The Sea Isn't For Sissies.

Rough conditions at sea

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• big waves
• ocean
• ships at sea

[vexviper]

Ok I'm one of those pussies!

[swiwi86]

now do it in a sailing boat lol

[abuseyourpower]

I didn't know this kindof shit was for real

[sirbrutal]

yep, officially a big fat pussy!

[itix1]

@itix1 I've found a website that explains pretty good how the vikings navigated and why the vikings did not take unnecessary and uncalculated risks, but youtube won't let me post it. Just google viking navigation.

BTW, I know about calculating latitudes and longitudes. My father is a 1st officer like many in my family (I sort of broke the code by becoming an engineer, but hell, I still know a bit about it)

[itix1]

@Migus29 I am aware that they did not have none of those instruments (some of which were developed by chinese).

Still they managed to "guess" accurately enough to sail to america and back, many times, long before Amerigo Verspucci and Christopher Colombus. It is named Wineland in history because of the wine grapes that grew there.

Vikings mostly followed the cost or used crude methods to measure offdrift and stuff like that, but it worked because they sailed to iceland and back for 400 years.

[RawolutionRawelation]

@Migus29 You are forgetting Great Spirit, who clearly brought them where they wanted and needed to go. You simple minded dimwit.

[Migus29]

@itix1 Damn, you got a really good chauvinist brainwash. Do you know what "navigate by the stars" even mean? Knowing where North is won't do you a thing. You need to be able to calculate latitude and longitude. That's how maps are made. Latitude calculation was developed by the Greeks and the Arabs and then simplified by the Portuguese. That requires stars or the sun. Longitude requires a very accurate watch. Chronometer, Sextant, compass. None developed by the vikings.

[itix1]

@Migus29 Oh yeah?

Who then invented starboard and portside? Why do you think starboard is called "star"board? They navigated by the stars (the north star being the most common one). Most basic navigation comes from the vikings (i.e. everything that does not require a GPS, an ECDIS and a couple of electronic sea charts).

Styrbord och babord (Starboard and portside) comes from the vikings...

There are still today more scandinavian offcers than any other region in the world.

[iwillknifeya]

Oh, hellll no son!

[Migus29]

@ckface12 Yeah, but the vikings did not know what they were doing, they could not repeat the journey as they had no navigation means. If you want to go that way, the Polynesians did it before the vikings. Going somewhere and being able to register the position on a map and study the trade winds, that's something much harder.

[ckface12]

@Migus29 And the danish vikings did it before the portuguese, just in open boats.