Former US Navy officer here. I took an Arleigh Burke destroyer through a category 3 hurricane. It was simultaneously the most memorable and least pleasant experience of my life.
My grandad was in the merchant navy ww2 got sunk in the Irish sea oil and fuel in the water damaged his voice box it was hard to understand him as kid my mom used to tell me what he said. Stay safe my friend
Spent 20 years in the Navy. Most of the swells in this video are pretty common fare in storms at sea. I've seen far bigger. We went thru a class 5 super-typhoon between Hong Kong & Singapore once. The bow of the ship dipped under the water so frequently we felt like a submarine. I remember being on the bridge and hitting one swell so hard (or it hit us so hard) that part of the metal railing broke off and went flying past the bridge wing. But the REAL scary part of a storm happens below-decks, under the waterline, where most of the berthing & engineering spaces are. Some waves hit so hard you'd swear a whale ran into the side of the ship, right next to your bed (rack). You learn to sleep thru it. Sort of. Fun times. Glad to be retired :)
It also makes you realise how tough & strong the Vikings were to have sailed so many times from Scandinavia to Northumberland across the North Sea in their longboats Its a tribute to their magnificent boat making skills & craftsmanship along with expert navigating & sailing too. Id be terrified to meet those waves & the sheer freezing conditions in just a Longship They must have been mighty Men indeed.
@@abilitytrax I was watching to see some action out in the ocean and had to mute it. The guy thinks the video is all about him and clearly loves the sound of his own voice. No, don't think I will be visiting "all his videos."
@@lemokolyonI read that Jesus tok advantage of the high salt content, using Wim Hoff's breathing technique in order to affect the buoyancy of the body.
It's incredible too me that these super long tankers can withstand the stresses of being tossed around without breaking in half. The engineering that can design something that big without it failing in these conditions is amazing.
the magic here is flexibility. If ships were stiff they just would break in half. Maybe you'd have the opportunity to see a video of a ship looking from stern to bow while in big weather then you'd see how the structure is bending and warping.
It has actually happened many times that long tankers snaps in half, search it on TH-cam and you will see, it looks so insane when you se the front just flopping around.
One of my biggest disaster fears is being on a boat/ship during bad weather with massive waves. The thought of it is so frightening to me I almost consider it a phobia
Je n'aime pas les océans car ils me font très peur .j'imagine que si un jour je devais me trouver sur un bateau au milieu d'une telle tempête avec d'aussi monstrueuses et effrayantes vagues,je mourrais très certainement d'un infarctus !!!
I don’t fear the see at all not matters how bad it is but suffer badly with sea sick. Maybe is my Portuguese blood and have Nazaré as my home. Now… my biggest phobia is flaying and I shake badly only to look at the airplane.
I rarely add any comments but I have to say, as a sailor, this video is very well done. Thank you for leaving the videos in-tact and for NOT adding stupid music or annoying "trying to act cool" narration. Makes me want to go check out your other videos too! And thank you to the guys who have shared their stories in the comments below. Brings back a lot of memories for me. I SO wish we had these fancy camera phones when I was out there... Imagine all the great stuff we could have captured on film, "back in the day", before the lawyers, bankers, etc, made us less likely to say 'screw the weather' [report] and just go for it. When I was young, I just assumed I would die out there. Again, great work and thank you for sharing these clips!
I am surprised that, as a sailor, you are swallowing this oversold vidoe. The quality is good, but there is nothing coming close to monster waves in it.
The last ship, Was the only one that was in the most DANGER. I know this for a fact. I’m a retired US Merchant Marine Captain. Graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy, class of 74. This ship was taking easily, 40 to 48 degree rolls. Which is damn well dangerous of going over to far, and not coming back, from the roll. Going right on over!!!
As a guy who works on a pelagic trawler, fishing in the north sea, I agree. All the other boats were "nosing" the storm, I was on a boat once were the 60 meter boat rolled on its side, and another time on a different all the windows in the galley were smashed by a wave and we had to weld steel over it to cover the broken windows, and literally on the next watch another wave hit the port side, and the entire Hull was bent inwards, when we came to land to inspect it, it looked like the incredible hulk threw a truck at the boat
@@michaeldodge7253 maybe... but its not about the power its the position, the waves are hitting the side of the boat rocking it, he would need to turn the boat to face the waves or have them behind him, problem is.. thats a long boat and its going to be hard to turn, and even harder when the waves are already slamming its side, and then if you are facing the waves head on, you don't want to be using max power either, because you'll basically be ramping the boat like a car on jumps, you could destroy the boat
That tsunami one was a bit haunting. Just seeing it on the horizon, going over it like it was nothing, knowing that if it hit the coast it'd cause untold amounts of damage, spooky.
The thing that makes the tsunami so destructive, is not the height of the wave at sea, but the length of it. When it approaches land the ground slopes upward, making the wave build with all that force behind it. If you were 20 miles out at sea in the 2004 tsunami, it would have seemed something like what we saw here on camera.. But when it comes to land…
It's truly amazing that these oil rigs are just out there in the oceans, subjected to salt water, storms, and waves, yet they still rarely cause any trouble. Sure, every once in a while you hear about an oil spill, but given the number of oil rigs around the world, I really applaude the engineers and scientists who made them so reliable and sturdy.
They are quite impressive, but don't minimize the utter devastation that happens when there is an oil spill. Oil companies have an immense amount of wealth. With that wealth, they will do whatever they can to protect their interests.
Oil spills also aren't "once in a while," there are dozens of oil spills every year, you just don't hear about them because the media doesn't care. Even besides spills, just the very presence of oil rigs cause a lot of havoc to marine life and birds. They're impressive from an engineering perspective, sure, but they absolutely do cause a huge amount of trouble and are super damaging to the environment.
@@lula-kester I'm not minimizing anything. You missed the point of my comment. We all know how bad oil spills are. Let's for ONCE appreciate the staff responsible for preventing that.
@@rosie8059 dozens a year is still not a lot, considering there are thousands of oil rigs. You also missed my point. We all know that they are damaging, so let's appreciate the workers responsible for preventing these catastrophies.
I have tsunami dreams a bit too. Same with my twin and mom. Actually my brother and I share the same reoccurring dreams all the time, my mom has some similar ones. I think a lot of us share similar dream patterns.
@@eumemo6059 I had one where sun burnt out and the entire skit was filling with the huge grey ash tentacle things, like the snake firework but coming down to earth. It was scary af.
I'm the complete opposite lol. I was on a cruise down to Bermuda from NJ in 2017 and we were going through a hurricane (whichever one wrecked Bermuda that year). Though the destruction to the island was sad and terrible, sailing through it was the best time of my life. There is so much power that the Ocean has and that God has given to nature. Though there were times when things got scary I was happy and having a good time all the way through. I knew it was nothing the ship couldn't take as it was one of the biggest in the world at the time...famous last words right?... but it was incredible. Life really is about realizing how small and out of control we actually are yet finding comfort in the fact that all that we can do is control our own emotions. Maybe I should go sail full time lol
Indeed. The Polynesians navigated vast distances in small out-riggers. I always found that incredibly impressive. What courage. What desire it must have taken.
the north Sea is very shallow, sometimes as much as 30 feet deep, so the waves can be extraordinarily high and for long distances . 100ft waves are common out there, and it shows how the Vikings and later North sea nations managed to conquer the world
There used to be a big island there called Doggerland (well, it's called that retrospectively). Dredgers find animal bones, petrified logs, even spear-tips! It was destroyed by a huge tsunami around 8000 years ago, created by an undersea landslide after ice-age thawing.
@@worldcomicsreview354 Interesting. I imagined the water would just recede or something. I read that the Dutch had a storm tide in 1287 that permanently changed the geography of the Netherlands and killed 50-80,000 people. Plenty of villages were swallowed up by the North Sea.
Bass Strait off the mainland Australian coast and Tasmania is the Southern Hamisphere's equal to the North sea. Two great oceans also meet on a shallow shelf there also. There is the occasional footage of Australian naval vessels going through Bass Strait and the waves are massive because like the North Sea, the Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea meet on a relatively shallow rock shelf. It's also where Australia's most famous UFO incident happened. A pilot flying a Cessna plane claims he saw a stange metallic, disc shaped object with a green light above him. It was circling above his plane and the pilot, Frederick Valentich alleged that it was NOT a conventional plane. The pilot Frederick Valentich was never seen or heard from again. A massive sea and air sesrch failed to find any debris. There is a radio transcript of what happened somewhere on You Tube. NOTE A lot of BS has been written about Valentich alleging he was a "UFO fanatic or nutcase. " This is untrue. His father was interviewed a few years back and said like most males aged 8 to 28, Fred was into Star Wars which was still playing in Australian cinemas in 1978. Hardly qualifies anyone as a UFO fanatic.
Seeing that tsunami wave and how it approached that ship was one of the most surreal and incredible pieces of footage I have ever seen.. to see that devastating force of nature and how it looks out in open water was incredible. I must've watched it for or five times. That is something truly rare and special to capture on film and makes me grasp just how devastating something like that can be. Imagine how many gallons of water are being forcibly pushed in that clip. Absolutely unreal.
I'm 61,Many Friends And Relatives Frequently Go On Cruises.I Will Not Go!! I Dreamed Of A Rouge Ways Years Ago,Couldn't Pay Me To Get On A Cruise Ship.
The North Sea is unbelievably rough, being on board a ship sailing these routes can be a unpleasant experience if you don't have good sea legs. I've done a few city breaks from England to Holland, Denmark and Germany and I can confirm that the waves are chuffing enormous!
Defo. My ex-boyfriend worked on a rig in the North Sea. When communications were still operating, he would send me live videos of the waves--and the sounds the rig made while being battered like that! Omg. I don't know how he did it.
I guess you’ve never been in a force 12 off the west coast of Ireland. Milford Haven to the River Shannon should take about 36/38 hours. February 2005 it took us 5 days. Including 2 days hove too off the Fastnet.🤮
A rogue wave sunk my grandfather's minesweeper (YMS-421) off Okinawa in 1945. I cannot imagine what it must have been like fighting a storm like that, and even more so, the terror of having your ship go down...
Did your GF survive? A YMS class minesweeper is a pretty small ship (136ft, 270 tons) to be on in a typhoon. I think they only carried two or three small life rafts.
@@vm-snss4910 He did! But not all were as lucky. We have the original report, which describes: "Four miles off the coast of Bucknor Bay entrance, one particularly large sea swept over the forecastle, bending the metal jackstaff, and smashed through the port side of the forward bulkhead of the pilot house, wrenching the steel wheel off its stand and injuring the helmsman. The binnacle on the flying bridge was torn apart, and personnel on the flying bridge were thrown violently...[the] large wave washed many men overboard and a few seconds later another rolled the ship over on her port side. Survivors have established that the ship rolled over twice in the next few minutes and then sank bow first. No records were able to be saved...Eleven men of the YMS-421 and thirty-two survivors from other ships owe their lives to the seamanship and spirit of the commanding officer of LSM-391, Lt. H.A.Libaire, who spent over thirty-six hours on his bridge saving survivors in darkness from the water at the height of the typhoon."
Having been an RNLI volunteer crewman for years and based at a North Sea facing station, going out in very heavy seas is both exhilarating and scary in equal measures! Although the conditions are not always like that, sometimes its just beautiful. If anyone is thinking of joining us as lifeboat crew, shore crew or anything else, I would absolutely say go for it, it is the best thing I have ever done and love it! Also, and much more importantly, you get to help people and save lives. There's not much better than that.
Spent 6 years on a small destroyer and went through several typhoons. Plowed through the Bering Sea around the Aleutians in winter. I'm here to tell you only a few shown in this video come close. It's difficult to put into words the misery and fear that goes on for days when the sea turns the minutes to hours.
I've been through this a few times, and I don't ever want to go through them again... 45deg leaning ships either going up or down the waves is not fun. Other than your stomach felt like doing somersault, the floor is doing see-saw, puking air since you already lost everything you've eaten before, and you got your life jacket strap-in. All the open sea training goes out of your mind and you feel completely blank. Normally when working on an oil rig, when bad weather is forecasted, no travelling back and forth between rigs and FPSO will be done. But sometimes, weather just turn a nasty trick on you, and you're caught in the middle of such transportation.
My father was a oil and ship man he told me story after story. Today he is 82 and I have much respect and love for what he had too go through just to feed and take care of his family. I respect all people who work on the water.
@@jakemocci3953 Tsunami aren't really measured by how tall they are, but the amount of force behind them. There are plenty of videos showing Tsunami reaching miles inland and leaving nothing in their wake.
The images of the oil rig (#4) reminded me of what my father went through back in 1965. Dad (Don Gillespie) was under contract with Shell Oil and was a diesel engineer. He was stationed in The Netherlands while a drilling rig (Transworld 58) was being built and helped in its construction. It was a large, semi-submersible rig and upon completion, the rig was connected to the world's largest ocean-going tug boat (a Dutch ship) for it's voyage to Angola, Africa (where it would eventually drill for oil off the coast of Province of Cabinda). Dad was on the rig from the time it left Rotterdam along with a small crew to make sure everything stayed lashed down and tight for the voyage. He was an old US Navy man that served in the So. Pacific in WWII on a mine sweeper so he was not unfamiliar with bobbing around in the water like a top but they hit one of those big storms in the North Sea and he said it almost tore the drilling rig in half. At one point, he was going between buildings on the deck and was almost washed overboard, fell and broke his arm but he stayed on deck. After a few days, they finally made it out of the North Sea and had a fairly uneventful cruise down to Dakar, Senegal where they had to put in for repairs which took a few weeks. They eventually made it to Angola (at the time it was a colony of Portugal) where the Dutch were in a hurry to disconnect from the rig and get out of Angolan waters. This was because there were about 400 years of bad blood between the Dutch and the Portuguese over the possession of Angola. Dad thought it was amusing how the Dutch were behaving in their haste to get out of there. A side note, my mother and I eventually joined my father in Angola and lived in Luanda for a year, a great experience for a 15 year old.
Are you all dense or something? There were many times my dad would recount things about his life on his ranch in Colorado (and in the army during WWII). So stories are told about our parents meaningful events while sitting around. Kinda sad you were too busy.
I was in the US Navy in the early 70s. We went through a category 5 typhoon that was one of the largest storms in history outside of Hong Kong. It took four days to ride out this storm. The waves were enormous. The waves in this video are not nearly as large or scary. I wish I had video footage of it.
Someone made a similar comment, Sir. Part of the same crew maybe. You both had a terrifying and cool experience, Sir. I can't imagine what it's like to sail on such terrible weather condition.
Most people think of water as some soft light splishy splashy thing. It is heavy and hard as stone at these levels. It will crush you, toss you around like youre nothing. Respect it.
Rogue waves are the scariest part of sailing. I was serving on an aircraft carrier back in 04. And we got hit by a rogue wave. Killed a sailor and did some structural damage to the ship. It just came out of nowhere.
Thank you for your service, and I'm sorry to hear about one of your crewmen dying. That's crazy, just out of nowhere and then suddenly everything goes to hell. Life in the military, it's the way it goes sometimes.
If it's not too much to ask but was the sailor who died in this case on the deck of this ship and that was the cause of their death or were they inside the ship and got tossed around and died on account of that instead?
Ok, now you KNOW that those waves pounding that oil rig have to be insanely powerful. Those oil rigs usually weigh thousands of tons, and for it to be bouncing around like that, that's just insane. No way in hell could you get me to be on one of those during an intense storm like that, and all this time I thought oil rigs were stationary, and that they didn't move, wow!
I don’t know man…. I’ve seen 40-50+ footers crashing on shore and over a barrier island…. I can only say it’s absolutely horrifying. Even knowing your completely safe from it, just witnessing it gives you ENORMOUS RESPECT for the power of wind and water….
This footage is absolutely terrifying. 🌊💔 The sheer size and power of these monster waves are both awe-inspiring and deeply frightening. My heart goes out to everyone who has experienced such dangerous conditions. It's a powerful reminder of the unpredictable and destructive force of the ocean. Stay safe, everyone. 🌪⛈
I'm a trawler deckhand & I can tell u best thing to do (where possable) nose into waves but the downside is if the next set is super close u run the risk of being swamped front on. Turning to the side or going stern (rear) first is the worst thing u can do. We've been side on to huge wave due to the gear being on the bottom I can tell u it's scary when the trawl boom goes half under water & the other side is basicly straight up in the air. Great rush though.
@@davidfreud9188 unless its a freak wave hits and piles on top of you with enough mass to sink you in a oner. But i think these are mostly found off southern africa and Arctic.
My dad said that when on a ship crossing the English Channel during WWll, he was alone on deck watching the storm, which he always liked to do, saw a wave was going to crash over the whole ship, made it to the door, and barely got in and shut the door.
Wavemaster1 youtube channel (rescue ship that opperates on north sea) has some of the best footage i have seen (better than the clip theyve show on here)
Former Dutch Navy here, and I can confirm some of the stories below. We went through a flying storm west of Scotland in 1982. Waves like an apartment building. The next morning parts of the railing and several life jackets disappeared. I was more impressed than afraid. But when I heard the old and the skipper talking, I knew better. This was a special experience.
Gotta love the attitudes of the search and rescue guys. At 5:44 (ish) they go over the top of a huge wave with a massive splash over. The only reaction seems to be the captain casually hitting the "mist" button for the wipers a few seconds later. Legendary.
As I write this I am sitting at the wheelhouse of a 55 ft. Crab boat in Newport Oregon. I'm a well seasoned commercial fisherman and I have seen a lot of things similar to these situations. It's important that the crew is well trained for these types of situations. I've been in the Gulf of Mexico while stuck in a hurricane yet I'm still here. I've been on boats that were sinking and yet I'm still here. I thank my Guardian Angel for all of that but still keep on fishing!
I work in the gulf, I’m an engineer on a crew boat and I’m a captain in training. We once were passing the Mississippi delta area heading to an are south of Alabama and he fell off rouge wave during a storm, the water came thru our anchor holes and hit our rope locker so hard that the lid to the locker tore completely off, it literally tore the welds at the seams and the 120 pound lid flew up and landed on the bridge catwalk. Fucking terrifying yet awesome.
Former merchant marine engineer here. I went through indian ocean, pacific, atlantic, through typhoons around Taiwan, we leaned up to 42 degrees. I slept like a child. The best part of the story is: i work in the port now, sleep home every night. Life is great. But memories keep turning back. 😎❤
Yep We film some of the largest waves ever caught on camera. We work with 2 North Sea oil platforms that can accurately measure wave height so no guessing or exaggeration. Enjoy 🌊🌊 th-cam.com/play/PLG-lkGl9kpwSEoYG5fJ3pwqVNZaDivv7z.html And Meet the Crew th-cam.com/video/O8Kdw2b9cEQ/w-d-xo.html
The tsunami footage was unreal. I took a class on pacific rim natural disasters in college and tsunamis were one of the things we covered. It was the coolest class and I learned so much valuable info about volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, etc. I’ve never seen a tsunami at sea coming in like that. Holy smokes how scary!! The entire horizon is elevated and coming at you….and you know wherever it hits landfall it’s gonna destroy everything. That was incredible and terrifying.
No they aren't they are specifically standing by drilling rigs and platforms in case of an emergency. The narration is also incorrect. Most installations in the North sea are fixed to the sea bed. There are relatively few floating production platforms. There are quite a few Semi Submersible rigs which do float and are remarkably comfortable compared to ships in a storm.
what an amazing compilation! the power of nature is truly breathtaking. but honestly, i wonder if capturing these monster waves on camera is more about thrill-seeking than respecting the ocean's wildness. sometimes, it feels like we’re chasing danger for views instead of appreciating its beauty from a safe distance.
Spent 30 years in Merchant Marine on tankers primarily in the Gulf of Alaska. Largest waves I were well over a hundred feet with swells from numerous directions in Cat 5 winds near 160 mph. Some in loaded conditions and some in ballast in ships from 700' to 1000' length. Not fun at the time but I have to admit, I sometimes miss those days.
Did it for 10 years on the ships built for the Canal so got both the Gulf of Alaska and also off of Cape Hatteras so had my life jacket under my bunk many times and loved seeing the sheer power of mother nature. Supposed to go 400 miles in a day and end up going backwards 40! Now that was a ride!!!!
Me too I sailed mostly on tankers in the N.M.U. going from the Alesska Terminal in Valdez to P.T.P. in Porto Arrmulles in Panama. I know I didn't spell those two places correctly but I'm too lazy to look up the correct spelling right now. The last ship I was on the BT San Diego, the rudder stock sheared completely in two. After drifting 12 days we finally hooked up to two tugs and were towed in to Southwest Marine Shipyard in San Pedro While the ship was in the yard the city of L.A. contacted me about an application I had filled out earlier I went for the interview and was hired. I had 13 years in the Union then,I worked for the city for 28 years retiring a couple years ago. My time shipping out in the Merchant Marines was the best time of my life I loved it and would have never quit if the bottom didn't fall out of the American Merchant Marine.
Great footage. The oil rig situation would really freak me out. Unlike a ship, wherein you might be able to execute some sort of a maneuver to avoid disaster, the oil rig platform is strictly at the whim of the waves! As for the rescue ships; I can’t imagine how they could actually help or rescue any other ship in peril, as both ships would be being tossed by those huge waves! Thanks for this video!
Yes but if the ships engines fail then they cant keep facing the wave and will get hit side on. A rig is built for those waves and will survive, there was a website that lists lost ships, big ships too, it happens all the time, especially where a firm is not spending money on maintenance or have an old ship ready for the scrap yard. The oil industry always has the money to invest. However if you’re helicoptering out then things can get interesting, even with 2 engines. Plenty of icing opportunities.
20m is a fairly common occurrence in the North Sea, I've experienced 28m waves there myself, so all rigs are built for this. As for the rescue ships they mostly pick people up from the sea in the sort of weather we see here and as you could see from the videos they are very stable (relatively speaking)
Just go around Cape Horn, pretty much any time of year for massive waves! I was on the USS TEXAS CGN-39 back in 1983 when we transited below southern Australia in the Roaring Forties and had the worst seas I ever experienced. We literally had to use the walls to walk the ship was rolling so much. One foot on the floor the next one on the wall, another step on the floor the next one on the other wall, it was crazy. At one point we did a 53 degree roll, which was marked on the inclinometer and was never beaten. Every now and then we would maneuver to be in following seas so we could go topside. It was an amazing thing to see as the ship was surrounded by WATER higher than our bridge. The waves around us were huge some I believe were taller than the ship. Get some videos of that!
My grandfather sailed on the last merchant windship to go around the cape. He did it many times on other ships too. He had some crazy scary stories. They used to get badges every time they sailed round the cape , not sure if it was just the winships or not. My nan has them on her wall still. Hed be 98 if he was alive still.
The tsunami video is SO surreal! I lived in Japan and my family and I were at home during the tsunami- it didn’t hit the part of the island we lived on but the earthquakes were horrifying and I remember every second. We moved to the states only days after.
I've sailed the north sea with a rescue ship when i was younger. I remember how i was often totally exhausted from just trying to stand up or walk around to do my work. Being thrown around for days takes a lot of you physically and mentally.
Imagine the Vikings crossing the North Sea [or German Sea as it was called] in these storms.Also the Murmansk convoys in WW2 as portrayed in the excellent book "HMS Ulysses" by Alasdair MacLean.
@@favJ-qq2ef if they managed to reach Iceland and the coasts of canada in tiny wooden ships sailing through the worlds roughest ocean, its that some of them did
The vikings sailed frequently across to “Vikingsland”. Renamed Americas . Columbus is rumoured to have used Viking sailing /fishing charts to go and “ discover” America !
@@Xkh514Nope, rogue waves are incredibly rare. The vast majority of ships did not encounter them. There’s a reason that the existence of rogue waves wasn’t confirmed until 1995
To survive, they needed to avoid the winter storms off the coast of Norway. This is still true today, if in a small open boat during a winter storm, you in very serious trouble.
@@stylekat ahh the "woke" card. I present a perfectly valid concern that doesn't mesh with the boomer and capitalist mindset so you play the "woke" card to try and undermine the comment. Textbook and classic.
@@6xCamox9 Sorry, not even close. You commented on this to let everyone know how much you care about people, guess what, no one care. Oh, & you singling out the distinction between life & property was pointless because he literally said thousands died... so all you did was virtue signal... again... no one cares. Rather than commenting pointlessly on a youtube clip, maybe you could donate some time or money to rebuilding efforts of tsunami disasters... but again... keep it to yourself because no one cares.
@@stylekat LOLOLOL he thinks his opinion matters to me. Dude idc about whatever baggage you're working on. I'm glad you think I'm stupid. It means I'm absolutely correct. Time will prove me correct anyway. Enjoy rotting in hell, kiddo
This is the most terrifying experience ever!!! The ocean is sooooooo huge and waves are extremely dangerous!!!! Any brave soul that goes out and deals with this has my respect because I can’t! I don’t see the thrill of being out there! There’s not enough money in the world that would make me face this experience lol but I do appreciate them taking these risk so that we can experience them some kind of way! I do love the ocean and it’s very beautiful and terrifying and very interesting!
As a former retired navy vet... I have had my share of riding through hurricanes and tsunamis. I have lost count on how many hurricanes and tsunamis I have been through... However the worst was in 1992 in Hawaii. That horrible hurricane was the worst to hit the islands. It destroyed the island of Kauai. I was on a helo carrier then and doing 45 to 55 degree rolls from side to side and backwards and forwards...
Even these videos don't do it justice. The waves hitting that oil rig were massive, but in the video it's hard to see the true scope of it, without having a good sense of just how big those rigs are.
believe it or not the largest ever wave was 1720 feet tall, thats just over 500 metres, taller than most skyscrapers, was a result of many millions of cubic meters of land mass slid down from a high distance, i think 3000 feet (which is near enough as tall as the burj)
The islands I come from we deal with the Warm sea currents and the artic currents, it can make pretty messed up waves at shore. When you as a kid see the ocean drag boulders that weight a house into the shore you know it's something not to mess with.
I live on a beach. I have been through hurricanes 🌀. I have swam in large waves.i have been on boats. I adore the Gulf,the ocean and have tremendous respect for its beauty and massive power.
Incredible that the European explorers braved these waters with no modern navigation and just a wooden ship and a crew. Most did not make it and this is why. Human courage and ingenuity is really an incredible I’ll always marvel at.
We experienced ‘moderate’ seas last year in the Bay of Biscay onboard a cruise ship, but it was nothing in comparison to some of these clips - absolutely remarkable!
Hi it do get horrible between the UK and France the bay of biscay you must of left or arrived at Southampton lol I guess you ain't been across both sides of the Atlantic pacific in cruise ship we do trust them ships new ones ok but older ones get me worried
The Bay of Biscay holds a tragic memory for me ... Many years ago, now almost in decades, an acquaintance of mine was offered a trip, from England, to the Mediterranean, on, iirc, his father-in-law's small sailing yaught, along with his Brother-in-Law. At the time he was only in his early 20's, but even I knew that, him having no sailing experience, made him a liability, as even I knew how rough seas can get, especially in certain parts of the North Sea/Atlantic ... He went anyway, despite other people telling him not to, as well. Sadly, it came as no surprise (abet still shocking ...) that the yaught all three were on, disappeared around the Bay of Biscay. An Air/Sea Rescue search was launched, but all that was spotted was one of those inflatable life rafts, except floating inverted. No other wreckage was found. I've been to many a funeral service, and even burials - not least my kind mum's, nearly 2 years ago - but few haunts me as much as that service/memorial for him, essentially a funeral, with no coffin. I asked an uncle of mine, whom, amongst many things, did time, as an engineer, on a Ore-Bulk-Oil (OBO) ship, which are pretty damn big (70,000 - 180,000 t DWT is about the normal range, with lengths easily over 820ft). When I told him about my friend, he described a storm he experienced, in roughly the same area, on a OBO, of about 90,000t DWT, in which he described as being like "being tossed around like a toy boat in a bathtub", and how close he came to being violently sea-sick. Given the size of waves he was describing (not least the green water was being sent over the bow), it wasn't surprising that Adam simply disappeared, without trace ... it literally felt like he stepped off into the void, never to return ...
@@nigelft Wow - so sorry to hear about your friend - a very chilling story. I did realise during our one 'rough' night that the sea has got SUCH power behind it. Stay safe!
The cruise ship people were terrified and feared for their life. In the Navy we called it Tuesday. I have pictures of 60 ft waves that we hit on the USS Grand Canyon in the North Atlantic in late March before we went to condition zebra and shut everything down as it was getting worse. There was a tiny minesweeper next to us that would actually disappear when the waves hit. Excellent ride.
I was on the Queen Elizabeth 2 back in the day. And in the Irish Sea there were almost 30 ft swells and I have never been on a ship that got thrown around as bad as that! The ship was locked down and everyone was sick. I'll never forget that
I was in one (more than one) worse than this in the USN in the 90s. I believe it was '97 we were near Australia's east coast but still considerably out to sea... and going through a hurricane (Georgez? sp). The flight deck was 70' above the water line and the waves were routinely going 30 or 40 feet over it. One night about midnight we caught a sideways wave that tipped us beyond 45 degrees. Luckily almost everyone was in the bunks or secured because only one guy got hurt (broken arm). Two helos came loose in the hangar bay and rolled round a while. Somewhat humorously (in retrospect) the journalists had a brand new large printer capable of producing books and stuff automated. They were very proud of it... but none one welded it to the deck or bolted it soo... it goes crashing through false bulkhead and got smashed up. It was so crazy. You could time it right and just fly up like 30 stairs in a second because of pitch changes.
Spent a few years at Sea when I was young, 16-19 as a fisherman saw some large waves probably nothing like what the Navy lads see, waves are relative to the size of the ship you are in. Big waves like that in a 50ft fishing boat yeah not a fun time. You get moved like you are surfing them rather then sailing on them. We went deep sea in the Indian Ocean and I’ve experienced moderately rough in Bass strait and the Pacific. The sea has my respect. She can be a beast.
Will never forget staring out at the North Sea from the lighthouse in Berwick Upon Tweed, and seeing the tiny lights of ships in the distance. You can absolutely sense how terrifying it can be out there, and the comments from all these naval officers and fishermen saying "meh, I've seen worse" confirms it. Good lord!
Oh yes, the North Sea can be brutal. I live on the North Sea coast and grew up in the region. When I was a kid, we were on the beautiful island of Borkum on a sunny day and when we came back to the harbor from the middle of the island, the sea was quite choppy, and we were looking at a black wall in the distance. The captain of the ferry made the announcement that there might be some rocking and apologized for that, but it was the last ferry of the day. We drove into a violent summer thunderstorm and were really shaken violently. A lot of people threw up and so did the ship smell. Apparently I inherited my grandfather's sailor genes (he and almost all great uncles were in the merchant navy) - I was fine, I was a naive kid and thought it was a lot of fun. Within sight of the mainland port, the thunderstorm was suddenly over, and we sailed in with bright sunshine.
Former US Navy officer here. I took an Arleigh Burke destroyer through a category 3 hurricane. It was simultaneously the most memorable and least pleasant experience of my life.
i cannot imagine that. hats off to you!!
Wow crazy, thank you for your service.
My grandad was in the merchant navy ww2 got sunk in the Irish sea oil and fuel in the water damaged his voice box it was hard to understand him as kid my mom used to tell me what he said. Stay safe my friend
Really HEAVY
No you never mate. Nobody cares you were in the navy either. Your a lying nobody
Spent 20 years in the Navy. Most of the swells in this video are pretty common fare in storms at sea. I've seen far bigger. We went thru a class 5 super-typhoon between Hong Kong & Singapore once. The bow of the ship dipped under the water so frequently we felt like a submarine. I remember being on the bridge and hitting one swell so hard (or it hit us so hard) that part of the metal railing broke off and went flying past the bridge wing. But the REAL scary part of a storm happens below-decks, under the waterline, where most of the berthing & engineering spaces are. Some waves hit so hard you'd swear a whale ran into the side of the ship, right next to your bed (rack). You learn to sleep thru it. Sort of. Fun times. Glad to be retired :)
Crazy
Sounds scary. I would be sick and worried.
A category 5 super typhoon?
No thanks buddy thanks for that advice. I’m not taking that job
Semper fi
Wow. I could never imagine something so terrifying in my life. You deserve that retirement my friend. Every second of it.
Let's applaud the engineers designing these ships that don't break when repeatedly slamming down from the crests of 4-story high waves!
Absolutely Right. It is a biggest appreciation to the engineers building these vessels!!!
I'm sure scientists deserve some credits too 😉
Like the Edmund Fitzgerald? Sometimes the engineering isn’t enough.
@@chrisc9611 yeah, but given the thousands of ships that are fine their entire lives, I think the engineering works pretty well.
And the crews!
It also makes you realise how tough & strong the Vikings were to have sailed so many times from Scandinavia to Northumberland across the North Sea in their longboats
Its a tribute to their magnificent boat making skills & craftsmanship along with expert navigating & sailing too.
Id be terrified to meet those waves & the sheer freezing conditions in just a Longship
They must have been mighty
Men indeed.
There's no doubt that many ships and people were lost. That's just the way it was/is.
Yes, many of those ships sank of course.
To an extent. But the boats ride the waves differently and relative to their size.
The trick is to keep the head into the waves. With just sailing/crewhandling skills and manpower
@@Mach210 Does that need to be stated? It seems pretty obvious.
Very good narration, no silly music and no excessive talk, just the facts clearly told. Excellent video.
You kidding? His voice was super annoying and spoke way too long. I'm not here to listen to some guy talk.
@@powerplay.556 then you're here
@@powerplay.556 so why you watching he does all his videos in this way
Sounds silly to me just leave if you don’t enjoy the content
Man U out here sounding like my teacher
@@abilitytrax I was watching to see some action out in the ocean and had to mute it. The guy thinks the video is all about him and clearly loves the sound of his own voice. No, don't think I will be visiting "all his videos."
It's absolutely amazing that humans back in the 1400's were able to sail a little wooden ship across the Atlantic Ocean!
Jesus walked across it
Jésus walked upon the Dead Sea, it is not said he crossed a North Atlantic storm.
Even more impressive that Polynesians crossed an even larger ocean (Pacific) in tiny Canoes a thousand years before that
@@lemokolyon he did actually I seen the video of it
@@lemokolyonI read that Jesus tok advantage of the high salt content, using Wim Hoff's breathing technique in order to affect the buoyancy of the body.
It's incredible too me that these super long tankers can withstand the stresses of being tossed around without breaking in half. The engineering that can design something that big without it failing in these conditions is amazing.
I agree. Amazed they don't snap in half.
Right? Imagine the wooden ships vack in the old days when the world was still being explored... amazing
the magic here is flexibility. If ships were stiff they just would break in half. Maybe you'd have the opportunity to see a video of a ship looking from stern to bow while in big weather then you'd see how the structure is bending and warping.
@@eagle1de227 exactly especially on a tanker when your in ballast!!!
It has actually happened many times that long tankers snaps in half, search it on TH-cam and you will see, it looks so insane when you se the front just flopping around.
One of my biggest disaster fears is being on a boat/ship during bad weather with massive waves. The thought of it is so frightening to me I almost consider it a phobia
Same!.
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Je n'aime pas les océans car ils me font très peur .j'imagine que si un jour je devais me trouver sur un bateau au milieu d'une telle tempête avec d'aussi monstrueuses et effrayantes vagues,je mourrais très certainement d'un infarctus !!!
I don’t fear the see at all not matters how bad it is but suffer badly with sea sick. Maybe is my Portuguese blood and have Nazaré as my home. Now… my biggest phobia is flaying and I shake badly only to look at the airplane.
Thalassophobia
I rarely add any comments but I have to say, as a sailor, this video is very well done. Thank you for leaving the videos in-tact and for NOT adding stupid music or annoying "trying to act cool" narration. Makes me want to go check out your other videos too! And thank you to the guys who have shared their stories in the comments below. Brings back a lot of memories for me. I SO wish we had these fancy camera phones when I was out there... Imagine all the great stuff we could have captured on film, "back in the day", before the lawyers, bankers, etc, made us less likely to say 'screw the weather' [report] and just go for it. When I was young, I just assumed I would die out there. Again, great work and thank you for sharing these clips!
0 REPLIES?!?? Dang
It must be rough though
What else happened out there?
I am surprised that, as a sailor, you are swallowing this oversold vidoe. The quality is good, but there is nothing coming close to monster waves in it.
@@dantemeru898it’s monster waves to normal ppl
Its amazing how prehistoric people traveled across oceans and reached new continents with just simple boats
Not really they all just walked over ice
@@timmyturner4229 ancestors of the Polynesian sailed across the vast unfrozen Pacific to reach Hawaii since like 18 centuries ago
absolutely but... if they were caught in any of these storms, they'd all be dead. They simply knew when the best times to sail were.
@@shpongle7322 They trusted the channel with the most accurate Doppler Radar!
@@shpongle7322 Plus lots of luck. The unlucky ones are not counted.
The last ship, Was the only one that was in the most DANGER. I know this for a fact. I’m a retired US Merchant Marine Captain. Graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy, class of 74. This ship was taking easily, 40 to 48 degree rolls. Which is damn well dangerous of going over to far, and not coming back, from the roll. Going right on over!!!
Thank you for your sacrifice.
What a cool occupation! You must have some stories!
As a guy who works on a pelagic trawler, fishing in the north sea, I agree. All the other boats were "nosing" the storm, I was on a boat once were the 60 meter boat rolled on its side, and another time on a different all the windows in the galley were smashed by a wave and we had to weld steel over it to cover the broken windows, and literally on the next watch another wave hit the port side, and the entire Hull was bent inwards, when we came to land to inspect it, it looked like the incredible hulk threw a truck at the boat
@@michaeldodge7253 maybe... but its not about the power its the position, the waves are hitting the side of the boat rocking it, he would need to turn the boat to face the waves or have them behind him, problem is.. thats a long boat and its going to be hard to turn, and even harder when the waves are already slamming its side, and then if you are facing the waves head on, you don't want to be using max power either, because you'll basically be ramping the boat like a car on jumps, you could destroy the boat
Oh wow!
I don’t know what’s more impressive, the weather, or the fact people were able construct structures and buildings that withstand it
Is anyone else just so mesmerized by waves. Idk if it’s just me but I could watch them for hours
Take up surfing. get a closer look and flirt with it.
Video has one million views* “am I the only one that likes waves?”
You like them until you meet a freak or a draupner, hell 26 to 30 meters aint no awesome
Yes
Exactly me too!!!! I could watch videos like this all day long!!!!
That tsunami one was a bit haunting. Just seeing it on the horizon, going over it like it was nothing, knowing that if it hit the coast it'd cause untold amounts of damage, spooky.
The thing that makes the tsunami so destructive, is not the height of the wave at sea, but the length of it. When it approaches land the ground slopes upward, making the wave build with all that force behind it. If you were 20 miles out at sea in the 2004 tsunami, it would have seemed something like what we saw here on camera.. But when it comes to land…
Then a quarter of million people parish.. that we know of
The SAS survival guide has one small chapter on tsunamis. If you can see the wave,it's too late.
Can’t imagine how older ships back in medieval times had to go through
I imagine thats where leviathan myths and krakens came from.
Imagine a big wooden ship jusy desintegrating when hit by one of these
It's not as bad as they make it out to be. Actually boats sail it with no problems
I heard that people thought rogue waves were made up like sea serpents or whirlpools
A lot sank
Hence all the wrecks
It's truly amazing that these oil rigs are just out there in the oceans, subjected to salt water, storms, and waves, yet they still rarely cause any trouble. Sure, every once in a while you hear about an oil spill, but given the number of oil rigs around the world, I really applaude the engineers and scientists who made them so reliable and sturdy.
They are quite impressive, but don't minimize the utter devastation that happens when there is an oil spill. Oil companies have an immense amount of wealth. With that wealth, they will do whatever they can to protect their interests.
Oil spills also aren't "once in a while," there are dozens of oil spills every year, you just don't hear about them because the media doesn't care. Even besides spills, just the very presence of oil rigs cause a lot of havoc to marine life and birds. They're impressive from an engineering perspective, sure, but they absolutely do cause a huge amount of trouble and are super damaging to the environment.
@@lula-kester I'm not minimizing anything. You missed the point of my comment. We all know how bad oil spills are. Let's for ONCE appreciate the staff responsible for preventing that.
@@rosie8059 dozens a year is still not a lot, considering there are thousands of oil rigs. You also missed my point. We all know that they are damaging, so let's appreciate the workers responsible for preventing these catastrophies.
@@martinschmid797 dozens a year but not be a lot but the affects are devastating.
The ocean is absolutely terrifying. I dont care what anyone says lol. I have nightmares about this exact stuff happening.
I had a nightmare about a Tsunami the size of a whole mountain.
I have tsunami dreams a bit too. Same with my twin and mom. Actually my brother and I share the same reoccurring dreams all the time, my mom has some similar ones. I think a lot of us share similar dream patterns.
@@eumemo6059 I had one where sun burnt out and the entire skit was filling with the huge grey ash tentacle things, like the snake firework but coming down to earth. It was scary af.
@@adrianmetzler2523 damn
I'm the complete opposite lol. I was on a cruise down to Bermuda from NJ in 2017 and we were going through a hurricane (whichever one wrecked Bermuda that year). Though the destruction to the island was sad and terrible, sailing through it was the best time of my life. There is so much power that the Ocean has and that God has given to nature. Though there were times when things got scary I was happy and having a good time all the way through. I knew it was nothing the ship couldn't take as it was one of the biggest in the world at the time...famous last words right?... but it was incredible. Life really is about realizing how small and out of control we actually are yet finding comfort in the fact that all that we can do is control our own emotions. Maybe I should go sail full time lol
Vikings sailed the North Sea and Atlantic in wooden longboats. Pretty impressive once you think about it.
Indeed. The Polynesians navigated vast distances in small out-riggers. I always found that incredibly impressive. What courage. What desire it must have taken.
@@jeffreymartin8448 yes they were incredible sailors it’s insane
Explains that bad mood once they got where they were going, maybe.
@@buddylarsen6647😂😂
The waves probably weren't that ferocious at that time
the north Sea is very shallow, sometimes as much as 30 feet deep, so the waves can be extraordinarily high and for long distances .
100ft waves are common out there, and it shows how the Vikings and later North sea nations managed to conquer the world
And very steep, hence why so many get their windows put in....or disappear completely!!
That's why vikings only sailed in the spring, weather is better at that time
There used to be a big island there called Doggerland (well, it's called that retrospectively). Dredgers find animal bones, petrified logs, even spear-tips! It was destroyed by a huge tsunami around 8000 years ago, created by an undersea landslide after ice-age thawing.
@@worldcomicsreview354 Interesting. I imagined the water would just recede or something. I read that the Dutch had a storm tide in 1287 that permanently changed the geography of the Netherlands and killed 50-80,000 people. Plenty of villages were swallowed up by the North Sea.
Bass Strait off the mainland Australian coast and Tasmania is the Southern Hamisphere's equal to the North sea.
Two great oceans also meet on a shallow shelf there also.
There is the occasional footage of Australian naval vessels going through Bass Strait and the waves are massive because like the North Sea, the Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea meet on a relatively shallow rock shelf.
It's also where Australia's most famous UFO incident happened.
A pilot flying a Cessna plane claims he saw a stange metallic, disc shaped object with a green light above him. It was circling above his plane and the pilot, Frederick Valentich alleged that it was NOT a conventional plane.
The pilot Frederick Valentich was never seen or heard from again. A massive sea and air sesrch failed to find any debris.
There is a radio transcript of what happened somewhere on You Tube.
NOTE A lot of BS has been written about Valentich alleging he was a "UFO fanatic or nutcase. " This is untrue. His father was interviewed a few years back and said like most males aged 8 to 28, Fred was into Star Wars which was still playing in Australian cinemas in 1978. Hardly qualifies anyone as a UFO fanatic.
Seeing that tsunami wave and how it approached that ship was one of the most surreal and incredible pieces of footage I have ever seen.. to see that devastating force of nature and how it looks out in open water was incredible. I must've watched it for or five times. That is something truly rare and special to capture on film and makes me grasp just how devastating something like that can be. Imagine how many gallons of water are being forcibly pushed in that clip. Absolutely unreal.
Unless you are in quite shallow water, you can't even see a tsunami.
Anyone else just feel overwhelmed even just watching this?
I just came from watching a story of a guy dying upside down in a cave so I figured, what the hell?
I'm 61,Many Friends And Relatives Frequently Go On Cruises.I Will Not Go!! I Dreamed Of A Rouge Ways Years Ago,Couldn't Pay Me To Get On A Cruise Ship.
@@pjmejia1594 ok but why do you capitalize everything? Isn't that more work for you?
@OptimusPrimeribs Hi,I Haven't Always.I Started This On Social Media,No Particular Reason.
The ocean is so beautiful yet so terrifying🌊🌊🌊
I’m sailing away
You good ? Or you dead ?
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The North Sea is unbelievably rough, being on board a ship sailing these routes can be a unpleasant experience if you don't have good sea legs. I've done a few city breaks from England to Holland, Denmark and Germany and I can confirm that the waves are chuffing enormous!
Yep, I'm from the UK, my dad was in the British navy, He took so many photos and footage of it for us to see when he was on leave 😱😱
Defo. My ex-boyfriend worked on a rig in the North Sea. When communications were still operating, he would send me live videos of the waves--and the sounds the rig made while being battered like that! Omg. I don't know how he did it.
Made the same trips myself to Zebrugge, Holland and Norway, the North Sea can be brutal!
Southern ocean is like that on a good day
I guess you’ve never been in a force 12 off the west coast of Ireland. Milford Haven to the River Shannon should take about 36/38 hours. February 2005 it took us 5 days. Including 2 days hove too off the Fastnet.🤮
I have a massive fear of open water, just watching these clips give me so much anxiety
Same!! 😥
Then, why are you watching this ? Duh!
@@9loverk68 I only got through 2 clips but okayyyy 🙄
You just want attention don't you?
me too! u could not pay me to take a cruise
A rogue wave sunk my grandfather's minesweeper (YMS-421) off Okinawa in 1945. I cannot imagine what it must have been like fighting a storm like that, and even more so, the terror of having your ship go down...
Did your GF survive? A YMS class minesweeper is a pretty small ship (136ft, 270 tons) to be on in a typhoon. I think they only carried two or three small life rafts.
I always think of the Indianapolis
@@vm-snss4910 He did! But not all were as lucky.
We have the original report, which describes: "Four miles off the coast of Bucknor Bay entrance, one particularly large sea swept over the forecastle, bending the metal jackstaff, and smashed through the port side of the forward bulkhead of the pilot house, wrenching the steel wheel off its stand and injuring the helmsman. The binnacle on the flying bridge was torn apart, and personnel on the flying bridge were thrown violently...[the] large wave washed many men overboard and a few seconds later another rolled the ship over on her port side. Survivors have established that the ship rolled over twice in the next few minutes and then sank bow first. No records were able to be saved...Eleven men of the YMS-421 and thirty-two survivors from other ships owe their lives to the seamanship and spirit of the commanding officer of LSM-391, Lt. H.A.Libaire, who spent over thirty-six hours on his bridge saving survivors in darkness from the water at the height of the typhoon."
Having been an RNLI volunteer crewman for years and based at a North Sea facing station, going out in very heavy seas is both exhilarating and scary in equal measures! Although the conditions are not always like that, sometimes its just beautiful. If anyone is thinking of joining us as lifeboat crew, shore crew or anything else, I would absolutely say go for it, it is the best thing I have ever done and love it! Also, and much more importantly, you get to help people and save lives. There's not much better than that.
How did you prevent seasickness??? Some people just don’t get sick but I’d be having a very hard time with the nausea
Not me😂
Spent 6 years on a small destroyer and went through several typhoons. Plowed through the Bering Sea around the Aleutians in winter. I'm here to tell you only a few shown in this video come close. It's difficult to put into words the misery and fear that goes on for days when the sea turns the minutes to hours.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
I've been through this a few times, and I don't ever want to go through them again... 45deg leaning ships either going up or down the waves is not fun. Other than your stomach felt like doing somersault, the floor is doing see-saw, puking air since you already lost everything you've eaten before, and you got your life jacket strap-in. All the open sea training goes out of your mind and you feel completely blank. Normally when working on an oil rig, when bad weather is forecasted, no travelling back and forth between rigs and FPSO will be done. But sometimes, weather just turn a nasty trick on you, and you're caught in the middle of such transportation.
My father was a oil and ship man he told me story after story. Today he is 82 and I have much respect and love for what he had too go through just to feed and take care of his family. I respect all people who work on the water.
Cooper: "Those aren't mountains, they're waves."
Interstellar 😎
Seamen are some of the bravest people on the planet, massive respect and thanks
Tsunami while at sea aren’t dangerous, and usually go unnoticed. They ramp up toward the shore, they have plenty of depth at sea to keep them subtle.
There’s a video of a Japanese coast guard cutter riding right over the Fukushima tsunami, it doesn’t look like much.
interesting!
@@jakemocci3953 And the crew sound like they're on a roller coaster!
@@jakemocci3953 Tsunami aren't really measured by how tall they are, but the amount of force behind them. There are plenty of videos showing Tsunami reaching miles inland and leaving nothing in their wake.
Very true unless you're under water, divers can get into serious trouble if a tsunami passes when they're under water.
Mother Nature. So gorgeous. Hurricanes, tornados, ocean waves, fire....they're all just mesmerizing.
Yea, till you experience it first hand
@@aricray8369 Hhaha Yes but still beautiful.
I agree on Fire, but not the others
@@dull_demon4717 Have you ever seen those photos of hurricanes from space?! Some of them are just perfection.
@@andyandcallie yes, I have, makes them more terrifying
This seems like it should be on the discovery channel! Very professional, phenomenal video footage of each wave, great narrating. Well done!
The images of the oil rig (#4) reminded me of what my father went through back in 1965. Dad (Don Gillespie) was under contract with Shell Oil and was a diesel engineer. He was stationed in The Netherlands while a drilling rig (Transworld 58) was being built and helped in its construction. It was a large, semi-submersible rig and upon completion, the rig was connected to the world's largest ocean-going tug boat (a Dutch ship) for it's voyage to Angola, Africa (where it would eventually drill for oil off the coast of Province of Cabinda). Dad was on the rig from the time it left Rotterdam along with a small crew to make sure everything stayed lashed down and tight for the voyage. He was an old US Navy man that served in the So. Pacific in WWII on a mine sweeper so he was not unfamiliar with bobbing around in the water like a top but they hit one of those big storms in the North Sea and he said it almost tore the drilling rig in half. At one point, he was going between buildings on the deck and was almost washed overboard, fell and broke his arm but he stayed on deck. After a few days, they finally made it out of the North Sea and had a fairly uneventful cruise down to Dakar, Senegal where they had to put in for repairs which took a few weeks. They eventually made it to Angola (at the time it was a colony of Portugal) where the Dutch were in a hurry to disconnect from the rig and get out of Angolan waters. This was because there were about 400 years of bad blood between the Dutch and the Portuguese over the possession of Angola. Dad thought it was amusing how the Dutch were behaving in their haste to get out of there. A side note, my mother and I eventually joined my father in Angola and lived in Luanda for a year, a great experience for a 15 year old.
How you know all that?
@@caelen11 ☘️ You cannot have read what he wrote or you wouldn't be asking that. 🙄
Copy and paste from a story or what. 😆
@@stellamaris5405 nah I read it but who's dad tells their kids a whole historical recount you know?
Are you all dense or something? There were many times my dad would recount things about his life on his ranch in Colorado (and in the army during WWII). So stories are told about our parents meaningful events while sitting around. Kinda sad you were too busy.
I was in the US Navy in the early 70s. We went through a category 5 typhoon that was one of the largest storms in history outside of Hong Kong. It took four days to ride out this storm. The waves were enormous. The waves in this video are not nearly as large or scary. I wish I had video footage of it.
Someone made a similar comment, Sir. Part of the same crew maybe. You both had a terrifying and cool experience, Sir. I can't imagine what it's like to sail on such terrible weather condition.
Yeah ok
Hey maybe you and the guy who also commented of something very similar to ur story, were on the same ship!? That'd be cool.
Most people think of water as some soft light splishy splashy thing. It is heavy and hard as stone at these levels. It will crush you, toss you around like youre nothing. Respect it.
So cool that we’ve built ships to withstand these waves and conditions.
Imagine the mayflower going through this
If the sea wants to take a ship it doesn't matter how well built it is.
@@whyyeseyec seriously
…..the titanic.
@@talithaissoft was already damaged on the opposite side of the ship prior to the ice berg haha
Rogue waves are the scariest part of sailing. I was serving on an aircraft carrier back in 04. And we got hit by a rogue wave. Killed a sailor and did some structural damage to the ship. It just came out of nowhere.
Thank you for your service, and I'm sorry to hear about one of your crewmen dying. That's crazy, just out of nowhere and then suddenly everything goes to hell. Life in the military, it's the way it goes sometimes.
Yeah you've got big balls working on the sea man!
I was on the Blueridge for a bit. We didn’t have bad weather but the waves in “normal” conditions were impressive.
If it's not too much to ask but was the sailor who died in this case on the deck of this ship and that was the cause of their death or were they inside the ship and got tossed around and died on account of that instead?
@@mbuckley3828 he was out on the aft smoke deck. I had just finished smoking a few minutes before it happened.
I worked on Cruise ships for 9 years, faced a lot of rough seas, but the ships were so advanced that they mostly avoided stormy seas.
Ok, now you KNOW that those waves pounding that oil rig have to be insanely powerful. Those oil rigs usually weigh thousands of tons, and for it to be bouncing around like that, that's just insane. No way in hell could you get me to be on one of those during an intense storm like that, and all this time I thought oil rigs were stationary, and that they didn't move, wow!
I thought oil rigs were stationary too. Another thing learned today.
Where the water is shallow enough they are, but in deeper water they float
I don’t know man…. I’ve seen 40-50+ footers crashing on shore and over a barrier island…. I can only say it’s absolutely horrifying. Even knowing your completely safe from it, just witnessing it gives you ENORMOUS RESPECT for the power of wind and water….
This footage is absolutely terrifying. 🌊💔 The sheer size and power of these monster waves are both awe-inspiring and deeply frightening. My heart goes out to everyone who has experienced such dangerous conditions. It's a powerful reminder of the unpredictable and destructive force of the ocean. Stay safe, everyone. 🌪⛈
Going straight toward the wave seems scary, yet if it hits your side, it would probably be a much worse situation.
I'm a trawler deckhand & I can tell u best thing to do (where possable) nose into waves but the downside is if the next set is super close u run the risk of being swamped front on. Turning to the side or going stern (rear) first is the worst thing u can do. We've been side on to huge wave due to the gear being on the bottom I can tell u it's scary when the trawl boom goes half under water & the other side is basicly straight up in the air. Great rush though.
Bow first into the waves is the safest way to handle heavy seas.
@@davidfreud9188 unless its a freak wave hits and piles on top of you with enough mass to sink you in a oner. But i think these are mostly found off southern africa and Arctic.
Yeah
Exactly it can tip it over or cause a list it can’t recover from
Imagine going through this in a wooden ship in old times.
Idk why your pic makes this comment funny 😅😅
With no crack and no cellphones. Only red wine and concubines
Bravo to the men and women that risk their lives to sail in these seas to save others, not a job for the faint hearted.
My dad said that when on a ship crossing the English Channel during WWll, he was alone on deck watching the storm, which he always liked to do, saw a wave was going to crash over the whole ship, made it to the door, and barely got in and shut the door.
I'll repeat what I've read on another similar video, the biggest ones haven't been caught on camera.... Yet. Good vid👍
Sorry,!
Wavemaster1 youtube channel (rescue ship that opperates on north sea) has some of the best footage i have seen (better than the clip theyve show on here)
Maybe they did, but never lived to tell the tale!
Former Dutch Navy here, and I can confirm some of the stories below. We went through a flying storm west of Scotland in 1982.
Waves like an apartment building. The next morning parts of the railing and several life jackets disappeared.
I was more impressed than afraid. But when I heard the old and the skipper talking, I knew better. This was a special experience.
What I learned? Stay away from the north sea 😂
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Gotta love the attitudes of the search and rescue guys. At 5:44 (ish) they go over the top of a huge wave with a massive splash over. The only reaction seems to be the captain casually hitting the "mist" button for the wipers a few seconds later. Legendary.
Ta very much 😊
As I write this I am sitting at the wheelhouse of a 55 ft. Crab boat in Newport Oregon. I'm a well seasoned commercial fisherman and I have seen a lot of things similar to these situations. It's important that the crew is well trained for these types of situations. I've been in the Gulf of Mexico while stuck in a hurricane yet I'm still here. I've been on boats that were sinking and yet I'm still here. I thank my Guardian Angel for all of that but still keep on fishing!
I work in the gulf, I’m an engineer on a crew boat and I’m a captain in training. We once were passing the Mississippi delta area heading to an are south of Alabama and he fell off rouge wave during a storm, the water came thru our anchor holes and hit our rope locker so hard that the lid to the locker tore completely off, it literally tore the welds at the seams and the 120 pound lid flew up and landed on the bridge catwalk. Fucking terrifying yet awesome.
Former merchant marine engineer here. I went through indian ocean, pacific, atlantic, through typhoons around Taiwan, we leaned up to 42 degrees. I slept like a child. The best part of the story is: i work in the port now, sleep home every night. Life is great. But memories keep turning back. 😎❤
I really enjoyed this video, thanks for creating this content!
"The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."
- George Costanza
“ The ocean”!!!
“The” best lines on Seinfeld. For me!
Is that a Titleist?
Man was a philosopher legend. A savant of life. Not many people would end up getting promoted, just because their car broke down.
@@zew1414 hole in one…
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"Towards the mountains"
"Those arent mountains"
"they're waves"
I thought of this before I saw your comment✊🏾😂
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Yep
We film some of the largest waves ever caught on camera.
We work with 2 North Sea oil platforms that can accurately measure wave height so no guessing or exaggeration.
Enjoy 🌊🌊
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And Meet the Crew
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My heart was pounding watching these natural disasters unfold. It's a cinematic experience like no other!
The tsunami footage was unreal. I took a class on pacific rim natural disasters in college and tsunamis were one of the things we covered. It was the coolest class and I learned so much valuable info about volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, etc. I’ve never seen a tsunami at sea coming in like that. Holy smokes how scary!! The entire horizon is elevated and coming at you….and you know wherever it hits landfall it’s gonna destroy everything. That was incredible and terrifying.
Those emergency teams are just out there helping randoms? Hero/Legend Status 🙏🙏🙏👏
No they aren't they are specifically standing by drilling rigs and platforms in case of an emergency. The narration is also incorrect. Most installations in the North sea are fixed to the sea bed. There are relatively few floating production platforms. There are quite a few Semi Submersible rigs which do float and are remarkably comfortable compared to ships in a storm.
what an amazing compilation! the power of nature is truly breathtaking. but honestly, i wonder if capturing these monster waves on camera is more about thrill-seeking than respecting the ocean's wildness. sometimes, it feels like we’re chasing danger for views instead of appreciating its beauty from a safe distance.
Water is such a fascinating element! It can be soothing and gentle, but it can also gather an incredibly fierce and destructive power
Spent 30 years in Merchant Marine on tankers primarily in the Gulf of Alaska. Largest waves I were well over a hundred feet with swells from numerous directions in Cat 5 winds near 160 mph. Some in loaded conditions and some in ballast in ships from 700' to 1000' length. Not fun at the time but I have to admit, I sometimes miss those days.
Yeah, I was stationed in Alaska, patrolling those same waters. Crazy stuff. #Trump2024 #lockherup #BLM #savethewhales #stopthesteal #paytheteachers
27 years for me. mainly the gulf of alaska and the bering sea. the ocean is a fickle mistress but, sometimes she calls to me also...
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Did it for 10 years on the ships built for the Canal so got both the Gulf of Alaska and also off of Cape Hatteras so had my life jacket under my bunk many times and loved seeing the sheer power of mother nature. Supposed to go 400 miles in a day and end up going backwards 40! Now that was a ride!!!!
Me too I sailed mostly on tankers in the N.M.U. going from the Alesska Terminal in Valdez to P.T.P. in Porto Arrmulles in Panama. I know I didn't spell those two places correctly but I'm too lazy to look up the correct spelling right now. The last ship I was on the BT San Diego, the rudder stock sheared completely in two. After drifting 12 days we finally hooked up to two tugs and were towed in to Southwest Marine Shipyard in San Pedro While the ship was in the yard the city of L.A. contacted me about an application I had filled out earlier I went for the interview and was hired. I had 13 years in the Union then,I worked for the city for 28 years retiring a couple years ago. My time shipping out in the Merchant Marines was the best time of my life I loved it and would have never quit if the bottom didn't fall out of the American Merchant Marine.
Very good narration, no silly music and no excessive talk, just the facts clearly told
Great footage. The oil rig situation would really freak me out. Unlike a ship, wherein you might be able to execute some sort of a maneuver to avoid disaster, the oil rig platform is strictly at the whim of the waves! As for the rescue ships; I can’t imagine how they could actually help or rescue any other ship in peril, as both ships would be being tossed by those huge waves! Thanks for this video!
Yes but if the ships engines fail then they cant keep facing the wave and will get hit side on. A rig is built for those waves and will survive, there was a website that lists lost ships, big ships too, it happens all the time, especially where a firm is not spending money on maintenance or have an old ship ready for the scrap yard. The oil industry always has the money to invest. However if you’re helicoptering out then things can get interesting, even with 2 engines. Plenty of icing opportunities.
20m is a fairly common occurrence in the North Sea, I've experienced 28m waves there myself, so all rigs are built for this. As for the rescue ships they mostly pick people up from the sea in the sort of weather we see here and as you could see from the videos they are very stable (relatively speaking)
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Oh Puke
Yeah that's why they are making jet packs now
Just go around Cape Horn, pretty much any time of year for massive waves! I was on the USS TEXAS CGN-39 back in 1983 when we transited below southern Australia in the Roaring Forties and had the worst seas I ever experienced. We literally had to use the walls to walk the ship was rolling so much. One foot on the floor the next one on the wall, another step on the floor the next one on the other wall, it was crazy. At one point we did a 53 degree roll, which was marked on the inclinometer and was never beaten. Every now and then we would maneuver to be in following seas so we could go topside. It was an amazing thing to see as the ship was surrounded by WATER higher than our bridge. The waves around us were huge some I believe were taller than the ship. Get some videos of that!
Love to see those videos you got
My grandfather sailed on the last merchant windship to go around the cape. He did it many times on other ships too. He had some crazy scary stories. They used to get badges every time they sailed round the cape , not sure if it was just the winships or not. My nan has them on her wall still. Hed be 98 if he was alive still.
The tsunami video is SO surreal! I lived in Japan and my family and I were at home during the tsunami- it didn’t hit the part of the island we lived on but the earthquakes were horrifying and I remember every second. We moved to the states only days after.
I've sailed the north sea with a rescue ship when i was younger. I remember how i was often totally exhausted from just trying to stand up or walk around to do my work. Being thrown around for days takes a lot of you physically and mentally.
Imagine the Vikings crossing the North Sea [or German Sea as it was called] in these storms.Also the Murmansk convoys in WW2 as portrayed in the excellent book "HMS Ulysses" by Alasdair MacLean.
They stod in their boats swinging an axe, is this all you got Thor, bring it ⚡🌪️⚡
Any Viking ship that encountered this kind of storm sunk. There’s a reason that the existence of rogue waves was disputed until 1995
cant imagine how vikings survived this type of stuff
Well, they didnt
@@favJ-qq2ef if they managed to reach Iceland and the coasts of canada in tiny wooden ships sailing through the worlds roughest ocean, its that some of them did
The vikings sailed frequently across to “Vikingsland”. Renamed Americas . Columbus is rumoured to have used Viking sailing /fishing charts to go and “ discover” America !
@@Xkh514Nope, rogue waves are incredibly rare. The vast majority of ships did not encounter them. There’s a reason that the existence of rogue waves wasn’t confirmed until 1995
To survive, they needed to avoid the winter storms off the coast of Norway. This is still true today, if in a small open boat during a winter storm, you in very serious trouble.
"billions of dollars of damage, not to mention thousands of lives" I love how loss of life is subtext to the loss of currency
Typical Americans....
I'm so glad you made that comment, if you hadn't I wouldn't have know how woke you are.
@@stylekat ahh the "woke" card. I present a perfectly valid concern that doesn't mesh with the boomer and capitalist mindset so you play the "woke" card to try and undermine the comment. Textbook and classic.
@@6xCamox9 Sorry, not even close. You commented on this to let everyone know how much you care about people, guess what, no one care. Oh, & you singling out the distinction between life & property was pointless because he literally said thousands died... so all you did was virtue signal... again... no one cares. Rather than commenting pointlessly on a youtube clip, maybe you could donate some time or money to rebuilding efforts of tsunami disasters... but again... keep it to yourself because no one cares.
@@stylekat LOLOLOL he thinks his opinion matters to me. Dude idc about whatever baggage you're working on. I'm glad you think I'm stupid. It means I'm absolutely correct. Time will prove me correct anyway. Enjoy rotting in hell, kiddo
The energy to make these waves is unfathomable to me..
Most of that energy comes from the sun.
I know this is the old man side of TH-cam but it’s lowkey entertaining 😭😭
These ‘Bonus’ additions make me feel like I’m being rewarded for good viewing 😊
This is the most terrifying experience ever!!! The ocean is sooooooo huge and waves are extremely dangerous!!!! Any brave soul that goes out and deals with this has my respect because I can’t! I don’t see the thrill of being out there! There’s not enough money in the world that would make me face this experience lol but I do appreciate them taking these risk so that we can experience them some kind of way! I do love the ocean and it’s very beautiful and terrifying and very interesting!
Very impressive
As a former retired navy vet... I have had my share of riding through hurricanes and tsunamis. I have lost count on how many hurricanes and tsunamis I have been through... However the worst was in 1992 in Hawaii. That horrible hurricane was the worst to hit the islands. It destroyed the island of Kauai. I was on a helo carrier then and doing 45 to 55 degree rolls from side to side and backwards and forwards...
You are a brave man!
sir... 55 degrees is the tilt of a chair that bends backwards at it farthest point.
@@therizzler1107 not if its already welded ten times because it breaks after a month :D
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Ohhhh Lordy!!
Even these videos don't do it justice. The waves hitting that oil rig were massive, but in the video it's hard to see the true scope of it, without having a good sense of just how big those rigs are.
Wave's coming 60 feet to the bottom of the deck plus it was rising dam
In the Japanese section, one man said:”It’s about 9 meters high.” 27 feet that is…
believe it or not the largest ever wave was 1720 feet tall, thats just over 500 metres, taller than most skyscrapers, was a result of many millions of cubic meters of land mass slid down from a high distance, i think 3000 feet (which is near enough as tall as the burj)
The islands I come from we deal with the Warm sea currents and the artic currents, it can make pretty messed up waves at shore. When you as a kid see the ocean drag boulders that weight a house into the shore you know it's something not to mess with.
I live on a beach. I have been through hurricanes 🌀. I have swam in large waves.i have been on boats. I adore the Gulf,the ocean and have tremendous respect for its beauty and massive power.
Human ingenuity is so underrated at times.....The engineering of these vessels and rigs is absolutely stunning.
Well done and nicely narrated.
Great video! I love all the supplemental information about the seas.
Incredible that the European explorers braved these waters with no modern navigation and just a wooden ship and a crew. Most did not make it and this is why. Human courage and ingenuity is really an incredible I’ll always marvel at.
We experienced ‘moderate’ seas last year in the Bay of Biscay onboard a cruise ship, but it was nothing in comparison to some of these clips - absolutely remarkable!
Hi it do get horrible between the UK and France the bay of biscay you must of left or arrived at Southampton lol I guess you ain't been across both sides of the Atlantic pacific in cruise ship we do trust them ships new ones ok but older ones get me worried
The Bay of Biscay holds a tragic memory for me ...
Many years ago, now almost in decades, an acquaintance of mine was offered a trip, from England, to the Mediterranean, on, iirc, his father-in-law's small sailing yaught, along with his Brother-in-Law. At the time he was only in his early 20's, but even I knew that, him having no sailing experience, made him a liability, as even I knew how rough seas can get, especially in certain parts of the North Sea/Atlantic ...
He went anyway, despite other people telling him not to, as well.
Sadly, it came as no surprise (abet still shocking ...) that the yaught all three were on, disappeared around the Bay of Biscay. An Air/Sea Rescue search was launched, but all that was spotted was one of those inflatable life rafts, except floating inverted. No other wreckage was found.
I've been to many a funeral service, and even burials - not least my kind mum's, nearly 2 years ago - but few haunts me as much as that service/memorial for him, essentially a funeral, with no coffin.
I asked an uncle of mine, whom, amongst many things, did time, as an engineer, on a Ore-Bulk-Oil (OBO) ship, which are pretty damn big (70,000 - 180,000 t DWT is about the normal range, with lengths easily over 820ft).
When I told him about my friend, he described a storm he experienced, in roughly the same area, on a OBO, of about 90,000t DWT, in which he described as being like "being tossed around like a toy boat in a bathtub", and how close he came to being violently sea-sick. Given the size of waves he was describing (not least the green water was being sent over the bow), it wasn't surprising that Adam simply disappeared, without trace ... it literally felt like he stepped off into the void, never to return ...
@@nigelft Wow - so sorry to hear about your friend - a very chilling story. I did realise during our one 'rough' night that the sea has got SUCH power behind it. Stay safe!
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The cruise ship people were terrified and feared for their life. In the Navy we called it Tuesday.
I have pictures of 60 ft waves that we hit on the USS Grand Canyon in the North Atlantic in late March before we went to condition zebra and shut everything down as it was getting worse. There was a tiny minesweeper next to us that would actually disappear when the waves hit. Excellent ride.
I am perfectly happy standing knee deep in gentle waves, thank you 😅
I really like how you show longer clips of the video without continuously talking over it, like other TH-camrs would. Thank you!!
Really excellent narration, your voice is really nice. 🤗🤗🤗
And this, dear friends, is why I love to stay on land 😁
Yup, that is not on my bucket list.
"5 monster waves!!"
*#1 isn't about waves, but cargo*
gimme a break lol
I was on the Queen Elizabeth 2 back in the day. And in the Irish Sea there were almost 30 ft swells and I have never been on a ship that got thrown around as bad as that! The ship was locked down and everyone was sick. I'll never forget that
I was in one (more than one) worse than this in the USN in the 90s. I believe it was '97 we were near Australia's east coast but still considerably out to sea... and going through a hurricane (Georgez? sp). The flight deck was 70' above the water line and the waves were routinely going 30 or 40 feet over it. One night about midnight we caught a sideways wave that tipped us beyond 45 degrees. Luckily almost everyone was in the bunks or secured because only one guy got hurt (broken arm). Two helos came loose in the hangar bay and rolled round a while. Somewhat humorously (in retrospect) the journalists had a brand new large printer capable of producing books and stuff automated. They were very proud of it... but none one welded it to the deck or bolted it soo... it goes crashing through false bulkhead and got smashed up. It was so crazy. You could time it right and just fly up like 30 stairs in a second because of pitch changes.
Damn bro before I was even conceived 😂😂 Respect
Spent a few years at Sea when I was young, 16-19 as a fisherman saw some large waves probably nothing like what the Navy lads see, waves are relative to the size of the ship you are in. Big waves like that in a 50ft fishing boat yeah not a fun time. You get moved like you are surfing them rather then sailing on them. We went deep sea in the Indian Ocean and I’ve experienced moderately rough in Bass strait and the Pacific. The sea has my respect. She can be a beast.
Eerie doesn’t begin to describe that silent thing just rolling in knowing what toll was to come.
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Will never forget staring out at the North Sea from the lighthouse in Berwick Upon Tweed, and seeing the tiny lights of ships in the distance. You can absolutely sense how terrifying it can be out there, and the comments from all these naval officers and fishermen saying "meh, I've seen worse" confirms it. Good lord!
Jesus loves you so much
From 7:59 to 8:13 you hear the most Japanese sounding vocals that you've ever heard in your life.
These are the days when a dissatisfied ships cook serves Menudo with extra large slices of semi-cooked Tripe : )
Wut lol
Oh yes, the North Sea can be brutal. I live on the North Sea coast and grew up in the region.
When I was a kid, we were on the beautiful island of Borkum on a sunny day and when we came back to the harbor from the middle of the island, the sea was quite choppy, and we were looking at a black wall in the distance. The captain of the ferry made the announcement that there might be some rocking and apologized for that, but it was the last ferry of the day. We drove into a violent summer thunderstorm and were really shaken violently. A lot of people threw up and so did the ship smell. Apparently I inherited my grandfather's sailor genes (he and almost all great uncles were in the merchant navy) - I was fine, I was a naive kid and thought it was a lot of fun. Within sight of the mainland port, the thunderstorm was suddenly over, and we sailed in with bright sunshine.