I Can't Stop Watching This Frigate Pound Through Rough Seas -- Jalopnik
There's something incredibly hypnotic about this Danish Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate bounding through some moderate waves. Up, and down. Up, and down. Splashy splash splash.
"Splashy splash splash" is, I believe, the technical term for what is happening here.
Though they are classified as frigates, the Iver Huitfeld-class ships are 455 feet long and displaces over 6,000 tons each, making them nearly as big as destroyers. And it definitely looks like they can take everything the North Sea throws at them, which is useful, because they're from Denmark.
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WNU Editor: Watching the above video one would think that it is small ship .... it is actually a very big ship (see pic here). Check out the video below of a Lynx Helicopter tring to land on a ship in rough seas.
2 comments:
As a friend from the wet service would say "time for the peanut butter and Vaseline sandwiches for the new guys!"
No way, no how - watching both those clips made me feel sick. Credit to all how do this as their job but it ain't for me!!
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