22m waves

Offshore on GP3

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[88Dinger]

@Theokondak Very true. As a career sailor I have seen some very very heavy seas. I have been in hurricanes and the absolute most you tend to get in even the worst weather is 12 to 14 M and that is very rare. I have been out in seas this size and can tell you straight up that this is not even CLOSE to the claim of 22m. 8M tends to bury the bridge of a frigate and we sail BIG frigates not the conventional size that most people think of. 10M seas are enough to put most real sailors in their racks.

[anduandi221]

@polychromia smoke a blunt

[jawadad802]

@88Dinger frigates?... as in navy frigates??? career sailor? yea sure you're a career moron

[R00RAL]

for those who dont know, that's the Anchor chain tension alarm.

[breaneainn]

vomit.

[itix1]

@Ebsteins31653 ...and honestly I was quite calm. As long as the engine is running, the ship is moving forward and the emergency flooding pumps (don't know if that is the appropriate englisg term for the Swedish word stormläns) are capable of removing the water from main deck, there is no real danger.

It was difficult moving around though. Like climbing a mountain that suddenly turned into a steep drop.

[itix1]

@Ebsteins31653 This was in -99 and we did not have computer assessments regarding weather. Just regular weather reports from VTS stations and meteorological service stations around the world (which then based their weather service on reports from ships like the Atlantic Concert and her sisters rather than baloons).

It was the master who did a very rare mistake of judging how the low pressure system would move and chose to go north of Ireland instead of south en route to Halifax from Liverpool.

[Ebsteins31653]

@itix1 Brilliant comment itix1! As regards the weather calculations, how 'accurate' and 'changeable' are the meteorogical algorithms as regards on-board computer assessments? Do you find it necessary to perform your own calculations in keeping with the computer predictions,- or do you take the software projection and forecast with the proverbial dose of salt? It must be outrageously frightening when caught-up in these 'mountainous' seas! Best wishes. Ebs

[TheHamster88]

22m my arse! more like 6-8m buddy...



[itix1]

@88Dinger I've been out in 16 m waves and over 35 m/s winds off the cost of ireland on my way across the Atlantic in a 295 m long ship (Atlantic Concert). We got the (then) biggest ramp in the world bent by a massive wave and took in water on main deck. We lost a few containers that were ripped out of the cell guide system.

She is still the worlds largest RORO/LOLO today and she took a massive beating.

All because we made a mistake with the weather calculations.

22m = certain death!

[NewZealandisthebest1]

rolling or pitching?