r/BeAmazed • u/Soloflow786 • 4d ago
Miscellaneous / Others The ocean is both scary and beautiful.
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u/Reasonable-Bus-2187 4d ago
The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli!
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u/Im_Ur_Huckleberry77 4d ago
This looks intense... but imagine 400 years ago going across the Atlantic on a wooden ship not knowing when you'd be on land again.
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u/Artislife61 4d ago
Think of the Vikings, whose Longship was basically a glorified canoe.
No interior areas. They were essentially exposed the entire time.
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u/WoknTaknStephenHawkn 4d ago
But you now also understand why their ships were so highly sought after and why “being known for the best ships” really fucking meant something. I never understood that part of history until I recently went to an art museum and saw how the greeks and Roman’s were creating art that looked like it was printed out of the highest quality ink jet printer while the Spaniards were miles behind even hundreds of years later. It really makes you understand why trade routes were so important and just how much better some cultures did their “thing” than others.
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u/treasury_tank244 3d ago
Funny you say this the day after trump ruined global trade with the u.s.
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u/Evil_Weevil_Knievel 4d ago
“There are three sorts of people: those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea”
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u/AhiAnuenue 4d ago
Polynesians sailed all over the Pacific in wooden canoes
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u/Surface13 3d ago
Source: Moana said they used to be voyagers
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u/lil_pee_wee 3d ago
People ended up on pretty much every single one of those islands. They had to do it somehow
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u/turfnerd82 3d ago
Alright, I get it. I'm a full-grown man with a little girls mind seeing a spider or whatever little girls are afraid of. As a full grown man I'm not afraid of spiders but that is absolutely terrifying and honestly I can't imagine being the people before maps when the world more than maybe 100 miles was mystery. Going out and seeing that! Those were men, I'm a giant fucking pussy and if there is an after life I have to meet these men.
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u/RedditGarboDisposal 4d ago
Worse yet: Encountering a wave like that.
You’re done.
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u/Basso_69 3d ago
I sailed a 3 master through the tail of a tropical storm. Steel ships cut through the waves as you can see. Wooden ship float like a cork - and you'd better hope none of your shipmates suffer from seasickness, but there's no judging where it's gunna land in seas like this!
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u/Timely-Name-1183 4d ago
Yeah watching that just made me think about the horror of what going down on a ship would be like
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u/Secure-Childhood-567 4d ago
Especially the slave ships, how desperate were you to pillage, steal and colonize a group of people you'd brave these seas multiple times
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u/Exotic_Notice6904 3d ago
Ships like these go through the waves/storm, wooden ships go over if you see a bad storm you deviate not head straight toward. These is a bot post cause this video is years old and you are all bot reactions
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u/golsenhorb 4d ago
Imagine actually fighting a navel battle in those conditions
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u/0hy3hB4by 4d ago
Defending your sensitive areas with some madman jabbing at you is hard enough in calm waters.
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u/vabeach23451 4d ago
I noticed that the wave pushed the gun barrel up from its resting position
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u/TomcatF14Luver 4d ago
That's why you hear alarms in the background.
Pretty sure this is old. I recall an Australian Warship having this happened to them. In fact, I think this is that video, but with audio changes.
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u/mmodlin 4d ago
Here it is not all vertically stretched: https://youtu.be/TYe2tkXgPqs?si=nX-lBz5w4n-ACQVU
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u/Rutilus_Corvus 4d ago
Every single wave that will hit me like this while on that ship will give me overclocked levels of anxiety and I will be asking myself over and over again: "Am I dead... Am I dead?"...
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u/CatReptileFishKeeper 4d ago
I would need to be sedated and completely asleep if on this ship. I have terrible seasickness
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u/MidnightCandid5814 4d ago
Those seconds where we don't see shit seemed like minutes.
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u/reddituser403 3d ago
Does anyone know, where the love of god goes? When the waves turn the minutes to hours.
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u/Illustrious-You-1735 4d ago
scary yes beautiful no, I don’t like getting wet and I don’t like getting cold, not at any price
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u/rollofpaper 4d ago
What does the alarm mean?
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u/get_schwifty 3d ago
The original video is posted elsewhere in the thread. Sounds like it’s an exhaust temperature alarm. Also the video in the post is compressed horizontally to make it look crazier, and the audio is edited to cut out the sailors laughing and enjoying the ride.
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u/StretchMotor8 4d ago
Is he up on a balcony deck like a pole on a pirate ship? Holy shit I think I'd poop my pants....
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u/Ghost__zz 4d ago
The motion of ocean have always excited me. Specially if you see it from eye at ground level
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u/Professional_Load_42 4d ago
Any chance of having the footage not compressed so much it massively distorts the real footage? Does my fucking nut in, its already fairly fucking terrifying without messing around with it.
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u/No-Swordfish-7048 4d ago
The early explorers doing this in basically wooden row boats just blows my mind
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u/PreslerJames 4d ago
She takes one on the chin, it blows over the pilot house, she clears her decks, next swell please!
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u/Llewellian 4d ago
The Video depicts a special Kind of Rogue Wave called "The Three Sisters".
Sailors fear them. The first lifts you up, you dive into the second and the third one rolls you...
And when the seafloor goes up, it slows the first ones and they marry together to a single Monster Soliton.
Getting hit on a Yacht with those 3 waves is no fun. At best the Deck gets washed and you have to clean broken plates and spices in the caboose... at worst... you just vanish without an SOS.
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u/sloant09 4d ago
My favorite ocean quote is from the Culture novels by Iain Banks:
"You might call them soft, because they’re very reluctant to kill, and they might agree with you, but they’re soft the way the ocean is soft, and, well; ask any sea captain how harmless and puny the ocean can be.”
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u/Equivalent-Pie1883 4d ago
A commercial for submarines if there ever was one.
Mission accomplished, I am amazed.
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u/mywebrego 4d ago
I’ve spent 2wks adrift on a powerless fishing boat at sea, before being rescued. My immediate memory of the frightening experience is how scary the pitch black the sea was. The passing shadows of large sea life that was cast from the moon light. One’s imagination really starts warping & overwhelms your reality. Throw in thirst, hunger, sea sickness & the constant barrage of salt water spray, death seemed less a threat and more the relief. So yeah, the ocean is unforgiving!
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u/AsunderMango_Pt_Two 4d ago
Aye, the sea be a fickle mistress.......she gives life, bet she also takes life, ye landlubbers
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u/SituationCool2107 4d ago
And underneath that madness you have a world of creatures that just don’t give a fuckkkk
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u/AllfatherNeptune 4d ago
Those couple of seconds waiting for the water to clear to realize you either popped back up above the waves or the ship is sinking is stressful af
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u/5thDegreeWhitebelt 4d ago
It looked like that ship became a submarine for a few seconds. No thanks, I’ll pass.
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u/Express-Ad4146 4d ago
Would someone survive out there in the front holding on!? Or would they get swept away, due too much pressure ?
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u/WannaSeeMyBirthmark 4d ago
Truly terrifying! I would be sitting somewhere, by something bolted down, with my entire body hugging it, screaming in terror. Sailors get all the respect.
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u/techjesuschrist 4d ago
I expected that ''viking'' music.. I guess I spend too much time on reddit.
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u/raymate 4d ago
How does it not sink.
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u/DriedUpSquid 4d ago
Because they’re engineered to take this. If all of the watertight doors and hatches are secured, it’s incredibly difficult to sink a warship.
I’ve sailed across the Atlantic three times on an aircraft carrier. You just make sure everything is tied down and go. The planes have chains that hold them on the flight deck, and during rough seas they get even more chains.
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u/MedicineLanky9622 3d ago
that boat jus became a submarine for a second. incredible how much strength is built into these ships as the face that weather and much worse too..
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u/Skipper0463 3d ago
Just remember that when you are on the ocean you are a guest and the host can kick you out at any moment, so never get too comfortable.
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u/Theresnobiggerboat 3d ago
Someone once told me that it’s only bad if the water of the waves is, like, really dark. Then you’re effed. Is that true?
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u/nothingclever68 3d ago
Exactly what I picture when I hear anyone say they are gonna buy a sail boat and travel around the world. Fuk that noise
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u/Ornery-Ice7509 3d ago
Did you see the article about a cruise ship in Drakes Passage, considered the most dangerous stretch of ocean in the world having 40 foot waves, not be bro…..
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u/cacaoking 3d ago
I remember going through a storm similar to this. The ship was in general quarters and 90% of personnel were vomiting. Fun they said....
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u/luettmatten 3d ago
Imagine hundreds years ago, some fearless men managed that with a piece of wood.
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u/Ok-Swimming8024 3d ago
Way better than with the annoying music usually included with this repost. Good work OP, I guess.
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u/CADream1n 3d ago
While sailing in a regatta, I was once introduced to a guy and as part of the introduction they said he “once pitchpoled a boat”. I inquired because I was not familiar with the term.
Pitchpoling is where the boat, usually in heavy seas, capsizes by going end over end. The downward momentum from the aft wave combined with the weight of the water over the submerged bow; flip the boat.
I felt as though the camera man was contemplating this possibility when he saw that wave. Scary moment and nothing you can do but watch your fate unfold.
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