Not a good time to sit down for dinner...

[Specialone]

The music to this was rod stewart, we are sailing but youtube removed it :(

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Why things on board ship arent bolted down for this reason is beyond me.

[dizzyblonde]

I think that was a cruise somewhere in Oz. It was on the news a few months back.

Its like some comedy sketch :-)

[Bibio]

i'd pay for that experience. looks a hoot. i'd be larfing my bloody head off.

[maviczap]

Ha Ha

Just clicked on one of the other ferry in rough seas videos and an advert popped up from Stena line ferries

[G]

Faceplant at 57sec is awesome.

I sailed around the mull of kintyre in september when those really strong winds were about... Apparently it is hard to capture a rough sea by camera and I would say it is, this looks fairly rough though...

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs698.snc4/63852_434404704836_502519836_4745101_7936069_n.jpg

[andrewsmith]

that is quality mate

[Milky Bar Kid]

We went to Belfast a couple of Christmases ago and the Stena Line HSS was doing that (it's REALLY bed when the HSS is affected badly) and we were walking to the bar and 4 of us fell on our bums, you couldn't stand up! I don't get sick but even I was struggling, looking out of the windows all you could see was sky....water.....sky......water.....BLEAURGHHHH

[Specialone]

Faceplant at 57sec is awesome.

I sailed around the mull of kintyre in september when those really strong winds were about... Apparently it is hard to capture a rough sea by camera and I would say it is, this looks fairly rough though...

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs698.snc4/63852_434404704836_502519836_4745101_7936069_n.jpg

Well i get motion sickness, i would barf on seas a lot less rough than that, i cant even go on simulator rides at the fair cos i feel really sick.

[Dicky Ticker]

I sailed till I had my heart operation and the worst seas I have ever been in with relation to the size of boat was one night of Royal Sovereign on a 34ft yacht in 30ft seas. When you go down in the troughs and all you have around you is a solid wall of water it is bloody scary,especially when it is you,the wife and two kids as a crew.
[I will add at this juncture that the forecast was for 4 or 5 but it suddenly came up to force 9 gale and caught everybody out if you can remember the Fastnet Disaster]

I have been on ferries in the Adriatic when artic trucks have broken loose from the chain moorings and been slamming about on the car deck a bit like that furniture,resulting in a mangled mess

The sea can be very powerful and demands a lot of respect

[ethariel]

Was on a 4 week Sail Training voyage (Inverness to the med for 2 weeks and back).

In the Bay of Biscay we were hit by a Force 9 squal, we took a greenie (kinda like 2/3 of the ship go intou and under a wave before breaking out), and 90 degree knockovers.

Funnest and scariest 8 hours of my life, 100 feet up a mast on the topsails....lol

[Dicky Ticker]

Sod that for a game of soldiers,up a mast in any swell is unpleasant.
I have always had the train of thought that a yacht if closed up is like a cork and as long as you keep the water out it will float,even upside down.

[maviczap]

Was on a 4 week Sail Training voyage (Inverness to the med for 2 weeks and back).

In the Bay of Biscay we were hit by a Force 9 squal, we took a greenie (kinda like 2/3 of the ship go intou and under a wave before breaking out), and 90 degree knockovers.

Funnest and scariest 8 hours of my life, 100 feet up a mast on the topsails....lol

Similar experience too, crossing the Pentland Firth from the Orkney's, we 'submarined' a couple of times, greenies right over the top of the boat.

Nasty piece of water that, we'd been stuck in port for a few days and our captain was desperate to get back to the mainland :(

I wasn't sick, too busy hanging on for dear life :(

On a later trip, when I had left the boat, one of the long whip aerials got wrapped round the rader after being struck backwards by a rather large 'greenie'

Swinging the lamp eh :mrgreen:

[G]

We had one particularly big wave set off 4 or 5 life vests.

[maviczap]

start to worry when the RFD liferaft is washed off its mounting :p

[Biker Biggles]

Sod that for a game of soldiers,up a mast in any swell is unpleasant.
I have always had the train of thought that a yacht if closed up is like a cork and as long as you keep the water out it will float,even upside down.

Have to agree with that.Keep it watertight and it will always come back up again.This applies to big ships as well,with the opposite effect if a significant bit fails.We now know that the "Derbyshire" sank in a storm because a hatchcover failed,not because the ship broke in half as had been thought for many years.I was on a 12000 ton ship that was totally overwhelmed by huge waves in a storm,but everything stayed watertight and we floated at the end of it,albeit with a fair bit of damage.

[BanannaMan]

The second verse of "Sailing" talks about aircraft (passing high clouds) so I'll stick to that.
Not to mention it's much quicker than a ship to the UK from here.

[Dicky Ticker]

When I am in an aircraft I would prefer a parachute under the seat,NOT a lifejacket.

Ladies and Gentlemen we are approaching Manchester Airport but due to a technical problem we may crash so can you please put on your life jacket and I will try and land in the Manchester Ship Canal.

Sorry for the derail ,never understood the thinking behind that one

[maviczap]

Probably one reason is that you are more likely to be flying over water than land?

[ophic]

When I am in an aircraft I would prefer a parachute under the seat,NOT a lifejacket.

Ladies and Gentlemen we are approaching Manchester Airport but due to a technical problem we may crash so can you please put on your life jacket and I will try and land in the Manchester Ship Canal.

Sorry for the derail ,never understood the thinking behind that one
I think the point is, in a jumbo jet, if the pilot has enough control for you to be able to bail out, he's got enough control to land it. Otherwise you are generally plummeting towards the earth at high speed and there's no way to get out. In fact, I'd imagine you'd struggle to get out of an open door even at stall speed.

Of course you could just blow the door and get sucked out with the depressurization, but then if you're over land the plane is gonna hit the deck somewhere and kill lots of people, or if you're at sea you'll be ok until you hit the water and then you'll wish for a lifejacket instead...

[Dicky Ticker]

In which case why bother with anything as the survival rate of any air crash is slim.
Its only the very occasional instance[Boston I think] when either would be any good

[BigBaddad]

I reckon it's the work of a poltergeister with ADHD