What navies do when a hurricane comes?

Goat · 10-12-06, 01:08 PM

Get underway... get out to sea where there are no others doing the same thing...bow INTO the seas... Ahead One Third... or just enough to maintain steerage-way [to KEEP the bow into the seas]... If it is bad enough, go to Condition Zebra... all hatches and doors dogged down tight. Hang on. Stuff outside the superstructure may carry away, but inside will be fine. Depends upon the size of the ship. I knew a guy on a CVA [aircraft carrier] who was in a typhoon bad enough to curl up the front of the flight deck, and HE slept through it! DD's [destroyers] are not so lucky.

10-12-06, 01:08 PM	#3
Goat Soundman Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: 80 road miles from Boomer Heaven Posts: 147 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Get underway... get out to sea where there are no others doing the same thing...bow INTO the seas... Ahead One Third... or just enough to maintain steerage-way [to KEEP the bow into the seas]... If it is bad enough, go to Condition Zebra... all hatches and doors dogged down tight. Hang on. Stuff outside the superstructure may carry away, but inside will be fine. Depends upon the size of the ship. I knew a guy on a CVA [aircraft carrier] who was in a typhoon bad enough to curl up the front of the flight deck, and HE slept through it! DD's [destroyers] are not so lucky. __________________ Red to Red, Green to Green. If you see 'em both don't steer in between !