived in a submarine looking up at another submarine also dived and it being my old boat. So surreal! That image will stay with me forever.
At sunup, sailing from Portico Rico to Dominican Republic sailed through debris consisting of coolers, baby necessities and all that a family would need sailing the Caribbean. Whatever had happened ? Will never know.
10:48 Some souls do that type of thing. If unclaimed(i.e. not sent to an afterlife or reincarnated, and not going to one they believe in) they just drift there, slowly fading away and doing things they would normally do if alive on loop untill they can't anymore. Poor guy still slept in his bunk...
I'm a landlubber that enjoys a great sea story. I've never been to sea, but enjoyed a harbor tour, once. In college a classmate invited me to visit the Channel Islands, CA USA for an overnight fishing adventure in their twenty-six foot craft, me and two others, and I accepted with hope of adventure. This may be close to the mainland, but it was open ocean. Little did I know. Small craft advisory as we left the harbor at Ventura, daytime, with a choppy swell across the 20+ miles to San Miguel Island. At one point the boat was tossed clean out of the water and another we stopped for a craft towing a barge and the tipping and rocking on a boat not under way feels like you are going overboard! Once underway again, the mate offered me a swig from a bottle of wine and I looked at him as if he were crazy. "How can I drink with the boat pitching like this?" He said: "Hold the bottle to your lips and let the motion of the boat tip it into your throat". Worked perfectly; didn't spill a drop. Once we reached the lee of the Islands, the water was much calmer and my friends went diving and found a bunch of fish which we fried up. The starry night was a delight, and the return trip much calmer the next day. No matter what, ALWAYS take your seasickness pills! We did, and all that tossing and turning didn't phase us. For a teeny crossing, I've had enough 'Two Years Before the Mast' for my lifetime!
Years ago my grandad and 3 mates capsized coming over the bar in greymouth new zealand, 2 of them flew out and got rescued straight away my grandad and one of his mates were trapped in an airpocket under the boat for 4-5 hours while they wernt sure if they were even alive. There is a news article of it on the internet somewhere i cant find it though was roughly 17 years ago.
More like what I didn't see. In the Navy stationed aboard a cruiser, roughly 600 ft long and over 10 ton ship, we were out in deep sea. Something runs across the bottom of the ship. Collided hard enough it shook the ship violently. No damage. Sonar picked up nothing. We never found out what hit us. Don't think any of us slept well that night.
We had to clear some freezer space of a guy with appendicitis in '85, the corpsman saved him and got a _Legion of Merit_ for it. On a sub of that era, the wardroom was the operating room.
I don’t think many people understand just how stupid and unbelievably huge the ocean is, we think because we can fly across in a day it’s not that big yet that’s not true. To help put into perspective, there are ships that have been lost at sea for a hundred years, and are then miraculously found floating around a hundred years later completely abandoned and uncrewed, and then lost again to not be seen for another decade to century.
The one where they found the floating life raft. That would disturb me for a while. Also the one where they found the Japanese refrigerator out by Oregon. That's insane!
Not a sailor myself, but I did sailing lessons for a week when I was about 12 or 14, so a few years ago. I have submechanophobia (fear of objects visible while submerged underwater, in my case specifically large, old looking objects, or anything that looks like a machine). I also have a fear of large, industrial/mechanical objects, especially rusted ones (Zeus knows why, I just kind of freeze in terror when I get close to them). So, me and my partner for that week were sailing pretty close past some old shipwrecks that were being used by the local government to form a breakwater. This in and of itself wouldn't be terrifying, but these ships were not only sizable, but covered in rust, holes, and barnacles. I was pretty freaked out and felt like my stomach had made a leap of faith into my throat.
During my week long sailing exam, I was at the Helm (33ft) coming out of an extremely busy port. Skipper says don't look behind you, just give way. I move, but of course I look behind and the size of the ship behind me was genuinely unnerving. It was probably 20-30m (about 50ft) behind still, but it felt like I could touch it. Blocked out the sun and was the scariest part of the entire thing. It was scarier than the force 10 storm we sailed through on the last day or 2, where I spend 70% of my 6 hours at the helm with one foot on the handrail inches from the sea because of the angle our boat was at!
On a navy deployment to the med during the huge refugee migration I heard a man screaming in a panic voice on the VHF as you heard women screaming in the background. Didn't know the language and it was like 3am. When the translator was up there, nothing would happen but when he returned to bed it would start up again. Eventually it died out but the last transmission was heavy breathing, crying, into a mic. Found out later a boat of about 100 people went down in the area, all died. I couldn't sleep for a few days, had to take some gravol to knock me out. I'll always remember the goosebumps I got hearing that and the WTF freakes out face of my partner as we looked at eachother in red light.
This one time I was sailing I saw some kind of dark blob floating in the water. It was a huge chunk of ham. I managed to get hold of it and it turned out it had been soaked in rum. It had two pineapple slices for eyes. Why was it not eaten? Did someone lose their last bit of sustenance while stranded at sea? Could there have been two survivors in a raft and now one of them had to kill the other with his toe knife and eat him? I was very disturbed. Because of the implication.
"...captain is old school..." No, captain is a captain and learned the right way. You NEVER depend on electronics only. Smh. So that means you learn to read charts...before you ever learn GPS.
I was in the US Navy, a woman's voice came over an encrypted military only radio channel saying, "Hello.....Hello....Hello....?" For about 30 Seconds we heard this. 2 in the morning. All of us kept looking at each other, asking if they just heard what I just heard. Our battle group of 9 ships had no explanation.
@@paladinboyd1228 like I said, the radio channel was encrypted, only we in the Battle Group and those at NORAD and the Pentagon knew the codes. Meaning, that anyone without the encryption codes could not speak to or hear anyone clearly. Even if on the same radio frequency and the same encryption devices. It would come across as a garbled unintelligible mess of blurbs, pops with one to two words mixed in. And the voice did not appear to have an accent different to our American Navy speak. And "hello....hello..." is definitely not how US Navy ships talk to one another.
KreigsMarine2, My working theory was a small boat in distress, somehow got onto a military channel when sending a SOS. But since that is unlikely. Unless and pardon my lack of knowledge as I’m not Navy. The radio crew left the channel open without the encryption. My other theory is someone on one of the ships was in trouble and called for help, dropping the normal language used on military channels. Was there any reports of injury on the other ships?
That marine talking about the rack being messed up like it was slept in must've served a long time ago. It's been 35 years since I was on a ship as a teenage jarhead. Anyway a few years ago there was a news report about a missing sailor that had been gone several months from his duty station aboard a carrier. The guy was later discovered and arrested when the ship returned to home port. Aircraft carriers are large enough to stay hidden but I'm wondering how he was able to feed himself. It's not like he could scope out the fridge for a late snack
I snuck into a private lake in my oneman boat.When the river rose you could get to it.I knew their was a 13ft alligator in the lake.I was in the back fishing the lilly pads.All of a sudden 1000 bubbles under my boat.I knew he was under me.I rushed to land and scared to get back in the water for hours.close call.
After the eruption of Krakatau in 1883, ship's captains and sailors would encounter floating rafts of pumice in the Indian Ocean. Many of these pumice rafts had human and animal remains on them -- victims of the eruption, and the massive tsunamis it generated in Java and Sumatra. Some of these rafts drifted as far as the east coast of Africa.
We saw the largest dark mass in the water. It was bigger than a whale and it was heading towards our ship. We sailed away and never saw it again. We later found out it was your *MOM.*
I had the midwatch (0;00-04'00) in the Indian Ocean many years ago. The bio luminescence was amazing. Imagine lime green water from horizon to horizon in every direction.. You can't, can you? I couldn't, either, until I saw it.
I was on a cruise ship.Woke up at 3am,The big mirror in my room had a big wooden surround.The wooden surround glowed bright blue!But not the glass!Just the wood!!!
The guys on the sub with the dead officer in the freezer worst part was the lower ranks had to salute him ever time they went to get food..
Chief Petty Officers and regular Petty Officers are not commissioned officers, and do not get saluted unless some really specific circumstances are met. Besides, you do not cease saluting until the salute has been returned by the officer (or if you are walking in opposite directions when you pass each other). On top of that, saluting is only done while both people are covered (wearing hats), and most people do not wear covers while underway, and only do so in specific circumstances (ie, standing watch).
I understand you were making a joke, but all you did ws show that you do not understand Naval chain of command.
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You know what. Thanks for pointing that out.
But still. To a lay person like me that is still a slightly funny thing to envision.
Most of the time military rank and protocol has it’s logic and reasons why such rules exist.
But sometimes they just border on ridiculous and pointless.
I like to think of my self as humble....and being reminded of my “rank” after so many times would be annoying.
I see to often in history how “rank” has gone to someone’s head.
Sometimes the “upper ranks” need a remainder that they are human too. It’s good for them, helps them keep a leveler head, and in reality.
All nations, cultures, ext suffer from this problem it seems.
It’s causes at a minimum an annoyance, and other times gets a lot of people killed.
Not to mention expensive.
Even Colin Powell admitted this problem in his biography.
His retirement really made him realize how “pampered” he had become.
On the first day of retirement he had to fix his own leaking sink.....and he managed to run out of gas twice on the same day.
“I cam plan an move entire brigades and regiments, but I can’t remember to fill up my own damn gas tank”.
People get so used to being pampered and cared for my others they forget the basics.
Like how old English Kings actually had a “Groom of the Stool”.
This guys job was to actually wipe the Kings ass so he did not have to. Henry the 8th (I think) even had one executed.
So the fact that Queen Elizabeth’s Grand Sons sometimes sneak out of the palace in disguise so they can do “normal things” like food shopping at a grocery store is impressive.
Sorry. I got into the moment there.
Point is I have realized that while rank has it’s purposes, it can seem ridiculous and tedious at times.
My Grandpa fought in the Pacific during WW2, he was a Senior at West Point when Pearl was attacked. Saw Hell. Escorted McAuthor once.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis he was in charge of one of the retaliatory buttons.....and afterwards retired a Brigadier General.
He was the kindest old man I knew. Loved to travel, lived in a nice house in Arizona next to a massive stocked artificial lake in Arizona.
But he never really bragged. Was quiet, and avoided talking about his service.
Unless you took to long in the bathroom. Then he would tell you the story how a Japanese sniper shot his buddy in the head thru a ship port window when doing a number 2 on the toilet.......
Apparently Grandpa left the Pacific with a phobia of Bathroom windows...but Dad made me shut up about that.
I just wish Grandpa did not smoke so much. I think he could of lived longer and finally told me the stories he was reluctant to tell me as a little girl.
Being slightly autistic I actually have a very strong stomach for gore and violence because welp...that’s history for you. Plus I got into forensics as a kid, autopsies and all.
He was buried with full honors at West Point when he died.
I did find 2 fascinating channels on TH-cam that I am watching because they give me a small window what my Grandpa and Great Grandpa saw in Combat.
Look up “The Great War” channel and it’s newest sister channel “World War Two”.
As a military person you may find it interesting.
It explains some of the conflicts and grudges going on to this day!
I figure they still walked in saying "Morning Cheif!"
CurtisAlfeld navy sucks
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Sometimes when i'm in the bathtub, big mysterious bubbles come out of nowhere.
I lost it here 🤣🤣🤣
Hyper Delirium that’s me
😂😂😂
This comment doesn't get enough credit. Simply hilarious.
That gave me the chills.....
When the ship kills all the weather deck lights and comes to a dead stop in still waters on a clear, moonless night. For every star you can see on a dark moonless night on land, you can see a thousand more at sea, because there is no light pollution that far from civilization.
Not only can you see every. Single. Star. You can see it twice. One above, one below. The water becomes a perfectly smooth mirror. So the effect becomes like you're adrift in space. Standing upright becomes a challenge. Your eyes adjust to the darkness to the point that the galactic belt, which most people have never even seen, is as bright as the full moon. You can see by its light, it's that bright. I have never felt so small.
I was 10, and a dependent of a USAF Dad in the Azores. One nutty demand Dad imposed on us was NOT living American, so my family was the furthest from the base, and 3rd from the end of electrical service, meaning very low light pollution.
Not only did I see how tightly packed the sky is with stars, but you left out the high number of shooting stars you see moment to moment. They cover a thousand miles in less than a second. Very long paths, very often.
One of my favorite getaways is to go down to Key West and there is a weekend camping trip out at Haunted Fort Jackson (look it up. Amazing history). The guide brings you out with your camping gear along with 10 or 15 other singles, couples or families. You get set up and spend the day snorkeling around the Fort. For dinner you bring your own food so omce you eat and clean up it's getting dark. There arent any lights at the Fort and because it's aways out in the water you get no interference from lights from the hotels and condos along the shore. You have never seen stars so big and beautiful and bright! The breeze and the calm splashing of the water as it gently hits up against the side of the fort along with the amazing lights in the sky and the occassional shooting star is worth everything!
Now, if you get lucky you will have a ranger who will ask you if you want to do a night snorkel. It isnt a scheduled or planned outing so you just have to get lucky. But it's a once in a lifetime thrill. And the darkness along with the Fort's haunted history and the fact that you know in the back of your head that sharks are hungry at night all get the adrenaline flowing pretty good! I highly suggest this trip. But its not for anyone who is into glamping. There arent showers and that kind of thing. The boat comes by in the morning and the evening so you can shower. And they take your grocery list and return with whatever you ask for and ice - since there isnt anywhere to keep it from melting so you need to get more each time they come. The trip is inexpensive considering the prices to stay in Key West. Probably about $300 or so for 2 people plus expenses for food/drink. And you can always stay in miami and drive down for the getaway and head back to miami afterwards instead of paying 3 or 4 hundred a night for a Key West hotel. The Fort is an American treasure that bot a whole lot of people even realize is there for the taking. Even younger kids and teenagers, boys or girls have a great time. No cell phones or televisions work there so its truly a great family bonding experience!
"Beautifully put"................i could only imagine......
@@MarkH10 i live up a holler. 5 miles to Epoles....natural gas is my thing. No light competion at my home.....
Seeing the galactic belt is one of the most beautiful things ive ever seen
"It left me vaguely disturbed..."
"FREE RAFT!"
There are two different kinds of people.
Great place to put the body.
ITS FREE RAFT ESTATE
Those 2 types of people replied to this before me lol
Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs vs Gryffindors and Slytherins
I bet there would be some out there that embody both traits lol
This is why I'm just gonna stay deep in the woods
I will find you one day...
LOL
Sure, nothing scary ever happens deep in the woods.
Pilomotor That’s what I was going to say. Lol
My neck of the woods, that's almost as bad. Look up sometime how many people have gone into the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and fallen off the face of the planet. There are places in there you can be reasonably certain no human being has ever set foot...
My father served in the navy, on board the U. S. S. Sea-Cat, "one of the old Diesel electric submarines. "
While the submarine was.. running deep.. he had been in the subs "bathroom"..when a waste-water valve had completely failed, causing ocean water to begin "rapidly" flooding the compartment.
I still remember.. the expression on his face, when he talked about. "seeing the crew-men OUT-side of that compartment, quickly slamming shut and dogging down the hatch doors.."
They were able to by-pass the faulty valve, and stop the flooding...and despite knowing, that those crew-men.. men you'd served with for years.. friends.. had sealed you inside the compartment... EVERYone on a submarine.. "KNOWS".that no matter, WHO, or.. how many men are inside any breached compartment... that ANY hesitation to close off that compartment & seal the hatches, could EASILY result in the entire ship sinking, and going down with ALL hands.
Dude, learn to write. You sound like Captain Kirk having an aneurysm.
Sen Sam maybe you could learn to spell and look at your own faults.
Troy Simon
Yikes! The USN wanted my son for a nuclear sub crew and he said "Oh no, no, no uh-uh!" Can't blame him.
That story with the whale humping the wave had me on the floor
Would have been weird if the captain was aroused
Brings the saying “Doing the wave” to a whole new level.
It's called a, "Hump" back Whale, what did you expect? If it wants to do... that, it's going to do it.
This whole comment thread has me dying 💀💀
@@cliffordbenenati7373 Same 🤣
Sailing through the sea is always a difficult job since human are land built creature. They always said that the sea is a harsh mistress.
I saw this story in a sailing magazine called Latitude 38. This couple was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean when they heard someone yell, "Hey help me!"
They had found a cargo ship's crewman who had fallen overboard unseen. The ship was not in site, but after rescuing what could be the luckiest sailor in human history they were able to contact his ship by radio. The guy hadn't even been missed yet.
It happens sometimes, a crew member just vanishes off a ship at sea. Scary to think about how it must feel to fall into the sea, then watch your ship sail over the horizon.
The flying fish over the luminescent algae sounds so amazing Y.Y
Yeah it sounds magical. :)
Cute cat
The creepiest thing would probably be a rogue wave. Just imagine you're out in the ocean on a big ship and it's dealing with 10m waves no problem as they are designed to easily withstand that. But then all of a sudden some 25m behemoth charges at the ship from a different direction and all of a sudden you're in the very real situation of the ship capsizing and you falling into the raging ocean. No thanks.
Kay Stephan They now figure that’s what took down the Edmund Fitzgerald
Somebodys watched Poseidon recently I see
@@osamaobama293 I actually haven't. Saw a documentary about "killerwaves" once and thought it's really fascinating. But that documentary contained the scene of Poseidon where the ship is hit and sinks XD
@@eph2vv89only1way They think that for a lot of ships now. Back then when mathematicians and scientists didn't think of those monster waves as possible (because they only used the linear wave model) it was always claimed to be either human error or some technical fault. But in 1995 the Draupner Oil Rig recorded a 26m wave which was significantly higher than the rest and after further sattelite data confirmed that rogue waves do exist they could no longer deny the fact that probably a lot ships habe been killed off by these waves.
@@kaystephan2610 Just goes to show that not all those eerie sailor stories are fake!
the feeling you get when you are on the high seas is seriously something else.
its somewhat eerie and humbling in general you cant compare it to anything else its magnificent!
it took me a while to accept it that im here only on the good will of nature.
i have never felt so alive before and after that
Imagine all the stories from the sea that never made it back to land...
Damn
For first timers, some of the stories are like "NOPE, I'm out" kinds of things. But for the seasoned veterans, it's almost routine, a slight change can be quite entertaining(boredom is a b*tch)
Renzu ZG I’m glad to know I’m not the only one with that thought. I haven’t spent too much time in the deep ocean, usually staying in coastal waters but it can be hilarious to listen to people who have never spent much time on the water freak out over minor things.
@@missingallmymarbles7670 like people dying ?
fred d people dying is worth freaking out over but 99.9% of the time it’s just something minor and ridiculous
@@freddy7304 I've been a sailor for 12 years and only witnessed someone went crazy once and another one died. Rocking the boat every now and then is entertainment on it's own, and there's this convo:
Me: "Huge wave dead ahead sir"
Captain: "Anyone on deck right now?"
Me: "None, sir."
Captain: "Let it come bow on. The decks need some washing up."
Me: **smirks** "Aye, wave bow on."
I have to think the days and days of boredom would be the worst part.
USNavy. I've been in a storm in the North Sea above the Arctic Circle (we were above Norway). Waves 10 stories high on average from trough to crest. Freezing Rain. -40 degrees F ambient temp (-70 F with wind chill, because our weatherman could calculate lower). And at night it was so dark I could not see my own hand as it was touching my nose. We then got hit by a rouge wave at night. Another night we thought someone fell overboard. We listed 35 degrees starboard one night (the Island was supposed to break away at 33 degrees so it wouldn't capsize the entire ship, the ship righted itself). Had at least a dozen main hole fires that were all caught and extinguished in under 1 minute. Had 3 cracks in the Forecastle that went from deck to overhead and wide enough to put your arm thru without touching. 7 more cracks in the Island like that. And in general we were throughly beat the hell out of. Was told it was the worst storm the North Sea had had in 65 years.
Would not recommend. Especially if this is your getting your Blue Nose.
I thought US Navy radar is better than most ships and can detect land and shallow water at night easier.
Gods of Valhalla. Thank you for your horrifying service o.o
@@kos2919 You don't get waves that high near land. We were in deep water. Over 100 km from land.
@@MistressHorrors That was by far the worst storm we were out in. And we were in it for almost 30 days.
"Had 3 cracks in the Forecastle that went from deck to overhead and wide enough to put your arm thru without touching."
Hopefully nobody did... that kind of stress, the structure can be like a spring and is just waiting for something to give way and snap back. "Wow, that's a hell of a crack"... sticks arm in, there's a resounding thud and Seaman Skippy is short a limb that's now somewhere in an inaccessible area of the hull....
Can't say I had any truly *creepy* encounters at sea, but going topside at night on a warship that's completely blacked out without any kind of light, navigating only by feeling the bulkhead (wall). . . it's a little nerve wracking.
On the other hand, once your eyes adjust it's really beautiful. Growing up in a small town, driving out into the country at night to see the stars, well, that had nothing on the view you get in the middle of the ocean. There is no light pollution whatsoever. Just stars, the Milky Way, and maybe a little Aurora Borealis. And then seeing the sun slowly rise after that? I don't think I'll ever see anything that beautiful again. Nothing, and I mean nothing, will ever surpass seeing the sunrise over the sea for the first time.
The amount of people just jumping off ships kind of blows my mind...
I think the one thing I've learned from this is that oceans are terrifying...
Sarah Smiles, The sea is a cruel mistress.
As much as I love the ocean I don’t want to be out on the boat on my own.
Humans' general understandings of physics is limited in scale until they've physically seen it... AND yes, the sea is a terrifying mistress...
I was Navy, and worked on a ship that weighed roughly 650,000 tons. She was an amphibious vessel, designed to slip in close to land for the marines to have the shortest run possible to shore on their landing craft (LCU or LCAC)... AND that means a "flat bottom" compared to vessels like an aircraft carrier, meant for deep ocean only...
Yet, even as heavy as all that, a thirty foot sea would toss us around on board like a turd in a fish-bowl! It's hard to believe something so heavy and powerful could be so easily and quickly bounced around, until you've personally had to dance up one bulkhead, then down... then across the P-way, and up the opposite bulkhead and back down for the rocking of the boat... OR when you take two really heavy steps up a ladder, and on the third... whoomp... you're already up two levels from where you started... almost instantly...
I know this doesn't seem possible. Most of those behind me will scoff. Wait until you get out there on a similar boat. ;o)
My dad worked on a tuna boat in San Diego in the 1970s he said the creepiest thing was being boarded by the Mexican Army with M1 garands with scuzzy beards and pointing their guns at the crew when searching the boat for contaband. They were very un professional and it was un nearving.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of Garfield shipping Nermal to Abu Dhabi. Classic childhood.
I once saw a wave in the water
Holy shit dude are you ok?
OMG how r u not dying
Are you hurt? Blink twice if you're hurt.
Jesus
Mother of God
0:01 when this music plays you know it's about to get real
Song is called darkest child.
I've seen those glowing algae and they're a sight to see, man.
Scariest thing I ever saw at sea? The sea itself. I was on an amphib assault ship (basically a small aircraft carrier dedicated to helos and Harriers) headed for a Mediterranean deployment. Ran into a big storm only 24 hours off the east coast. Got stationed as aft lookout. From just below the flight deck I had to look UP at the incoming swells. The ship was being tossed like a toy in a bathtub. Weather just like that had sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald in the great lakes just a few years prior. Later that morning, the seas had carried away a CH46 and one of the adjacent catwalks, and seriously damaged the aircraft fueling station there.
This was my first 'deep water' experience. We had been out on workups and certs and training up to that point, because the ship was fresh out of overhaul/SLEP, but this was the first time I'd been aboard when the ship was headed for an overseas deployment. Turned out this was all 'old hat' to the experienced crew, but the shock of seeing waves towering over the ship, for the first time, sure rattled me.
First time's always the most exciting. Ain't it? Was on the Trenton (LPD 14) myself... back in the 90's. Still remember the first turn at aft lookout in heavy seas. Still remember walking up and down the bulkheads for the rolls, struggling two steps up a ladder only to step onto the next level with the third...
I've seen the "unrep post" fall and shear the platform next to the quarterdeck nearly off... One of the guys get yanked right through a set of chocks when he untied the sea-painter during a crane op' with a small boat... and a dragging anchor destroy the wildcat and hydraulics before we lost it... among myriad other "near misses" and disturbing things. I've always regarded the sea as the most terrifying thing I've seen out there... just the sea itself. I definitely hear you mate! ;o)
Yeah ok I’m never becoming a ship crew member
@Tabun 7668 There's little to no chance you'll spend more than a year at sea without something damned interesting to tell about!
Be warned, you'll tell the stories, and get called out for lying or exaggerating the truth... BUT from rogue waves to abandoned emergency gear... there's a LOT out there to see and find interesting.
Stay out of the bite of the lines, mate! ;o)
Burned out boats in the gulf are pretty common. Usually coast guard, ice etc pick up the occupants who are usually coming from Cuba or Mexico etc, detain them and torch the boat
"So, one night I'm on shift, trying to stay awake with Snickers and coffee, and it's so black you couldn't discern the horizon line."
That sounds like my kind of coffee!
Do you like your coffee like you like your submarines? Black and full of seamen.
*I clicked on this video to find out if mermaids are real.*
Are they?
@@najeea.8983 yes.
@@najeea.8983 no 😂
They've been real for awhile there just really good at hiding
They make great bait for sharks and goliath grouper
My submechanophobia alone prevents me from going anywhere near a ship but this makes me scared of the ocean in general
That's a new one. So are you afraid of all boats and what's scary about them?
I just have a fear of water in the ocean I can't see my feet in and I can't dive cause that freaks me out. But I have swam in the open ocean this past year but that's cause of the beach we were at was so calm and dolphins nearby with my over 6"5 SO even closer. Lol I can't do that without him cause I know he's a better swimmer and can feel the bottom when I can't cause I'm short af plus he's a strong swimmer even tho I'm not. Mainly I'm stubborn and won't let my fears ruin all stuff for me. I'll never jump off a diving board but I hope to try scuba diving one time or even go in a shark cage.
I have Thalassophobia and Megalohydrothalassophobia, and to a lesser extent submechanophobia as well. Lotta big words.
Laver constantine It’s not really a phobia of boats, but man made object submerged in water (most of the time it’s the bottom of boats that scare people with this phobia)
@@sneepsnorp3801 A fear of man made objects submerged in water? At last, I can get out of the washing up forever!
I went deep sea fishing with my dad one summer and when it was getting dark we headed for shore. Halfway back there was a pod of dolphins that followed us. They were swimming and jumping out of the water so close to the boat i could almost touch them.
From what I understand about the doldrums, is it is two layers of different density and salinity water interacting which acts as a glue that stops ships from moving, the current hasn’t stopped but it can be a 100ft or so underneath the pocket of water which the ships is floating on and as a result you can’t move one way or another until they mix back together.
It’s pretty damn creepy.
I went backpacking in British Columbia back in 2014 and our base camp was at an ocean inlet. At night if there was no moonlight if you went swimming in the water the algae in the water would allow it to glow when you moved in it. Was definently a cool experience.
Wait, I have more questions about the shot up drug runner boat...
Well, when a mommy drug runner and a daddy drug runner love each other VERY much...
No, wait... That's the wrong talk.
No, no you don't.
Leave them be. Getting involved would probably get you shot.
Probably a deal gone wrong.
most likely robbed by other dealers/pirates. I was surprised to hear that was off SD, grew up there. always heard about drug shipments + boats washing up, but this was heavier.
Megalohydrothalassaphobia is a long word but it’s the fear of large underwater objects and its absolutely terrifying
This just sounds like one of those phobias that's based in common sense, to me.
Uhhhh, about that sailboat... Could someone have been using it to go diving? He might have killed some divers by taking off with their boat...
I'm pretty sure that when you're diving out in the open ocean you're supposed to leave someone on the boat
@@hjt091 Or at least a buoy to mark it.
The 'empty sailboat' thing happens more frequently than you might think.
@@xaenon what causes it
@@xaenon Okay, any explanations why?
“The boat capsized and the crew drowned in their sleep...”
Yeeeah keep telling yourself that...
Sleep well doggo.
That doggo is adorable.
I’m tired.
Sleep well Katlyn Rose Anne
This is why I hate the water.
And this why they made it.
Same that’s why I go 7 to 8 days without a shower
The water thinks you're a swell boy.
Had night terrors that would make me beat my rack up until I woke everyone in the division up. Was really crazy, had never happened before the Navy and has yet to happen again after getting out. Super creepy as all I could remember seeing was a solid black figure, and waking up with blood covered hands from banging my rack.
I was surfing and had 10 ft saltwater croc surface a couple feet from me. Scared the shit outta me
Josiah Knapp while you were still or moving?
Zachary Jones I was paddling and I was going under a wave and I looked to my right and I saw it’s head right before I went under and I was like oh shit I’m gonna die cause normally crocodiles are super aggressive
I’m so uncomfortable reading this, holy shit. Glad you’re still with us bro 😮
Lol a salty won't just have a taste like a shark, either. You are definitely on the menu, good to see you didn't accept the dinner invitation.
If you ever sail on a naval ship at night and having to navigate the p-ways in black and occasional red light will know how ominous and eerie it feels. I would deliberately make "otherworldly" screeching to mess with my shipmates.
I probably hadn’t thought about Garfield and Narmal in decades. I had to pull over and stop coughing. I was swerving all over the gravel road
Less eerie and more scary and... Well, awesome.
I was a mechanic during an operation to pick up some soldiers from enemy teritorry after they finished their own operation. Seas start getting rough, their boats start break down due to the waves. We use another boat to tow one of them, but the other loses the second engine and just goes dead in the water. None of the soldiers knows how to fix something like that.
Suddenly my commander, an experienced NCO who is probably the best mechanic I have ever met, turns to me and tells me to help him get a zodiac ready. I help him, a bit confused, and once it's ready and in the water he tells me to get my tools and climb down.
Long story short, twenty minutes later, 4 meter waves and we're both on that boat in the engine compartment trying to get it working. Dude pulls out a crazy trick, and we manage to get all the water in the engines vaporized and the boats start running again.
I was honestly sure we were all about to sink there. The boat was definitely not built for storms and it was creaking like crazy. I love sailing but this was a bit over-the-top even for me.
On exercise in the North Atlantic, my previous submarine was dived. My current submarine was also dived, only much deeper. We passed directly below the other one. The cameras on the fin/sail/conning-tower picked her out.
Being dived in a submarine looking up at another submarine also dived and it being my old boat. So surreal! That image will stay with me forever.
At sunup, sailing from Portico Rico to Dominican Republic sailed through debris consisting of coolers, baby necessities and all that a family would need sailing the Caribbean. Whatever had happened ? Will never know.
"...from featuring Lauderdale." Thanks robot.
I heard "boy" and was genuinely freaked out. So I checked the text and to my relief it was buoy.
Garfield's plot against Nermal was successful! 😂😂😂😂😂
10:48 Some souls do that type of thing. If unclaimed(i.e. not sent to an afterlife or reincarnated, and not going to one they believe in) they just drift there, slowly fading away and doing things they would normally do if alive on loop untill they can't anymore. Poor guy still slept in his bunk...
Sleep well doggo
I'm a landlubber that enjoys a great sea story. I've never been to sea, but enjoyed a harbor tour, once. In college a classmate invited me to visit the Channel Islands, CA USA for an overnight fishing adventure in their twenty-six foot craft, me and two others, and I accepted with hope of adventure. This may be close to the mainland, but it was open ocean. Little did I know. Small craft advisory as we left the harbor at Ventura, daytime, with a choppy swell across the 20+ miles to San Miguel Island. At one point the boat was tossed clean out of the water and another we stopped for a craft towing a barge and the tipping and rocking on a boat not under way feels like you are going overboard! Once underway again, the mate offered me a swig from a bottle of wine and I looked at him as if he were crazy. "How can I drink with the boat pitching like this?" He said: "Hold the bottle to your lips and let the motion of the boat tip it into your throat". Worked perfectly; didn't spill a drop. Once we reached the lee of the Islands, the water was much calmer and my friends went diving and found a bunch of fish which we fried up. The starry night was a delight, and the return trip much calmer the next day. No matter what, ALWAYS take your seasickness pills! We did, and all that tossing and turning didn't phase us. For a teeny crossing, I've had enough 'Two Years Before the Mast' for my lifetime!
Regular people: years
Updoot Everything: ÿÆrs
If you’ve ever been to Key West finding a boat full of bondage porn probably isn’t something new around there
"trying to stay awake with Snickers and coffee." Switch 'coffee' with 'soda' and I've been there also.
Even after watching this I am still going out on the ocean. Can’t stay away from it.
Years ago my grandad and 3 mates capsized coming over the bar in greymouth new zealand, 2 of them flew out and got rescued straight away my grandad and one of his mates were trapped in an airpocket under the boat for 4-5 hours while they wernt sure if they were even alive. There is a news article of it on the internet somewhere i cant find it though was roughly 17 years ago.
More like what I didn't see. In the Navy stationed aboard a cruiser, roughly 600 ft long and over 10 ton ship, we were out in deep sea. Something runs across the bottom of the ship. Collided hard enough it shook the ship violently. No damage. Sonar picked up nothing. We never found out what hit us. Don't think any of us slept well that night.
We had to clear some freezer space of a guy with appendicitis in '85, the corpsman saved him and got a _Legion of Merit_ for it. On a sub of that era, the wardroom was the operating room.
I don’t think many people understand just how stupid and unbelievably huge the ocean is, we think because we can fly across in a day it’s not that big yet that’s not true.
To help put into perspective, there are ships that have been lost at sea for a hundred years, and are then miraculously found floating around a hundred years later completely abandoned and uncrewed, and then lost again to not be seen for another decade to century.
As to the first story:
Fill the dummy with chum to freak out the newbies 😜
YES good job Garfield for getting rid of that pest
I was waiting for someone to say that they had seen the Flying Dutchman cursed pirate ship emerging out of the surface.
The one where they found the floating life raft. That would disturb me for a while. Also the one where they found the Japanese refrigerator out by Oregon. That's insane!
Not a sailor myself, but I did sailing lessons for a week when I was about 12 or 14, so a few years ago. I have submechanophobia (fear of objects visible while submerged underwater, in my case specifically large, old looking objects, or anything that looks like a machine). I also have a fear of large, industrial/mechanical objects, especially rusted ones (Zeus knows why, I just kind of freeze in terror when I get close to them). So, me and my partner for that week were sailing pretty close past some old shipwrecks that were being used by the local government to form a breakwater. This in and of itself wouldn't be terrifying, but these ships were not only sizable, but covered in rust, holes, and barnacles. I was pretty freaked out and felt like my stomach had made a leap of faith into my throat.
I was on a crab boat that was sinking. Crazy shit happens out there
During my week long sailing exam, I was at the Helm (33ft) coming out of an extremely busy port. Skipper says don't look behind you, just give way. I move, but of course I look behind and the size of the ship behind me was genuinely unnerving. It was probably 20-30m (about 50ft) behind still, but it felt like I could touch it. Blocked out the sun and was the scariest part of the entire thing. It was scarier than the force 10 storm we sailed through on the last day or 2, where I spend 70% of my 6 hours at the helm with one foot on the handrail inches from the sea because of the angle our boat was at!
On a navy deployment to the med during the huge refugee migration I heard a man screaming in a panic voice on the VHF as you heard women screaming in the background. Didn't know the language and it was like 3am. When the translator was up there, nothing would happen but when he returned to bed it would start up again. Eventually it died out but the last transmission was heavy breathing, crying, into a mic.
Found out later a boat of about 100 people went down in the area, all died. I couldn't sleep for a few days, had to take some gravol to knock me out. I'll always remember the goosebumps I got hearing that and the WTF freakes out face of my partner as we looked at eachother in red light.
Emergency backup sextant, sounds really bad
I see watcha did there!
And yet very important.
I had one of those! My wife found out and divorced me.
That drug floating boat was the most scary.
This one time I was sailing I saw some kind of dark blob floating in the water. It was a huge chunk of ham. I managed to get hold of it and it turned out it had been soaked in rum. It had two pineapple slices for eyes.
Why was it not eaten? Did someone lose their last bit of sustenance while stranded at sea? Could there have been two survivors in a raft and now one of them had to kill the other with his toe knife and eat him?
I was very disturbed. Because of the implication.
11:30 was surprising because I literally just went on a vacation to Anna Maria island 2 months ago.
I am in BED on LAND, _why_ is this freaking me out
"Featuring Lauderdale"
0:33
*Me the actual owner:* Well I'll be damned.
They found your stash
"...captain is old school..."
No, captain is a captain and learned the right way. You NEVER depend on electronics only. Smh. So that means you learn to read charts...before you ever learn GPS.
If you have roaches on any kind of battle ship or cutter you’re supposed to pull back in to get rid of them
>"what scary stuff have you seen out at sea?"
>[half of the stories about funny moments & sight seeing]
Im leaving for a cruise ship in a week, thanks a lot.
GoldScarMaster coronavirus?
Cruise ships are even scarier now, a year later.
I was in the US Navy, a woman's voice came over an encrypted military only radio channel saying, "Hello.....Hello....Hello....?" For about 30 Seconds we heard this. 2 in the morning. All of us kept looking at each other, asking if they just heard what I just heard. Our battle group of 9 ships had no explanation.
KreigsMarine2, Could it have been someone on a boat that somehow got onto the same channel? Or did one of the female crew use the wrong channel?
@@paladinboyd1228 like I said, the radio channel was encrypted, only we in the Battle Group and those at NORAD and the Pentagon knew the codes. Meaning, that anyone without the encryption codes could not speak to or hear anyone clearly. Even if on the same radio frequency and the same encryption devices. It would come across as a garbled unintelligible mess of blurbs, pops with one to two words mixed in. And the voice did not appear to have an accent different to our American Navy speak. And "hello....hello..." is definitely not how US Navy ships talk to one another.
KreigsMarine2, My working theory was a small boat in distress, somehow got onto a military channel when sending a SOS. But since that is unlikely. Unless and pardon my lack of knowledge as I’m not Navy. The radio crew left the channel open without the encryption.
My other theory is someone on one of the ships was in trouble and called for help, dropping the normal language used on military channels.
Was there any reports of injury on the other ships?
@@paladinboyd1228 Nope, nothing. That's why I said the battle group was baffled.
KreigsMarine2, I’m out of reasonable theories and would suggest it was something more spooky.
"sleep well doggo"
Sleep well, doggo!
clicking on this i thought i would be some pirate ghosts and Kraken shit but i guess the ocean is scary enough with just the normal everyday stuff
Was 30 miles off the nc coast in a 45 foot boat with 3 friends saw a great white easily the size of our boat jet black like the night sky
Sleep well, doggo. Unlike me.
sleep well doggo. sleep well.
That marine talking about the rack being messed up like it was slept in must've served a long time ago. It's been 35 years since I was on a ship as a teenage jarhead. Anyway a few years ago there was a news report about a missing sailor that had been gone several months from his duty station aboard a carrier. The guy was later discovered and arrested when the ship returned to home port.
Aircraft carriers are large enough to stay hidden but I'm wondering how he was able to feed himself. It's not like he could scope out the fridge for a late snack
"Air craft carriers are big, could some one fake their death and get a way with it?" Yes.
Please, do elaborate... :)
Ya even after all this the ocean doesn’t scare me, no clue why but like the deep woods are a scarier thought to me.
I snuck into a private lake in my oneman boat.When the river rose you could get to it.I knew their was a 13ft alligator in the lake.I was in the back fishing the lilly pads.All of a sudden 1000 bubbles under my boat.I knew he was under me.I rushed to land and scared to get back in the water for hours.close call.
After the eruption of Krakatau in 1883, ship's captains and sailors would encounter floating rafts of pumice in the Indian Ocean. Many of these pumice rafts had human and animal remains on them -- victims of the eruption, and the massive tsunamis it generated in Java and Sumatra. Some of these rafts drifted as far as the east coast of Africa.
In the first story, how do they choose what dummy to throw overboard for the drill?
Maybe the guy in the ship was dead in the ship and his ghost was still there messing up the bed.
If you find the boat at sea , and nobody claims it you can take ownership of it ..right?
We saw the largest dark mass in the water. It was bigger than a whale and it was heading towards our ship. We sailed away and never saw it again. We later found out it was your *MOM.*
So moral is , don't go diving in wellington harbour
what? a ship is gon killin me, oh its just da moon.
9:20 “I can’t believe the body wasn’t at least put into a body bag.”
Do they even carry body bags on submarines?
yes.
even if they don't, surely they can at least cover his face with something ?
They have small morgues. If they run out of room, they use the kitchen freezers. The cooks have to cook everything they can.
I had the midwatch (0;00-04'00) in the Indian Ocean many years ago. The bio luminescence was amazing. Imagine lime green water from horizon to horizon in every direction.. You can't, can you? I couldn't, either, until I saw it.
The ocean is creepy enough by itself
This video just ended my sailing career before it even began.
Also, sleep well doggo
I was on a cruise ship.Woke up at 3am,The big mirror in my room had a big wooden surround.The wooden surround glowed bright blue!But not the glass!Just the wood!!!