Author Fergus Macleide (12 days)
...or the monsoons in the Indian Ocean...

Author Fergus Macleide (12 days)
This brings back some memories. I watched shipmates go through both stages of seasickness...stage 1 you're afraid you're gonna die. Stage 2 you're afraid you're not...

Author Fergus Macleide (12 days)
Tom...You got that right! Green over is great!

Author Fergus Macleide (12 days)
Hey Gunfighter1b...when were you on Dahlgren? I was on when she was DLG 12 in 1969...Persian Gulf

Author Gunfighter1b (2 years)
That's not heavy weather, we caught the tail of a hurricane in the windward passage on the USS Dahlgren, came into Gitmo with a lot of lifelines gone, leaking doors and most of the paint blasted off the hull.

Author Tom Baillie (2 years)
Lol, this is not heavy seas. Not a single one of those waves nailed the pilothouse dead on, and not once did the bow dip under the waves in a trough.

Author quack447 (4 years)
choppy seas

Author wonderwayner (4 years)
We sailed accross the English channel in weather twice as bad when we were in sea cadets on TS Roylist. Heavy weather. Not.

Author bigscottlarock (4 years)
I was in the Navy for 6 years and that is nothing. If there isn't solid green water going over the bow, then it isn't heavy. Try being on a cruiser in a hurricane or being hit by a rogue wave in the middle of the night.

Author pvanhoepen (4 years)
And this should be heavy weather....duuuhhhh

Author Cirux321 (4 years)
Bah. This isnt shit. Ask any sailor thats gone through the Drake Passage what rough seas are. In 2001 the Nimitz and destroyer group-5 rounded South America in the Drake Passage and we hit 40 foot swells. The Nimitz lost her forward RAM (rolling airframe missiles) mount and my destroyer lost an antenna and had a damaged starboard rudder from our stern slamming in and out of the water so hard. That was one rough and nasty voyage. Lots of sick sailors that day.

Author 420chronmasta (4 years)
its jus windy thats about it

Author Richard J Adrian (4 years)
LOL agreed, went through a typhoon 5 years back, now that was rough weather lmfao. Rough enough to send waves overtheflight deck of a Nimitz class CVN.  Glad we wernt on a small boy at the time haha. Thats hardl a gale. Been in worse on 34' Patrol boats

Author DukeTripper (4 years)
I agree. Flemmish Cap in North Atlantic is worse than that 24/7.

Author procommenter (4 years)
I don't share your need to use scatological references. If your passion for a man to snuggle up with is so great you should search elsewhere. "Seek and Ye shall find."

Author ozzy1351 (4 years)
You made that point already! 500.000 so were 496,000 away from zero coffins after 7-years of war. I estimate at this present pace we have 124-years left with the supply we have!

Where did you get the 500,000 children killed....Al-Jazeera? Americans support/fund your island with tourism you ungrateful shit! Tell that shit to everybody that visits Aruba....make banners....make LOUD public speeches near the cruise ships and the airport and see how long Aruba survives economically!

Author procommenter (4 years)
F.E.M.A. has 500,000 coffins made in American, stored in America, awaiting Americans. U.S./U.N. forces have killed 500,000 Iraqi children since 1991.

Author ozzy1351 (4 years)
Aruba,

You Dutch are pathetic.....you killed a schoolgirl and you talk shit! I hope Venezuela invades your shit island!

Author fluke983 (4 years)
That is not heavy weather, lol.

Author procommenter (4 years)
500,000 plastic, stackable coffins, each capable of holding 3 cadavers, each designed for the crematory ovens sit awaiting their grisly disposition off Lions Club Road in Madison, Georgia {Greater Atlanta} on land leased to F.E.M.A.
ALL PATRIOTIC AMERICANS WILL REPORT
TO THE OVENS WHEN INSTRUCTED!!!
Shut up and be patriotic!

Author darlingmoon (4 years)
wow, that reminds me so much of the days I was in the Navy onboard DDG 52.

Author zuzbar (4 years)
where's the rough weather???, we were in a storm off New Caledonia onboard HMNZS Waikato (Leander class frigate FFH-55)when i served on her and encountered 13 metre (42 foot) swells, pushed in the starboard railings, washed away life jacket stowages on the upper deck, snapped whip aerials, split the breakwaters on the foc'sle,we were in company with HMNZS Wellington (FFH-69 ex HMS Bacchante)and was quite an impressive view from the bridge watching her rise out of the water exposing sonar domes

Author hexonyx22 (4 years)
Doesn't look to bad. I remember some 40'+ off cape Hatteras during a hurricane a few years back on DDG-80

Author RetSquid (4 years)
The Might Warship 'CHON?? The INCH---ON? My first ship ('85-'86)

Author tim3058 (4 years)
wow, thats pretty heavy seas for the gulf. i'm assuming persian gulf. if so its usually like glass out there. hmm interesting! DDG's FTMFW

Author yankeefancg (5 years)
Is this the same typhoon that is famously referred to as "Halsey's Typhoon"?

Author yankeefancg (5 years)
my dad was on a spruance class, actually it might have been the spruance, and he said they went through a hurricane that left a massive dent in the forward gun.

Author rentz46 (5 years)
The worst I experience on USS Rentz was the north pacific our my way to Portland. The waves where at least 40 to 50'.

Author rampantlion123 (5 years)
ye call that 'roughers' ive seen bigger waves when i fart in the bath

Author type42sheff (5 years)
been in force 12 in north atlantic on british type 42 destroyer in 70-s. first time experience weightlessness...........great fun.

Author dustinwhitehead1 (5 years)
navy blows

Author steveperry2006 (5 years)
I was on a Spruance and hit a storm coming across the pacific. I have no idea how big the wave were, but you could hear when the screws came out of the water, and feel the bow wiggle as the sonar dome move up and down through the the waves. Spruances are aluminum from the main deck up. Its light, but brittle. We had a huge crack running across the 03 all the way down to the main deck

Author asiatic619 (5 years)
That's heavy weather?!?! Looks normal to me.

Author OHIOYOTEHUNTER (5 years)
I took my BUDS Test in Beirut, I wasn't afraid of ANYTHING, except when we were in that Storm, I went out on the Bridge and the Helo Carrier USS Inchon was at a 45 degree angle off of our Port Bow, and we were Pitching at the time and I looked over and saw the ENTIRE ass end and Screw of the Inchon Come out of the Water like a Toy Boat, THEN I was afraid, it put into Perspective just how MIGHTY the Sea is

Author OHIOYOTEHUNTER (5 years)
Allegro
I was on the Shreveport LPD-12 and when we were Steaming to Beirut in 82-83 we were taking 43 degree Rolls, the "Old Man" was worried about losing our Guns over the side, that was 2 days and I have NEVER been so sick in ALL my Life, hell the Commodore was Puking also, it WAS bad, but I never got sea sick again after that, of course the Worse we had after that was 25-30 degree rolls
Did they ever bring the Rank of Commodore back?

Author OldLemming (6 years)
GO NAVY ... BEAT ARMY ... again and again and ...

Author Adam Allegro (6 years)
Hahahaha. thats a good one. nice to meet a fellow grad... USNA '05 :)

Author OldLemming (6 years)
[from above] "Will that cure seasickness?", they asked. "Cure it? Hell no!", diSangro said. "As far as I know, there is no cure; it is just a lot more colorful coming back up !!! Me, I never missed a meal !

Smoooother sailing ! Old Lemming, USNA '60

Author OldLemming (6 years)
some ROTCs [carrying pails & saltines asked the Commodore's chief after 5 days of it what they could do. He said "The only thing I've heard is to try to eat tomatoes & green peppers!" [continued]

Author Adam Allegro (6 years)
yea well that was the best video i got... hahaha. it got alot worse the next day, we were taking 23 degree rolls. puke everywhere!

Author OldLemming (6 years)
You call that "heavy weather" ... 1959 barrier exercises between N.Africa and Sicily ... for almost a week we were taking breakers over the bridge of a Fletcher Class DD ;o}