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re: 14 years ago today a shipmate was lost
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:52 am to Tigeralum2008
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:52 am to Tigeralum2008
Water temp in Atlantic may have caused hypothermia pretty quickly, even in May
Ships that size do not turn around on a dime
Ships that size do not turn around on a dime
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Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:54 am to Tigeralum2008
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I know it is a fricking ridiculous concept but you're taught to try to "inflate" your clothing for better bouyancy
You wear belts with coveralls so that would mean tightening your belt, arm cuffs, and tightening the collar area of your coveralls. Then blowing air to fill the cavity
I remember doing it in the pool at bootcamp and thinking this would never work in real life.
yeah that was part of the swim training, you like slap the water and air bubbles fill your coveralls, if i remember correctly.
dont think i would think to do that though if I just fell off the flight deck, thats a long arse fall
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:55 am to headhunter
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Water temp in Atlantic may have caused hypothermia pretty quickly, even in May
per the article:
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Given the water's temperature, the life expectancy for someone stuck in that part of the Atlantic is 2 1/2 hours
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:55 am to Azranod
Iirc a guy fell off a carrier in the eighties and his absence wasnt noticed immediately. He survived several days and was picked up by a local fishing boat. This was in the Indian Ocean, with warm water and calm seas. A little different than the incident described by OP.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 11:18 am to Blue Velvet
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Sounds clumsy. Darwin Award right here.
So edgy.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 11:40 am to Azranod
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To this day, I remember walking through the hanger deck, and hearing the alarm. I ran to the Portside elevator, and spotted him treading water. I remember wave after wave crashing over his head, and him coming back to the surface. I remember just as the SAR helicopter got overhead, and the guy was about to jump in, another wave crashed over Williams, and he never surfaced again.
Jesus that's terrible
Posted on 5/24/17 at 12:00 pm to Azranod
I saw a sailor nearly go in. our ship listed heavily when a swell hit. he slid down the deck, and did a flip on the rail. caught himself somehow and put his leg back over.
my concern would be getting chopped up by the prop.
my concern would be getting chopped up by the prop.
This post was edited on 5/24/17 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:49 pm to CelticDog
We had one guy almost get thrown overboard.
He was a deck seaman from TN, one of those ASVAB waiver guys.
The starboard side shoring station was used as a smoke deck while underway. There were sailors on either side, and the middle was filled with Marines from the 24th MEU. So, this kid walks into the middle of the smoke deck, looks around at all the Marines, pulls his pack of Marlboro reds from his pocket, carefully chooses his cigarette, returns the pack to his shirt pocket, pulls the lighter from his pants pocket, lights the cigarette, slowly inhales the first drag, looks around at all the Marines, and says "You know, some of you boys ain't gon be coming back."
The Marines(who we were en route to deliver to Iraq) picked the kid up and were going to throw him overboard. A group of us grabbed ahold of him and forced him back to the deck, and spent the next five minutes profusely apologizing to those Marines, and the explaining to SN Dumbass that you can't say things like that to men who already on edge.
He was a deck seaman from TN, one of those ASVAB waiver guys.
The starboard side shoring station was used as a smoke deck while underway. There were sailors on either side, and the middle was filled with Marines from the 24th MEU. So, this kid walks into the middle of the smoke deck, looks around at all the Marines, pulls his pack of Marlboro reds from his pocket, carefully chooses his cigarette, returns the pack to his shirt pocket, pulls the lighter from his pants pocket, lights the cigarette, slowly inhales the first drag, looks around at all the Marines, and says "You know, some of you boys ain't gon be coming back."
The Marines(who we were en route to deliver to Iraq) picked the kid up and were going to throw him overboard. A group of us grabbed ahold of him and forced him back to the deck, and spent the next five minutes profusely apologizing to those Marines, and the explaining to SN Dumbass that you can't say things like that to men who already on edge.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:07 pm to Azranod
It would have been awesome if the jar heads sent him swimming. They might have been punished by being sent to the brig at Camp Lejuene, instead of deploying to fricking al-Anbar.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:15 pm to White Roach
I didn't think any of them deserved to face attempted murder charges, all though dumbass definitely deserved it.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:16 pm to Azranod
just noticed you have something of mine in your sig line.... 
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