Photo by AEC Medrano
That is a freaking water spout. Let me say it again. Those ships are being chased by a freaking water spout! Story from MSFSC News.
Life at sea is never boring: stars at night, porpoises off the bow, and, yes, underway replenishment activities. This photo, taken by AEC Jose Medrano, shows USS Ramage making her approach towards USNS Arctic in preparation for a replenishment evolution. Also shown in the photo is a waterspout. Waterspouts are tubular columns of rotating cloud-filled wind, which extend from the underside of a cumulus cloud down to a cloud of spray torn up by the whirling winds, from the surface of an ocean or lake. In this case, the ocean is the Atlantic in the Jacksonville, Fla., operating area. This is what a tornado at sea looks like ...
Thanks to USNS Arctic and AEC Medrano for this very nautical submission.
I recall a voyage in an area that cannot be mentioned because I don't actually know where we were other than the Atlantic ocean.
ReplyDeleteFlight Ops and over the horizon comes seven waterspouts!
Secure Flight Ops and turned at high speed away from the spouts, I bet it was some sight to see from the incoming Jets in the landing pattern!
I know it got the attention of every man who saw this sight.
i can't even imagine. they're intense enough being on land watching one but being on the water????
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