Hi! Is it possible for me to use and share this footage on my own youtube page? I share footage from all kind of activities on our ocean. Cargo ships in the 1960s till now, oil rigs, fishing vessels, etc. Of course full credit will be given to the owner of the footage. Looking forward to your reply. Kind regards!
what are they doing around 2:40 Searching the deck for some lost contact lenses? blows my mind how people like Magellan on tiny ships, already quite battered by this point, with extremely inusfficient navigational tools not only got there but found their way through a quite mazy system. And then just adding the likely longest open sea voyage in history til then directly on to it. Finding out that the Pacific is quite a bit larger than anybody thought. His constant mutiny problems made it even more unliekely to pull this off.
They're looking for any debris that might get sucked up into a jet engine. It's called a FOD (Foreign Object Damage) Walk and is done regularly. I'm not a sailor, but I did the same thing on Army helicopter flight lines many times.
Just guessing, but it looks like an easterly passage. So, if you're a United States aircraft carrier, "6 acres sovereign U.S. territory, any time, any place", and you could take over B.A. and Santiago without breaking a sweat, why not go round the Horn? Better video.
The Strait in the winter is a better option than to put ships in possibly chaotic waters. Carriers avoid storms and worsening conditions like the plague.
