"Perfect storm"-esque photos

[wladziu]

This one should work, unlike my last link...

http://www.geocities.com/kp_diver/index111TheStorm.html


And, someone buy me one of these, to hide behind the couch:
http://www.monstergalaxy.com/lifesize_alien_figure.php



Meh.
I'm gonna stop posting these things, anyway.
Too much weird stuff out there.  Like the guy trying to cash a check for $380 billion. 

[yamahonkawazuki]

Christ. it astounds me . the power of nature. btw NICE find 

[Toogoofy317]

Yup, You can find stuff like that second one here at Down Town Disney. You can get a life size Chewbaca if you wanted or one of Worf! Starbilla's is the name of the place that got some real cool Hollywood stuff!

Mary

[Porkchop]

Props to the crew.  I rode out a hurricane on a Destroyer once and I never want to do it again.  It was the only time in my life I got seasick.

[frankieG]

Props to the crew.  I rode out a hurricane on a Destroyer once and I never want to do it again.  It was the only time in my life I got seasick.

i did it a few too and i thought it was great fun...then a tornado here in florida a few weeks ago. had to get off the road and hit the public shelter on that one.

[jhutch2115]

I was out on the Submarine during the perfect storm in 91', we caught the tail end of it. We were at periscope depth of 150ft and the boat was rolling hard, and when we surfaced it was much worse. The boat was rolling so hard that the sail plains would dipp into the water. -- Jim

[XealotX]

Props to the crew.  I rode out a hurricane on a Destroyer once and I never want to do it again.  It was the only time in my life I got seasick.

Went through a typhoon off Japan on a Spruance class destroyer in '95. In order to walk from one end of the ship to the other you would start on the deck...then walk up the port side wall as the ship rocked...then back on the deck...then along the starboard side wall as the ship rocked the other way...then back on the deck...

Spruance class destroyers were always a little top heavy. Sometimes it would rock 20 degrees while tied to the pier in calm water due to the wind. I always slept better on those nights.

[brickerenator]

And, someone buy me one of these, to hide behind the couch:
http://www.monstergalaxy.com/lifesize_alien_figure.php

You could get a nearly new GS for that kind of money

[cstilt]

So I'm guessing the boat doesn't get the weather channel???

Those were amazing pictures. It amazes me what storms/nature and do and what the boat must have went through.

[Guetschow]

Yes, its rather amazing anything survived mostl specially on a tanker like that.

Was on a Sherman class destroyer, DDG John Paul Jones, 1972-75 on a WESTPAC and went through a hurricane.  Like the previous post said walking on the bulkhead or one foot on the bulkhead and the other on the deck was pretty much the norm.  One of the other destroyers, the Knox lost a guy overboard.  Not a real chance of finding him even though we looked. Site glass outside the galley indicated we should actually be capsized at one point. 

Funny things is wasn't really scared while it was happening, just going about getting through.  Afterwards though it certainly provoked some thought.  Actually at the time, I thought it was fun.  Ah, youth.

[XealotX]

Was on a Sherman class destroyer...

Sherman class huh...you guys row that thing into port or did they have sails by then?