US Navy Dropping Massive Anchor Chain to Stop a Moving Aircraft Carrier

[@nelsonmorgan2356]

USS SARATOGA CV-60 was the shortest sea and anchor detail in the Navy. We loved it. Pull up and park and get off the ship. That makes a sailor happy.

[@artnickel1664]

First of all you don't use an anchor to stop a ship the size of an aircraft carrier because it will drag that chain or part it before it ever comes to a stop. When dropping anchor, except in an emergency, you are typically beginning to back down so you can lay enough chain to hold the ship where it's anchored. The anchor is like a sinker on the end of a fishing line, designed to pull the chain to the bottom but it is the chain that holds the ship which is why they let out 7 times the length of chain as the depth of the water where anchored. The "HOLE" the chain runs through is called a HAUSE PIPE. How much chain you lay is easy to see. At 3:16 you see a single white link then a red detachable link then a single white link. That is the end of the first shot (90 feet or 15 fathoms) of chain above the swivel. The Second shot will have two white links on before and after the red detachable link (at the capstain at 3:19). The next to the last shot (15 fathoms) of chain is painted solid yellow and the final 15 fathom shot is painted red. Fact! if you see yellow hit the deck and you don't have the chain well in hand, run. Some ships, like amphibious landing ships and tenders, have a stern anchor to help pull them off the beach or to control their swing while other ships are tied up along side. Anchors can also be dipped to help with steerage control in tight places with obnoxious currents.

[@BjarneLinetsky]

you don't "drop the hook" to stop an aircraft carrier. That's not for that. The anchor keeps the ship from drifting with currents and wind when not underway.

[@rcannon409]

Can you picture yourself making the video and not knowing what an anchor does, or why it's used? Wouldn't you Google search that before going to all that work?

[@erccurtis6029]

I was going to make the same comment, but imagine what would go wrong if they tried it. . .I got a great picture of the Kitty Hawk anchored in Hong Kong harbor back in the day, when I was in the Navy years ago. You can hear and feel the chains dropping in the whole forward part of the ship. I marveled at what it took to build and install the chains and anchors. And now they're disassembling my old ship and scrapping it, sad.

[@wadeschritter6503]

They do precision anchoring drills to help the ship anchor in a specific position. Also, if propulsion is lost, the anchor can be used to prevent the ship from running aground. Ship's ready the anchor prior to restricted maneuvering through channels and coming into port so that it can be ready to stop the ship in an emergency. So technically, the anchors can be used to stop the ship.

[@jakeeasterwood9317]

@@rcannon409Everyone knows what an anchor does. It attaches your foot to your leg silly. 😅

[@jeffholliday5883]

You mean not “making way”? You’re not making way while on anchor, but thanks for your wisdom … come on, man.

[@teeh917]

Very interesting video !! The first time I had seen the anchor operation in that much detail. Thank you. 🇺🇸

[@HoosierGuy]

As a Jarhead onboard the USS Wasp, I remember having my sleeping quarters right next to the chain room on one side and the Weight room on the other side. Didn't get much sleep in that 6 month deployment.

[@brucew7062]

Dropping anchor is a bad enough noise, but drawing it back up link by massive link is excruciating when you are trying to sleep in forward berthing spaces.

[@Jonathan-L]

If you're tired enough, you'll just keep sleeping :)

[@Andrew-sv6zq]

Cool stuff. I'm glad that all of the money we spend on this stuff, that it works as it should.

[@Lasvegasnowman1]

All the engineering that went into this is beyond belief not to mention the construction

[@SteveSteeleSoundSymphony]

That’s a lot of metal dust to be breathing in everyday. You’d think masks, ear plugs (which I saw), and work gloves would be standard equipment.

[@nicodesmidt4034]

6:15 also slapping on chromium based paints without any protection seems quite reasonable. Hence on the hazardous substances list and only used in controlled environments. It’s both very toxic and carcinogenic 😮

[@AndreDonDodda-kr9lb]

Wow. You wouldn't make it at my job. This was clean as fuck compared to the extrusion plant I work at. Some of us have families to feed we can't be worried about "dust in the air"..... masks would make communication more difficult than already is in a loud ass environment. And gloves don't stop from breathing dust.

[@eponymous_graphics]

Subbed ... i'll be using this video for reference points in my fiction writing. ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE TO WATCH. Thank you. I had no idea a team was needed for the achor; i had always assumed it was operated by hydraulics. This vessel is LETERALLY operating like the ancient vessels ... i.e. All hands on deck. Thanks again for showing U.S. parts of the carrier one rarely sees ... ... very inspirational. AND FOR THOSE WANTING TO JOIN THE MILITARY WITHOUT COMBAT .... ... the anchor team on this carrier is just ... one other option. Thumbs up.

[@SteveSteeleSoundSymphony]

Literally.

[@navypowertv]

US Navy is No1!!! Like 👍

[@Jabbawocki1]

bollocks

[@gonavy1]

⚓ 👍

[@andrewmarshall360]

The size of those chains / anchors is amazing

[@edbeans3226]

Each link of the chain is about a foot long, 6 to 8 inches wide, 2 inches around and feels like about a hundred pounds to a strong man!😅

[@HARLEYMLM1966]

For those who have never been there, you have no idea how loud it is to drop anchor!

[@Tyroneshoelaces242]

And dangerous. Amazing to see anchor chain rise 3 to 4 feet off the deck while deployment

[@Hessboys]

Great video

[@chrisreid5]

Why put crappy music over the part when the anchor gets dropped?? Disappointing.

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Dob't worry. Be gay.

[@brianswelding]

7:31 little typo there with "Wisconsin". Cool video though, thanks 🙏

[@5amBr80]

4:03 This is how Hell must sound.

[@breakthechains8362]

Huge respect to the Captain, he probably knows every facet of that ship.

[@alanfan8941]

Rarely does the CO know every facet of a ship, especially an aircraft carrier. But he has division officers, department heads, and even the crew who collectively are intimately familiar with every nut and bolt on that vessel that he can turn to for the information that he needs.

[@coloradostrong8285]

I got a tour of #78 the USS Ford. The chain room was spotless. The hangar could fit several houses in it, and the crew had carbon fiber bathroom sinks for weight reduction. They were still using these 1960's looking flashlights throughout the ship that were battery powered, not recharegable as they were hung in place. Some of those flashlights were still using sealed beam bulbs LOL, and the few that actually had LEDs in them were as dim as something from Dollar Tree. And they are still using filament bulbs in all of the lights for guiding the planes in, and on top of the deck. Why they don't use LED's is a mystery to me. That was one of the jobs of the tour guide, to go ahead of the "inspectors" and kick any lights that weren't on, just to say the light is working. The tour guy was talking about some "plasma garbage disposal unit", and said when it did work, it was OK, but 1/2 the time they still hand separated trash. There were hangers and holders for wrenches, but they were empty here and there. I was told they got "borrowed" for some inspection elsewhere and never got returned. Yep, later on there would be a wrench just placed somewhere. Overall, the ship was pretty clean.

[@adamzangara]

I just love KZbin!

[@nickmail7604]

How thick are those ratings that they need supervising to paint an anchor?

[@RoscoPColetraneIII]

Most dangerous jobs on a vessel that size: refueling, loading/unloading cargo, and--dropping the anchor.

[@1lionmurrill]

Don’t know what you’re talking about. Those are not the most dangerous jobs.

[@anthonymiller7992]

They don't use Anchors to " STOP " aircraft carriers 😂 WOW

[@firstlast-ty4di]

Yeah, that sounds like BS to me too.

[@lankthompson7167]

lol, that’s the only reason I watched this video! Hadn’t ever seen or heard about it, thought it would be crazy to watch

[@tomrogers9467]

No, but it’s great for finding stuff. Like cables, pipelines, ……

[@dannygjk]

@@tomrogers9467 😂

[@markmoses7300]

Guide wires connected to the anchor assembly

[@bonehound4511]

Outstanding!!!...

[@inlangford]

I went to the USS Midway Museum and saw the anchor chains and how big they actually are, so this is cool!

[@ArmyColonel06]

😂 you should join the army soon

[@bretttrommler756]

I served on the USS Midway CV-41 in 1980 out of Yokosuka, Japan.

[@BarracudaBoy]

What I recently learned which I thought interesting is that it's not just the anchor that holds a modern ship in place, it's the weight of the chain laying on the seabed also.

[@tomrogers9467]

Chain needs to be at a specific angle called “scope”. You are correct.

[@SuzanPeters-p4e]

I’ve read it’s the weight of chain that holds a ship more so than the anchor. Drop anchor, reverse and let chain weight hold you in place. Right?

[@dbmail545]

Partly. The weight of the chain keeps the anchor down in the position of maximum "bite"

[@stuarth43]

dead right son, chain is like a huge spring , rising as the shipmoves, sinking again, you can tell by the noise the chain makes that the ship is holding, if it goes quiet in any wind or current, the ship is dragging her tackle

[@BarneeFife]

Back in the 1970’s, they could have drop those chains off at Earl Scheib and he would have painted those chains for 19.95, and if they had it in by 9, it’d be out by 5.

[@pfdrtom]

The Daily Aviation....shows ship dropping anchor.

[@ttip9411]

A hard hat is not going to help if shit goes sideways. 😐

[@BjarneLinetsky]

Bosun's mates are the pride of the Navy. Deck division. Fair winds, brothers.

[@bretttrommler756]

My first carrier was the USS Constellation CV-64. My squadrons berthing was on the 03 level forward, right below the flight deck and directly above the Fo'c'sle. The only thing forward of us was an auxiliary helm station where they could steer the ship from if need be. I remember the first time I heard then drop the anchor. We had pulled into Pusan, South Korea, early in the morning. They let that anchor go, and I thought the world was ending. The water brake for the #2 cat was right above my head, and it was horrible during a launch, but I think the anchor was worse.

[@thomasskowronski2710]

I count at least 16 and maybe as many as 20 people involved in dropping an anchor here. What are all these people doing? This entire operation is carried out by one Bosun and one AB on vessels larger than depicted in the Merchant Navy.

[@Peter-pv8xx]

Probably training.

[@ronnieam33]

I remember in our anchor chain room on the USS Ranger CV-61 it was always maintained so nicely that they would hold church services every Sunday in it.

[@robertlowell3854]

When were you on the ranger I was on it 1975-1979 1st div and 5th div

[@ronnieam33]

@@robertlowell3854 1989 -1992 I was attached to an F-14 squadron, VF-1 out of Marimar.

[@robertlowell3854]

@ronnieam33 I work for carl vinson VA medical center in dublin ga now,thanks for your service

[@terrybaird9532]

I was M division in 73, 74 transferred to east coast USS Roosevelt in late 1974

[@foofghtr]

We always had GQ at the Focsle, ceremonies etc. I was on the Forrestal, Kennedy and Nimitz in various F-14 Squadrons. My CO in VF-31 at one point on the USS Forrestal stepped over the anchor chains, and a maintenance Chief scolded him before GQ started, embarrassing him in front of the entire Squadron. Needless to Say Chief Brown never made E-8 and was retired.

[@splithoof9567]

And some people wonder why keeping the world’s greatest military in operation requires a huge budget.

[@JasonLihani]

Terrifying but super cool.

[@5argetech56]

Love those Darth Vader style helmets!

[@wallacegrommet3479]

New Jersey is impossible to bring back, ask the curator Ryan.

[@ToddHavel]

@Mikethemerciless11as a hobby it is very cool, just like an old car from the 1940’s. Trying to daily drive in all seasons is not practical today, we use our vehicles very differently than in the 1940’s. Maintenance training for sailors is impractical, we need the best equipment and technology for modern warfare, not teaching old boiler maintenance and repair at sea. Don’t take your 1940’s car out in the snow or run it to work at 70 mph on the expressway, just not safe or practical. Use it by all means, enjoy it, preserve it, but it will wear out faster just due to age let alone modern life. Love the old stuff, hate the old stuff for letting me down. The world has changed, people are the same. Love your neighbor

[@Peter-pv8xx]

She was just overhauled, I'm not sure if she's out of drydock yet, who knows what they might have done.

[@mht525]

The attack class carriers are so good meaning deadly. Chips and paint, can be a pleasant or unpleasant task in the Navy. Serving your country you learn and give. 🙏✌️🤘🇦🇺

[@schafiundfroschi3366]

Man kann ein grosses Schiff nicht mit dem Anker stoppen.

[@The_monspubis_is_my_mother]

I think this is the position where the most casualties occur when the ship is not on the battlefield. The most important thing is to confirm and communicate properly.

[@Blackout5871]

When painting after cleaning, is there some reason they don't use a spray-on method? Why just hand rollers and paint brushes?

[@Fred_Lougee]

"Right way, wrong way, Navy way."

[@Blackout5871]

@Fred_Lougee fair.

[@scottlp2323]

I was surprised to see that this operation wasn't controlled by one person with CCTV and hydraulics.

[@DavidBlaske]

Wow did you see that?

[@cassiusdio6048]

I hate being told what to do, that’s why I didn’t join the military and I specifically didn’t join the navy because of sharks. 🦈 but I respect all these people for what they do for our country.

[@mellowmoods8393]

So what happens if a ship needs to "drop anchor" over the Mariana Trench?

[@karlchilders5420]

That is NOT "paint" they are using on those things. That is a coating, and in particular, they use a system of coatings to ensure corrosion, appearance, and uniformity of wear. It sounds pretentious but everything done on ship, literally *everything* has been figured out, thought, re-thought, and applied for decades. Nothing is "accidental" or free-wheeling. Those sailors and Marines aboard are all working in concert, each in their roles, to ensure that the ship can perform all aspects of its mission smoothly and without failure.

[@CitizenDrew]

Wish you would use narration instead of captioning. I can’t watch the video and read captions at the same time. Try it yourself - from your viewer’s perspective. Not a great video experience.

[@doughuffman5790]

Tell the story about submarine anchors.

[@stevenallan5822]

You don't get chain like that at your local hardware store. Must be some noise when both anchors are dropped.

[@Marco-bg8jf]

Yee haw 🎉🎉🎉

[@ruthc8407]

Zinc chromate is the PRIMER, not just a base coat.

[@coolsnake1134]

The video you are describing with the tugboats and USS New Jersey is wrong, the video shown is from the spring of 2024 when she went into dry dock and the reason she was using tugboats is because she is now a museum ship and when the Navy gave it to the museum they preserved the engines and the important drivetrain components with preservative grease and the museum is not allowed to fire up the engines or the boilers and even if they were allowed to do so they would not want to bunker on that much diesel to get the boilers fired up because of how much it would cost not to mention all the leak chasing that would need to be done for the steam system. Also the Navy put block off plates on all her water intakes that are below the water line to help prevent leaks and preserve her so the boilers wouldn't even be able to get feed water. So she was towed into dry dock with tugboats in what is known as a dead ship toe and that is common for even non-museumship reserve / mothball fleet ships because part of the mothballing process is dry docking the ship and putting the block off plates on the outside of the hall for all the below water line through hole fittings and putting the preservative grease in the engines

[@Crow-l6k]

It's easy to spot the difference between a Navy pilot and any other branch of service pilots. If it's Air Force, Marines, Army, they like those long easy smooth take off and landings, so pretty, so smooth. Here comes ole Navy pilot he don't mess around, he takes off and lands that bird on half the length of an air craft carrier, so smooth, so pretty. Hey hun I'm home.

[@USNMMCret]

I’ll never understand camouflage BDUs on a ship.

[@andrewmarshall360]

Obviously with large vessels you may drop chain/ anchor depending on the current or weather .

[@ruthc8407]

The New Jersey's 16" guns are the largest naval guns ABOVE THE WAVES. But 180 miles southwest of Kyushu, sitting on the sea floor under 1,120 ft of water, lie the largest naval guns ever made--the 18" guns of the IJN Yamato. U.S. forces pounded her with twelve bombs and seven torpedoes before they sank her in 1945.

[@jeffj2495]

Bunch of totally unrelated content on this LONG vid

[@Cripplehorse]

It's true! In all the papers and on the news.

[@clarencemitchell5297]

I cannot believe that those mini guns on the ship have to be loaded by hand on the deck of the ship. That is absolutely ridiculous!!

[@DungujBaasan]

13:00 この演習は当たっているのか？命中被弾してるのか？

[@jajupa78]

This is a demonstration of what basically unlimited resources looks like.

[@mahmoodali5043]

This could've been a 30 second video

[@lowprofile2412]

💯🇺🇸

[@andrewmarshall360]

Sometimes they use 2 or 3

[@georgemiller151]

Aircraft carriers remind me of battleships in 1941: huge, impressive, seemingly invulnerable displays of power, and totally obsolete, expensive, sitting ducks.

[@Happy11807]

They have more defensive systems than you could dream of! Short of a direct Thermo Nuklear hit.They are a Very hard target!

[@StinkyBlack1]

😂😂😂 this is how the government spends our money? 15 guys standing around watching one guy work.

[@CarreraTrackOntheFloor]

Wrong! The Use New Jersey and Use Wisconsin were stricken from the reserve fleet years ago, the New Jersey in 1999 and Wisconsin in 2006 and turned into museums. The footage you showed of the New Jersey was taken this past Spring going to the dry dock for repairs.

[@Nerval-kg9sm]

A lot of their footage is old and their captions are often inaccurate. You're only noticing this now?

[@donjones1979]

Maybe so, but, in the museum’s contract it does state that the Navy does have the option to restore it to active duty. This is per the curator of the museum ship.

[@MrSloika]

@@donjones1979 When will those battleships be restored to duty? After the Russians nuke everything else on the water?

[@mrjuvy49]

Served on two flattops teaching college with the Navy

[@peep39]

seems like a bad idea to stand inside the chain. If the capstan breaks, game over

[@5catsANDcounting]

I hope they normally wear breather masks, I thought I saw 1 person with one on but that rust flying everywhere can't be good.

[@69adrummer]

Imagine tripping and falling on the anchor chain as it's going OUT! ugh

[@jfvanschalkwyk]

Why not use a steel cable ?

[@lawsonfan5797]

End of the world. That's what it sounded like when you slept approximately 75 ft from where this was happening. CV66

[@davealmighty9638]

The boatswains mates.

[@tangoalpha8381]

👍🏆🇧🇷

[@attyjim1]

What’s with the candy peanuts?

[@bhawley1000]

Are you referring to the clear plastic container full of orange foam ear plugs - used for hearing protection in what must be a very loud room when the chain is running?

[@3Cathill]

@@bhawley1000 Yeah those peanuts!

[@stuarth43]

chains, made in China, that gypsy shaft must be some helluva srong steel all those carriers can be taken out by drones, sending 5000 personnel to Davy Jones's locker

[@nicodesmidt4034]

12:42 that’s one piece of crap gun, almost falling apart each shot. 😂

[@BeerStens]

What a sodden performance for a chain. Lol.

[@timmitzlaff8960]

I wouldn’t want to breathe that rusty dust.

[@mirandahotspring4019]

If that anchor could hold a ship that size it would be a real fluke.

[@Michael-ss9wu]

Not 1 anchor dropped.

[@peacefullifetv5065]

Millions of homeless people flash in my mind

[@MrSloika]

Yup. US military budget is $825 billion. Budget for the Housing and Urban Development is $283 billion. Trump promised to shut down Housing and Urban Development and boost the military budget.

[@peacefullifetv5065]

@MrSloika Let him do what he likes! The sun will not have enough hydrogen to burn and give light in near future!

[@swedishpsychopath8795]

I hope Elon and Vivek take action on what was shown: 8 out of 10 are just hanging around and doing nothing. IN ADDITION, they are wasting time on caveman technology with hand signals and light sticks when radio communication was invented in England 300 years ago. Here Elon and Vivek can safely cut 80 percent of the budget.

[@KhaNguyen-k1z]

Cong hoa xa hoi chu nghia viet nam doc lap tu do hanh phuc ngay 7 /1/2005 giay to ho so mat trong chien tranh hop dong co phan co phieu dau thau lam an thau lo da di chet het ca mot noi cut ra khoi dang nha nuoc tai viet nam the gioi am duong tren duoi trong ngoai giao lai cho gia dinh hoang xuan hoi huyen me hoang thi kha con de hoang xuan khoi vo hoang thi kha con de hoang xuan thao vo hoang thi nha khanh con de hoang xuan anh dung tai xa nghi thiet huyen nghi loc tinh nghe an viet nam the gioi het

[@stephanielefebvre4306]

❤️🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️

[@frictionpeg]

Too bad the aircraft carrier is obsolete.

[@lbrasanchoo5290]

💚

[@johanea]

Fun fact, it’s not the anchor which keeps a ship in place, but the weight of the chain on the sea bottom. Fun fact two, a commercial vessel only normally require 3 persons to anchor a vessel. Seems navy is wasting resources by having 30 persons stand around without any use or function.

[@user-up3ik4in2m]

30 persons = Training / learning.

[@ThorOdinson-s8m]

Fun fact the navy over employs so when war actually comes they have redundancy. Imagine only having bare minimum. I think we would lose a lot quicker than we do now.

[@johanea]

@ Hm yes, your fun fact actually makes sense.

[@VladimirStepanov-e6h]

Too many useless people. There are only 3 persons requires: officer; bosun; AB.

[@Bartonfink3434]

It’s the government way.

[@entrosinllamar8697]

Trabajando para desestabilizar países

[@HKim0072]

lol, each link is 350 lbs.

[@yvescharignon5613]

👋👋👋👋

[@johnsmith-ub7vr]

Why so many people there, just makes it more dangerous.

[@VladimirStepanov-e6h]

Exactly.

[@stonemedinaaa]

could be training

[@markkinslow128]

Training

[@CharlesGates-v6n]

Imagine the amount of damage that is inflicted on the sea floor every time a large anchor is dropped.

[@trainliker100]

Considering the size of the sea floor, less than trivial. I suspect one undersea volcano does more "damage" to the sea floor than all the anchors used since the dawn of man.

[@BjarneLinetsky]

Part of the process of anchoring is to back the ship down to set the anchor. This really ploughs up and digs in to the seafloor.

[@trainliker100]

@@BjarneLinetsky And how does that exceed the "So What" test? I imagine there is a bit of damage when a ship weighing thousands of tons sinks, too. Now, would you like to calculate what percentage of the sea floor is covered with sunken ships? Or scars due to anchors? (There are going to be a lot of zeros to the right of the decimal point.)

[@BjarneLinetsky]

@@trainliker100 you know, the age when man could simply do what is convenient, without regard to the consequences, is over Having said that, i implied no judgement one way or another. My comment was simple fact.

[@trainliker100]

@@BjarneLinetsky Anad my comments were facts. The magnitude of what your lamenting is like going into your yard and removing one blade of grass, if that much.

[@Tanks-In-Space]

My nephew had the time of his life working on a American aircraft carrier, It was like a floating bro _thel with free girls. Everyone was doing it with everyone, even the married ones. And in every dark unused corner, there was a stack of used cond _oms.

[@DavidTurman-r7u]

I lived on an aircraft carrier in the Navy and you are a disgusting, immature person.

[@ThorOdinson-s8m]

Your nephew told you a whopper of a story.

[@billrowan1957]

If they wanted to preserve naval tradition shouldn't they have made it a gay bath house?

[@MrSloika]

It's not ghey if you're underway.

[@markb6295]

I sure am glad Trump put an art dealer in charge of our Navy. What could go wrong?

[@kimura-0323]

日本の海上自衛隊のほうが命中率高いですよ。

[@kasim613]

money for war but cant feed the poor.

[@crphilipp]

That’s what a job is for