USS NIMITZ (CVN 68)...

[Steve Parr]

Woke up early this morning, so I decided to drive down to Harbor Island, along San Diego Bay, to catch some shots of the USS NIMITZ returning from deployment:

http://www.onstagephotography.com/images/hugenimitz02.jpg

http://www.onstagephotography.com/images/hugenimitz01.jpg

Early morning light was a little tough but, overall, I'm happy with the results I got.

Shot with the 20D and Bigma...

[evorgsumaf]

Mothers lock up your daughters.

[EticketXb]

Nice shot - kinda interesting compostion with the cemetery in the background (2nd shot)

BTW - GO CHARGERS

[Steve Parr]

Nice shot - kinda interesting compostion with the cemetery in the background (2nd shot)

That'd be Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery...

BTW - GO CHARGERS

At the moment, they're gettin' spanked by the Chiefs. What's that tell ya'?

[Canonista]

Forgive such an ingnorant question, but how does that ship sit level with so much of it's mass overhanging one side? What's done below decks that we can't see to counterbalance it?

[JWright]

Forgive such an ingnorant question, but how does that ship sit level with so much of it's mass overhanging one side? What's done below decks that we can't see to counterbalance it?

There's a whole lot of ship below the water line. The normal navigational draft of the ship is 37 feet and it can go as deep as 41 feet. There is also a lot of weight below the water line, including the reactors, engines and huge tanks for jet fuel and fresh water.

[99allturbo]

There's a whole lot of ship below the water line. The normal navigational draft of the ship is 37 feet and it can go as deep as 41 feet. There is also a lot of weight below the water line, including the reactors, engines and huge tanks for jet fuel and fresh water.

I was lucky enough to touch the very bottom of the ship while it was in dry dock in Wa State back in 1994.

Awesome shots. Brings back some memories when we used to pull into "San Dog" over a decade ago.

[Desertraptor]

That's a big boat

Nice shots

[Lacks_focus]

Very cool shots! Nimitz was my first ship. Reported December of 1985... Took her around the horn when it changed homeports from Norfolk to Bremerton. She still looks good.

[Steve Parr]

Very cool shots! Nimitz was my first ship. Reported December of 1985... Took her around the horn when it changed homeports from Norfolk to Bremerton. She still looks good.

What was your rate?

My brother was stationed on NIMITZ when they moved to Bremerton. He was an ET...

[FlyingPhotog]

Forgive such an ingnorant question, but how does that ship sit level with so much of it's mass overhanging one side? What's done below decks that we can't see to counterbalance it?

They can manipulate the levels of ballast and jet fuel in storage tanks to "trim" the ship level. There's also a lot of ship you don't see below the water line.

[Lacks_focus]

What was your rate?

My brother was stationed on NIMITZ when they moved to Bremerton. He was an ET...


Parr sounds pretty familiar, but is was a long time ago! I was (am) an FC, so I would have been in the same department. I'll have to look though the cruise book when I get home from work!

[99allturbo]

I was also in Bremerton (94-97, and on the 95-96 Wespac cruise). I was an EN (in the Engineering dept).

[45R]

WOW!!! God Bless our Troops! Thanks for sharing!