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The first picture below was the first ship I sailed on almost 25 years ago, the ship was on passage from Brazil to Singapore and we literally rolled our way across with the following seas! I remember the dumb-bells in the gym broke free and created absolute carnage. Most importantly the beer remained intact and unaffected!

Then some years later I saw the ship again whilst serving on a different vessel, whilst berthed in the port of Singapore.

The pictures look alright on this post, but they were scanned from the 35mm negatives on one of the early dedicated film scanners that were on the market in the early 2000's. If I remember rightly it was USB1.0 and it took perhaps 20 minutes to scan one image! I gave up scanning most of my 35mm pictures!

Taking a trip down memory lane here!

Below are (some) of a sequence of pictures I took whilst on a cape-size bulk carrier in 2001. This was the tail end of a hurricane with something like force 10 or 11 winds still blowing. This ship was 283m long and 44m wide. We had a 9m freeboard (the distance from the waterline to the maindeck) on this passage. The fore-mast was (at least) 12m high.

I can't exactly remember but the swells breaking over the bow were probably at least 12 to 15m is size, hopefully the above dimensions help to give some scale to the size of the seas after the hurricane had passed through. This was somewhere off south-west Australia.

The 2 pictures are zoomed in somewhat and only show the forward third/half of the ship with the swells breaking over the bow.

In the two below images where the railings on the port (left) side of the ship disappear into the water, in calm conditions the bottom of this railing would have been 9 meters above the waterline.

Likewise with the above post, these 35mm negative images were scanned years ago with an early dedicated USB1.0 film scanner so apologies for the image quality.

shocolite wrote in post #18824685
Taking a trip down memory lane here!

Below are (some) of a sequence of pictures I took whilst on a cape-size bulk carrier in 2001. This was the tail end of a hurricane with something like force 10 or 11 winds still blowing. This ship was 283m long and 44m wide. We had a 9m freeboard (the distance from the waterline to the maindeck) on this passage. The fore-mast was (at least) 12m high.

I can't exactly remember but the swells breaking over the bow were probably at least 12 to 15m is size, hopefully the above dimensions help to give some scale to the size of the seas after the hurricane had passed through. This was somewhere off south-west Australia.

The 2 pictures are zoomed in somewhat and only show the forward third/half of the ship with the swells breaking over the bow.

In the two below images where the railings on the port (left) side of the ship disappear into the water, in calm conditions the bottom of this railing would have been 9 meters above the waterline.

Likewise with the above post, these 35mm negative images were scanned years ago with an early dedicated USB1.0 film scanner so apologies for the image quality.

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Very impressive. Were you frightened? (And/or sea-sick)?

This photo brings back memories of touring Mighty Mo and the Arizona Memorial. In one trip you can see where America's role in WWII started and ended.

Unreal!!! My father was a merchant marine (oil tankers) he had some stories to tell!

Some monster ships in here!

Some more of the US Naval mothball fleet, Philadelphia.

Photo from ptcanon3ti's gallery.

shocolite wrote in post #18824685
Taking a trip down memory lane here!

Below are (some) of a sequence of pictures I took whilst on a cape-size bulk carrier in 2001. This was the tail end of a hurricane with something like force 10 or 11 winds still blowing. This ship was 283m long and 44m wide. We had a 9m freeboard (the distance from the waterline to the maindeck) on this passage. The fore-mast was (at least) 12m high.

I can't exactly remember but the swells breaking over the bow were probably at least 12 to 15m is size, hopefully the above dimensions help to give some scale to the size of the seas after the hurricane had passed through. This was somewhere off south-west Australia.

The 2 pictures are zoomed in somewhat and only show the forward third/half of the ship with the swells breaking over the bow.

In the two below images where the railings on the port (left) side of the ship disappear into the water, in calm conditions the bottom of this railing would have been 9 meters above the waterline.

Likewise with the above post, these 35mm negative images were scanned years ago with an early dedicated USB1.0 film scanner so apologies for the image quality.

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shocolite wrote in post #18824669
The first picture below was the first ship I sailed on almost 25 years ago, the ship was on passage from Brazil to Singapore and we literally rolled our way across with the following seas! I remember the dumb-bells in the gym broke free and created absolute carnage. Most importantly the beer remained intact and unaffected!

Then some years later I saw the ship again whilst serving on a different vessel, whilst berthed in the port of Singapore.

The pictures look alright on this post, but they were scanned from the 35mm negatives on one of the early dedicated film scanners that were on the market in the early 2000's. If I remember rightly it was USB1.0 and it took perhaps 20 minutes to scan one image! I gave up scanning most of my 35mm pictures!

Nice story, I’ve often wondered about how safe the heavily stacked-up container ships are in high seas and a gale. The responsibility must weigh heavily on the captain and his crew.

Personally I think container ships have gone too big. Understandably economy of scale rules in favour of the owners and shippers using such large vessels but as has been witnessed in the past 2 or 3 months there has been several incidents of containers being lost overboard.

One major problem is that the shippers of each container often overload them and then deliberately under-declare the weight. On a large containers ship this can mean a difference of thousands of tonnes. And putting heaving containers up top increases the stresses of the containers below and also of the lashing gear securing them.

Believe it or not, many ports still do not weight the containers as they are being loaded onto the ships.

I was on one container ship were we had about 30 containers collapse due to an old printing press (weighing about 25 tonnes) started moving inside the container causing sidewall damage and eventually crashing through into adjacent containers. Upon investigation it transpired the printing press had not been secured or lashed down in the container and when the vessel encountered heavy seas the damage was done. Many people underestimate how much cargo ships roll and don't realise that despite their size, Mother Nature always has the upper hand.

It is not the responsibility of this occurring that is of primary concern to those onboard the vessel but that your lives are put at risk by such incidents. And regrettably this is true of many other areas of industry.

The sea is definitely the boss, she can give and she can take at a whim.

ptcanon3ti wrote in post #18825029
Some monster ships in here!

Some more of the US Naval mothball fleet, Philadelphia.

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posted by ptcanon3ti originally in forum: Still Life, B/W & Experimental

Outstanding again. That glass still water, light and clouds were begging for a great photographer - and you made masterpieces. For me, really, these are worthy of a show all by themselves.

Cheers

Mike

Was birding with my 300/2.8 and 1.4X (unsuccessfully) and thought this scene was nice. Only trouble was I could not fit the ship in the frame - I could have just taken off the teleconverter but was lazy and stitched 4 horizontal frames instead.

Please click on link for a nice large view showing some pretty good details on the freighter - and a pretty cool mirage effect on the more distant ship.

Best regards

Mike

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That's very kind of you. Thank you Mike.

Ferry near Sicily