STUCK AT ANCHOR IN BAD WEATHER | SHIP'S vLOG 5 | LIFE AT SEA

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[darubyprincxx]

as someone who doesn't mind menial tasks and is interested in joining the merchant marines through the SIU myself, your videos have been a huge resource for me! they're very well made and very informative. it takes skill to make 16 days at anchor entertaining. thank you for these so much

[cliveramsbotty]

what a fantastic work of film. wonderful story arc, perfect pace with smooth narration and tasteful music. really good. basically i'm saying i liked it.

[kakafoni]

I stumbled upon your vidoes by accident and have been hooked ever since. You are the perfect narrator of your own adventures and you could make anything interesting I think. Keep it up and stay safe and have fun!

[svensshed]

We used to call bad weather Tuesday when I was in the Navy :). The ocean quickly reminds you that you are not that important. Made me a better waterman and a better person

[ShallowPlane]

You have the voice of a true crime narrator .The work looked mundane however I was happy to be coming along for the ride .great vid

[neilmackinnon]

Hi Joe I love this video. I am originally from Nova Scotia. You capture the coldest of the North Atlantic in winter. I feel the cold in my bones as I watch. Going back to WW2, you gotta feel for all those non sailors who work to bring convoys to Europe.

[alanhill]

I was at sea 50+ years ago. Good to see things haven't changed a lot. Your ships seem to be very well run.

[rogerblackwood]

I love the old school ways, visual anchor check every hour👍 All the private yacht types rely on the GPS Plotter and an electronic anchor alarm. But what else would you do all day if it wasn't for a nice long walk in freezing rain😜

[oneworld]

At 4:50 that shot of the ship only two ways I can think of to get that a hovering drone or camera mounted on something that maintains level perhaps by gyroscopic means?
I was 17 in 1976, with an excessive load of ideas for from circus to graphic arts to school teacher to merchant mariner and even more. I checked in with the Merchant Marine office in Baltimore, where I was discouraged by news of a 2-year waiting list.
Two years THEN was VERY different to two years NOW. I've been told a quite interesting reason for that. When you're 5 years old, 10 years of age is your current lifetime away. When you're 50 years old, that 2 years is a mere 5% of your lifetime.
Great show, double the length would be fine. Having grown up on and in Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic salt marshes of Maryland and Virginia, I get the love of the seas that's putting you out there. Take good care, I well remember when footage like this could only be gotten on film, and not just a click away :)

[jasonneal]

Thank you for showing this side of the Merchant Mariners life. Some of the other guys on here only show the "glory" part of it. Stay safe

[paullandreville]

Always learn something from you Joe. These are good videos for the younger generation to see. Real working world stuff. Be safe.

[stephenmoerlein]

Interesting perspective on being at sea with nowhere to go. To landlubbers, this is something we never think of. Thanks for posting.

[jamesbillington]

Another great video Joe. It brings back many memories of when I was in the merchant marines from 1982-1987. What a great testimony of the crews' seamanship (and the anchor/anchor chain) to have not dragged anchor.

[georgiannacook]

I never knew how hard it was for those on ships in this weather it was hard enough to get to class in a storm but I was young and we weathered it. The crew seems to be hardworking and good natured which is the best way to deal with things thanks again for the video.

[eddieslittlestack]

Your camerawork is simply amazing!
Yeah I though the railroad was boring! Pull into a siding and the dispatcher says call me after the two trains pass by, 2 hours later “oh ya ya, I didn’t mean those two! You’ll be there for another 4 hours”! Lol I think we both can understand ‘Hurry up & wait’!

[johnnyquick]

Made it back to Norfolk, Virginia after a 6 month deployment, on an aircraft carrier. Heavy wind and rain that morning. Still all of the families were waiting on the pier. The tugboat crew was still confident and wanted to go through with mooring the ship. However, at that point, all the captain had to do to make admiral, was successfully moor that ship. So he opted to wait until the next morning to pull up to the pier. I don’t think I have ever seen so many people that pissed off. We were livid. I didn’t have any family on that pier, but I had duty the next day when we pulled in. So while everyone else got to go ashore, I had to stay on board for another day. After we got moored, and later on that night, I did get permission to go ashore and walk over to the McDonalds, at the entrance to the pier. Seventy days without setting foot on dry land. It was nice to be able to go ashore, but I still had to go back on board and spend another night on that pig.

[dgsantafedave]

I remember being on the Uss Coral Sea and we dropped almost a 1000 feet of anchor chain off of the coast of the Farrallon Islands during a training exercise. We learned a lot about the color codes on the chain that day! Great videos and I remember crossing the Atlantic, much more boring than the Pacific!

[christiepowell]

I watch these videos right before bed, so soothing!

[georgiannacook]

This video hits home as I went to college in Halifax. There is a reason one is known as a blue nose, especially in winter which is when I was there. This was way before you were born probably. Thank you again for the video.

[jojogivens]

I'm from New Orleans and have always wondered what the crew members did on all those ships I used to see in port . Now I know . Thanks man!!! Definitely will subscribe and set my alerts !!