What Happen When Sharks Swim Too Close to US Aircraft Carrier and Ships 

I don't doubt it. That's a wonderful story! Your grandfather sounds like one of the greatest men from the Greatest Generation. Be well, stay safe and Cheers! Timothy Horan

Nice story

Sounds fiction to me buddy he might have just been pulling ya card

Yeah it's a nice tale but chances of this being reality is around absolute zero.

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Idiotic more like.

In the 60’s we had swim call off the coast of the Canary Islands……water was 3 miles deep. Glad I did it then cause at 74 I don’t want to do it now!!

Fish food

What are the chances of ‘something’ living in the depths?

@@MonroeSim 3 miles of chance

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That's why white tips are so dangerous, they're pelagic open ocean sharks so they're very opportunistic

they prefer fish and chips

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@@joerobert-qe9cnChips being the humans I guess

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Reminds me of what my dad said about bear attacks. "You don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than the guy next to you."

They let you swim over the Mariana Trench? That sea is one of the most shark infested waters on the planet. You all must have had balls of steel!

If you’re so frightened of the ocean, maybe being in the navy is not the smartest of decisions. It makes no difference if the water is two metres deep or more. Swimming/floating is something you can teach a child.

@@nala7658your so full of shit

Wisdom

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Lol, 51. Facts.

For me is the opposite. I long for the age where contemplation is no longer a burden.

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Awesome comment

@@FreeTrollCounselingForDummies I had a video from when our ship struck on with the supports of the ships prop. It was felt throughout the ship and we were unsure what had happened until we stuck a go pro on a boat hook to look

@Rusty LOL.

What have you done without pants illegally??

@@STROONZONY He didn't say that what he did without pants was illegal. Probably sinful, but not illegal, unless he was in Iran or Saudi Arabia or some other human paradise.

Seriously is that what they do?

​@@ms.understood_2.0 I wouldn't be surprised. You're expendable in the military. Just a number. But we 'know' that when we enlist

I flew onto the Midway during Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf in 1990.

But sharks don’t smell human blood

The sharks were probably always there, him scraping his knee just rang the dinner bell

@@aero1866 not true... just google search it

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@@aero1866 that’s sooooo not true !!! Blood is the one thing that brings them in. Where’d you get such an idea,,,,,

It's both at the same time lol

I agree cuss I would be thinking the minute I jump in that a 🦈 is somewhere near by I couldn’t even try ta enjoy myself. I’ll just Watch for those that go in if I was there. Call me the watch out King. In I mean no Distractions

Well, swimming is a fixture of American life. Even the worst swimmers know how to tread water for 20 or 30 minutes.

I scuba dive mostly in the Great Lakes around Michigan. We have massive freighters that travel (and sink) through our area. My buddy and I dove under one, one time. It was freaky.

@@daddyrabbit835 : If you can, go dive at the end of Navy Pier in Chicago. You will see a bunch of old WW II-era planes.

Wow that's amazing man, I could only imagine.

@@SV-kr9fu at the end of the pier ? i want to go

​@@tunerterror : Navy Pier was used to train WW II Navy & Marines aircraft maintainers & operators (radio, radar , sonar etc.). And there were 2 faked aircraft carriers that were used to train pilots in taking off and landing on an aircraft carrier (long before computer simulation was created). I guess there were quite a few pilots that overshot the runway and landed in the water around that area. In the past, the Navy have recovered quite a few of the sunken-aircrafts from the bottom of the lake, but there were still quite a few of them that never got recovered. I dived around the area once and saw a few planes that were still down there. It was an incredible sight at the bottom of the lake. Though, I do not know whether it is legal or not to dive around there nowadays, if you were on your own. I dived with the Navy and there were a couple the boats from CPD Marine Unit that secured the area around our diving spot.

My first ship would not let us shoot until ordered or if the shark was withing 100 feet of the man overboard. Oddly enough I don't remember the old man sending a gunner in the boat. I do remember standing on deck with the M14 and 2 mags watching for sharks. But then again first ship and CO were pretty screwed up.

@@samuelschick8813 , lol. I also had an M-14 with 1 mag in the rifle and 4 in a reserve belt. I was just an E-4 but I was in charge of the Ships Armory. I was included in the man overboard party and stood roving armed patrols aboard ship anchored out in Thailand. 72/75 vintage. Ammo Ship Vietnam, twice. I was lucky during rough training in Cuba. I had to shoot a mock up in the water and put it down. 1st time it went down quickly. Observers thought we rigged it. So we had to build another one and do it again. In the Cuban heat, decked out with a foul weather jacket and helmet the sweat was pouring into my eyes. I did put it down again, just not as fast. The whole crew then named me AA, anti-aircraft…….lol. The name stuck.

@@tonyharty3666, GMGSN LST 1189, GMG3/2BB 63 1981 - 1989. 16 inch turret 3 and LPO ships armory, BB 63. My first ship was an LST and the GMG and Marines had a good relationship. The grunts would come up to the O3 level where the 3"50' s were to read, write, sun bath and such plus we would trade. We had 2 that jumped overboard from the O3 and each time they did they asked who was the GMG on duty. I was on the O3 working when one took off his boots and socks and walked to the port side railing, climbed up and did a spectacular swan dive into the water. The grunts on deck just wrote real fast and held up signs 9.0, 8.5, 7.0. But it meant me running down 4 decks on the starboard side to the armory then back up one. As for the 3" 50' RF guns I always thought they were pieces of shit. Rounds have to be loaded just right or the shear pin breaks, the gun goes down and a few hours to replace. Then there was the ensign right from the academy who was made our DO that pissed GMG2 off. But that is another story. LOL

You apprentis war artist... Man overboard boat.. i was the wall for the boarding party to make a scène short i blew Up uss Coles uss Lincoln and i bit drill the heck out of your oxygène Tower system on Utah

@@samuelschick8813 speak télékinésie you look like you sound

Thank you for your service and sharing that story

Thank you for your service, I had no idea our military can wear civilian clothes while on the ship? These kids was in civilian clothes.

@@gypsyrose5672 You don't where uniforms when you are on a recreational swim.

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@@tysheenlee9826 yeah they are the same people to pick you up when your face down in a ditch with half your leg blown off in the middle of combat. They just aren’t there to pick up people out of the swimming pool. I can tell by your 😆 that you know absolutely nothing about the military or what it consists of. I hope you never have to experience being airlifted out of a situation where your life is in danger. They don’t just do it at Water. They do it at land too.

Amen❤❤

It takes practice, just like anything else. The first time I got dropped to swim in the middle of the ocean, I nearly $hit my pants. But after a few times, then it was just normal.

It's great to have a swim call let's hope it's not a feeding call for great whites just to be on the safe side I stopped taking a bath since I saw Jaws just to be on the safe side I only take showers now my foot on the drain

@@joelbell9082 You sir dont know nothing about sharks. "Dont take a bath just to be safe" sounds very stupid

thank u for ur service

Thanks for your support. FLY NAVY!!!@@DavidZaG-

I grew up a surfer and when I enlisted I was DYING for a swim call. We finally got ours in the middle of the Indian ocean and I was one of the first into that water. Was swimming the whole time, kept going out a little farther than they wanted etc. "FC2 Get back!" they kept yelling. Then it hit, after a long time out there the sensation just hit and it was... I want to say other worldly but its not, its especially not its our world. It just felt like being in space or something alien, I fuckin panicked and swam back to the ship.

Even more unnerving is looking through murky water at the bottom of your ship.

@@johnsimth6587 Thalassophobia

@@TheBishop12 I've spent many hours of my life in deep lakes or in the ocean, beaches of course mostly. I was always comfortable even when deep sea fishing etc. It was not being in a boat, it was being just on your own out there. The immense size of the ocean hits you in a way thats not easily describable. It is very easy, especially after sailing across the oceans as many times as I have, understanding how sailors got so damn superstitious.

@@johnsimth6587 Thinking about it, the ocean is a completely alien world for us.

20 years in the Aircraft Carrier Community and never once from 1983 thru 2003!!!!!! Thats Bullshit!!!!!

Wow amaing👍

He sounds like a brave man

I always assumed they were there to shoot us haha to put us out of our misery as the shark bit down. I mean we all understand how rounds dont move through water.

like how you got that right,as a BM,learned subs liked to be called boats.

This really doesn't pretain to much but my older brother 22yo was on a carrier for a record deployment being out at sea for the longest that the US has ever had any boat ship whatever. It's the weirdest thing because when he left the world was normal and when he came back literally everything about everyday life was changed because of covid. I struggle to understand how that would feel bc I didn't experience it myself but it must've been crazy.

Shut your mouth doesn't matter if you done it or not

@@AC-Austin-MHG sounds like you don't know how to float

@@topshots-856shakur6 sounds like you don't know how to fight

I want to go to the North Shore to surf Waimea and Pipeline. I grew up skateboarding but I was jealous of anyone who grew up near the ocean, cause they also got to surf. 🙂 I live about 4 hours west of Welfleet, MA, which is the only place I could go. I love sharks too - that must have been amazing (and scary!) being in the water with Tigers! Did you actually see any of them?

@@catsooey I hope you make it over to the North Shore one day. I too grew up skateboarding and used to flip through Surfer Magazine and see those legendary spots in Hawaii. It was incredibly awesome to finally see those World famous surf spots in person. As for the Tiger sharks yes we had several swimming underneath us and they got as close as 3 to 4 feet away. We were not in a cage either so it was pretty crazy!!! LOL

@@k33p1tc00l Sounds like you had a different experience with fewer sharks than we saw.

@@k33p1tc00l Okay, you win. Not looking to argue about sharks and the North Shore.

@@catsooey bro pipeline is not for novice surfers at all. You will die or get seriously injured

I feel that way in my local lakes 😅

On old rock quarry that’s been filled with water will give a similar feeling. To be honest it’s safer to be under the water then on top swimming

How would you like to go behind the carrier and swim by the massive propellers? Not moving, just sitting there. Shit creeps me out.

it's even worse to KNOW what is in deep ocean waters! You do NOT want to be splashing around on the surface, resembling a wounded sea lion or other animal!

It's the not knowing that's the worst part... it's like you know the odds that something will attack you is very low, yet the uncertainty of not knowing what's there is anxiety inducing

Amen 100

And to Mr PM thank you for the compliment to the vets to all of us we appreciate it I'll speak for all of us we appreciate it I never heard anybody thank me until after 9/11, but I want to thank you because you took care of things back home while we were serving far away it's called iron sharpens iron so one man sharpens another we all had a job to do so thank you no matter what you did or what you're doing now whatever your career was I appreciate you and a shout out to the vet that are retired like I am when you get a chance the next time you're in a store you see a guy at the cash register or a gal, or you see a truck driver unloading a case of beer or sodas or whatever they might be unloading, stop give them a moment tell them how much you appreciate them tell them thank you I stopped a bunch of railroad workers LOL one morning because I live next to the tracks in my hometown in a train comes through 2 to 3 times a day and I flagged a truck the type of truck that actually drives on the rails I stopped one LOL and it was about Five Guys in the truck maybe six and I just told him how much I appreciate them how important they are

It's absolutely reckless and irresponsible.

@@bryanjk Sounds like you have seen Jaws one to many time you wanker. Sharks are generally just curious, it is extremely rare for them to attack.

@@bryanjk agree with you. 🇧🇷🇧🇷

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Thanks for the nightmare material mate!

balls of steel

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Great comment that painted some great pictures for me.

That is something that I have always wanted to witness first hand seeing an f-14 or f-18 execute a flawless carrier launch seeing just how quickly they accelerate in person as opposed to on video has to bring an entire new element of surrealism to the experience feeling the vibrations and smelling the combination of salt water spray and burning jet fuel would make that the most amazing experience I can think of and definitely the most fun I could have legally with my pants on lol if I had only enlisted when I was still young enough and physically capable of accomplishing the requirements of all the training I would definitely go back and do it without a second thought about it for sure! My deepest gratitude respect and appreciation for all the men and womens of each and every branch of the United States armed forces.m"

Good job Roger Coleman I love your comment especially about the night launches I work the night Flight shift on the deck and the aircraft were impressive and as a professional photographer now I wish I would have had a camera but we couldn't have anything like that taking our Focus off I guess I actually could have taken some pictures when I wasn't working but rack time was always important at least to me anyway those 12 hours we're hard up on the deck and you only had 12 hours away from it for Chow letter writing going to the ship store and trying to sleep during the noisiest part of the ship during the day shift

Try swimming near a school of baby barracudas. Though, they are much smaller, barracudas are, in general, a lot more territorial than sharks.

Warms my heart seeing the soldiers having a well deserved break god bless.

@@SpartanHeaven *Sailors :D

@@SpartanHeaven 😊👍🙏

I care more about the sharks

The only thing that saves soldiers are more soldiers

My brother does this now in the Navy. Now I understand what he does better.

I wouldn't use the word idiot, but this is a US Navy ship, not Coast Guard. I spent 4 yrs on this exact ship. Also, it's the USS Carl Vinson (CVN70), not the Truman like the guy says in the video.

🤝 👍👍👍 My best Greetings to you from Germany, Barrett

It is the mighty dollar they are after not you or me.

@@joepetti8443 🤝 Hey Joe my Bro 👍 I sent you my best Greetings from Germany 🤝 Barrett

VFA 136 here

@@toniponi8640 yooooo The Knight Hawks. Y’all were our sister squadron when I was at 131 from 03 to 06. That’s what’s up…

My grandfather was also in the South Pacific during WW2 as a signalman.

@@KingsMom831 👍

Indianapolis was a Cruiser.

The movie was terrifying. I only learned about the USS Indianapolis because in the movie “Jaws”, the boat captain was telling a story and mentioned it so I looked it up and saw the movie. After watching the movie, I RU-vidd survivor videos on the USS Indianapolis. The stories they told were horrific.

WC REVIEW, When someone falls over the side the duty gunnersmate gets an M14 and 2 mags from the armory and stands guard topside watching for sharks. But the draw back is we could not fire at the shark until we were given permission. The other drawback (?) was we could not shoot at the shark if it was within 100 feet of the sailor. Theory was if the shark was say 75 feet away the bullet might deflect in the water and hit the sailor. At least that was how my first ship did it back in the 1980's. I always found that to be rather stupid since the bullet loses almost all of it's power within 24 inches into the water.

I'd much rather lose Military people than a shark, shit I'd even feed people to them.

That’s smart, shoot at the shark. Scare everyone, 6-8 foot is just a baby ! Smack him on the nose he’ll leave

@@michaeld53 blood attracts more anyway

@@FlyAgaric525 yes I know. So does splashing around in the water.

It's the shine of the foil . I had always heard not to wear shiney objects in the water .

@@leslievey8453 I think that's more for barracuda.

So…sharks are like dogs…got it

@@dchiznit209 Well actually that's not far from the truth Don Cuyson. As a professional diver ( another one of my career experiences) I have been in the water with sharks a few times. Most sharks I have seen in the water have behavior that reminds me of dogs. This would preclude some, such as great white and tiger sharks. These seem to behave ... well, more like tigers. But, all that said I think the reason for the fixation on the foil has more to do with the sharks sensory systems. Sharks have a row of nerves up their sides and a concentration on their noses. These nerves can detect the electrical activity of other living things like fish and other pray. Perhaps the foil reacts with the sea water and triggers this system in a profound way. Kind of like us seeing UFO or something. Just a guess.

@@notmeatall7116 That's what I was thinking.

You fools. If you are afraid of sharks stay out of their world. Human fools.

Served on the chucky v 95-98 no swim call at all. We did have what seemed like a endless list of celebrities coming onboard for a visit. I think I would have rather had the swim call.

My husband was on the USS Carl Vinson back in the mid ‘80’s for his 2 weeks active duty when he was a reservist, out of San Diego.

I did one in 2020 on the Vinson

Uss Ranger 88 to 92...no swim days, but yea Steel Beach was nice

Same for me when I was serving. Not many swim calls in the Gulf of Tonkin.

I knew a guy who was stationed on the USS Comstock, an LSD, and they regularly had swim call. Often, though, they'd caught a shark in the well deck while submerging.

@@vincentperratore4395 In the well deck? Oh that is scary.

4 years on the USS Independence ( CVA-62 ) 1969-1972. Never had a swim call.

Same here. 3 deployments/3 different ships (carrier/amphib/destroyer).. from the Pac to the Indian to the Med (never Atl). No swim calls. I remember hearing about them. I am convinced they let 1 ship do a swim call every 10 years just so they can make a recruiting video of how awesome it is. Even in this one it's a carrier with 100 people in the water... What about the other 2900-4900 people on board?

Live your whole life being scared of the unknown? What a pathetic way to live

@@nutswanger6655 I suggest to go deep in the Amazon jungle and jump in the Amazon river and just keep swimming until you meet something that is going to send you to the "unknown" ....It is not pathetic, it is called not taking unnecessary risks. Now go climb the Himalayas, and then jump off them with one of those flying body suits and enjoy your adrenaline rush.

That's your personal choice, I get your point.

He did you wrong ma dukes lol

@cali gdp he is a shit head legend! 😂

Even the tools that left BILLIONS

All order followers are unaware of natural law and personal sovereignty

What years?

@@bravotoomuch4218 mid 70s to mid 80s.

Sounds great, that don't fly in the British R N 🇬🇧 🏊 🦈

I was a boiler tech on the forrestal cv59 from 1975-77

My uncle was on the Forrestal for years. He loved it.

Do you think the guns could actually harm the sharks enough to stop them or does it just get their attention and drive them off?

Hello Jeff should I say shipmate, yeah I was reading your comment on the Shark watch that was pretty cool the Marines riding shotgun for you all. He had one of the best weapons for that my opinion the M14 I fired it when I was Army infantry also in Naval boot camp very accurate very powerful would take care of a shark or anything else wants to get jiggy with it

@@bobchurch6175 hello Bob Merry Christmas in your reply to do you think the guns of the M14 in particular or whatever military application might be used doing Shark watch would they do any good or just scare them away. Well, I'll say it this way to try to answer your question with any large predator you are going to have to use around in Wise location as we used to call it in ranger training, which means knowing the vital areas on an animal and to hit that location the trick is putting enough Firepower in a small enough group such as hitting arteries on a human being

Which one of you? If you're both and go by, “they,” tough.

Creachter I’m a man and my wife is a woman.And heterosexual! 😆

You can still rent a boat and jump into the ocean.

@@flgrlsarah Ah! I was being nice. You never know. ;)

Unfortunately......FACTS 🤦‍♂️🤮🙏

Could be

No, they don't, this is absolutely not remotely true. All waste is incinerated aboard ship or stored to be disposed of in port. It's not the 18th century. Just think about it: there are several thousand people aboard an aircraft carrier that eat three meals a day. The amount of waste produced would be impossible to haul all the way to any aperture in the ships hull, three times a day. That would be a wildly inefficient expenditure of time and manpower, and even the Navy is more environmentally friendly than just rampant and constant pollution.

My ship had a garbage disposal machine, but eventually that waste does find its way to the open sea.

That's how the WW2 aircraft carriers got rid of its food waste, however even back then the waste food was finely shredded into very small pieces that the fish would eat and then sharks would come for the fish. Back then aircraft carriers was a very new technology so yes the countries would have to figure out better solutions to eliminate their waste.

LOL that's funny 🤣🤣🤣

BS. Idiots

When I was swimming/diving in the Navy, I was more scared of barracudas than the sharks.

@@SV-kr9fu That’s exactly what he said. 👍🏻

@@madisonbrown5766 : I think that due to movies/media/news, most people have sharks on their minds, but not barracudas.

@@SV-kr9fu Definitely. He used to jump off his 180 foot cutter in the middle of the ocean and never had any issues with sharks. They knew to stay away from the oceanic white tip but otherwise they went swimming a lot on their off time.