Real Reason MONSTER WAVES Can't Sink LARGEST Aircraft Carriers

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[Crimson_Hawk_]

I wanted to enjoy this video but gosh it drags. All the other stuff has nothing to do with why a big wave can’t sink a ship.

[Strykenine]

If anyone is interested in hearing more about El Faro, Brick Immortar did a really good video essay covering the topic.

[bholdr----]

Nature sends a big storm. Aircraft Carrier: 'Hold my beer'.

Jeez. Whoever wrote this had better touch wood/ scratch a stay the next time they're on a Carrier!

[bafon]

Having ballasts, gyros, fins and other aids for keeping the ship stabilized is well tested and improves stability overall. However all these systems may be loosing to the force of nature if you get into a situation where the ship itself works as a sail against strong winds, you cannot control the direction of the ship, and if a freakwave hits your broadside not so funny stuff could happen.

[harrickvharrick]

"The Sukatai (whatever) was hit by TEN FEET WAVES". WHAT? It sank be cause of 3 meter waves? Another such a little mistake.. I wonder how high those waves in reality were for them to sink her. Must have been a lot more

[dymytryruban]

"Knots per hour" are units of acceleration, not speed.

[theodoresmith]

They are a bubble basically when they close it up. Also, the weigh of carriers vs like a battleship, the weight of big guns and many of them, plus the turret weight and other high structure, and the fact they made the battleships low profile to be smaller targets, means a lot of weight is pretty high up on the ship compared to carriers.
I'm not a ship builder so I could be wrong but that would be my answer at hand.

[Derrakor]

well, i presume that they don't play Abandon Ship during the abandon ship drills, which is a big issue in my mind

[michaelkarkut]

My father used to talk about the typhoon in 44' and how bad it was in a DE

[stevenloynds]

Never say never, we all know what happens when people claim a ship to be unsinkable....if man made it God can take it....

[paulcooper]

Ocean waves 300 feet high! Are you high?

[barkmaker]

Did they not learn from the Titanic what a horrible claim this is to make?

[tonyroberts]

Fresh water ballast? How about sea water ballast.

[Phalanx]

62.3 feet is the current world record for the tallest recorded wave. Where the hell did you get 300 feet? Are you just making up nonesense?

[jn]

They said the same thing about the Titanic. Hubris.

[markbrisec]

Zumwalt's tumblehome hull design turned out to be superior to a more common ship design. That's why I'm surprised that the US Navy gave up this forward leaning design for the next generation of destroyers, the DDG(X) which will sport a regular hull design found on the current ships. There have to be some other cons of the tumblehome design that prevent it from becoming a mainstay for all US naval ships (excluding aircraft carriers of course)..
P.S. They also look freaking awesome, menacing and futuristic, don't they?

[sethmaki]

They spent 9 months cutting the Oriskany to be an artificial reef and it still barely sunk.

[Manigo]

Just like the Titanic couldn't sink?