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Navy Vets, did you "Cross the Line"?
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<blockquote data-quote="ConstitutionCowboy" data-source="post: 3391017" data-attributes="member: 745"><p>I, too, never made it across the equator, but spent some time above the arctic circle. I do believe it was aboard the Wasp. That was the time we ran into some heavy seas and I got to see green water come over the flight deck. Every time the bow took a deep dive, columns of water would come gushing in around the anchor chain portals. I was birthed in the forecastle right below the flight deck - and the catapults. (There was no sleep to be had during ops!) Anyway, the forward bulkhead between the forecastle birthing compartment and the compartment where the anchor chain comes up from its storage compartment and out the portals, cracked. I guess the bulkhead oil-canned a few too many times over the lifetime of the carrier during heavy seas.</p><p></p><p>Interesting factoid: While the Wasp was bobbing up and down in the huge waves, coming to the magic frequency where the bow would take its deepest dive into the oncoming wave, the tin cans would simply ride up and over the waves with little trouble. In some of the not-so-heavy seas, the carriers float along smooth as class while the tin cans rock fore and aft like a twig going down the Colorado River rapids. First the bow is out of the water then the next moment the screw(propeller) is spinning in the open air! Quite a sight to see from the calm decks of a carrier.</p><p></p><p>Woody, USN '66 - '70.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ConstitutionCowboy, post: 3391017, member: 745"] I, too, never made it across the equator, but spent some time above the arctic circle. I do believe it was aboard the Wasp. That was the time we ran into some heavy seas and I got to see green water come over the flight deck. Every time the bow took a deep dive, columns of water would come gushing in around the anchor chain portals. I was birthed in the forecastle right below the flight deck - and the catapults. (There was no sleep to be had during ops!) Anyway, the forward bulkhead between the forecastle birthing compartment and the compartment where the anchor chain comes up from its storage compartment and out the portals, cracked. I guess the bulkhead oil-canned a few too many times over the lifetime of the carrier during heavy seas. Interesting factoid: While the Wasp was bobbing up and down in the huge waves, coming to the magic frequency where the bow would take its deepest dive into the oncoming wave, the tin cans would simply ride up and over the waves with little trouble. In some of the not-so-heavy seas, the carriers float along smooth as class while the tin cans rock fore and aft like a twig going down the Colorado River rapids. First the bow is out of the water then the next moment the screw(propeller) is spinning in the open air! Quite a sight to see from the calm decks of a carrier. Woody, USN '66 - '70. [/QUOTE]
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