I Can Only Imagine Being A Sailor Before Advancement In Ship Technology

[BlackAchilles]

Facts!

When I was in the Navy frequently I would go out onto the fantail at night and look at the ocean.

It is beautiful but also inherently dangerous. Also it’s like it beckons you to come on in but you know once you do it got you

I always got the feeling something ominous is lurking just underneath the waves looking dead at me like

Experiencing the open ocean at night is on my bucket list

Not on a cruise ship either, something like a Naval or commercial vessel where its dark and you can really sea the night sky

Plus night is when all the bioluminescent freaks and weirdos come up from the deep; imagine looking down and the giant eyeball of a colossal squid is looking back at you like

 

[TheMailMan]

I only sailed on carriers ... Never even felt the ship move

 

[Jean Jacket]

Navy Brehs. Salute.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Facts!

When I was in the Navy frequently I would go out onto the fantail at night and look at the ocean.

It is beautiful but also inherently dangerous. Also it’s like it beckons you to come on in but you know once you do it got you

I always got the feeling something ominous is lurking just underneath the waves looking dead at me like

I need to see it for myself. Water always gave me an out of world feel. Probably the closest thing you can get to space.

 

[skylove4]

I think about this shyt too. It really hit home when I saw the Rembrandt painting that was stolen, “storm on the sea of Galilee”

Them boys were going through it on that boat

 

[BlackAchilles]

Being in the middle of the ocean during a storm is scary shyt NOW. I can’t even imagine the balls it took to be a sailor for the vast majority of human history.

Look into rogue waves and somehow even scarier rogue troughs

I watched a BBC doc on Rogue Waves on Youtube during Quarantine and Ive been fascinated by the subject ever since

Whats crazy is that sailors have been talking about them for ages, but before steel hulled ships they would take the old wooden vessels straight down with no survivors to tell the tale, and even after sinking the Munchen in the 70's (they still haven't found the wreck ) science still dismissed them as fisherman's tale until they finally measured one that hit an oil rig in the 90's

A couple months ago one struck a cruise ship near Antarctica and killed somebody The ocean really is terrifying

 

[Pool_Shark]

Having battles like these....

 

[Louisville Slugz]

Having battles like these....

 

[BigBlackSea]

Having battles like these....

Absolute horror.

Cannonballs and musket rounds flying through the air, rapidly disassembling men. Splinters doing secondary damage on whatever poor b*stard was in the way.
Bayonets, swords and knives forcing the battle into more intimate and close quarters. You watch the light fade from your opponents eyes, while hearing screams around you.

I heard they put sawdust on the deck in copious amounts to soak up the gore during battle and prevent people slipping.

Naval combat was as big offense as it was defense. Trying to destroy thr other guys ship while damage control is fighting to keep yours in the fight. Losing the battle means losing your only way back home.

 

[duckbutta]

The promise of new mysterious puccy in faraway lands was a motivating factor for a lot of sailors back then.

You could also have a storm blow you off course...be stranded at sea for months...and end up getting fukked in the ass by your shipmates and then your carcass eaten when the food ran out

 

[Morethan1]

the ocean at night is probably the scariest 'normal' shyt on the planet

Were you ever out to see in the military 42?

 

[42 Monks]

Were you ever out to see in the military 42?

nah. i was army. anytime i was out at sea i was just kayaking, fishing, vacationing, etc

 

[1thouwow]

I did three deployments out to sea

 

[BlackAchilles]

I did three deployments out to sea

Ever seen some crazy 20+ foot waves or bizarre sea creatures?

 

[Chip Skylark]

I watched a BBC doc on Rogue Waves on Youtube during Quarantine and Ive been fascinated by the subject ever since

Whats crazy is that sailors have been talking about them for ages, but before steel hulled ships they would take the old wooden vessels straight down with no survivors to tell the tale, and even after sinking the Munchen in the 70's (they still haven't found the wreck ) science still dismissed them as fisherman's tale until they finally measured one that hit an oil rig in the 90's

A couple months ago one struck a cruise ship near Antarctica and killed somebody The ocean really is terrifying

Aren’t they the reason so many ships have been lost in the Bermuda?