I remember pulling out of Pearl on a destroyer and our aft line (line 6) slipped back onto the bollard on the pier as we were moving. The line was still wrapped around the chock on the deck. That line ran through for a couple seconds then bit in. It got so tight the water was wringing out of it and it started humming from the strain. Us line handlers huddled behind the 5” gun mount. The line then began to run through the chock again at lightning speed. The bitter end jumped off the deck and bent the steel life rails on its way over the side. It was pretty hairy.

This is one of the most dangerous evolutions you can do on a ship.

FUBAR

Oopsie Daisy!

Is this ABH school?

The first guy screaming was the guilty one

Whoops

I didn't make the anchors and chain so heavy in the first place they wouldn't have this problem.

That rust must feel good in the lungs. Rust hits for America!

Bridge, fo'c'sle. Ground tackle has departed the ship.

$1 million down the drain!

Cameraman at the end 🤡🤡

Chinese fire drill.

I was on the U.S.S. Tarawa off the coast of Coronado, California as a U.S. Marine. Those were good times and l guess that l have come full circle with this old warrior as it has been sunken now in a training exercise.😢

What is a "SHOT"?

Anchor lost at 5:20

Breathing in all that rust must be great for your health! 😂

Captain: "I didn't mean literally LET GO the anchor..."

It's never a good day when a guy wearing khakis has his hands in his pockets. I mean, he even turns his back to the chain! Figured he was a zero. C'mon man!!!

Rip USS Tarawa

Just goes to show ya ...Some of us got Erector sets for Christmas some of us got Easy-Bake ovens....

I was on the USS Peleliu LHA-5. Boatswains mate. When underway I was 4 hours on and 4 hours off. On the bridge, helm, lee helm, lookouts, messenger of the watch. When you're on the porch lookout you can see the harrier Jets and helicopters taking off and landing. Being on the bridge with them officers and knowing exactly what's going on. The best job I ever had.

Just one old sailor’s opinion, too much chatter, very slack looking bunch and the chief playing pocket pool should spend the rest of his truncated career counting toilet paper. Finally there should have been an immediate muster and that army of onlookers should have been controlled.

It beats me why they have manually operated chain brakes ? A hydraulic brake that’s operated from a console would be far more safer and way more effective.

Poor buggers breathing in all that rusty dust in the air !

Classic...taking way too much brake off.

AEAN Schafer here. I got to the Tarawa in March 03', I used to love coming out to the Anchor Room... These Anchors n Chains are massive... Id hate to be caught in the path of one of these; good nobody got hurt...

S O O O O U N S A T !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anchors away!

0:46 Hands in pockets. Hmmmm

I was conceived a couple weeks before this happened.

Stuped AB

Look at the retarded idiot walking around with us hands in his pocket what a moron

Damn

Can't watch this again...

Get a duck bill on that chain now!while on board the U.S.S.Durham in Pearl I was painting the anchor flukes , my fellow deckapes that were tending my safetyline , thought it would be amusing to remove the jacobs ladder , and diddy bop to somewhere else , needless to say I had to climb the anchor shaft to get back topside

I bet those deck seamen spent countless hours repainting the damaged areas of the forecastle.

It seemed odd how they kept spinning the brake wheel or whatever it is called. I can't imagine it would have taken that many rotations to free the anchor. Nobody else seemed to question what they were doing.

Worked on deck and also as a navigator in the merchant navy. You always tried to release the chain in a controlled manner, as soon as it start to move you need to add some friction to control the speed. Obviously it depend on the situation and the depth, the deeper water the more risk for screw ups.....Never tested it but was told that if you let the chain go fully out in deep water( straight down), there is no windlass that can lift the whole chain and the anchor hanging straight down.

Your respiratory problems were not service related

Bye bye 😂

So, that poor ship is still floating around the ocean, unable to stop?🥺😔

You know it's a military ship when everybody started yelling. Why is there so much free space that the end of the chain can hit the pillar like a whip? Why is that wheel not like a wormdrive that would block itself. What hat a stupid construction!

Rip everyones long term hearing that werent wearing protection.

I was on the Eagle of the sea in 1983 when we pulled into Hong Kong and pulled the anchor point in the harbor off the bottom and began to drift towards the shore…..general quarters rang and we safely maneuvered out to where the tankers anchored….long ride on the launch for Liberty

208,000 pounds at $3 per lb is $624,000.

Appreciate boats

I remember this event like it was yesterday. I was one deck in the brake room below. What a crazy to arrive in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 lol 😂.

The proud, capable, American Powerhouse Military.

Never give the camera to the idiot .. or this is what you end up with.