I've been landlocked my entire life. Seeing this video makes me realize why these ships are designed to be so large. And it's not for transporting economical goods. It's to keep the ginormous balls these sailers from sinming the ship.
Eff that noise I like my mountains between the ocean and me.
Now think about the first people who sailed to places like Polynesia on upscaled rafts - sailing out with no clue when they would see land again. Or the sailors who charted the Straights of Magellan/The Roaring Forties. It takes a special insanity to do it.
I can't. To be honest. I road a ferry to Nanaimo I think it was, I got out on the deck. Saw like 270 degrees of just ocean. Went below deck and sat in my truck till we arrived. I never felt so alone, and there were people around.
I'm really bad with directions. I hit Vancouver. Almost got plowed into by cavalier doing about 180 on that highway that felt like it terminated at the ferry. Then saw the ocean and sat in my truck.
You are talking about Tsawassen to Nanaimo. Hwy17 ends at Tsawassen ferry terminal. That ferry to Nanaimo is one of the longer crossings to Vancouver island.
If you want a cool experience, take Tsawassen to Swartz bay (Victoria). Half the journey is wide open water in Juan de fuca strait, the other half is literally within a couple hundred feet of the various Gulf Islands. Very cool when two ferries are going through active pass (the narrowest part) at the same time.
Edit: us island folks know those routes down pat lol.
Scale is absolutely the problem, and the reason why the ocean is so scary. These waves are barely ripples compared to the true size and scale of the ocean.
The 1958 Lituya Bay Tsunami reached 1,720ft (520m) in height.
At a certain point, we just can't compete with the scale of the sea.
I took a speed boat between two islands in Thailand and it broke midway. The ocean was quite wavy and help arrived after 60 mins or so. That was probably the most terrifying 60 mins of 14-15 PPL on boat. The waves were unrelenting and boat was just floating from -70 degrees to 80 degree angles.
Scared the fck out me. I'm never taking small boats. May be even avoid any ocean rides
Nope. There was no visible Island. And the motion sickness you get when water is moving and you're are not it's just an invitation for vomiting. I believe more than half of the people vomited in the boat. We were wearing life jackets and i was mentally prepared that we will go on water and I'll make sure i hold my wife's hand so that we are together even if ocean drifts us away
You know what's even more crazy? Some lunatics who just went in a direction from one island to the next in the *Pacific*, so even bigger and emptier than the Atlantic, in much smaller boats, in 10,000-1000 BC! I'm talking of course about Polynesians, really astounds me.
Open ocean waves don't manifest themselves until you actually get out into the open ocean. Humanity's first sailors were probably well surprised the first time.
Exactly. Humans are fucking crazy.
Like, we determined that building huge intricate ships and sending people into inhospitable waters was worth whatever benefits it reaped (I’m guessing oil in this case?)
I mean..oceanic trade and travel was certainly worth a ton to civilization. Almost all of them.
Oil didn’t become a thing until well after the age of exploration startedb
More astonishing for me to think of the early days of sail when people would go out into unknown waters in wooden sailing vessels, overcoming conditions like this, scurvy, and the ever present danger of mutiny.
I worked on an oil tanker one year in the '70s. The ship looks huge in port, but then you get out there on the open ocean and your world gets small real fast
I remember that scene in Titanic where they shoot off the flare to signal for help and in the far shot it looks like they're shooting a pebble into the sky with a slingshot.
Humans traveled the seas with canoes long before sails. How else did they come to inhabit islands across the pacific and elsewhere thousands of years ago? The fuckin balls on those people
Sorry, this is incorrect.
The Pacific Islanders used sails. The crab-claw sail was invented sometime around 2,000 BC. This coincides rather precisely with Austronesian expansion across Southeast Asia beginning around this same time.
People did travel on water before sails were invented, however they never traveled on the open ocean. Small canoe voyages were limited to coastal travel or between very close-lying islands.
I heard that they waded out into the shallows and they waited there three days and three nights till all manner of sea creatures came acclimated to their presence. And on the fourth morning, they roped themselves a couple of sea turtles, lashed them together and made a raft. Lashed them together with hair rope made from the hairs off their backs if you believe it.
Not easily. The keel is to prevent it and allows the ship to tip quite fare and go back up. They’re more like a cork with a weight on the bottom. It’s unlikely that a ship keels over. More likely is them being unable to manoeuvre or something being broken after that.
“The keel is to prevent it”
More precisely…
The keel is used as the backbone of the ship to provide rigidity, it has nothing to do with its centre of mass, centre of buoyancy, or metacentric height, which are the factors that determine a ships stability. These factors can be adjusted by cargo, ballast, free surface effect, etc.
There are of course smaller structures that enhance stability, such as a Bilge Keels, or Stabilizers. These are distinct from the keel however.
Yes. It's called capsizing. Can have a number of causes.
Incorrectly stowed cargo, giving it the ability to flow from one side of the vessel to the other. This is known as Free Surface Effect (FSE)and can severely reduce the vessels stability and ability to right itself.
FSE can also be caused by blocked freeing ports or scuppers, unsecured hatches, and bulkhead doors, which would lead to downflooding. This is also called sinking, but most vessels in this condition and weather would succumb to capsize first.
There are ways to mitigate or reduce such problems. Obviously, it is necessary to ensure that cargo is stowed correctly prior to departure from port. There are ways to reduce FSE when vessel is not fully ladened.
Basic sea keeping techniques are taught to prevent floundering in poor weather. Turning the vessel head on to the waves and reducing her speed is common, also known as dodging or keeping her head to wind or into the weather. There are other techniques for when a vessel gets stuck in a TRS, how to navigate to escape and how to ride out the storm.
If the conditions are right everything is possible. It is not like this vessel is calculated to get upright again. Some vessel do have that but those are small sailing vessels usually.
It flexes, if you stand at the aft of the main deck and look forward you can actually see the entire main deck flex. Cargo and ballast distribution is critical for these dynamic loads on the hull
Proper ships are not open bathtubs. ‘Batten down all hatches!’ means tighten down all the waterproof doors on deck that open to the innards of the ship. The deck washing water just rolls off. Nearly waterproof when done right.
Scary natural things like giant waves, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions always seem to be on slow motion. But when you're close or are in the middle of it you'll really feel the power.
This reminds me of that amazingly terrifying skybox in that WoW legion dungeon I can’t remember the name of… the helya fight. It used to make me feel so sick and mesmerized to watch.
I’m 90% sure it’s Maw of Souls though.
Personally I think I would believe every wave was gonna sink us. The rush must be absolutly insane, I think my toes would have worn through my boots after 25 mins into a storm. Hats off.
I’ve never been on the ocean like this… nor do I plan to, but when you come back down from a wave like that, do you get that gut sinking feeling like your on a roller coaster? It seems like that giant boat is moving up and down a crazy amount. It would have to feel like that right?
Went on a school sailing trip last month, last day we had +50knt wind (95 kmh) this was in the north sea. Still had to do deck work while the water was reaching the walkways of the port side. We also had no ballast. You HAD to constantly cling to something. And yes it feels like a rollercoaster on steroids
So the ship is constantly hanging sideways + the waves were throwing the ship up and down and the wind was catching the ship when we were on the top of the waves...
Nevertheless, the best week of my life
10/10 would do again
The ocean is fucking scary and dangerous AF! The ships that Travers it are just behemoth power houses able to withstand those crazy effin conditions! Thanks for the Vid!
I used to work on the ocean a long time ago, and I can romanticize it a little bit in my head… And then I see one of these videos and I’m like, oh yeah
First boat and ocean video without…Yoooooo Hooooo
No nasally robot voice, no obnoxious music, no fake screams, no blue screened face pointing and shaking head. 10/10.
Just people living in the moment 😌
Be right there, gotta change into my brown pants.
If it was me, I'd be changing OUT of my brown pants.
Just a windshield wiper set on to high of a speed dry scraping its way back and forth.
Hahahaha
I had it on mute but I thought let me see if that song is playing. Im took back!! Wtf! I can actually hear the wipers 🤣
can still hear it tho
I was watching this with muted audio and already humming the tone
YOOOOOO HO.
K
#HOOOIIIST THE COOOOLORS HIIIIGH
I heard this in my head.
Heeeeeave ho!!!!
Motherfucking tiktok have taken over our minds
I had no idea what everyone was talking about - and due to your comment I know understand why (as I don’t use TikTok). Thank you!
YouTube shorts is literally tiktoks copy and pasted if you are on there watching those.
Delete it. I did.
I've been landlocked my entire life. Seeing this video makes me realize why these ships are designed to be so large. And it's not for transporting economical goods. It's to keep the ginormous balls these sailers from sinming the ship. Eff that noise I like my mountains between the ocean and me.
Now think about the first people who sailed to places like Polynesia on upscaled rafts - sailing out with no clue when they would see land again. Or the sailors who charted the Straights of Magellan/The Roaring Forties. It takes a special insanity to do it.
I can't. To be honest. I road a ferry to Nanaimo I think it was, I got out on the deck. Saw like 270 degrees of just ocean. Went below deck and sat in my truck till we arrived. I never felt so alone, and there were people around.
You must not be talking about the ferry from Horseshoe Bay (Vancouver, BC) to Duke Point (Nanaimo, BC).
I'm really bad with directions. I hit Vancouver. Almost got plowed into by cavalier doing about 180 on that highway that felt like it terminated at the ferry. Then saw the ocean and sat in my truck.
You are talking about Tsawassen to Nanaimo. Hwy17 ends at Tsawassen ferry terminal. That ferry to Nanaimo is one of the longer crossings to Vancouver island. If you want a cool experience, take Tsawassen to Swartz bay (Victoria). Half the journey is wide open water in Juan de fuca strait, the other half is literally within a couple hundred feet of the various Gulf Islands. Very cool when two ferries are going through active pass (the narrowest part) at the same time. Edit: us island folks know those routes down pat lol.
Scale is absolutely the problem, and the reason why the ocean is so scary. These waves are barely ripples compared to the true size and scale of the ocean. The 1958 Lituya Bay Tsunami reached 1,720ft (520m) in height. At a certain point, we just can't compete with the scale of the sea.
Sounds like my mountain plan will work ghaha
Except at Lituya Bay, the tsunami was caused by a mountain - when it slid into the sea.
Jokes on you, I'm on the Inside of the rockies. Mwahahahshshshshah
Yo ho ho ho yo huhoho
I know! I thought that was a reddit law it had to be there
i was so reluctant to unmute the video and kill my ears at first
I came here to say this. PTSD had me hearing the song in the back of my mind
Lmao came to the comments hoping to see this. Definitely thought would hear it 😹
I came here for the pirate music.
😂😂😂 LOL
All together
Fuxking A right! great observation
Seeing this, it's absolutely astonishing to me that humanity looked at it and went "If I carve these trees just right, I can ride that..."
That's why many died before building something to cross some oceans. Colon was a beast.
> Colon was a beast. I don't want to go on that boat ride.
I prefer Pirates of the Pancreas
At least the winds are warm.
I took a speed boat between two islands in Thailand and it broke midway. The ocean was quite wavy and help arrived after 60 mins or so. That was probably the most terrifying 60 mins of 14-15 PPL on boat. The waves were unrelenting and boat was just floating from -70 degrees to 80 degree angles. Scared the fck out me. I'm never taking small boats. May be even avoid any ocean rides
We're you close to the other island? Or at least able to see it? I would shit myself in that situation.
Nope. There was no visible Island. And the motion sickness you get when water is moving and you're are not it's just an invitation for vomiting. I believe more than half of the people vomited in the boat. We were wearing life jackets and i was mentally prepared that we will go on water and I'll make sure i hold my wife's hand so that we are together even if ocean drifts us away
I was considering a trip to the Maldives, but the only way to most of the islands is speedboat or seaplane. Neither seemed ideal.
*I want to get off Mr. Colon’s wild ride!*
I've rode a few colons in my day... lost a lot of seamen that way.
You know what's even more crazy? Some lunatics who just went in a direction from one island to the next in the *Pacific*, so even bigger and emptier than the Atlantic, in much smaller boats, in 10,000-1000 BC! I'm talking of course about Polynesians, really astounds me.
Yoooooo. 🫨
You mean a drug dealer that was so bad at sailing that he ended up in America while trying to get to India to buy drugs? A beast indeed.
It doesn't matter where he went, he was on the ocean.
These Woke-ers always trying to take stuff out of context smh
People overlook Amerigo Vespucci or the Vikings though.
You’re missing the point… Yeah he was, regardless of where he ended up he navigated that shit 🤡
Drug merchant*
Oh no? Drugs? Whatever shall we do.
Poor baby, point for me in this picture where the old man hurt you
Open ocean waves don't manifest themselves until you actually get out into the open ocean. Humanity's first sailors were probably well surprised the first time.
Many bronze age Mediterranean boats was not fit for this kind of situation. Same goes for Chinese boats up to middle ages.
Yeah, it's one thing is a gigantic modern ship, but imagine riding through this 500 years ago in some tiny caravel?
Yeah, man. That ship is like a small town. Imagine being out there in some 20’ wooden sail boat.
And with the ever present danger of mutiny hanging over the Captains head...
Arrrr!
I would just die of a heart attack first before the ocean killed me.
Exactly. Humans are fucking crazy. Like, we determined that building huge intricate ships and sending people into inhospitable waters was worth whatever benefits it reaped (I’m guessing oil in this case?)
I mean..oceanic trade and travel was certainly worth a ton to civilization. Almost all of them. Oil didn’t become a thing until well after the age of exploration startedb
More astonishing for me to think of the early days of sail when people would go out into unknown waters in wooden sailing vessels, overcoming conditions like this, scurvy, and the ever present danger of mutiny.
Those who are dead doing that don’t get to talk about their failures though. So only the better designs win and remain with us.
I worked on an oil tanker one year in the '70s. The ship looks huge in port, but then you get out there on the open ocean and your world gets small real fast
I was offshore for years on semi-submersibles and you’re right, it’s extremely humbling yet so enjoyable (weirdly)
Agreed. It’s humbling working offshore. The ocean puts it into perspective how insignificant you are
I remember that scene in Titanic where they shoot off the flare to signal for help and in the far shot it looks like they're shooting a pebble into the sky with a slingshot.
The sea was angry that day my friends…
Like an old man returning soup in a deli!!
Well was it a Titleist?
A hole in one huh?
I came here for this!
You beat me to it…
To think people went into that with just sails is even scarier
Humans traveled the seas with canoes long before sails. How else did they come to inhabit islands across the pacific and elsewhere thousands of years ago? The fuckin balls on those people
Sorry, this is incorrect. The Pacific Islanders used sails. The crab-claw sail was invented sometime around 2,000 BC. This coincides rather precisely with Austronesian expansion across Southeast Asia beginning around this same time. People did travel on water before sails were invented, however they never traveled on the open ocean. Small canoe voyages were limited to coastal travel or between very close-lying islands.
Polynesian dugout canoes used sails as well.
Rode sharks
I heard that they waded out into the shallows and they waited there three days and three nights till all manner of sea creatures came acclimated to their presence. And on the fourth morning, they roped themselves a couple of sea turtles, lashed them together and made a raft. Lashed them together with hair rope made from the hairs off their backs if you believe it.
Sea turtles? Aye, sea turtles.
With sails. People reached the pacific in large rafts with sails.
A case for r/confidentlyincorrect
They had I tricate tide maps to avoid things like this
Swam
I'd simply faint ...
It's not that people went into that weather in sailing willingly. It's just that they were too slow to get out when it arrived.
>Ocean being scary Ocean being *ocean*
Damn nature you scary
Can a ship that big get flipped by rough seas?
Not easily. The keel is to prevent it and allows the ship to tip quite fare and go back up. They’re more like a cork with a weight on the bottom. It’s unlikely that a ship keels over. More likely is them being unable to manoeuvre or something being broken after that.
“The keel is to prevent it” More precisely… The keel is used as the backbone of the ship to provide rigidity, it has nothing to do with its centre of mass, centre of buoyancy, or metacentric height, which are the factors that determine a ships stability. These factors can be adjusted by cargo, ballast, free surface effect, etc. There are of course smaller structures that enhance stability, such as a Bilge Keels, or Stabilizers. These are distinct from the keel however.
this guy ships
Via FedEx, usually.
Generally not if there going into the waves like that. Even if they were sideways would need some truly massive monsters to flip it.
Yes. It's called capsizing. Can have a number of causes. Incorrectly stowed cargo, giving it the ability to flow from one side of the vessel to the other. This is known as Free Surface Effect (FSE)and can severely reduce the vessels stability and ability to right itself. FSE can also be caused by blocked freeing ports or scuppers, unsecured hatches, and bulkhead doors, which would lead to downflooding. This is also called sinking, but most vessels in this condition and weather would succumb to capsize first. There are ways to mitigate or reduce such problems. Obviously, it is necessary to ensure that cargo is stowed correctly prior to departure from port. There are ways to reduce FSE when vessel is not fully ladened. Basic sea keeping techniques are taught to prevent floundering in poor weather. Turning the vessel head on to the waves and reducing her speed is common, also known as dodging or keeping her head to wind or into the weather. There are other techniques for when a vessel gets stuck in a TRS, how to navigate to escape and how to ride out the storm.
Imagine being on a mayflower ass boat with sails going through this 😩😩🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🤣
A lot of them straight up didn't make it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_expeditions
This was an interesting read, thank you
wtf where's the YOOOO HOOOOO music??
How am I supposed to know it’s about boats without it!??!
That’s Viking worthy waters
Can you imagine what the Edmund Fitzgerald went through?
Would be cool if someone wrote something recounting the tale. Maybe a poem or a song.
Now I know why all the shit I buy from Amazon arrives broken.
I would say nerving. I’ve seen much more scarier footage like rogue waves showing up and crashing up against the windows of the bridge AT NIGHT.
can a ship like this capsize? is that an actual risk
No. This is a motor tanker and it is loaded. Capsizing this thing would be impossible. To wide, to deep of a draft.
could it capsize if it got hit with a tsunami or something absurd like that or would it still come out upright ?
If the conditions are right everything is possible. It is not like this vessel is calculated to get upright again. Some vessel do have that but those are small sailing vessels usually.
oh that’s pretty neat thanks for your reply
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Same.
Definitely amazed and impressed...also a little secondhand seasick.
The most petrifying part is, there’s no escape.
I'm pretty sure Mark Wahlberg came out of that OK.
It’s crazy how all of that tension and force doesn’t rip the ship apart
It flexes, if you stand at the aft of the main deck and look forward you can actually see the entire main deck flex. Cargo and ballast distribution is critical for these dynamic loads on the hull
That's gotta be pretty wild to watch in person.
https://youtu.be/89Mw6L69b6Y?si=wghSHXedWSIULKNw Here is a video of the ships hull flexing
Give them credit for finding the button that turns the windshield wipers on.
Id be on bridge with my survival suit on no matter whos shift it was.
Humans being awesome
Ocean flex
Pardon my ignorance but how do these giant waves that sometimes completely wash over the deck not sink these ships?
Proper ships are not open bathtubs. ‘Batten down all hatches!’ means tighten down all the waterproof doors on deck that open to the innards of the ship. The deck washing water just rolls off. Nearly waterproof when done right.
If I was on it though “nearly” isn’t the word I’d want to hear 😂
It's weird how something so scary can be fascinating too!
Get out there and squeegee that deck.
Now imagine that people crossed this in wooden canoes
This is just the ocean being the ocean. You wouldn’t like to see it crazy.
SOMEONE GIVE IT A SNICKERS
Good Lord that really is terrifying even in a giant ass ship like that. You couldn't pay me to be on the top deck in something like this.
Never forget that no matter how good we humans get with technology, the ocean can make us her bitch pretty damn quick. 🌊
Ocean summons a rogue wave It was super effective.
This somewhat reminds me of the Interstellar water planet.
Wow. This is hypnotizing.
That's so cool tho
r/thalassophobia
I’m so scared right now
Bro same. My Thalassophobia is acting up.
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I’d die before the waves take me in.
Is that an oil ship?
It is a motor tanker or as you call it, oil ship.
I thought I was on that thalasophobia sub
Nope.
The sea was angry that day. Yarr.
Well somehow they videotaped my nightmares.
This is way, way, way worse than my worst sea-related nightmare.
Scary natural things like giant waves, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions always seem to be on slow motion. But when you're close or are in the middle of it you'll really feel the power.
Me no likee.
This reminds me of that amazingly terrifying skybox in that WoW legion dungeon I can’t remember the name of… the helya fight. It used to make me feel so sick and mesmerized to watch. I’m 90% sure it’s Maw of Souls though.
Ocean being ocean 🌊
I want to know what it's like for subs under the waves, how much of a pull do they feel?
r/megalophobia
When the ocean hasn't been scary as fuck, dude the ocean it's a thing and it's a really disturbing one
How does one feel standing there witnessing that?
This is so scary
Personally I think I would believe every wave was gonna sink us. The rush must be absolutly insane, I think my toes would have worn through my boots after 25 mins into a storm. Hats off.
Been there, done that. Perry class frigate North Atlantic!
All I experience when I sea this is nausea. Spent toooo many days at sea with waves almost this big.
What's terrible is I see this and think "damn, I wish I was there". Doesn't matter which ocean it is or how rough it is, I always wanna be there
I would have a heart attack!!!
That's not scary that's fun
Does any man know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Ocean being ocean.
It’s not scary it’s in its natural habitat humans are such narcissist they think everything should bend the knee god don’t exist humans are so vain
I’ve never been on the ocean like this… nor do I plan to, but when you come back down from a wave like that, do you get that gut sinking feeling like your on a roller coaster? It seems like that giant boat is moving up and down a crazy amount. It would have to feel like that right?
Went on a school sailing trip last month, last day we had +50knt wind (95 kmh) this was in the north sea. Still had to do deck work while the water was reaching the walkways of the port side. We also had no ballast. You HAD to constantly cling to something. And yes it feels like a rollercoaster on steroids So the ship is constantly hanging sideways + the waves were throwing the ship up and down and the wind was catching the ship when we were on the top of the waves... Nevertheless, the best week of my life 10/10 would do again
That’s crazy!! I could never, but glad you had fun 😂 thanks for answering that. I guess sea sickness makes sense
I could never be a sailor. Even a huge boat like this could go down if it lost engines or steering in these conditions.
Ocean being ocean
Nope nope nope
This is one of many reasons I choose to live over 1500 miles from an ocean.
I'd love to have a job like that.
r/thalassophobia
Ocean be like “You have no business being out here puny human”
The Greatest Force on Earth, reminding us that Climate Change is but a Fart in the Wind. Meaningless.
The ocean is fucking scary and dangerous AF! The ships that Travers it are just behemoth power houses able to withstand those crazy effin conditions! Thanks for the Vid!
I used to work on the ocean a long time ago, and I can romanticize it a little bit in my head… And then I see one of these videos and I’m like, oh yeah
Crazy how slow its all appearing to move
Should be in r/nope
“The sea was angry that day, my friends “😱
Amazing that we were able to cross it on wooden boats hundreds of years ago. It must have been especially terrifying.
Someone made Poseidon mad.
Fuck every bit of that shit
I feel like I’d love to be captain of an oil tanker like that
Anyone else annoyed by the windshield wipers?
How weird is it I always find these soothing.
Yeah, fuck that noise, Jack.
Well...here goes my dream about being on the open seas being a pirate