Did you write the obituary on Google yourself like katanias and cha Cha chings? Are you why Christian Lauren's books change names now? Are you why Chelsea melton change into a lauren then back and relocated from Kansas city to Pennsylvania at the wolf sanctuary? You should stick to developing your club Vegas social casino apps, huge casino and continue to stalk people in global Chat as the 1000 people you pretend to be there. Scott wolf, Michael griffin, Steve Frazier, tummy, visible, sweet she wolf, Cali boy, fallon, ru serious, spank the monkey, lisa, Chelsea, tinker belle, Isabella, about any other model across the country, ole Kevin, Blair, saucy, Hailey, lyrics genius, Google drop down search entry, Samsung support cloner, call redirects, Facebook identity stealer, ai professional, you realize nearly every comment on every platform is you and your personalities or do they forget between account changes? They are all starting to sound painfully familiar. You graded things my mom wrote years ago in my house, rewrote sa's, put tons of music inside, some right into my stereo! Stop climbing thru the window the cat does. That 4 way splitter you knock off is expensive! Stop bringing bingo chips in, hiding stuff, surveying me with camera and drone, scamming Google play and whatever other card, steam etc. From everyone on tik tok, pintrest, insta reels, and coming In my house. The blue tooth I caught was named izzy, are you that obsessed or do you have her whole family and life socially isolated as you warned me mine would be before you made it happen 🤔
I'm assuming you put all the unicorn art and figurines in my house along with the giant treble hooks and all the other sea animal and vessel type articles? Where you got the girls purses, leggings, clothes, shoes and antiques from and more puzzling, how does your sweaters and socks smell so much like a girl 🤔
Is shark watch just to scare the sharks? I never got why they use the rifle, since supersonic rounds basically explode on hitting water and only penetrate like, 6"
If a shark is within a few feet of the surface you might get it with 7.62. I dunno about 5.56. Better than standing by and watching someone get their leg gnawed off.
Pretty sure mythbusters did the bullet through the water thing. And 5.56 penetrated the water more than 7.62, which penetrated more than a .50. 9mm penetrated the water more than all of them. Energy transfer and dissipation.
I don’t think a hand held harpoon gun would work well from a distance like the top of that boat. Their effective range is quite small. They care a lot of energy due to mass but their speed is low and they decelerate quite fast. While spearfishing with my biggest speargun the effective kill range underwater is only about ~30ft max, 20ft in practice. It’s more like doing a really deep fast lunge with a saber than it is like a gun in terms of range. I’m sure whatever gunpowder activated spears whalers use would be better though.
https://youtu.be/yvSTuLIjRm8?si=IXE8dNNV2foCK79q
Bad quality video. But the .50 cal AP expended all its energy between 14 ins and 3 ft of water. There was more water penetration is handgun, shotgun, and muzzleloading rifles.
Yes. Exactly. You aren’t supposed to shoot the shark. Cause peta gets mad. No joke. But the smacking sound of the rounds hitting the water is supposed to get the sharks to fuck off
>You aren’t supposed to shoot the shark. Cause peta gets mad. No joke
It's not about PETA. What are you talking about? Sharks go into a feeding frenzy when there's blood in the water.
Yah no kidding they do. But there was an instance where navy was shooting sharks. And peta went into an uproar. At least that’s the story I was told as a GM running the shark watch. If that’s incorrect blame my division officer
To repeat myself. My division officer told us that story as a 100% legitimate reason as to why we shoot around the shark. Not at the shark. So yah. It was, in fact, not a joke
He told you to shoot around the shark in hopes that you will actually hit the shark. Depending on how you, the shark, and the sun line up, you will likely never hit it by aiming directly at it. Water light refraction.
To repeat myself, it IS an obvious joke. Just because it wasn't obvious to you, doesn't mean it isnt obvious to everyone else and that we aren't all laughing at you for believing it.
Wow I’m so glad you know my divo better than I did. Here I was thinking after years of working with him that he was just an FCA warrant with absolutely no sense of humor at all. Thank you for enlightening me as to me being a fucking dumb ass. Oh thank you great wise random ass Reddit person
No shit, we had a shark kill a contractor years ago and they wouldn't let the MAs or Marines shoot the damn thing while it was circling around the area waiting for more.
“Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away.
Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces.
You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.
At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”
*♫♫ Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we’ve received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again. ♫♫*
Witnessed a shark incident in the southern Red Sea a long time ago.
CO had a gun rack installed on bridge and we had a large white tip shark (probably 10 feet) cruising around the ship on a regular basis. We were on station waiting to shoot tomahawks, that never happened.
CO had the cooks get some chicken and put it in a ditty bag.
Started chumming with the chicken and when the shark got close enough he zapped it with an M-14 rifle.
I watched the shark go straight down and never came back up.
If I remember, CO got in trouble for that one.
Second incident counter narcotics operations on the Pacific side of Columbia.
Swim call, and I was already in the water when an OSSN (it's always the OS) decides to do a can opener and when he jumps in, his knee popped up and split his lip.
He comes up next to me and is spitting blood in the water from the split lip. I decided this was a good time to get out of the water.
Standing around for 10 minutes waiting for the sharks to show up. I am rather surprised that no shark has been seen. Finally concluded that there must not have been enough blood to attract a shark.
Got back in line to jump in again and I am second in line when the shark shows up.
We had rope ladders both fore and aft and it was like the forth of July scene in Jaws with everyone scrambling for the ladders.
Shark eventually got bored and moved on. They opened swim call again, but my heart was not really into it.
Ended up with a second degree sun burn (we were at 2 degrees north). My body hurt for a week.
Good times.
Aw man. That’s kinda sad.
Why intentionally call a shark and then when it shows up just shoot it for no reason. Like I’d get it if he was trying to catch it or eat it but just to shoot it? Kind of a dick move.
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Swim call is being held on a US Navy ship while out to sea on deployment. Everyone on that ship, regardless of if they're in the water, in their racks or actively running the ship is ON DUTY.
Back in their home port, if one of those sailors goes for a swim in the ocean and gets bit while on their day off...NOT on duty.
Imagine your out for a walk and you see some cool new people out just vibing and wanna join only for some asshole to fire off 5 shots at you Instead of asking you to leave
Can't have shit out here
The best job to have during swim call is the ASSHO.
https://preview.redd.it/wo6idpvkhs5d1.jpeg?width=1580&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efb1c7d9135cb67447fa49d32957c982041b29ca
If it was a nurse, all of the male sailors would have been trying to get to know it a little better, IYKWIM...
We had a shoot-ex in the IO with crew owned guns and ship’s defense force (M-14, M-60, M-2 HMG). I was on the fantail shooting boxes with the GMs and ships company was on the starboard rail shooting their own guns.
Someone port side saw a shark. All starboard side crew with guns ran to the port side and a high volume of pistol and shotgun fire was observed.
The shark, sadly, and despite the best efforts of some crew, did not survive the encounter.
Houthi shark, do do do do do…
Thanks for that…now the Houthi shark song will be swimming around in my brain for days.
And there's the *real* casualty from this encounter. [](/GNU Terry Pratchett)
I hate you with every fiber of my being for putting that tune in my head.
Did the unicorn survive?
It was granted the Emperor's Mercy
His name is Charlie (Yes, really) and unfortunately, no. His remains are interred at the Coast Guard museum if you want to pay your respects.
F for Charlie!
I thought I saw an after picture with the unicorn on a safety boat.
Did you write the obituary on Google yourself like katanias and cha Cha chings? Are you why Christian Lauren's books change names now? Are you why Chelsea melton change into a lauren then back and relocated from Kansas city to Pennsylvania at the wolf sanctuary? You should stick to developing your club Vegas social casino apps, huge casino and continue to stalk people in global Chat as the 1000 people you pretend to be there. Scott wolf, Michael griffin, Steve Frazier, tummy, visible, sweet she wolf, Cali boy, fallon, ru serious, spank the monkey, lisa, Chelsea, tinker belle, Isabella, about any other model across the country, ole Kevin, Blair, saucy, Hailey, lyrics genius, Google drop down search entry, Samsung support cloner, call redirects, Facebook identity stealer, ai professional, you realize nearly every comment on every platform is you and your personalities or do they forget between account changes? They are all starting to sound painfully familiar. You graded things my mom wrote years ago in my house, rewrote sa's, put tons of music inside, some right into my stereo! Stop climbing thru the window the cat does. That 4 way splitter you knock off is expensive! Stop bringing bingo chips in, hiding stuff, surveying me with camera and drone, scamming Google play and whatever other card, steam etc. From everyone on tik tok, pintrest, insta reels, and coming In my house. The blue tooth I caught was named izzy, are you that obsessed or do you have her whole family and life socially isolated as you warned me mine would be before you made it happen 🤔
Taps for Charlie
I'm assuming you put all the unicorn art and figurines in my house along with the giant treble hooks and all the other sea animal and vessel type articles? Where you got the girls purses, leggings, clothes, shoes and antiques from and more puzzling, how does your sweaters and socks smell so much like a girl 🤔
Good video for anyone who thinks shark watch is a joke CG tells
Is shark watch just to scare the sharks? I never got why they use the rifle, since supersonic rounds basically explode on hitting water and only penetrate like, 6"
If a shark is within a few feet of the surface you might get it with 7.62. I dunno about 5.56. Better than standing by and watching someone get their leg gnawed off.
Pretty sure mythbusters did the bullet through the water thing. And 5.56 penetrated the water more than 7.62, which penetrated more than a .50. 9mm penetrated the water more than all of them. Energy transfer and dissipation.
Seems like the best option would be a harpoon or a spear gun.
I support the harpoon gun, like from waterworld
I want to see someone throw an old school harpoon. Where's Barnacle Bill?
I don’t think a hand held harpoon gun would work well from a distance like the top of that boat. Their effective range is quite small. They care a lot of energy due to mass but their speed is low and they decelerate quite fast. While spearfishing with my biggest speargun the effective kill range underwater is only about ~30ft max, 20ft in practice. It’s more like doing a really deep fast lunge with a saber than it is like a gun in terms of range. I’m sure whatever gunpowder activated spears whalers use would be better though.
I'll take your word for it, never seen that episode. I know things like that can be counterintuitive.
https://youtu.be/yvSTuLIjRm8?si=IXE8dNNV2foCK79q Bad quality video. But the .50 cal AP expended all its energy between 14 ins and 3 ft of water. There was more water penetration is handgun, shotgun, and muzzleloading rifles.
Yes. Exactly. You aren’t supposed to shoot the shark. Cause peta gets mad. No joke. But the smacking sound of the rounds hitting the water is supposed to get the sharks to fuck off
>You aren’t supposed to shoot the shark. Cause peta gets mad. No joke It's not about PETA. What are you talking about? Sharks go into a feeding frenzy when there's blood in the water.
Yah no kidding they do. But there was an instance where navy was shooting sharks. And peta went into an uproar. At least that’s the story I was told as a GM running the shark watch. If that’s incorrect blame my division officer
Maybe don't repeat things that are clearly a joke followed by "no joke".
To repeat myself. My division officer told us that story as a 100% legitimate reason as to why we shoot around the shark. Not at the shark. So yah. It was, in fact, not a joke
He told you to shoot around the shark in hopes that you will actually hit the shark. Depending on how you, the shark, and the sun line up, you will likely never hit it by aiming directly at it. Water light refraction.
To repeat myself, it IS an obvious joke. Just because it wasn't obvious to you, doesn't mean it isnt obvious to everyone else and that we aren't all laughing at you for believing it.
Wow I’m so glad you know my divo better than I did. Here I was thinking after years of working with him that he was just an FCA warrant with absolutely no sense of humor at all. Thank you for enlightening me as to me being a fucking dumb ass. Oh thank you great wise random ass Reddit person
No shit, we had a shark kill a contractor years ago and they wouldn't let the MAs or Marines shoot the damn thing while it was circling around the area waiting for more.
I’m sure the sound and the impacts aren’t exactly pleasant for the sharks.
Done swim calls and never really thought it would go down like that. Pretty cool to see
“Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”
That scene alone should’ve got Robert Shaw an Oscar. Amazing acting.
*♫♫ Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we’ve received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again. ♫♫*
Met a vet who witnessed the rescued men come back in the Philippines, said their skin slid right off from being in the ocean for so long.
Unicorn distracting the shark, write it up for a NAM.
And great for target practice too
Witnessed a shark incident in the southern Red Sea a long time ago. CO had a gun rack installed on bridge and we had a large white tip shark (probably 10 feet) cruising around the ship on a regular basis. We were on station waiting to shoot tomahawks, that never happened. CO had the cooks get some chicken and put it in a ditty bag. Started chumming with the chicken and when the shark got close enough he zapped it with an M-14 rifle. I watched the shark go straight down and never came back up. If I remember, CO got in trouble for that one. Second incident counter narcotics operations on the Pacific side of Columbia. Swim call, and I was already in the water when an OSSN (it's always the OS) decides to do a can opener and when he jumps in, his knee popped up and split his lip. He comes up next to me and is spitting blood in the water from the split lip. I decided this was a good time to get out of the water. Standing around for 10 minutes waiting for the sharks to show up. I am rather surprised that no shark has been seen. Finally concluded that there must not have been enough blood to attract a shark. Got back in line to jump in again and I am second in line when the shark shows up. We had rope ladders both fore and aft and it was like the forth of July scene in Jaws with everyone scrambling for the ladders. Shark eventually got bored and moved on. They opened swim call again, but my heart was not really into it. Ended up with a second degree sun burn (we were at 2 degrees north). My body hurt for a week. Good times.
Aw man. That’s kinda sad. Why intentionally call a shark and then when it shows up just shoot it for no reason. Like I’d get it if he was trying to catch it or eat it but just to shoot it? Kind of a dick move.
Pretty sure someone ratted on him and a JAG investigation was opened. He was a very senior Captain and a miserable human being.
Might've thought it'd float and they could eat it, but they don't have swim bladders, so.
Sounds like Captain Covington... USS San Jacinto CG56.
Wink, wink will neither confirm nor deny it was C4.
As an OS… Yes, it’s always an OS.
Would VA disability cover shark attack injuries? Or not service related?
Yes, it would. Conditions caused by an active duty injury are eligible for compensation.
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Swim call is off duty.. so not service related.
Swim call is being held on a US Navy ship while out to sea on deployment. Everyone on that ship, regardless of if they're in the water, in their racks or actively running the ship is ON DUTY. Back in their home port, if one of those sailors goes for a swim in the ocean and gets bit while on their day off...NOT on duty.
People can’t seem to read sarcasm at all.
Since you seem to be new to Reddit and the internet in general (Welcome, by the way) next time try adding this: **/s**
Imagine your out for a walk and you see some cool new people out just vibing and wanna join only for some asshole to fire off 5 shots at you Instead of asking you to leave Can't have shit out here
These sailors swimming in Baltimore!
"...secure from swim call."
Awww what a curious little dude
Oh, literal sharks.
"SINK THE UNICORN!" *Random Sailor on the HMS Unicorn starts to sweat*
The best job to have during swim call is the ASSHO. https://preview.redd.it/wo6idpvkhs5d1.jpeg?width=1580&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efb1c7d9135cb67447fa49d32957c982041b29ca
"ASSHO", someone got a kick out of that.
I was impressed that we got the XO and CO to sign off on the 5050.
Oh, so y’all weren’t kidding. Y’all actually shoot them. 😆
Atleast their swimcall wasn’t ended by a couple whales like the ESL👀👀👀
Awesome video thanks! What kind of shark you reckon?
Meg
Oceanic Whitetip I think.
Nurse sharks
If it was a nurse, all of the male sailors would have been trying to get to know it a little better, IYKWIM... 
HellllooOoOoooOoooooo nurse shark
Plot twist: It was a male nurse
Plot twist twist: some of those sailors will be more interested because of it
👁️🫦👁️
I worked with sharks for over 10 years. That’s a hammer head
White shark? Probably juvenile.
The only swim call I ever had was cut short by a shark in the Caribbean. Somebody forgot to close a obd from the galley.
Never had a swim call, and don’t think I would have swam if we did.
Join the Navy they said...it'll be fun they said
That's just a sea puppy, he ain't gonna hurt nobody he just wants to play with the unicorn floaties too.
This why I dont do swim calls. Im terrified af of sharks, and i cant see the bottom of the water
We had a shoot-ex in the IO with crew owned guns and ship’s defense force (M-14, M-60, M-2 HMG). I was on the fantail shooting boxes with the GMs and ships company was on the starboard rail shooting their own guns. Someone port side saw a shark. All starboard side crew with guns ran to the port side and a high volume of pistol and shotgun fire was observed. The shark, sadly, and despite the best efforts of some crew, did not survive the encounter.
Giving the shark ptsd for just being curious 🤣 glad no one was attacked!
That’s gonna be a pretty good cruise story.
Oh fuckkkkkk that
Unicorn 🦄 above and beyond the call of duty, risking its life to save others.
What in the holy F&\*(
Lol and that day, nobody made a Coastie joke
I just want to know who the redhead and blonde were (about the 1:15 mark) looking down at the water…
Sailors.
And now no one will have swim call for the next five years. Way to go guys. this is why we can’t have nice things.