Fucking incredible video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BmRzj3O_V8U

2/13/2012 6:39:11 PM

great post. those waves around 3 mins in are absolutely insane.

2/13/2012 6:44:38 PM

wow that's insane! no way you'd get me on that boat.

2/13/2012 6:48:20 PM

how much bigger do waves have to be to sink a ship like that?

2/13/2012 6:50:06 PM

...you scary

2/13/2012 6:50:24 PM

Good stuff.

2/13/2012 6:51:50 PM

now that, children, would be fortitude of the testicular variety

2/13/2012 6:53:50 PM

that damn song

people put it in every video these days

2/13/2012 7:07:22 PM

I had it muted...tell me it isn't that fucking WEEEEEEEooooWEEEEEEEEoooWOOOOOOOEEEEAHHHHHHH or whatever

I wish I could retract my "view" from every video that has that

2/13/2012 7:10:19 PM

dubstep version of the requiem for a dream theme music

2/13/2012 7:12:30 PM

Quote :

"how much bigger do waves have to be to sink a ship like that? "

Sailors, correct me if I'm wrong, but

I would expect outside of some wrong wave there aren't any naturally occurring that would sink that ship at the 3 min mark so long as they were taking it head on. Notice that the period of the waves are spaced far enough apart such that the boat can begin heading up the face of the next wave. You're not going to find massive waves spaced closely enough to inundate that boat. Now, if the captain fucked up and got it cocked in sideways and was taking those waves anywhere but the bow then I'd think it would stand a decent chance of getting rolled.

2/13/2012 8:01:33 PM

^ That's correct for the most part.

We were shown the video during coast guard training. Our 47' motor life boats are actually designed to roll all the way over without flooding or sinking. Hopefully the crew can hold their breath long enough

2/13/2012 8:29:57 PM

Quote :

"I would expect outside of some wrong wave "

Head thought "rogue", fingers typed wrong.

2/13/2012 8:36:44 PM

The continent of Atlantis was an island which lay before the great flood in the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean. So great an area of land, that from her western shores those beautiful sailors journeyed to the South and the North Americas with ease in their ships with painted sails. To the east, Africa was a neighbor, across a short strait of sea miles.

The great Egyptian age is but a remnant of the Atlantian culture. The antediluvian kings colonized the world; all the Gods who play in the mythological dramas in all legends from all lands were from fair Atlantis.

Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth. On board were the Twelve: The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician, and the other so-called Gods of our legends, though Gods they were. And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind,
Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new . . .

2/13/2012 11:59:40 PM

I've been on a ship that encountered a storm 3 days in and we experienced 15' seas

on an 85' fishing trawler


this is not fun

2/14/2012 12:16:58 AM