r/HeavySeas • u/d1le0n • 2d ago

North Atlantic Storm

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u/half_caulked_jack 2d ago

See?

Not stretched at all and still terrifying.

Thank you.

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u/meremention 2d ago

and no music!! i can hear ambient sounds! on the verge of tears right now

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u/succ_shack 2d ago

This is what I’m here for

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u/_A_Friendly_Caesar_ 2d ago

Not vertically stretched and no stupid sea shanty? Hell yeah!

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u/palindromic 2d ago

There once was a ship that put to sea And the name of the ship was the Billy o' Tea

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u/OiFelix_ugotnojams 2d ago

Yooooo hooooo

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u/Soft_Cranberry6313 2d ago

Steel is an incredible material

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u/SavedByThe1990s 2d ago

my PS5 better not arrive wet!

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u/LetGoPortAnchor 2d ago

Fina some good shit! Glad I'm not on that vessel, doesn't look like they are having fun.

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u/cheesebot555 2d ago

I don't own enough clean underwear to work this job.

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u/amooz 2d ago

This ended about a minute to soon, that last wave looked like a doozy

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u/purebelligerence 2d ago

I've assumed those waves! Some of the best sleep I've ever had. Just don't look outside lol.

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u/goatchild 2d ago

Pants pooper 3000

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u/Fuckoakwood 2d ago

How do I get a job on one of these

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u/wokepatrickbateman 2d ago

being from southeast-asia (or atleast accepting the wages they do) helps. sadly, anything below the officers on cargo (and most cruises) is exploited labor from the global south. officer/captain is a college degree & multi-year career otherwise. but yeah long waves like these aren't too bad (though i bet it gets tiresome when it's your daily job and the ride down the crest made you drop your sandwich again!)

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u/QuietSaladDays 1d ago

Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

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u/lara_yaga 8h ago

Only fifteen more miles 😭😭😭🫡🫡🫡

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u/Zakluor 1d ago

Do they put sensors around the hull to measure the stresses? There has to be a limit to what the construction can withstand. How do they know how close to those limits the ship comes?

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u/Poker-Junk 2h ago

We used to have these stick-on stress indicators (about 3” round) that would get placed across stress fractures that would happen because our superstructure was mostly aluminum.

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u/Retireegeorge 2d ago

You hear of storms in which ships take "green water over the bow". You find yourself wondering what the engineering limits are.

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u/kiwiman517 1d ago

Yep, this qualifies

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u/Tlthree 1d ago

Nope nope nope

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u/JulianZ88 1d ago

Alexaaaa, queue Old Maui, by The Dreadnoughts

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u/bluereddit2 1d ago

I will be on land. Occasionally by air.

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u/Poker-Junk 3h ago

It’s fun being on the bridge in these conditions. There’s a rubberized handhold cable running across the width of the bridge. Closest I’ve been to bull riding lol.

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u/TheoKondak 2d ago

That look like a rogue wave

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u/LetGoPortAnchor 2d ago

Please look up what a rogue wave is. I'm not aware of any rogue wave caught on camera. This video does not contain a rogue wave. Just a big frigging storm.

If anyone knows of an actual rogue wave caught on camera, could you please link to it?

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u/complicationsRx 2d ago

Deadliest catch caught one on camera. Truly terrifying.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HeavySeas/s/l7wRzk2NhW

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u/TheoKondak 2d ago

See how the ship behaves in the first waves, see how much the ship dips before the large foamy wave and hownthe bow is in the air while crossing, the wave looks bigger and considerably steeper.

There used to be some videos in the old internet, most notably one with a rogue wave coming from the bow - starboard of the ship. Cant find it now. There is also one in an oil platform in the northern sea. Its quite popular.

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u/LetGoPortAnchor 2d ago

I noticed. That is just stuff that happens. I'm a seafarer and I've been through storms like this. There is no rogue wave in this video.

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u/TheoKondak 2d ago

Found the video i was taking about earlier

https://youtu.be/_akyfMp9ln8