What is The Largest Wave An Aircraft Carrier Can Survive?

[@Aviation_insider]

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[@SneakyNinja5225]

Already watched it.

[@Aviation_insider]

​@@SneakyNinja5225hope the video was informative? 😊

[@SneakyNinja5225]

@@Aviation_insider very. I forgot to like it thou. BRB

[@johngravelyn8050]

By you are a little bit silly.

[@AndyOO6]

I would be interested what the theoretical limit is for aircraft carrier size? esp with all the pushes for drones and 6th gen airplanes that can operate as drones

[@rehtireipas4170]

There is no such thing like unsinkable ship. You must always respect mother nature.

[@irmavalenzuela1084]

So true. YOU MUST NOT UNDER ESTIMATE GOD'S POWER. ABOVE ALL BEGINNING OF WISDOME IS THE FEAR OF THE LORD.

[@factos...314]

​@@irmavalenzuela1084what is God...😂😂😂

[@Apexdestroyer25]

​@@factos...314God or not, you must not underestimate mother nature.

[@ishmaelwastaken]

Titanic....

[@PascualDesolo-nv3vr]

@@factos...314 you're going to find out one day.

[@Paul-zf8ob]

Dude, I was on a destroyer escort and we ran into a hurricane. Waves 100 feet tall. Scared the living hell out of me. Thought the ship would break in half! We made it.

[@frankmontez6853]

What was the category for this hurricane? A category 5 or less powerful?

[@RON-MEXICO911]

Of course you made it... you're on here commenting...unless it's your ghost 👻

[@brionthomsen7479]

@@RON-MEXICO911 lol that's what i was about to say

[@fredla7353]

I always compared crashing back down into the trough with being locked inside a galvanized (GI) garbage can; with someone slamming a baseball bat into it as hard as they could....then, the reverberations through the ship....bah-bah-bah-bah-bah...ah, the good old days...wink

[@hollywoodpineapple8337]

Which hurricane was it? Ivan?

[@user-gh1ql5uc8t]

Anything built by man can be overcome. -Patton

[@AmazonArrow1570]

Agreed

[@Apple.CC.technomail]

But there are built to overcome whatever is overcoming the last one

[@lamegame420]

Especially if mother nature is involved

[@thalmoragent9344]

​@Apple.CC.technomail Well, no Carriers have been in the situation of landing in the center of a Hurricane, to my knowledge So there's no way to tell

[@lance3748]

If you didn't know, when you see a giant wave coming it's usually best to turn your boat and point your nose at the wave. You'll be less likely to flip.

[@hakaishinkage9899]

​@thespirit7408this is the right answer. Like taking a punch allow it to glance off you

[@xuansu9036]

@thespirit7408 so basically allow the force of the wave to act on the ship in two directions, so neither direction suffers the full brunt of the it?

[@gimlithebrave6354]

@@xuansu9036Depends on the size of the wave and what kind of ship. For shorter sturdy ships, conventional wisdom is nose dead on, so as to try to go over it and not risk getting shoved sideways and flipped over by subsequent waves even if you are successful in aligning it 45 degrees initially. However, for very long ships like oil tankers, cruise ships, or an aircraft carrier, the commenter you responded to is correct, for the reasons you mentioned.

[@korien8976]

When rule of cool is actual rule of reason

[@curtw9705]

Yes if the ship is long enough and the crests close enough. You can end up with the bow on one crest stern on another and no support in the middle. This can break the keel. Hence the 45 degrees.

[@terrencekanzig4270]

They also try to avoid going into storms in the first place.

[@ADreadBellow]

Yes seeing it’s very hard to operate Aircraft in the middle of a Hurricane kinda smart not to be in one. Plus the fleet they are always commanding have constant weather updates and often can simply avoid any bad weather.

[@dbix11]

USS kitty hawk went straight through a typhoon in 2004 I want to say. Waves destroyed a section of catwalk. We got a few extra days liberty in Singapore if I remember correctly, so it could be repaired

[@cabledad65]

​@dbix11 yeah I heard a similar story about the Forrestal from the 80s. Just straight into a hurricane in the Atlantic and moderately bumpy on board.

[@bjornl9458]

F it...scrambles all aircraft in eye of hurricane....

[@kwaktak]

@@cabledad65I was aboard Forrestal from 1988-1990 and that’s news to me. We did go north of the Arctic circle which was pretty choppy but the only hurricane I remember is of us riding out Hugo pier side in Jacksonville.

[@idlsjay]

He never explained how big a wave it could withstand 😢

[@topg1736]

how? are you so dumb? he said pretty much most Waves on the planet, and I agree with him because no body actually knows the exact length aircraft carriers can withstand

[@hollywoodpineapple8337]

Yeah...didnt say its limits...

[@cameronbuckley3356]

@@hollywoodpineapple8337that means he doesn’t know 😂 atleast he didn’t lie lol

[@JohnWiku]

Most waves on the planet unless hit dead on by a tsunami 😂😂

[@bendavis6885]

That's what they call click bait.

[@010bobby]

I was aboard a US Navy destroyer and we would encounter 35-50 foot waves at Sea of Japan during a typhoon.. we survived for almost 2 weeks..

[@virginccyy7645]

For 2 week you were in this storm? That is a long time!

[@010bobby]

@@virginccyy7645 yes.. all ships got underway before the typhoon and ride it out.. if they stayed in port, they’d be destroyed by large waves..we were finally allowed to port after 12 days…

[@toddncarmendavis2074]

I've seen the bow@96' go completely under and we just popped back up. CV62. Hell of a ride 😂

[@Jd-pp7fx]

USS Independence

[@davidlandry3699]

North Atlantic 1984 Team Work 84 . BLUE NOSE. BARENT SEA. 200 MILES NORTH OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE!! ❤

[@davidlandry3699]

USS INDEPENDENCE CV-62..82-84

[@shawnadams1460]

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69 95-96, we were in port preparing to go into drydock when we got word of a hurricane coming up the coast. Well we got underway and were very VERY light, no planes, no fuel, hell only had maybe 1500 of us onboard. ONLY time in my life I have been seasick! You could see footprints down the p-ways go up one side and back down and then up the other side. (0.o)

[@kennethhamilton5633]

When was that I was on the Indy '70 to '73 and we drove thru some bombastic weather. The old girl was thumped by some humongous waves. Once I got over the urry urps and the thot that "🤢I'MO DIE" I found a safe place to watch ma nature slap us around. Had an MMA weather bout on the Foresstall too.

[@valkyrie14]

I saw the Kitty Hawke CV-63 take one over the bow in 1977. I was on the CHICAGO at the time.

[@bryonslatten3147]

My uncle was on the USS Chicago around 1962.

[@kimmajor9571]

I served on Kitty Hawk from 82' to 86'...Had Some of the best experiences of my life back then!! Was on it when we collided/ran over a Russian Sub too!!!😁

[@thomasbradley2677]

USS RANGER CVA-CV 61, 73-76, Ships Company, Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club. Top Gun Bar None. Hi yo Silver, away! Press On. ❤

[@timmoore8036]

Waves like that rocked me to sleep on the 03 level, on several Aircraft Carriers! Great sleeping! Go Navy!

[@SeanJM013]

Hell yeah, bad weather, no FLT OPS.

[@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy]

I know LMAO

[@bennyrich7361]

@@SeanJM013 🤣🤣

[@dj6769]

Our berthing compartment was on the fantail when it came out of the water it vibrated our bunks and put me to sleep 😊 CVN68 1977

[@mr.damagecontrol8500]

I was on the USS ROOSEVELT in the Atlantic Ocean and I hardly ever felt a wave. It does of course shift and move, but it's really stable and fun to be on. "GO NAVY!"

[@goofy_xf6223]

I’ve been flung from my rack from a wave while on ship. The opening wave of this video would be absolutely terrifying to experience

[@link2g715]

I don’t think it’s real, but it also looked like it was almost the length of the carrier so I’m not sure if there’s tsunamis that big

[@Williy654]

it was from a movie called 2014

[@donlarocque5157]

American Assassin. A nuke went off under water.

[@robertmendick3195]

WW2 aircraft carriers survived an encounter with Typhoon Cobra (14 to 19 December 1944) in the Philippine Sea... Admiral William Halsey commanding a large group of ships called the Third Fleet made the controversial decision to direct his ships into the storm. Three smaller ships sank, many planes were damaged or swept overboard, 790 men lost with many more injured. He lost command for several months after a January Naval board of inquiry found his decision to be of poor judgement.

[@navycorpsman744]

He should have been courts martialed for more reasons than that. Just add this to the list

[@armandobanal5802]

He was nicknamed "Bull"

[@ronaldbryant5215]

He must have learned his decision making skills from Humphrey Bogart (Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg).

[@nobelhansen2015]

My oldest uncle got hurt in that.

[@grizzlygrizzle]

In that typhoon, the Hornet had the front end of its flight deck broken, and it was hanging down in front of the bow.

[@dereksimpson1284]

I've been thru 2 hurricanes on a carrier. I have actually walked on the bulkhead at one point. Those things are virtually indestructible

[@Jameson4327]

While onboard the USS Kittyhawk CV 63 we had waves breaking over the bow and what a ride it was.

[@webdba11]

My Dad was station on the kitty hawk during Vietnam in cic

[@carebearann4613]

Awesome and quite impressive. One of my uncles served in the Navy as a cook. The stories he had when he returned from Vietnam still affect me.

[@paulsdrc]

1982 I believe USS Ranger going through a typhoon in 60+ foot seas, two miles from a water spout. The white water coming across the flight deck actually washed rite over the F-14s, absolutely crazy.

[@mr.rogers5586]

My grandfather was on the USS Ranger. They were patrolling the Bering strait keeping an eye on the Russians with the radar planes. I asked him what they did during storms. Did you seek harbor like the crab boats. He said hell no they went right into the storm. The aircraft were below deck. He said the waves were so tall it was knocking out glass windows on the tower And peeling back the flight deck on the bow like someone took a can opener to it. Thats crazy.

[@jkn4088]

Generally, an aircraft carrier group will avoid strong storms like hurricanes, but occasionally they are required to steam through to be where they need to be at the time they need to be there. When an aircraft carrier has to crash through a major wave, the shutter of the ship is like any other feeling in the world.

[@dekippiesip]

What happens to the aircraft on deck? Isn't their a risk of them falling off board if the ship is lifted too much?

[@stevemelcher69]

As long as most entrances are closed the carrier will act like a cork since it is filled with air.

[@aoi88i]

They should fill it with helium...😊

[@thedyingmeme6]

​@@aoi88i*high pitched voice* _WE GO TO WAAAARRRRR!!!!_

[@Shaker1000]

Trust me, I know I lived on one as a sailor during my time in. They have their zip codes in a way. A floating city, absolutely amazing. I'm so happy I served.

[@eddiehaskell1957]

The narrator didn't say it's unsinkable.

[@TheHadi545]

He said nothing cause it’s fucking MACHINE LEANRING

[@JohnS-il1dr]

The builders never said that about titanic either, as the newspapers spread that myth to create more buzz.

[@martinmaltbor1290]

I served on a smaller aircraft carrier the USS Forestall and even that handled two separate hurricanes out over the Atlantic Ocean with ease. We sailed right through them smoothly without any sign of shaking or bobbing. It was truly amazing.

[@bryonslatten3147]

Carriers are so big that when a carrier group heads into extreme weather the carrier heads directly into the waves and the escort ships line up right behind it using the carrier as a wave break.

[@kennethhamilton5633]

😂 naaw dude naaw that's some Keith Laumer action fer sure but naaw, naah, uh uh😊

[@kennethhamilton5633]

21.6 yrs, 3 Carriers, Pacific and Atlantic, NATO and SEATO EXs, rode with 3 carriers in squadron and attendant auxiliaries, no fullbacking by carrier ever noted🤔

[@liquidsuspect2469]

@@kennethhamilton5633yeeeeeaaaaahhh but counterpoint, the other guy sounded really confident 😶

[@iluvbewbies23]

​@@liquidsuspect2469😂

[@shafaykhan9339]

"Unsinkable Ship" that's what the Titanic builders said

[@tfraggins]

It could've been if the captain wasn't such a doofus

[@mrsillytacos]

Mf this is 110 years after, and this is a military grade of a country with 900 billion+ military spending, stfu

[@hideous_taco_michael_zacki]

It was an iceberg, not a wave.

[@hideous_taco_michael_zacki]

Also, Titanic builder didn't say anything like that, it was the mass media that wrote a newspaper with such headline and it became a staple.

[@shafaykhan9339]

@@hideous_taco_michael_zacki RMS Titanic's Director said it himself

[@alixilviashah7166]

Wave: "Wow look at all those little planes neatly lined up for me to wash away"

[@Robertperezshow]

That actually happened once. Plane fell off an aircraft carrier and US had to find it before the Chinese did.

[@alixilviashah7166]

@@Robertperezshow that must've been one heck of a search n rescue. Did it happen at night?

[@dspates51]

Retired submarine sailor here, that's something never had to deal with. You go to the sonar stack and you can hear it.

[@gouripadhan4105]

Very informative

[@Aviation_insider]

Glad you liked it

[@factos...314]

Great Information 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@mattfromwiisports4910]

This explanation is very human

[@Aviation_insider]

This comment Is very human 😁

[@davidcasishere]

It still amazes me that you can get that much weight to float. I understand water displacement and the engineering behind it but still.....🤯

[@Commander9013]

For anybody curious why aircraft don't slide off when hit by a wave its because they are tied to the deck with hundreds of tie down spot across the ship

[@michaelmappin4425]

There are actually 3 categories of tie down requirements aboard an aircraft carrier. Initial tie down is 6 chains on fixed wing aircraft and 4 on helicopters. It is used when aircraft are first parked in spot or when the aircraft is expected to move. Intermediate is 9 tie downs and is used during flight quarters when aircraft are expected to be moved. Permanent is 12 tie downs and is used during non flight quarters times. The Aircraft Handling Officer may direct an increased number for any of those categories for periods of heavy weather, increased winds or high speed ship maneuvers.

[@davelew86]

75 feel above the ocean from the flight deck and on the USS Forrestal CV-59 we had a few waves crash over the flight deck while we struggled to secure the aircraft.. 90-91

[@larrymorant3729]

Is the captain using a game console controller?

[@NoGMOGod]

Yes...I was just wondering this morning about this.

[@ScottySmac]

When I was serving on the USS Independence CV-62, the captain came over the MC1 and asked if we wanted to go straight home, or go around the typhoon........we chose to go straight home. We rocked pretty good for a carrier.

[@robertkneaul8048]

Been through a hurricane on cv66 on a det. Best sleep I've ever gotten

[@hbikerbob7210]

Me too

[@allanbayabos8112]

As a master on a merchant ship. The biggest wave i encounter was 14meters. That was wayback 2000 in pacific near aleutian island. I was a third officer that time and my master manuever our vessel to safety and eventually took shelter near dutch harbour. The name of storm was kirogi. My ship name was CSAV seattle.

[@coddydoi89]

Keep it up bro

[@SheromanySooklal]

Awesome and Amazing Stories.

[@dishantthakur4118]

Make short on Tejas and Mirage fighter jet pls brother 🖤

[@radhikavigneswaran6690]

Thank you 👍

[@fernandoleon8915]

The ocean can eat every boat on earth in one second

[@stk6mkt]

Not this one. The technology is too advanced. Ain't going to happen. It's not 1912 anymore, and dat ain't da Titanic. 🤔

[@cupoli138]

​@@stk6mkt You must have studied at the oceangate school of maritime tech.

[@thedyingmeme6]

​@@stk6mktbruh. Everything can be destroyed. It's just a matter of time and if nature has had enough.

[@longtabsigo]

I was on the CVN-69 supporting the 1994 intervention in Haiti, we were on the USS Eisenhower for hurricane Gordon, it was incredible how little that massive floating piece steel just ate the waves like mini Oreo’s!

[@goodevil4169]

Remember "Titanic" is once called unsinkable

[@djxhakaza1827]

They sunk it on purpose to kill Jacob Astor. He was one of the richest man in the world.

[@Resistculturaldecline]

To compare the titanic to modern US Navy ships is a reach, to say the least. Also remember, the titanic engineers didn't call her unsinkable. The schmucks promoting the ship called her that.

[@EchoBravoIndia]

@djxhakaza1827 wtf bro they never sank the Titanic on purpose. The white star line never did sh*t that tried to purposely endanger peoples lives. Also why in gods name would they try to kill the richest person in the world and one of the most loyal customers to White Star Line.

[@tfraggins]

ofc it would sink, they literally rammed it to a huge fucking iceberg lol but titanic is nothing compared to these aircraft carriers, I remember some idiot admiral directed his fleet to steam through a typhoon back in world war 2 and the ww2 era carriers didn't even flinched while all their other ships got rocked lol

[@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy]

It was also not designed that way and whoever said it was unsinkable was an idiot.

[@clarks2001]

I was on the USS Kitty Hawk and we got caught up in a typhoon that damaged some catwalks on the port side of the ship but we didn’t skip a beat operationally. Crazy to see thick steel snapped like a toothpick.

[@itel-bj4gb]

سبحان الله . الله الذي خلق الإنسانية وسخرهم لصنع ما ينفع وما يضر .... فالله لا يتقبل ألا من عمل المصلحين .... 🏄

[@sheromanysooklal775]

Amazing and very incredible Stories.

[@Aviation_insider]

Glad you like them!

[@mariano7699]

Fair enough 👌

[@williamyoung3340]

I was on the Nimitz in the 80s going around cape horn. Faced seas heavy enough to buckle the bulkhead forward port side. 😳

[@LukeC908]

My grandpa was on the Enterprise. The first one. He said they experienced 60 foot waves, but he made it sound like it was no big deal.

[@AbdurRahmanHasan-pu8og]

Very good info

[@JackYOgurl606]

They are beautiful.

[@georgehopper7310]

There is also the compartmentation inside and the setting of watertight boundaries during General Quarters.

[@jerryellis8033]

I was on the helm of L.H.A-3 , U.S.S. Belleau Wood when the ship was caught in a wave trough in heavy seas . The ship was caught broadside and struck by multiple large waves . We took 3 - 5 waves in succession . The final roll we took was a 37°roll on the clinometer . I was hanging onto the grab bar on the helm cabinet send gripping the wheel . I thought we might capsize if we had taken another larger wave . LHA- 3 was an amphibious assault ship 850 feet long and carried 1,000 Marines, their equipment , and could land them any we here by landing craft , hovercraft , and helicopter . Also it carried a squadron of Harrier jump jets .

[@AZrakoon]

There is a mini ocean test site the US navy uses to asses when designing ships. Also you have to do your best to avoid storms.

[@genevieveard2246]

I was on a Frigate that got hit by a rogue wave with a wave face of over 80 feet. It hit us broadside as we were straightening and maneuvering our SH-60B. The system we use, RAST, failed and pulled the aircraft 90 degrees to the beam and, facing directly into the wave.... turned out to be a very lucky mishap. The aircraft was hit by the wave nose on and lifted it off the deck, but the RAST probe was locked in place by the RAST Trap. Meanwhile the ship heeled over so hard everything stored in the starboard side of the hanger flew to the port side, and as we rocked back violently everything on the port side flew to the starboard. We ended up with 2 people in the step-down after the flight deck, with one officer half way over the deck edge screaming... If the carrier is in a bad storm, and the sea state is bad, so long as all the aircraft are in storm chains and the bigger ground support gear is too? That carrier can be turned turtle, upended fully, capsize, and, it will right itself faster than it will take on water. Those hanger bay doors are pretty much water tight, and the hanger is just one huge flotation device.

[@liamjoyce7831]

A key thing missing here… Reserve of buoyancy. You could fill this ship with water to around 80% and it would still float. Water tight doors and hatches, the ships overall design means it habitually keeps out water, if it takes on water by capsizing or rolling hard over and taking thousands of tonnes of water on, somehow, it would easily laugh it off

[@jamesgraat4003]

Onboard the USS Constellation, I experienced a 25ft wave over the bow. The bow is approx 60-80ft above a calm sea.

[@johnstevens1575]

The island structure on the LHA's (similar to a carrier) is designed to shear off if the ship rolls. Once that comes off the ballast tanks in the bottom of the hull help right the ship. Most compartments on a US Navy ship are also separated by watertight doors and hatches, so it's not as easy to sink as a commercial vessel.

[@motonut007]

You should also understand that like in combat they put the order across the ship to secure hatches. They can do the same thing during extreme weather that locks compartments into cells of air trapped in the hull and if something catastrophic were to happen, those become buoyancy areas to help the ship right itself and stay afloat.

[@torremth]

Yeaaaaa in 2015 we hit a wave off the coast of Florida so hard it ripped a satellite dish off and a section of railing. Cvn77 sounded like a jet crash or mini explosion.

[@kthr1ft]

A big wave almost splashed me while I was in hangar bay 3. It went from ace 3 to ace 4. It went all up in the cockpit of one of my command’s jets. I was flying off luckily and didn’t have to clean all those control panels.

[@brianmiller6353]

That's awesome.

[@selwynowen6213]

I’m Amazed how such a vessel which looks top heavy, stay upright

[@darthrevan454]

Oh cool the IKE, Im on that ship. Didnt think ill see it on a random video.

[@mmutahharmohiuddin7157]

I seen 300,000 TON ship sunk in storm few years ago. Nothing is un sinkable

[@mattgibbons8381]

When I was on the USS Nimitz back in eighty-six we had waves that were 70 ft tall. Going around the tip of South America

[@SimonIsVeryHandsome]

Damn so thats why Carriers are super expensive to maintain

[@emptydata-xf7ps]

Buoyancy is the one physics force that just blows my mind.

[@atlasinvestmentmanagement750]

I used to take the draft reading (how deep we were sitting) aboard an aircraft carrier and in knowing the draft you can calculate the weight of the ship. We then had to bring the report to captain or quarter master on the bridge. The first couple of times it was kind of intimidating and I had to check my answer like 3 times because I couldn't believe how much she weighed (100,000 tons). Buoyancy is amazing!

[@findtherapists]

​@@atlasinvestmentmanagement750I sailed on a product carrier and the bridge had our displacement around 180,000 tonnes, that was with around 112,000 tonnes of crude oil in the holds

[@carultch]

All it is, is the water and ship competing for space at the bottom, and the water winning the competition, and pushing the ship out of the way. We just don't realize how much of the ship is only filled air, and thus much lighter than water Where you run in to trouble, is when the seafloor is venting gasses that dissolve in the water. This can sink a ship that was counting on the density of seawater to stay afloat.

[@emptydata-xf7ps]

@@carultch it’s still just crazy to think that steel in the correct shape will make it float. Any one steel panel used to make that ship will sink like a rock. But once you put them together in a specific shape it floats.

[@carultch]

@@emptydata-xf7ps It's no different than putting a steel marble inside a block of Styrofoam. It will be immediately obvious why that will float, because most of its space is occupied by the Styrofoam, and Styrofoam floats. Now take the same volume ratio, but swap the inside and outside, so the steel is on the outside. Take away the Styrofoam and just use air. As long as the air space remains filled only with air, it will be less dense on average, and will float.

[@akuodeltine9740]

No matter what humans create and how large or what ever it looks, it can never be too certained not to get damaged when encountering or encountered by mother nature.

[@sevenhornets]

Took waves over the bow the mighty FID CV-59 in the North Atlantic in mid 80’s.

[@robertkneaul8048]

Ahhh the forest fire. Never went on her me I was on the America Kennedy and GW

[@leonardoluga5434]

YOU HAVE ADVANCED WEATHER NEWS IN YOU CARRIER WEATHER CHANNEL 🎉

[@juancarloscasanas4221]

I was in the U.S.S. KITTY HAWK CV-63 in 1981 we where in the Yellow Sea we had two waves break over the bow the first wave was over 100 feet the second was 120 feet. We were in a very rough seas I was praying 🙏 the whole time we were there it lasted for 18 hours.

[@zoomerboomer6834]

Naval designers must consider more than just waves caused by Mother Nature. During Test BAKER of Operation CROSSROADS (1946 atomic weapons test) an approximately 94 foot wave was observed striking the surplus battleship USS Arkansas. The wave was caused by the detonation of a submerged atomic weapon (estimated explosive yield 26 kilotons of TNT).

[@user-yo9nt1ee2b]

I was on the g dub and it was handling 80 foot waves no problem

[@e.dennisvanrumund4046]

LOL… I remember my bunk in the front during a hurricane. Human pinball up and down. After my third storm learned how to sleep gripping

[@hipper244]

What would happen to the aircraft on the deck? Do they get moved down? Would there be enough room? Would the ones which can't be put under the deck be put airborne?

[@toddncarmendavis2074]

We fit all but a few A7's below deck and chained them down good to the pad eyes. When we got to the eye of the hurricane they were gone, no chains no nothing

[@Diane-xh7vl]

AWESOME

[@Frontier2022]

In 1984 I was on the USS Kitty Hawk we hit wave so large we lost some of the cat walks on the bow heading towards Australia.

[@roberthansen3591]

Navy retired, 23 years. They will primarily go around such dangerous conditions. Nothing is more powerful than is mother nature.

[@kumo9993]

"Have you ever wondered what is the largest wave an aircraft carrier can survive?" "All of them because big boat is big"

[@tmgjurassic3738]

It is a math problem. If a wave is taller than a ship is long it will pitch it. If a wave is taller than a ship is wide it will roll it. Under normal conditions, there are no waves big enough to pitch or roll a US aircraft carrier because of water tension.

[@step_freeskills101]

general : I want an aircraft carrier that can also be a submarine.. engineer: very long long pause..legends say they are still thinking

[@randomvideos69681]

Still amazes me how those planes are perfectly park at the corner of the carrier.

[@splash5106]

What about the jets? I'm guessing there's some stabilization mechanism for those too?

[@mariuskuhrau761]

Yep, but the coast of my country where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans merge, we have sometimes massive waves that are more than 100 feet in height. They have severely damaged huge ships or rip the bow off like it was nothing. The sheer power of these monstrous waves is awesome and frightening. Around our coast hundreds of ships was destroyed, over many centuries by these mega waves.

[@old1free]

Served aboard the USS Shangri-la, CVA/S 38 in 1970. Passed through a typhoon in the Indian Ocean. Waves broke over the bow and onto the flight deck. Ripped off several communication antennas on both port & starboard sides.

[@frankb4517]

Go Sir Shang

[@captainhindsight8779]

Oldest navy in the world 🇺🇸, greatest nation on earth! 🇺🇸 hard to think that prior to the conception of the US, the world was living by candlelight in squalor, within the last half a century we’ve brought light to the world, trains, planes, cars. You name it, we made it 🇺🇸 god bless the USA!

[@keithrickson8522]

When deployed on the Truman (CVN-75), we literally never hit any bad weather, and what we did hit we barely felt. A nuclear powered carrier can outrun almost any storm or avoid it altogether. Remember that, flight ops might be impacted in bad weather which is a real liability they don't want.

[@melvinmalabute250]

More of carriers are equipped with advance storm warning systems to avoid passing thru bad weather.

[@stephensiame966]

Even the titanic ship builders once guaranteed my grandpa the same.

[@keithrickson8522]

Carriers with their advanced planning and speed never end up in weather that bad, they go around it. They could do circles around a hurricane.

[@DefenseTechExplorers]

an extremely modern ship, truly admirable

[@tebjosh13]

no...never thought about that ever

[@fredla7353]

We were taking green water on the bridge wing walls on one cruise on the LCC-20 USS Mt. Whitney. If I recall correctly that is 75' from the waterline. We were literally walking on the bulkheads. ..1975

[@bobsjess]

Personally seen waves come over the flight deck of the USS Enterprise. From flight deck to water was 98ft.

[@georgehauk4609]

I was on a ship that sank on purpose of course we always counted on surfacing one time more then diving. And FYI WE can sink any ship afloat

[@hllboi817]

Theyre also about 70-80ft tall from the waterline to flight deck so a wave would have to theoretically be over that size and carry enough water with it to overwhelm the bilges instantly, youd need constant over 100ft waves, and even then most of the water would just slide off the sides

[@Berkcam]

I was on a British carrier when we had an 80+ foot wave swamp over us in the Atlantic in 1973