Anatomy of Disaster - Season 2 Episode 5 - Ferocious Oceans
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- Опубліковано 18 гру 2016
- Witness an ocean liner ripped in half by killer waves and sail aboard a yacht tossed about on the open seas
in fifty foot rollers as Anatomy of Disaster explores the origins and cycles of nature's most destructive force
- the power of the ocean that drives intense storms an immense waves.
Enormous energy, caused by storm winds, reverberates out across the surface of the ocean in what we
experience as waves. And woe to ships or coastal residents in their paths! From an Australian sailing
couple's struggle to survive a tropical storm, to an attempt to save crewmen off a cargo ship before it
crashes into North Sea cliffs, Anatomy of Disaster takes us to the world's worst storms and the mariners
who face them. We'll examine cyclonic storm surges, gigantic ocean rollers, and killer rogue waves. To
better understand these incredible forces of nature, we'll stand onboard an oil tanker as it breaks up and then
barely escape as it plunges into the depths, cling to a catamaran in a South Pacific Typhoon, and watch a
ship off Mozambique sink after being hit by a rogue wave. - Розваги
I was on a navy ship for six months the USS New Orleans it was gigantic had roughly 5500 people living on it it was all Marine Corps helicopters five harier jets it was awesome I love that life my dad told me just before he passed away he said in the Gaelic language the word lynch my last name means mariner I had wished he had told me that as a boy because I always wanted to be at sea ,deep down inside ,thank you for showing me this God bless all travel the seas.
What year were you on the new Orleans
@@michaelrubio7070 I know what ya mean. My last name is Pike and I always wanted to be a Giant Fish.
@spikenomoon I was on the ship Uss new Orleans
Those chopper rescuers are a special breed.
20:12 The look on that robot's face and its frantic actions says it all: "DANGER!! GET US OUT OF HERE!!!!"
Inbred?
Thank you th
@@rogerscottcathey 0000p0à
@@billcar6805be good!
This is an excellent documentary, quite breath taking at times. We "land crawlers" just don't have an inkling about the tremendous courage of these hardy and brave seamen, who often risk their lives for our sometimes superfluous creature comforts. It's tricky looking onto such terrifying episodes without feeling like an armchair voyeur. I'm considering subscribing, if only for the fact that our family crossed the ocean six times by boat (big, comfortable sealiners) with the exception of a small cargo, the Princess Emilia (33,000 tons- a little baby by modern standards) in mid-October 1969, sailing from Montreal, Canada, into the heart of the Mediterranean Sea. We did strike a mid-Atlantic storm which has left a strong memory in my mind. The small vessel was tossed like a matchbox n the sea. The bow dipped under the water for several hours, and as a foolish 11 year-old youngster I went on deck with my buddy Thomas. I certainly wouldn't ever do that again.
Thank you for posting this thrilling documentary ; I have thoroughly enjoyed it, but nearly did it in my pants during some of the scenes. God protect ALL seamen. The seas are the greatest force in Nature to be reckoned with. We land dwellers are just careless, reckless fools. One day we'll pay the price if we don't change.
My grandfather was a Canadian Merchant Marine. He was torpedoed in WWII in the North Sea. This makes me respect him even tho I never knew him. I'm proud. These are real men.
He didn't survive?
People don't understand what merchant sailors went thru in WW2! I recommend the book "Mathews Men". It's about the men of the town of Mathews near Cape Hatteras. But i believe it shows the bravery of the countless merchant marine sailors. I think you'd really enjoy it. I hope you decide to read it.
Cap
this is true i was the torpedo
By “coincidence” the strange light brought rescue to the Forbeses. I love “coincidence”. 🥰❤️
What a story! Glad the couple made it to safety.
As a Brit, and an ex member of the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) - Is ALL Volunteers - The UK does not have 'paid' lifeboat crews, unlike most other countries! (it is also the oldest lifeboat / sea rescue service in the world!) - and as another comment mentioned - PLEASE get it right - Coxswain, is pronounced Coxon!
The RNLI are, for me, legendary.
Diane Hodgkinson
Respect!
And everyone, please give generously, seriously 👍🏻🇷🇴🇬🇧
If you agree rescue means catching a line and going for a violent swim/dragging....cheers!
"All experience is good experience" Thats a good motto.
Reminds me of Loki
The power of the sea is mind blowing 😳
Captain Ed Oonk and the man that went outside to repair the window are really heroes.
Captain of the Sedco/BP 471
I was quite surprised when they abandoned ship.. during the infamous Fasnet tragedy people lost their lives abandoning ship and the boat was found afloat the next day. I will only leave my boat if it sinks under me..I thought they'd stand by up weather giving some shelter rather than execute what I thought was an extremely dangerous rescue..
You are right, if the boat isn't breaking up and sinking, it's more dangerous to attempt a rescue than to ride out the storm. As long as you aren't close to land.
We don't see all the circumstances, but at first sight the katamaran looks pretty safely afloat. No ropes launched o the rear to keep the boat straigt downwind etc.
Don't leave your ship unless your ship leaves you seems a reasonable advice but once in panic our reactions become irrational.
Any information if the katamaran was found later and in which condition?
@@th-h6224 If you had continued watching for 5 minutes they say the catamaran floated 80 miles and was fine, they reboarded and brought it home. Case of boat being stronger than the crew...
AWESOME!
great documentary
The ocean is a beautifully terrifying place. From giant waves to underwater volcanic explosions and so on.
It's crazy how We have the technology to destroy the earth with a single push of a button yet we still can't conquer the ocean
Geez......I’m 8 minutes in and on the edge of my seat !!
Great survival stories at sea!
Whale Media I
It's great that there is hero's around the world people that will rise to the challenge these kind of people have my respect for life 💪✌💛🇬🇧👍
What an amazing story of struggle and survival this couple experienced and survived! I too have sailed deep draught mono-hulls and cats, having owned both. It brings to mind the old controversy between mono and multihulls. Many people have survived massive storms in deep keel mono-hulls even after being completely rolled over, even endwise, repeatedly, totally dismasted, and living to tell the tale. But in a multihull, even though they are harder to flip because of a larger footprint, once over... you're done for. I have often longed to try the big water sailing, but the argument as to ship design would bother me to this day. A cat or trimaran sails flat and has the floor area of a small bungalow and is top (above water) heavy. A draught keel almost always is at an angle and has much less living space but is bottom (underwater) heavy. It 's a tough call. What's even more amazing about this story is that the couple got their cat back, upright, 2 weeks after abandoning it. Unbelievable.. And on they sailed. Remarkable. I have often said to myself in dark times on a sailing boat that old Gordon Lightfoot phrase, " Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
It's not a tough call. Catamarans are unseaworthy. Anyone who is dumb enough or foolish enough to go offshore in one should be left to his fate. If you believe you need the room of a condo, buy a condo.
@@pauljnolan1000 In reply to your comment, you are absolutely right! When all is lovely on water, having a small cottage with a mast is like a dream come true, but when things go bad, I'd rather be in a deep keel mono-hull.
Me and my best Bud, way back when, tried to take our small Cat from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada out to Isle Royale on the American side of Lake Superior (the Lake that sank the Edmond Fitzgerald) and in spite of many really dangerous things we had done in our lives, that failed trip turned out to be the closest either of us ever came to death.
We sailed, stupidly right into an oncoming 7 day storm and spent the entire 7 days after somehow making and land, clinging to the windward side of the Sibley Peninsula camped on a shore that was basically a collection of rocks the size of a Volkswagen to a city bus. From that tropical shore, the terrain immediately went straight up 1500 ft.
We fought, for hours, climbing 45-60 degree troughs to peaks, and then literally falling almost weightless, windward hull right out of the water, and leeward half out of the water on the way down, down the other side landing like an airplane with no landing gear into the next trough. Not only that, but at the peak, the wind tried to knock us over, and in the trough, there was no wind because we were so deep down. It was at least 25-30ft from crest to trough. I was on tiller, and any movement more than a half an inch the wrong way would have flipped, or pitch-poled us.
That's the sort of experience that, if you survive to tell the tale, makes strong believers in deep keel, mono-hull sailing craft.
Thanks for your comment.
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Great video,keep it up. !
8:20 "And I guess I was buggered" :D
It felt good to learn that the couple recovered their boat/home.
I like these type of documentaries..
In any fight between a man and the sea, the sea wins whenever it likes. At the snap of fi ger. Having lived by the ocean for my whole life, I can describe it in but four words: beauty, majestic, allure, power. And yet, the words are too small. God, I love the sea. But, you've got to respect her.
That was very good. I enjoyed that
That's what you momma said !!!!
Amazing Documentary
Dam..all you captains and crews have my utmost respect..mother ocean can be brutal..
I give those men and women of the Coast Guard so much credit for saving that couple on the yacht the Lord was watching over them I hope they recognize that
It wasn’t the Coast Guard. It was Royal New Zealand Navy. HMNZS Monowai.
And when people don't make it I curse the lord for failing them, the bastard.
1991 in Marshfield, Mass. me and my fiance loved right on the seawall, sliding glass doors open and 10' deck right up against the seawall, the perfect storm, the no name storm, we stayed too long, lucky to be alive, waves were crashing over the house, beautiful deep green Atlantic ocean waters running down the windows on every wave, and it wasn't even high tide yet, then a wave picked up a boulder and sent it through the sliding glass doors, ok, time to go, but we waited too long, we got in the car but the streets on both sides were unpassable, so I backed the car up and incline about a 100' from the house, we watched the house get swept away completely, water came up to the bottom of the doors but just high enough to keep engine running, the next morning only the foundation and our king sized mattress in the foundation were left. It was amazing, even though we lost everything, time heals all wounds
Very good epsiode!
That catamaran @10:00 was riding out the waves quite happily, and was nowhere near tipping.
Never even saw more than a few inches below the waterline.
Boat stronger than the crew.
Reminds me of my USN days waves slamming into the hangar bay doors. Or waves hitting the port side and washing onto the flight deck with 60 knot winds.
Bill Deacon was a true hero who gave his life to save others. The useless crew of Green Lily share the blame. Too busy trying to save their luggage! And why didn't they drop the anchors to slow the drift?
wow i cant believe they got there sail boat back how lucky is that !!!
Im so glad they were able to find the boat
This episode was really well done. Good info with real and re made footage. A sailor myself I can say even beautiful days can turn dark so fast you will say this only happens in the movies. Water can be immensely powerful and weather can change on you so fast out there.
I live on an island, I have really bad motion sickness, I avoid going anywhere with a ferry or a boat.. just nooo. I have experienced as worst 35meters/sec winds at open water, hurricane strenght, accompanied by about 14meter waves, in the morning that day, the sea was like a mirror, not a single disturbance on the surface, well that changed in like 30min maximum, it was crazy, and this is just one of many storms I've experienced at sea, so it's not like you aren't used to it.. after that, no, just no, i can't travel with that company anymoore, it was HELL, people throwing up everywhere, and I mean everyewhere, all the shops restaurants etc was closed bcs the furniture & inventory (mostly glass bottles & cans) flew everywhere. Cars & lorries tipped on their sides on cardeck.. Needless to say, I was scared, so f***ing scared.
One of the other normal daily standard ferry rides to the main land, it's ALWAYS stormy, you wouldn't think it would be THAT bad, but more than once I have woken up by being thrown from the bunk bed straight down on the floor. And those times you start to think; well M/S Estonia sank 1994 in 33m/s winds, now its almost the same weather conditions, at almosy the exact same location.....
no just noooo. I go with a plane, or not at all nowdays.. 27y of atleast 5 stormy rides a year, I have learned, take the plane, it's worth it in every way & don't travel as mutch to not strain the climate in vain.. I'm happy at land, where the ground dosen't move, with my cats 😊
@@ingridakerblom7577 Princess Victoria Disaster {1950's} sounded like this....
Have you tried 'Transderm Scōp'? ...I really helped me with motion sickness... I live on an Island too.... albeit a biggish one, but it meant sea{ferry} travel a lot if you wanted to get to Europe with a vehicle.
I hated it when it was rough...because of the vomiting all around.
@@Oakleaf700 I'm using Scopoderm, (in the depot band aid format) the only thing that works, but really hate them. The side effects suck. You feel bad, but in a different way & can't get anything done bcs of how tired & you get.. a wierd side effect it how much it dires up the mouth.. making it's really hard to eat, and you get sick really easily, by catching some influensa bcs of it. And you are in a bigger risk of dental cavities (if you use them alot or longer time). I've tried it all thats avaliable. This is the only thing that helps with the motionsickness.. they are kind of expensive here aswell..
@@ingridakerblom7577 😊
I would think it’s.... the stronger the storm the larger the waves...!!!
I spent 6.5 years commercial fish, plus some trips on navy vessels, being a seaman you know when you have enough, you may fight the seas, the boat, may sink but life is precious, storms are no to be played with, also been in quite a few of those. I think they should build more capsize proof vessels. I had a friend that got ship wreck 6 times and lost at sea, a few times he was the only survivior. He finally gave it up, and by then most people, thought that he wasbbad luck.
How dose he have bad luck he was the only person who survived.
@@darrenpyle808 Not that that fellow HAD bad luck...they thought he CARRIED bad luck. A human 'ill omen', if you will. "Oh crud, they assigned us Sinks-Each-Week Bob?! We're doomed!" Except that they would mean it, after he was the only survivor of several sinkings and whatnot! Maybe he had REALLY good luck, but sailors are a superstitious lot! Don't rename a ship without good reason, don't sail in these conditions, don't sail when I have only one sock left in the locker, etc etc etc... The ocean is dangerous business, and the people who survive working/roaming the ocean for a few years tend to be pretty serious folk, too!
But in the smallest way of looking at it...even if he has GOOD luck, if he's not sharing it with his fellows, then they can't rely on it to save them when whatever ship-aimed-bad-luck that follows him comes calling, so...nope, they wouldn't want someone like that among themselves if they could help it!
Naaahhh, mate it was the ships that was not seaworthy, or a inexperienced captain, I myself got resqued in the Atlantic Ocean north of Iceland in 2005, it was the ship in my case, both the captain and myself got resqued by one of the greatest coastguards in the world.....
A ship at sea is always in danger.. So the green light and final wave saved the day.. I would have been first off that Cat.. Well done chaps
I rescued a couple of guys on a 30' Sloop after their boat was badly damaged and the seas were still very rough. It was very hard to get close enough to transfer them. They wanted to stay with their boat. I gave them provisions, then at the last minute they changed their mind. We sank it because it was a navigation hazard and not worth salvaging.
13:16 the foresail is unfurled? Made for T.V., I love it!
So is my Foreskin
nice goin cap an crew, went fishin an brought back a cupla aussie fish eh!
Crazy
We need all oil to be shipped in double hulled ships. Woof
Watching this video during the Covid-19 pandemic from Azusa California 2021
Turn the tankers into submstines, sailing just under the waves.
Great idea👍.
Great show, thanks.
The Green Lui should probably have locked the tow wire to some of their anchor chain to allow for some pressure on the towing wire to be taken on by some anchor chain.
GOD THE ALMIGHTY IS THE CARETAKER
The Flying Dutchman has balls of steel!
And we get upset if the bus is late!
What do you mean "we" white man?
That black woman who was bitching at the bus stop last week.
What do you mean "white man", punk? And then, it's whites fault there is racism everywhere.... and what do "punks" do? This, ladies and gentleman... THIS!
@@rafaelpfranco exactly! It's okay to be racist aslong as it's against whites apparently. Do that to a black person and they lose their mind's. But they can call us "white man" etc.. they are JUST if not more racist then whites even are now a days. Racism is racism don't complain about it if you are no better.
@@sheenaalexis8710 bitch do you know what racism is.
Activate their distress beacon but then don’t want to get off their Catamaran lol!!! Walking on the deck no worries, no need to call for help!!
It was there home and all there belongings lmao
Similar situation, 2001 with my wife on our Centaurus 30' cat... +7m waves and 65 knots of wind recorded by a cargo ship we met...
The boat, Russian built in Riga, didn't really flinched and the self-built windvane kept steering for 3 hellish days... after that we decided to go for a 200 miles run on a 3m2 storm jib and wing-shaped mast of 5 m2 surface, surfing those giant breakers straight into the West African continental shoal until the Moroccan harbour of Jorf Lasfar.
Man!... surfing those mountains at dusk running 15 knots of average speed is something I'll never forget!
Kind of puts things in perspective.
Those crazy times are unbelievable! 3 days, wow! How hard was it to add your windvane to your catamaran? Our autopilot takes a lot of battery power, but we didn’t think we could use a windvane.
Respect man
Maybe you missed the fact that the rudder was disabled by a wave, just as they were taken off the boat. When I was in the US Coast Guard, we rescued quite a few experienced boaters off rough seas due to injury or damage to their vessel that made it unsafe. On the flip side, we recovered more than a few that were beyond rescue.... The sea is a dangerous place for even the most experienced crew.
This is exactly what I tried to tell someone who made an idiotic comment. It's obvious anyone who makes stupid comments, have never experience the Ocean at its worse.
No chit... lol
Very true - they did the smart thing - take the rescue while you can - dying is easy - no amount of personal property is worth a life - boats are disposable. Anyone here, having spent enough time at sea knows that, despite all preparation and precaution, the Sea is going to test your metal - thrilling and terrifying all at once - no avoiding it - Having sailed the seas off the Western Australian coast for 55 years, I am well aware of just riding it and praying to Poseidon, Neptune, God and anyone else that may listen - many times a rescue would have been accepted - even just to stop the battering my body was taking.
That catamaran would have two rudders it wouldve been fine.
I don't understand what they would not have started to pump oil off the compromised tanker before trying to tow it. Seas were calm and vessel was semi stable, as opposed to avoiding an environmental disaster they expedited its happenings. It has been proven over and over these so called experts lack one key trait that most of us regular mariners have, COMMON SENSE.
Luckily these days it's less likely to get hit by storms without warning. Satellite-based weather forecasts and the ability to get said forecasts even on small sailboats make it a bit of a moot point.
This gives me nightmares
We had our trawling gear starboard bogged in mud with huge Mornington Island waves violently crashing over us. Thank GOD we got out of it alive.
The troth is a freaking scary place to be. Been there and literally walk on the walls/ bulkhead without touching anything for ballance. Some really scary shit. I remember hooking up a hammock in the A Gang shop lengthwise of the ship. When at rest workbench and draws just to the right of me and workbench taller than my laying position. when in the seas. My God the draws and bench top were rolling over top of me. This was in the USS Saginaw 1188. The ocean does only what she want at will. She can eat ships like candy.
i was looking for a manila line from that tug captain, a manila stretches and so decreases the stress on a tow line. i didnt see a manila at all and so ofc a straight steel cable snapped...maybe i just didnt see the line but thats a fatal error in high seas not havinga buffer manila rope
Anatommy # eu o mar mais verdade. o mar e arriscado tanto p voltar parabens salvaor
3:25 would it be more controlled hauling tension if the tug pulled on the anchor system instead of the rigid deck cleats?
Yep, there are a lot of tricks that can provide cushion. Many farm boys know to put a tire in line with a tow chain. Why? It creates a soft pull that spreads out the iinitial jerk, keeping the inertia from being lost in a quick slam and technically increases the pull. I once pulled out a tractor trailer from an icy parking lot with my pickup that way. Had there been no old tire there, it would have been impossible!
That light was GOD ❤
The energy of nature can be tamed.
Some of it can be with dams, sea walls and geothermal power, but good luck taming a super volcano or a big asteroid though lol.
Earth took a big hit every 50k years for about a billion years and although it slowed down there’s still some asteroids out there with our name on it:)
It’s a major reason it would be nice to stop warring on earth over stupid things like religion, if we combined our efforts as countries we could better defend ourselves from space threats and actually do some more meaningful space exploration going.
Wow Catamarans seem durable and are able to stay afloat.
AMAZING THE ASSININITY OF SOME PEOPLE ! DO I REALLY WANT TO LOSE MY BOAT OR MY LIFE ?
Judging by your poor spelling, I would prefer your boat.
Yep, no, no, no......................The thought of a wave hitting me on a beach sends me into heart palpitations. I have a ridiculous fear of water.
When the titanic sank they were in freezing, shark infested, pitch black water with the ship sinking around them i often think about that
Reef up, batten down, secure everything, set up a beam reach, keep moving.
Beam reach.....mmmm
@@barnybrogan7850 you don't want the wind coming from behind, trust me !
Know the elements, never underestimate the elements, and always know that the elements can get out of control. - Is anyone else besides me curious as to how the Flying Dutchman saved his rudder with thirty giant paris hilton sized tanks of salt water poured straight down the middle of all of his motherboards. conductive. ?
The green light was devine intervention.
Im now amaze of catamaran
They were scared, the boat was damaged, they realized they were in way over their heads and decided to accept the rescue.
I'm sure there's countless thousands of people lost at sea who faced similar circumstances and decided to decline help and it costing them their lives
Could they have survived? well the boat was found, who knows if it would have made it if they were on board though
Sometimes you have to swallow your pride
That's called Darwinian Evolution. The more idiots that die before breeding the better.
@@FubarGuy666 Apparently, this Evolution does not work. Idiots are approaching 100% of population.
24:17 holy crap!
...I love how understated the damage to the environment is as a result of the fuel leaks into the waters...
Even worse is the fecal matter washing in off the streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Deigo, etc.
"Out of sight, out of mind" at its finest, I suppose..? Though if they can't do anything for that, then worrying about it changes nothing so I guess that does also make sense. How can you purge the tanks usefully during an emergency? Especially without your in-an-emergency vessel not being given new gear for the purpose, really...how would you keep it from being uselessly-contaminated by salt water in the purging? Discard it how once you had it, if it were salt-spoiled fuel?
The problems look simple, but those /details/ are where the problems are found. Slurping out fuel means putting in /something/ into their tank in exchange for the fuel, or else it may suck in the salt water if it's low enough in the water...send over your own air, maybe? How to put the air in without including salt-water? Are there explosive risks to trying that? How to get the ship's crew to use the purge-tool during an emergency without it being an industrial-standard process? Would you be environmentally-determined enough to go over to a sinking ship/in a storm for yourself to test it out? Etc etc etc. Problems could stand to be solved, though...so hopefully we will figure it out some day!
It really is a sad sight to see a vessel head for the bottom!
My vessel is never sad when it heads for my mrs bottom
I must be one lucky SOB. In 2000 I king crab fished in the Bering sea in 30 ft waves on a 110 ft ship. No problem.
Ask trawlers about rough seas
Learning from hindsight is there anything to be learnt from this? As I plan to one day sail the seas and opting to make an many safe decisions as possible and learn from as many before me what is there to learn from the Catamaran scenario. What decisions could have been made?
steel boat or alu
Yep. Check the weather forecast well in advance.
The guys on the oil tanker. Let's sleep below deck even though the ship shows signs of breaking in half.... as the ship sinks: Wait, I have to go back below deck for my life jacket and my bag!
Some people have all the fun.
Tug Boat breaks a line and says "fuck it", we tried, let's go back to the bar and watch this on t.v.
Goast stories
If I was the catamaran, I would not have let them back on. They abandoned me.
You are metal
goutvols 103 Your comment reminded me of a great book:
The Ship That Died of Shame by Nicholas Monsarrat. They also made a couple of films based on the story.
If I was the catamaran, after letting them back on I would send a waterspout thru the sea loo while they were sitting on it. Technically known by submariners as "getting your own back..."
I identify as a catamaran and I would do the same
Always stay with the boat, the boat came through it fine without anyone aboard
You all know who sent the light 🕯️
The one with your initials. :)
THANK God for the fella who saw a strange light?.?...was it an alien orb.
Help from above possible!
People on pleasure trips are pains messing with the elements and put others at risk trying to rescue them!!!Same as those who climb mountains.
Sounds like you never lived a day in your life
@Mic Vili...I am an oldie now. Left home at 16 and was alone. However it's downright silly to take risks for thrills in my opinion anyway. Some rescuers have died having to go retrieve people in bad situations. One of my sons is a bit of a thrillseeker or was (calmed a bit haha) but I almost held my breath when he did some pursuits.
Saludos
It is well known by experienced sailors that the safest place is on the boat if it is watertight.
Right?
A functional boat and he asks for help? Not like it was sinking. Did the engine work?
Leaving a small to medium sized boat to board a ship in the middle of a cyclone / taifun / hurricane in the open sea is very dangerous. If it isn't sinking, or at least capsized, it's not a good idea to even try to do that. As for the Pacific being peaceful, I once sailed from Guam to Madang, PNG - there were three tropical revolving storms banging around in the tropical N. Pacific near Guam - 1 to the North, 1 to the East, and 1 to the west. These storms Guam gets, an average of 9 taifuns a year, are amazingly destructive. The buildings all look like bunkers, with flat concrete walls and roofs. They are built with lots of rebar. Trees are very few and far between, because the storms shred them and bear them off to the sea. The Taifuns near Guam are very violent, and you can never predict just where they will go. They will trend between W to N, and may loop back.
People work hard and decide to go for their dream of sailing..all of you so called sailing experts can kiss my ass passing judgement on anyone who accepted rescue in a scary situation. Negative comments always come from braggadocio shitheads. Fuck you!!!
No life jackets on a professional investigation mission... I’m glad we have finally begun to respect our lives.
Lol
Erik sails a 34 foot mono hull through seas like that for fun. Could have just hung out for a day and been fine.
15:35 should of got two lines on the yatch one for them and one for towing the yatch out of the rough seas
People, animals, insects, nor humans or the earth evolved! God created it all!
Good thing they waited to fall off their "none" sinking boat (home) until the rescue ship arrived!
John You mean their boat that was damaged by a wave to the point it could no longer be steered, that "non sinking boat"? Hmm? Lemme see? In the middle of the ocean during a intense storm, with waves five times bigger than the boat, when the boat is damaged to the point you are essentially dead-in-the-water, what would you do? Besides crap yourself and cry, you would be trying to get off that boat!
@@americannobody27 I see from your comment why you are a nobody
the boat can usually take more then you can
Right? The first couple on the catamaran abandoned ship too early
Speaking of fetch they would have to “fetch” me a clean pair of draws
🤣🤣🤣🤣
As a veteran Cpt, I’m always shocked by people who regale me with survival stories, almost always caused by their own buffoonery. And they do it so proudly!! ?? People abandon perfectly good boats. You should climb UP to your liferaft, not down.
I have surfed huge waves no big deal sailing down wind you definitely could do these waves
I wouldn't sail downwind in a storm without a sea anchor. Lots of people do it, but then lots of people boat while drunk. Just because someone may get by doing it, its still a very bad sailing habit and one that WILL eventually come back and take a bite out of your ass.
Jerry LaFever I have too... but I am older now and broaching does not sound fun
The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to return soup in a deli. George castanza
It’s clever how the yacht docked itself 80miles away.
Yeah you can do all that now with GPS and autopilot.
I'm joking, but maybe this is possible now? Unmanned (sorry, unpersonned) vessel, if able to still navigate, takes itself to nearest mooring, anchors a half mile out and calls the local marina
@@unclepizza2000 And then pops a bottle of cold bear while contemplating of the great adventure it just survived.