Have you seen this?

I love my small calm lake...
 
Looks like all the stories I've heard about the N. Atlantic convoys during WW2.

James
 
I spent 4 days in 30 ft seas on my last patrol on a 270 ft cutter. Spent the the whole time strapped to the flight deck. Had a mess cook bring me food and sodas. Not a fun time then. It was a wild ride now...
 
BTDT. North Atlantic is an unforgiving b!tch.
 
Heck, that was just Mike ( N. C. ) on his way to work on Monday. But you shoulda seen it on Tuesday! ;)
 
Ok, silly question....how do they keep the contents of the head, in the head?
 
I'd like to know if the skipper of that destroyer was thinking...damn, another rough day at sea OR we're all gonna die!!
 
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I'd like to know if the skipper of that destroyer was thinking...damn, another rough day at sea OR we're all gonna die!!

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I can tell you mine said another rough day at sea. His supply officer on the other hand was thinking we're all gonna die!!

One of the scariest times of my life.
 
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Ok, silly question....how do they keep the contents of the head, in the head?
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On the troop ship they closed all Water tight doors and dogged down all hatches and we were all trapped inside that big Sub Marine for three days.

They shut the water tight door at both ends of the 10" pipe the Commodes were welded to.

So as we Gentlemen would fill that 10" pipe, and the ship would roll.....all the 'fluid' inside that pipe, cascaded down the pipe and slammed against the Water tight door, the Commodes started to spout geysers of "that stuff" which would splat against the ceiling and splash off in all directions.

The urinals were troughs running fore n' aft.
They'd fill up and when the ship would dive into a wave, it'd all run forward, splat into the end and whoosh up all over the wall and ceiling.

Then to really confuse matters, the gob's would occasionally come into the head and start at the door with the Fire hose.
Complete wash down! Starting at the door, all along the floor, walls and ceilings.

Anytime you went into the head there was a dripping ceiling. You never knew for sure what it was, dripping on you.
 
The systems are like big vacuflush systtems. Its all sucked down to a large holding tank. One way vaves prevent geysers
 
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BTDT. North Atlantic is an unforgiving b!tch.

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And the north wall, south of the Vacapes ain't no joke..I was on FF 1038 on lifeguard duty for the Kennedy going thru 30 to 40 footers bow first and the Kennedy kept asking if we were still afloat because they could see nothing but our stack stinking out of the water..!
 
Tony,

I was on the USS John F. Kennedy for a North Atlantic crossing around 1979 and was amazed at how much a 1000' foot long aircraf carrier could pitch. I was standing an integrity watch in the control tower and saw repeated waves that would come up over the bow and send a wall of green water all the way back to the island 600 feet aft of the bow. The only airplanes on the flight deck we a couple of helicopters which were almost destroyed.
 
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Heck, that was just Mike ( N. C. ) on his way to work on Monday. But you shoulda seen it on Tuesday! ;)

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Here, you CAN see it on Tuesday (about a month ago)! The guy that made the video is pretty good at editing them, and was kind enough to leave my ugly mug out of the final cut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QSHPQzYD_BY

At about 7:00 in the video, you see a pretty good series come in - keep in mind that helmet cam recording it is about 15 feet above the waterline when you look at those waves.
 
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