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- ghm101, on 10/12/2007, -18/+124Can you use some more nautical jargon in your next comment?
I don't think you did your self justice there, names of the knots used to tie the drogue on? for example. - trieste, on 10/12/2007, -6/+74People on Digg _complaining_ about the use of jargon? How novel.
- nrvous250gt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+63The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to return soup at a deli.
- mt066, on 10/12/2007, -1/+62one time I rode on a sail boat :O
- bart9h, on 10/12/2007, -4/+63wow!
the most impressive is the actual digg description, without any AMAZING, AWESOME, MUST SEE, etc - lasermic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+58I think this photo is related:
http://img120.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=40745_p5_122_552lo.JPG - RedHairedMan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+57Next person to cry photoshop gets a solid ass kicking.
By that I mean a digging down and a stern retort. - wingnut21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+47I ran anonymoustroll's comment through an English to pirate converter: ( http://www.syddware.com/cgi-bin/pirate.pl )
"I`ve seen Force 7 t' Force 8 at night in a 37` sloop (4 hour watch). 5knots bare poles. Nay Fun.
Them photos be Force 10 t' Force 12 (top o' th' scale). Fer anythin' under 50` 'tis time t' throw ou' th' drogue an' make sure yer hull keeps displacin' water."
The funny thing is, not much changed... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47> names of the knots used to tie the drogue on?
Honestly?
Ok... two answers in order of appropriateness:
1 - none; you have prepared for this by ahead of time by splicing (stronger than any knot) an appropriate stainless steel clasp/carabiner and identifying the appropriate hard point on the boat to which this can be attached without endangering yourself.
2 - The strongest knot you can manage while you get tossed on your head attempting man-handle 60 pounds of said sea anchor and line to the bow or stern. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+59I've seen Force 7 to Force 8 at night in a 37' sloop (4 hour watch). 5knots bare poles. Not Fun.
Those photos are Force 10 to Force 12 (top of the scale). For anything under 50' it's time to throw out the drogue and make sure your hull keeps displacing water. - Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40arr, me mother was a tree
- fernando26, on 10/12/2007, -22/+47That last one looks slightly photoshopped to me (but probably isn't)? Is it just me or does the water in the wave just look a little *too* blue?
- ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25So was the Titanic.
- ecl3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Photo's are from the Great Lakes. It's crazy to see some of the storms that Lake Superior is capable of. It's not hard to see why the Edmond Fitzgerald sank
- gardnert1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17looks like they lied to you. Scientists would tend to agree that rogue waves exist and that they are usually caused by tidal forces.
- CoSMoSYS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Uhhh...can you say "Edmund Fitzgerald"?
- CalipsoII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13ARRGHH, why is it so many people misspell rogue as 'rouge'. Rouge is what the ladies put on their face to add colors. It's the French word for red. It does NOT mean rogue. Digg needs a grammar check.
(for those that don't believe me on how often it's misspelled: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?forumId=10020&sid=1 read it and weep) - Nurjle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Dr. Suess?
- CoSMoSYS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"The lake it is said, never gives up her dead...when the skies of November turn gloomy"
- tdhetrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10BTW this is not an oil takner it is an iron ore or grain hauler on the great lakes. Oil tankers don't have the entire deck lined with big hatches, and are wider.
- Haas89, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yeah i would def be pissing my pants and crying for my mommy
- voyetra8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I Feel like Puking just Looking at the Random Capitalization in your Description.
- haumschd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Thats nothing. I was on the USS Stennis when a wave crashed over the bow of the ship. The bow is about 65 feet above the waterline!
http://www.danzfamily.com/pictures/pictures06/stennisbow.jpg - Thex1138, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11** Don't open that web site with IE it's a ***** popup spamhouse!
Cool storm pic's :-) - archlich, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8If the tanker is full of oil, how hard would it be to sink? Without having the oil leak out, or the ship snapping in two...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7i think there's a lesson to be learnt there...
- TrentTheThief, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Fernando, that's the right color. That's air under the water. The wave under the blue part hasn't hit the deck yet.
Homerjs, look at that again. The view is the same. What you see there is just the tip of the bow. I don't know the name for that chunk of junk sticking up, but it is the same in all the shots. - storminnorman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6most freighters are on autopilot. "Iron Mike" was the nickname we always gave it. and Pilots are used because conditions in port are constantly changing. they have the most up to date data. you still need the crew to run the ship, and someone has to be in charge...
- BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"> stainless steel clasp/carabiner... tossed on your head attempting man-handle ... etc.
*****, I just got a horrible insight into what a Mac user feels like when we all start talking about complicated stuff like "using the keyboard", "compiling a kernel" or "clicking the second mouse button".
For a second there I was completely fricking mystified and have had to google long and hard. Do continue..
(I'm kidding mac users, don't hit me :D ) - storminnorman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5been there, done that. got the hat, the t-shirt, and the crappy navy haircut to prove it. blue water over the bow is not fun. you know its going to be a bad night when you have to tie yourself into your rack so you don't roll out. ah yes, the good ol' days...puking, no fresh water, eating cold cuts for 3 days...
- jaderobbins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Hrm, well i didn't see it last time. THANK GOD PEOPLE REPOST SO THAT I DONT HAVE TO SPEND EVERY WAKING MOMENT ON DIGG TO READ EVERY STORY SO THAT I DONT TURN INTO AN ***** WHEN STORIES ARE REPOSTED. If enough people read it the first time to realize it was a repost then it would have been buried.
- kevinarth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I can't speak to the authenticity of the photos, but I spent a year at sea with the Navy too. And I can tell you those conditions are not uncommon. Nor are they much fun. Even the most sea-hardened Marines and Sailors didn't much feel like eating during weather like that. (Although it's pretty cool walking on the walls when the ship rolls with a wave and is nearly on its side.)
- pyman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6What is he transporting... LEAD?
- etjazz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5yep, and a rouge wave is just the gayest wave you´ll ever experience......
no wonder there where so few reports until that picture was taken - CircleFusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Care to back that up with anything? Like a link to the originals?
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5how do you know this? shut the ***** up.
- shark615, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Only the media said it was unsinkable.
Cunnard said naught about it being unsinkable; can't believe that media driven bollocks is still so prevalent.
Besides these boats have double hulls and sealed compartments etc etc etc. They take A LOT of effort to sink if everything is done properly. Although a boat like this was sunk in heavy weather because a crew member left a hatch open on the bow. A few big breakers filled the front of the boat up to the brim and she went straight down. - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You can't do this. The ship is a giant machine and things are constantly breaking or requiring attention at sea. Part of my work is servicing marine automation systems, so I can tell you that just about everything that can be automated on a ship currently is, but there's no replacement for a set of human hands.
- nurall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5i didn't get any popups (ie7)
- Nurjle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They don't call 'em 'Great' fot nothing, that's for sure.
- Kirium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You see some crazy stuff out there...
This one is from my Royal Australian Navy days in 2003. I was on the ship in the photo, HMAS Anzac. It's about 120m long for reference...
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g248/Kirium/attachment.jpg
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g248/Kirium/attachment-1.jpg - RicDesan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Hard to look at that and not think of the big boats that encounter the occasional rogue waves. Scary!
- Lean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3because often the cargo those ships carry is too valuable to be left without some sort of supervision
- koick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I work with a guy who is building 10m fully automated boats for scientific research. I can't believe that they would be allowed on the ocean.
- stratstriings, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If those photos are real I'm glad I was in the Army.
- ncdave101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4In the old TV series "Victory at Sea" they have video footage of warships going through rough weather like that. It's pretty scary seeing the deck of an aircraft carrier dipping under a wave....
- shark615, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You have no clue what you are talking about. A sailbot handled properly in that sort of weather would be fine.
Hell look up Vendee Globe where half the race takes palce in conditions worse then this in the Southern Ocean. Small boats have sailed through hurricanes and bad storms with no problems outside a few bruises and wet pants. - ImaBrowncoat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Aside from the changing port conditions and constant ship maintenance requiring people to be present, it's also nice to have job opportunities. At least here in MI, anyway. With a pretty ***** economy in the rest of the state there are still opportunities present in the shore towns for work like this if you're qualified. Hell, there's even a school for it in Traverse City here. The rest of the country has truck drivers, we have auto workers (for now) and shipmen. And for the people crying fake, storms like that really do whip up on Superior. It is a very deep body of water surrounded by violent cross winds - especially in fall and early winter, the arctic express hitting the slightly warmer air sitting just to the south - and littered with shifting shoals. Walk into any photo gallery in any of the tourist towns and you're going to find several photos like these. There's a strip of shore in the U.P. called shipwreck coast for a reason.
- godphase3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Perhaps they look them up/read/comment specifically because it touches on their interests or they have something to provide? I'm a volunteer firefighter, and I often search for stories on digg that relate to the fire services, because it relates to my life, and I might be able to at some point add my knowledge to the conversation.
- HinDeSky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this ship is not a tanker but a cargo ship. Those big hatches are the access point for the cargo hold area. Tanker hold fuel, crude oil or chemicals. This ship is for bulk cargo such as grain or minerals.
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