USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and MS Color Fantasy sailed through the Oslofjorden - 8x timelapse 

Nice to have you as a guest here in Norway! :-) Welcome back!

Unless you are the US ambassador to Norway or the admiral of the USS Gerald R Ford, let’s just say the comment came from a place of kindness and call it a day. 😂

@pyootchnich Admiral is not on a US Carrier normally. It is by a Captain, get it like most ships, pretty simple.

@@johnllamas1645 Usually a deployed carrier will have a RA (0-7) with them.

Oslofjorden! :-)

But is there a fjord ford?

Thank you!! :-)

Well, The MS Color fantasy makes it there every day. 😉

Yes :-)

you are still a toothpick compared to the size of an ocean

@@lukeellis8507 🙄

How beautiful it would be to see a 1000 tnt explosion over this carrier🥰

@@sriunnam👈idiot.

Thank you! :-)

Did you notice the small black patrol(40ft I guess?) boat deterring other small craft from getting too close.

@@danwhiteman2529 I did!

Yes. :-)

Nice herding skills by the Norwegian and US Navies. Busy security "zodiacs".

"subs"? didn't see one

@@slobama Exactly. And yet, they WERE there. Believe me, that inlet was a lot more spacious and friendly than some of the rivers in Russia.

Right we know they went first

​@@slobamaYou don't have to see it 😅

The " blue & white cruise ship" is a ferry, going between Oslo (Norway) and Kiel (Germany)

Yes. Thank you! :-)

Or a pilot of God?

actual lols

Hope all are ok about 9 months! :-D

Thank you! :-)

Thank u. :-)

Thank you :-)

You'd be surprised. Some people just *have* to make a point. I was a JO on a supply ship back in the early 80's, homeported out of NAS Alameda on San Francisco bay. One day we were headed north toward the Bay Bridge on our way out to sea when a guy in a maroon-hulled sailboat decided he was going to "stick it to the military-industrial complex" or whatever. He was under sail, approaching from our right and aiming to pass directly in front of us. Now, in open water we would have been required to maneuver to avoid as we were a powered vessel - however, south San Francisco bay is *not* open water. I glanced up at the mast to ensure that the big black cylinder indicating "vessel constrained by draft" was hoisted (it was), then picked up the bridge wing microphone and said, "Bosun mate of the watch - sound three short blasts on the ship's whistle". Boooomp! Boooomp! Boooomp! went the whistle, and the little sailboat tacked and proceeded down our starboard side, yelling something (at a 50 yards distance all I could see was that his mouth was moving) and shaking his fist at us. I politely smiled, waved, and went on with my job. Then there were the times we made night transits through congested waterways - like in the Phillipines, going through the San Bernardino strait. First time I got to do that I was on watch with a grizzled old mustang lieutenant commander, and as we were approaching the strait all I could see were little lights on sampans all over the place, and nothing showing up on radar. I asked him, "Sir - how to we maneuver through all these fishing boats?", and he gave me some excellent advice - "Just hold your course and speed, and *they* will get out of *your* way". Those fishermen knew their business far better than I did, and they did it every night of their lives. Had no problems whatsoever. BZ fishermen-in-sampans. 🙂

The guy in that sailboat is an idiot. Firstly, the recreational vessel must give way in shallow water, regardless of whether it is a sailing vessel. Secondly, a 500 meter (1,500 ft) safety zone was established around the ship, heavily communicated via the mass media. I was there myself in my own sailboat, and it was no problem to comply with the regulations and at the same time get a magnificent view.

Many of the small craft moving along beside and in front of it were there to clear people out. Small Navy boats. There were a couple really small SEAL boats bouncing around making sure it had plenty of room as well. I counted at least 6 small boats that were Navy boats. Looked like regular boats unless you knew what to look for. That's not counting the one main ship in front and one in back that was half the size of the one in front. Plus there were probably a couple pilot boats. Couldn't tell exactly which ones they were. There was at least 1, maybe 2 up front. The little Navy boats were zooming all over the place though.

@rclines001 have right. Funny to see how people behaved in the fjord. :-)

@@jimmern71the camera speed made that 1 little RHIB look like it was going mach 100😂

True! :-)

Yes. True. :-)

Yes!! :-) Very tight!

They could have never managed in the speed shown here😅

@@danielaknuth8478 With Norwegian pilots on board, they can handle anything! 😀

@@danielaknuth8478 Yes, no more than 5 knots !!

They did that at about 10 knots!

It's the newest carrier actually

Yes. And thank. 🙂

More space for aircraft

New design. Better for flight ops. I was on the USS Forrestal in the 70s. Island was midway.

Sure! :-)

Thank you! 🤗

Cool!

Luckily, they got them those days. Has the problem of the rotting ammunition in the dephts already been solved?

I think not.. :-(

@@jimmern71 It's a real problem wherever they sunk some of that stuff.😞

There are still many torpedoes and ammunition on board the German warship Blucher, which sank during the Second World War.

HMS "Queen Elizabeth" was in Oslo in November 2022. :-) It is a British aircraft carrier. A Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) had visited Oslo in 2018. I had put all these ships without the USS Wasp (CV-18) because I wasn't born then! :-D

@@jimmern71 Ah. I beg pardon. US aircraft carriers. The Iwo Jima is classified as a Landing Assault Ship if I recall. Basically a modern invasion all in one ship.

@dawnfallon6812 Right about Iwo Jima. :-)

either in 65 years and 1958, or in 61 years and 1962

Thanks! :-) This was taken at "Kopåsbatteriet" in Drøbak. no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopåsbatteriet

Yes. And without nuclear power on board.

Sure 🙂

You had right! :-)

Yes!

Much history in your family. :-)

Thank you!! :-)

Takk!! :-)

@el060248 There most likely is. The pilot or OOD gives directions but doesn't actually control the ship. The helmsman could be anything from a PO with years of service to a enlistee just out of A school.

Sure! :-)

It was few again under the deck.

In the countryside? :-D

Why would they be concerned? We're all NATO.

@@fredjones7705 In the US, people are all too often frightened of their own shadow. Its sad, but its reality.

@@tomb7942 There are 12 people who have casted shadows on the Moon and they're *ALL* Americans.

There was only a few meters of clearance when the American warship sailed into the Oslo Fjord. Two Norwegian pilots helped to get the American warship safely past shoals and shoals. About that kan you read at that page (norwegian): www.nrk.no/osloogviken/to-norske-loser-sorger-for-at-det-amerikanske-krigsskipet-kommer-seg-trygt-inn-oslofjorden-1.16420045

It is a tug boat, there to help maneuver some of the tighter turns.

Who know? :-)

Yes

There were many patrol boats trying to chase away the intruders. :-D

Norway has 94 F-16 and F-35 fighters, so not quite.

@@Wick9876 "Norway has 94 F-16 and F-35 fighters, so not quite." The Norwegian Air Force retired its F16's in 2016. It now only has 30 x F35's as fighter aircraft, and it looks like Ford has more than that on its deck here. Also remember that the carrier is only one of a number of vessels in the strike group. Somewhere nearby is a likely a Virginia class sub with a dozen Trident nuclear missiles onboard. Worth remembering, the largest air force in the word is the USAF. The second largest is the US Navy.

Perhaps one day? :-)

Gameday Swede 👍.

Needs an upgrade to carry the F-35. The next Carrier the USS John F. Kennedy CVN-79 will come with the upgrade already installed.

CVN-78 currently only carries Super Hornets as far as fighters go.

@@jimmern71 Think that Uk carrier that came through in 2022 might have 35s on board. Did you get footage of that passage?

Not many meters. :-)

@@jimmern71 ...Wow...that would require some precise maneuvering. I would have guessed a lot deeper. I thought most of the fjords were really deep.

39 feet according to Wikipedia. Shallower than a lot of bigger tankers.

It do! :-)

Damn fast sailing boat 😹