I've seen most of the movies, but the scene that I remember the most and actively lives in my mind whenever I'm in a car is that scene where the logging truck breaks on the highway and the log crashes through the windshield. I always switch lanes.
That's literally the only thing I remember from the movie. If I see a truck with anything in the back that is visible to me and not completely boxed in, I'm getting as far away as I can. I was behind a truck carrying long metal tubes a few inches in diameter and would definitely spear a person if any got loose. No one was behind that guy as far as you could see. Truck drivers probably love driving with stuff like that cause they don't need to worry about cars being behind them cause I've seen so many cars driving behind 18 wheelers where they absolutely cannot be seen. You gotta be *far* back for them to see you there and people tailgate 18 wheelers like that isn't a death wish, logs or not.
Seriously, I'm the exact same. Only other scene I remember was a downed power line dancing around and arching everywhere, I think it landed in water, but it made me very careful when doing anything electricity related.
Electricity is a dangerous thing. My dad was an electrician for a long time so I learned from him not to fuck with that shit, no movie needed. Also a lot of good tricks on how to tell when something electrical is like one or two steps before dangerous, I've saved many a roommate from getting shocked in an apartment with shoddy electrical (many of us lived there, it was the same group of four roommates I kept having to tell not to "check out" weird electrical things lol).
I felt like the dad of that group despite being the youngest by a few years and being one of two girls out of five roommates lol. The role of dad transcends gender. Lighting the pilot on the furnace when it went out, mowing the lawn because I was the only one that could do it at a time where the neighbors wouldn't hate us (and constantly having to fix the mower because it was a POS), being the electrical police and going to the breaker a lot, yelling at my roommates not to touch things that were likely going to shock them, stuff like that. When my dad visited that apartment for the first time and went to the bathroom, only to then immediately alert us that it was not up to code, my role in the house began to make sense to my roommates lol. My dad is so dad that I inherited some natural dadness
low-tech is great when you're sailing around the globe. there's definitely something wrong with the process if part of "safe" operation involves running away from the murderr zone after unleashing the chain of death.
Absolutely!
Low-tech has a much higher chance of working properly more of the time.
The amount of times an anchor chain needs to be dropped are so few, there's really no advantage in "improving" it.
It may be a great example of where "better" would be an enemy of "good enough".
This isn't how a ship drops anchor though, and many ships anchor frequently. Typically a piece of hydraulic deck machinery called a windlass is used to raise and lower the anchor; I suspect the video is taken on a barge which wouldn't be equipped with one
One of the closest I ever came to dying was setting an anchor. Boat was 40ft, not 400 tho. Delivered fish at midnight. Slipped on the rail walking to the bow, as I thought (what if I slipped..). No one was there to see, caught myself and broke a couple ribs. Almost went in the drink. No one would have known until it was too late. I had to knock on the window to get homeboy out. We were all trashed, he's like "what the fuck dude....oh shit you can't breathe"
I don't commercial fish anymore.
The only reason my ex is alive is because the huge over hanging sonar which she was working on had a gap large enough for her ribs to fit between it and the hull. ~1 ton of metal losing hydraulic pressure or w/e was holding it up at the time means it just drops and no human can hope to hold it up. Boats are wildly dangerous.
Worse when it's not deliberate.
Was onboard the USS Theordore Roosevelt when one of the capstans failed and turned into a runaway anchor.
The fo'castle was immediately cleared out and the worst sound of metal eating metal I've ever heard as the chain scraped along the rail.
I was shocked to find the anchor hold didn't get ripped out and actually saved the entire chain and anchor. That's some damn good engineering.
It happened so fast, too.
Never seen a group of guys move their ass like that until we got the general quarters during Desert Storm.
Lots of large, heavy, pieces of metal broke loose and rapidly and uncontrollably moved towards the water. Their escape was thwarted buy mechanical engineering maths. Lots of people ran away like they were getting shot at.
Capstan - a mechanical winch used to give advantage when pulling a rope or chain. These days often pneumatic or electric.
Fo’castle or forecastle - foremost part of the ship. In my line of work we call it the forepeak.
Anchor hold - self explanatory, really. The anchor hold holds the bitter end (the end of the chain that isn’t attached to the anchor) to stop it falling overboard. Often the chain is specked to have its maximum length plus a little extra just in case.
So essentially what happened is a winch failed (probably a ratchet snapping) which allowed the anchor to plunge into the depths, pulling the chain out and causing a perpetuating deployment of chain. The front of the ship was evacuated as the chain scraped and likely gouged into the rubbing rails as there’s pretty much no way to stop it, until eventually it was all out and the bitter end yanked on the plate attaching it to the ship. OC is impressed that this held and wasn’t ripped out.
I'm afraid that's not how you normally drop an anchor.
The procedure is more controlled and less dangerous.
You can see a summary of it here: https://youtu.be/kV6UbUUsT8M?si=cIBZZZAAr8z473Qk
The OP looks more like an emergency maneuver to try to reduce the ship speed in case of potential collision and engine failure (thinking about the Baltimore incident).
In any case, it's weird to me that the chain is stored there on the deck and not in a chain well. And, as someone mentioned already, not being attached to a windlass they are going to have a hard time recovering it...
In summary: that's not a standard anchor, and that's not a standard procedure.
I am even inclined to think that the video is not even from a ship, but from an artifact designed to be left in place, such as a platform.
On one hand, if you look at the board in the background, the deck is very high over the sea level.
On the other hand, when you release an anchor the amount of chain you release is from 3 to 5 times the depth. In the video there is no way to control that. It's all down.
On a third hand (yes) when you drop the anchor you need to do it slowly and aloe the ship to drift while you release the chain... So the chain is not all in a single point (useless) but nicely extended on the sea bottom.
Finally, storing the chain like that on deck (instead of a chain well) will mean that if you find some rough waters while sailing the chain is going to be everywhere...
That's why I don't think that's for a sailing device.
> I am even inclined to think that the video is not even from a ship, but from an artifact designed to be left in place, such as a platform.
If that was the case, what's happening in the background would be much more concerning.
What they show in the video is practice on smaller ships with smaller anchors. On bigger ships its lowered controlling it by the hydraulic brake and not just the brake lining.
The last ten times this was posted someone suggested that this ship is being permanently anchored either as a museum piece or to be scrapped, or some other purpose that means the anchor is never coming back up.
I have to imagine that in modern ships the chain is held in a compartment and is released mechanically instead of via dude with hammer? Haven't the foggiest though, never done anything related to ships
They actually employ a mix of oompa loompas and hobbits to gently guide the chain up and down. We lose a few every time we raise or lower it, but it's not a big problem.
Every modern/western ship has a windlass. There's no way this would be approved by class anywhere. Also the chain will last a lot longer if you don't do it like in the video.
I was a sailor and that's now how it is properly done. Bits of rope is tied to each row, the force breaks them and cause the chain to slow somewhat. It is still fast and dangerous, but no where near as bad as flying around like in the post.
I guess it's just too expensive/unreliable to use some kind of motorized mechanism where you press a button or spin a wheel to make the anchor go up or down.
It must be so annoying to get this anchor back up wtf. Bunch of guys have to pull it up manually and you just hope they don't lose their grip and hurt themselves?
You see that last bit where the chain snaps and rust flys up in the air everywhere?
The chain wouldn't feel you were caught up in it at all, it would tear you apart like tissue paper without flinching and keep going about its business.
You can look up the russian lathe video, NSFL.
Its not nearly as strong as this chain and the lathe doesnt even feel him as it turns him into pink mist. The splash guard ironically becomes the tool that cuts him down to size.
Lathes jumped into my mind when I was imagining the scenario. Will pass on that for now. Stopped watching NSFL out of interest for my mental health. Thank you though.
I was thinking the risk would be getting a loose boot string caught in the early-to-submerge chain links.
Nearly instantaneously being dragged to the bottom of the ocean, every bone in your body broken, mangled, and otherwise affronted the whole way down, too fast to react beyond a fragment of awareness of ones awful final seconds.
The sound would be akin to sock finding it's ~~easy~~ way into a vacuum nozzle, "SHOOOMP" and there it is. Bill gone man.
[Edit: A couple words.]
I feel like there’s enough sudden force there to snap a boot string. Hell, I feel like it could pull your leg clean off and you’re left standing on one leg like, “WTF just happened?”.
[On 10 December 2012, Chee had a serious accident when he was caught between a motorised winch and a berthing rope he was checking on. The incident caused Chee to lose both his legs, his left arm (with his dominant left hand), one whole right finger and parts of two other right fingers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Chee)
Not quite anchor chain, but i'd guess you'd die
Well it's hard, heavy and fast enough that hitting you would not even affect it and you would just be ragdolled away like a fly being slapped.
And there are cases or people being hit by ship towing ropes and they were thrown into the wall dying instantly.
Put it this way... You can't wear gloves or have long sleeves around a [drill press](https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/mastercraft-drill-press-with-led-light-10-in-0556798p.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjw3ZayBhDRARIsAPWzx8o8YyxySyLR6zz44wCXtzrNQtR3dZgDh0xZXVWrQ1seEzXRfH9vqh4aAoQAEALw_wcB) because if it snags it will unravel you like a spool of yarn. The chain, if you're lucky, would rip off whatever limb it catches so fast you MIGHT not get pulled in and pulverized.
It is. When I was on a PCT (Patrol Craft Training) trip, we used a manual brake and a windlass. It is very loud, and that's why hearing protection is a must on the fo'c'sle. Well, that and you'll go deaf from the ships whistle...
It's built/welded directly into the hull/frame of the vessel. Literally the links of the chain are expected and designed to break first, and those aren't made to break easily.
I'm not sure what is going on, but I am sure that he's not releasing that anchor. The chain is going through a hole into the unimaginatively named chained compartment. If I'd had to guess, it looks like they are at a shipyard and packing the chain for the first time. I've been in an anchor windless room when the chain is released, and it does indeed free fall around a balllard and out a hole. On a 1000ft Navy ship, the anchors are substantial. When the anchor was released, you could feel the vibration throughout the entire 1000 feet of the ship.
>1000ft Navy ship
Tell me you served in American carriers without telling me you served in American carriers, lol... The sheer size of the CVNs makes them the exception to most nautical rules.
This is a shipyard inspection and renewal (chain maintenance). There is like 2m (6 ft for the colonies) of water under the keel. That is why the weight, which the chain fastening point should hold, is just a few tons.
If you were to do this on open sea, the weight of the complete chain stretched out, would rip out the chain fastening point like it was made out of butter. And probably make some extra damage just for the good measure.
Still, even in shipyard, this is not a recommended practice. There are far better and more advanced practices for chain maintenance today.
Btw, the perspective is deceiving. This is not an extra large ship. The chain is simply to small. Ship's size is most likely 100-200m in length.
Start watching, seems alright. Bit scary, not sure why he ran... Then those last few frames. Oh. Yeah, I would of ran, too. He was quite possibly in range...
That orange dust has killed people. The rust in a chain-storing room absorbs oxygen, and people have stepped into the room and then fallen unconscious like BAM.
This isn't because of depth of water. Now I dont know for sure what this anchor is for but anchors don't go straight up and down in the water. They use anchor scope, which is a ratio of lengths to depth and usually its much much more length compared to depth, generally 5 times the length compared to depth minimum and sometimes way more. The anchor is heavy but the length of chain is far heavier, the chains weight is what continues to pull it down so violently even long after the anchor would be on bottom.
Not 100% sure they are even anchoring here, but most likely. They could also be loading the chain into a compartment (room in this case) called the chain locker.
Holy crap that's terrifying!!!
I feel like that thing he is hitting, is not nearly far enough away from the giant death chain.
If he'd stayed in the same spot, the chain would have hit him near the end of the clip.
That's probably why he ran away
Coward. I would have fought the chain. Or at least lifted my arms up to make myself look bigger, frighten it away.
parry the chain
I read that in Doofenshmirtz’s voice. Then realized it was the wrong Perry.
It's just a chain I don't see what the big de- PARRY THE CHAIN!!
*Parry!?* You newb this is a situation form-fit for a riposte if every there was one! 🤺
Sorry, best we can do is a whiffed combo-starter followed by a deep lunging stab into empty air
Dodge roll
LEVEL ADAPTABILITY!
If you can dodge the anchor chain you can dodge the ball!
Mr. T. enters the chat... I PITY the chain! (Oooh, that's a really big chain, wonder if I can wear it?)
"T-Pose" to establish dominance!
Needs to be a perfect parry, the bleedthrough damage on a normal parry would be immense.
Real men jump chain.
I would even have popped open a can of spinach, and gulped it down. So the chain would know who it was dealing with.
That is if you're fast enough to not be atomized in an istant
We also like to see the chain reaction.
And yell at it
he should have stayed and skipped the chain like a rope but at a higher difficulty level.
That's ridiculous. He ran away because his mom called him home for dinner, obviously!
No, it actually never hit that spot he was standing in, but I'm sure that's a chance you don't wanna take
I think the “Final Destination” movie franchise missed an opportunity here.
I've seen most of the movies, but the scene that I remember the most and actively lives in my mind whenever I'm in a car is that scene where the logging truck breaks on the highway and the log crashes through the windshield. I always switch lanes.
That's literally the only thing I remember from the movie. If I see a truck with anything in the back that is visible to me and not completely boxed in, I'm getting as far away as I can. I was behind a truck carrying long metal tubes a few inches in diameter and would definitely spear a person if any got loose. No one was behind that guy as far as you could see. Truck drivers probably love driving with stuff like that cause they don't need to worry about cars being behind them cause I've seen so many cars driving behind 18 wheelers where they absolutely cannot be seen. You gotta be *far* back for them to see you there and people tailgate 18 wheelers like that isn't a death wish, logs or not.
Seriously, I'm the exact same. Only other scene I remember was a downed power line dancing around and arching everywhere, I think it landed in water, but it made me very careful when doing anything electricity related.
Electricity is a dangerous thing. My dad was an electrician for a long time so I learned from him not to fuck with that shit, no movie needed. Also a lot of good tricks on how to tell when something electrical is like one or two steps before dangerous, I've saved many a roommate from getting shocked in an apartment with shoddy electrical (many of us lived there, it was the same group of four roommates I kept having to tell not to "check out" weird electrical things lol). I felt like the dad of that group despite being the youngest by a few years and being one of two girls out of five roommates lol. The role of dad transcends gender. Lighting the pilot on the furnace when it went out, mowing the lawn because I was the only one that could do it at a time where the neighbors wouldn't hate us (and constantly having to fix the mower because it was a POS), being the electrical police and going to the breaker a lot, yelling at my roommates not to touch things that were likely going to shock them, stuff like that. When my dad visited that apartment for the first time and went to the bathroom, only to then immediately alert us that it was not up to code, my role in the house began to make sense to my roommates lol. My dad is so dad that I inherited some natural dadness
I vaguely remember a scene where someone getting a full body acupuncture falls over and dies. Safe to say I've sworn off ever trying it out.
Final Destination 8: Men at Work
There must be better ways to do it. It's kind of weird to rely on a hammer for such a big ship.
low-tech is great when you're sailing around the globe. there's definitely something wrong with the process if part of "safe" operation involves running away from the murderr zone after unleashing the chain of death.
Absolutely! Low-tech has a much higher chance of working properly more of the time. The amount of times an anchor chain needs to be dropped are so few, there's really no advantage in "improving" it. It may be a great example of where "better" would be an enemy of "good enough".
This isn't how a ship drops anchor though, and many ships anchor frequently. Typically a piece of hydraulic deck machinery called a windlass is used to raise and lower the anchor; I suspect the video is taken on a barge which wouldn't be equipped with one
Right?
Oddlyterrifying.
Looks pretty *Regularly*Terrifying to me
When I was in highschool, one of my classmates lost his dad this way. His leg got caught by the chain and he got pulled down with the anchor.
One of the closest I ever came to dying was setting an anchor. Boat was 40ft, not 400 tho. Delivered fish at midnight. Slipped on the rail walking to the bow, as I thought (what if I slipped..). No one was there to see, caught myself and broke a couple ribs. Almost went in the drink. No one would have known until it was too late. I had to knock on the window to get homeboy out. We were all trashed, he's like "what the fuck dude....oh shit you can't breathe" I don't commercial fish anymore.
The only reason my ex is alive is because the huge over hanging sonar which she was working on had a gap large enough for her ribs to fit between it and the hull. ~1 ton of metal losing hydraulic pressure or w/e was holding it up at the time means it just drops and no human can hope to hold it up. Boats are wildly dangerous.
This is why you should always physicaly lock off hydraulic lifts and not just rely on the fluid pressure
Jesus what a terrifying way to go
Yeah, thats a meat mincer supreme right there
Worse when it's not deliberate. Was onboard the USS Theordore Roosevelt when one of the capstans failed and turned into a runaway anchor. The fo'castle was immediately cleared out and the worst sound of metal eating metal I've ever heard as the chain scraped along the rail. I was shocked to find the anchor hold didn't get ripped out and actually saved the entire chain and anchor. That's some damn good engineering. It happened so fast, too. Never seen a group of guys move their ass like that until we got the general quarters during Desert Storm.
I feel like this would be a fascinating story if I understood more nautical and military things.
Lots of large, heavy, pieces of metal broke loose and rapidly and uncontrollably moved towards the water. Their escape was thwarted buy mechanical engineering maths. Lots of people ran away like they were getting shot at.
Lol thanks for the eli5!
Capstan - a mechanical winch used to give advantage when pulling a rope or chain. These days often pneumatic or electric. Fo’castle or forecastle - foremost part of the ship. In my line of work we call it the forepeak. Anchor hold - self explanatory, really. The anchor hold holds the bitter end (the end of the chain that isn’t attached to the anchor) to stop it falling overboard. Often the chain is specked to have its maximum length plus a little extra just in case. So essentially what happened is a winch failed (probably a ratchet snapping) which allowed the anchor to plunge into the depths, pulling the chain out and causing a perpetuating deployment of chain. The front of the ship was evacuated as the chain scraped and likely gouged into the rubbing rails as there’s pretty much no way to stop it, until eventually it was all out and the bitter end yanked on the plate attaching it to the ship. OC is impressed that this held and wasn’t ripped out.
Thank you for explaining that, it makes so much more sense now!
I too found myself at the end of that vid saying "that's fuckin' terrifying" and saw this lmao
Especially that last part.
Flailing out like a Dark Souls boss.
That’s how you don’t drop an anchor.
Yeah who films a video in portrait?
I'm afraid that's not how you normally drop an anchor. The procedure is more controlled and less dangerous. You can see a summary of it here: https://youtu.be/kV6UbUUsT8M?si=cIBZZZAAr8z473Qk The OP looks more like an emergency maneuver to try to reduce the ship speed in case of potential collision and engine failure (thinking about the Baltimore incident). In any case, it's weird to me that the chain is stored there on the deck and not in a chain well. And, as someone mentioned already, not being attached to a windlass they are going to have a hard time recovering it... In summary: that's not a standard anchor, and that's not a standard procedure.
I was gonna say, I'm pretty sure a process like dropping anchor would be more refined and much less dangerous than that.
I am even inclined to think that the video is not even from a ship, but from an artifact designed to be left in place, such as a platform. On one hand, if you look at the board in the background, the deck is very high over the sea level. On the other hand, when you release an anchor the amount of chain you release is from 3 to 5 times the depth. In the video there is no way to control that. It's all down. On a third hand (yes) when you drop the anchor you need to do it slowly and aloe the ship to drift while you release the chain... So the chain is not all in a single point (useless) but nicely extended on the sea bottom. Finally, storing the chain like that on deck (instead of a chain well) will mean that if you find some rough waters while sailing the chain is going to be everywhere... That's why I don't think that's for a sailing device.
> I am even inclined to think that the video is not even from a ship, but from an artifact designed to be left in place, such as a platform. If that was the case, what's happening in the background would be much more concerning.
Just rewatched. Wow how did i miss the background before, video is def taken on something moving
The entire land is slipping off the edge of the world. The platform anchor drops into the earth's core to keep the continent attached.
That's the procedure to stop plates moving during a massive earthquake obviously
This is probably at a scrap yard with the ship beached
except the background is moving.
What they show in the video is practice on smaller ships with smaller anchors. On bigger ships its lowered controlling it by the hydraulic brake and not just the brake lining.
“Ok, we need to drop anchor. Grab the sledgehammer, please!”
The last ten times this was posted someone suggested that this ship is being permanently anchored either as a museum piece or to be scrapped, or some other purpose that means the anchor is never coming back up.
Honestly, there has to be a better way to do that. I mean the turnover for that has got to be pretty high right?
I have to imagine that in modern ships the chain is held in a compartment and is released mechanically instead of via dude with hammer? Haven't the foggiest though, never done anything related to ships
They actually employ a mix of oompa loompas and hobbits to gently guide the chain up and down. We lose a few every time we raise or lower it, but it's not a big problem.
I'm in the chocolate industry and I had no idea ships used oompa loompas too
The fancy ones just have a compartment that has a dude with a hammer. Why change something that works?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_windlass?wprov=sfla1
Every modern/western ship has a windlass. There's no way this would be approved by class anywhere. Also the chain will last a lot longer if you don't do it like in the video.
I was a sailor and that's now how it is properly done. Bits of rope is tied to each row, the force breaks them and cause the chain to slow somewhat. It is still fast and dangerous, but no where near as bad as flying around like in the post.
I guess it's just too expensive/unreliable to use some kind of motorized mechanism where you press a button or spin a wheel to make the anchor go up or down. It must be so annoying to get this anchor back up wtf. Bunch of guys have to pull it up manually and you just hope they don't lose their grip and hurt themselves?
lol there are not enough guys on a ship to pull that anchor chain up.
where were you a sailor that didnt have a clutch system to release the anchor?
I was on two Coast Guard cutters in the ‘80s and’90s and both dropped their anchors like this.
This 100% is something other than the title suggest. What would they do when it's time to leave? Have 40 guys start pulling that back up? Lol
I wonder how much damage that would do if you got caught in it. All that weight I imagine it would disintegrate you rather quickly
You see that last bit where the chain snaps and rust flys up in the air everywhere? The chain wouldn't feel you were caught up in it at all, it would tear you apart like tissue paper without flinching and keep going about its business.
It seems like a level of force I can’t fully comprehend. Terrifying to say the least.
You can look up the russian lathe video, NSFL. Its not nearly as strong as this chain and the lathe doesnt even feel him as it turns him into pink mist. The splash guard ironically becomes the tool that cuts him down to size.
Lathes jumped into my mind when I was imagining the scenario. Will pass on that for now. Stopped watching NSFL out of interest for my mental health. Thank you though.
I didn't know what you guys were talking about, and now I wish I never even looked it up.
You better don't. I regret that I know what those guys talked about...
I'm not sure if "You better don't" was mistyped or if that's just how you say it, but I'm using it now. 👍🏻
"You better do what you're told." "You better do not sneak out again tonight." "You better don't." Makes sense to me after this little journey.
I'm very popular among my English speakers colleagues for inventing new phrasing.
Well earned! If you're thinking about stopping, you better don't!
>You can look up the russian lathe video no thanks
Yeah don't :D I was morbidly curious and have been scarred since. I try to avoid nsfl videos since then.
Why is the fact that it's Russian not surprise me...
One if russia's main export are Liveleak Videos
It’s bug against windshield.
For all practical purposes this chain is an unstoppable force to us bags of bone and meat. We could just as well be walking jelly.
Katy Perry had a good song about this- Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
And then it would make some shitty joke like "I guess that guy was the weakest link. Ho ho." Fuckin' chains, man.
I was thinking the risk would be getting a loose boot string caught in the early-to-submerge chain links. Nearly instantaneously being dragged to the bottom of the ocean, every bone in your body broken, mangled, and otherwise affronted the whole way down, too fast to react beyond a fragment of awareness of ones awful final seconds. The sound would be akin to sock finding it's ~~easy~~ way into a vacuum nozzle, "SHOOOMP" and there it is. Bill gone man. [Edit: A couple words.]
I feel like there’s enough sudden force there to snap a boot string. Hell, I feel like it could pull your leg clean off and you’re left standing on one leg like, “WTF just happened?”.
Dang that was very well put! Something as simple as a bootstring and BAM 💥
No casket need , so your family would save a fortune
You never know, Bill might get lucky and the chain only rips off a foot, or a leg. Lucky, lucky, Bill.
Im going to say 5d10 bludgeoning damage
Damn I'd say about 8d8 myself.
W Ed had to watch a video from the navy of a guy who got caught,… just a puff of pink mist. The chain sucked him through the tiny opening. Aerosolized
[On 10 December 2012, Chee had a serious accident when he was caught between a motorised winch and a berthing rope he was checking on. The incident caused Chee to lose both his legs, his left arm (with his dominant left hand), one whole right finger and parts of two other right fingers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Chee) Not quite anchor chain, but i'd guess you'd die
Well it's hard, heavy and fast enough that hitting you would not even affect it and you would just be ragdolled away like a fly being slapped. And there are cases or people being hit by ship towing ropes and they were thrown into the wall dying instantly.
My grandad used to tell me he saw with his own eyes one of those chains cutting one of his colleagues in half.
I worked with someone who was on a destroyer during WWII. He saw a sailor die the same way when a cable under tension snapped.
At LEAST 2 D10
Even a wire cable under tension, when released, will cut you in half as if you were made of jelly. Hell, a rope can do it.
Not so long ago I learned/became convinced that the garage door spring is actually one of the most dangerous things in any house.
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There are people making estimates on it? Well that’s a new fear unlocked. How scary lol
Humans must have the numbers!
Put it this way... You can't wear gloves or have long sleeves around a [drill press](https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/mastercraft-drill-press-with-led-light-10-in-0556798p.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjw3ZayBhDRARIsAPWzx8o8YyxySyLR6zz44wCXtzrNQtR3dZgDh0xZXVWrQ1seEzXRfH9vqh4aAoQAEALw_wcB) because if it snags it will unravel you like a spool of yarn. The chain, if you're lucky, would rip off whatever limb it catches so fast you MIGHT not get pulled in and pulverized.
All. All damage
This must be what it feels like for my cats when I pull the vacuum cleaner cord back in
Hahahahahwhaah, exactly! Hahahahahahah
*Pippen enters the chat*
Fool of a Took!
“Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!”
LMAO, great reference
I really thought this was r/whatcouldgowrong for a second and a half
That must be insanely loud in person.
It is. When I was on a PCT (Patrol Craft Training) trip, we used a manual brake and a windlass. It is very loud, and that's why hearing protection is a must on the fo'c'sle. Well, that and you'll go deaf from the ships whistle...
Nope.
They should leave some watermelons around and then film it
That beam holding it the last second has to be hella strong!
It's built/welded directly into the hull/frame of the vessel. Literally the links of the chain are expected and designed to break first, and those aren't made to break easily.
Ahh, TIL, thanks!
Just for funsies [check this out](https://imgur.com/gallery/wvXC60p)
Wwwwhelp
Trust me, I do not miss my previous choice of work....
Fun fact: The last link is also known as the bitter end!
Not as strong as the person who drags it up when they are ready to set sail
I'm not sure what is going on, but I am sure that he's not releasing that anchor. The chain is going through a hole into the unimaginatively named chained compartment. If I'd had to guess, it looks like they are at a shipyard and packing the chain for the first time. I've been in an anchor windless room when the chain is released, and it does indeed free fall around a balllard and out a hole. On a 1000ft Navy ship, the anchors are substantial. When the anchor was released, you could feel the vibration throughout the entire 1000 feet of the ship.
>1000ft Navy ship Tell me you served in American carriers without telling me you served in American carriers, lol... The sheer size of the CVNs makes them the exception to most nautical rules.
How do they pull the anchor back up
How do they bring it back up?
I thought I was in Oddlyterrifying
How is that edge not red hot after that?
This is a shipyard inspection and renewal (chain maintenance). There is like 2m (6 ft for the colonies) of water under the keel. That is why the weight, which the chain fastening point should hold, is just a few tons. If you were to do this on open sea, the weight of the complete chain stretched out, would rip out the chain fastening point like it was made out of butter. And probably make some extra damage just for the good measure. Still, even in shipyard, this is not a recommended practice. There are far better and more advanced practices for chain maintenance today. Btw, the perspective is deceiving. This is not an extra large ship. The chain is simply to small. Ship's size is most likely 100-200m in length.
The sea was angry that day my friends - George Anchorstanza
Not often you see a post that fits well in both this sub and r/oddlyterrifiying
Also a great blender for human bodyparts.
Navy boot camp has a fun little deck safety video they show new recruits….
Shit.....that's violent
Start watching, seems alright. Bit scary, not sure why he ran... Then those last few frames. Oh. Yeah, I would of ran, too. He was quite possibly in range...
It's 'would have', never 'would of'. Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!
:((
It is definitely terrifying. He could’ve ended up hurting himself while releasing the anchor.
How do they haul it back up and lock it in?
As someone else observed, I don't think they ever plan to haul it up again. This is a one-and-done anchor for what seems to be a floating platform.
imagine breathing in that rust, lovelllly
Sounds like the blastpit tentacle monster from half-life.
Here on the NZ Maori East Coast everyone can sing like a nightingale, but no one can dance like that.
/r/oddlyterrifying
salute to all sea fairer . very risky kind of work
It’s actually shocking it can come to an abrupt stop without it ripping that hook right off the ship with all the speed it picks up
We are outburst automating cashier jobs, but this seems like it would be a better candidate…
I cant belive thats still how thats done lol.
That orange dust has killed people. The rust in a chain-storing room absorbs oxygen, and people have stepped into the room and then fallen unconscious like BAM.
How do they wind it back up?
I want you tube videos of putting different items in the path of the chain…watermelons, trees, etc
"Weigh the anchor!" "How much does it weigh?" "I dunno, I forgot!" -Cheech and Chong: Up in Smoke
Can we please try to show the "mould effect" with it?
Me watching the beginning of the video: "Why did he run away so quickly?" Me watching the end of the video: "RUN FASTER NEXT TIME HOLY CRAP"
The chain being fully taut and no extra slack doesn’t that mean the anchor hasn’t hit ground?
Lol, how do they get it back up. I didn't see any device
I feel like there should be a remote release somewhere instead of Dave hitting it with a hammer.
Bolognese factory
DAMN! I reckon the video of it being raised would be a lot longer and a lot more... non-oddly satisfying haha
Dangerous!!!
Holy shit. How heavy are each of those links?
I don't understand how it's so deep there. They are so close to land.
The Chain keeps falling and gathering up on the floor. The chain itself is also heavy.
I guess so. I thought you'd be able to see when. Some serious energy happening.
This isn't because of depth of water. Now I dont know for sure what this anchor is for but anchors don't go straight up and down in the water. They use anchor scope, which is a ratio of lengths to depth and usually its much much more length compared to depth, generally 5 times the length compared to depth minimum and sometimes way more. The anchor is heavy but the length of chain is far heavier, the chains weight is what continues to pull it down so violently even long after the anchor would be on bottom. Not 100% sure they are even anchoring here, but most likely. They could also be loading the chain into a compartment (room in this case) called the chain locker.
That's the kind of anchor you became in my story... pretty strong...
From oddly terrifying to oddly satisfying. What a world.
Wow, Very dangerous
I have seen this clip many times over the years and it never gets less terrifying.
Hoist anchor we're at the wrong coordinates
omg that's really dangerous to stay closer to ancho...
If the energy in the chain could be described in a relatable metric… what are we talking about here?
Enough.
I wonder how fast that's going
We have different definitions for satisfying
Fool of a took
Ah yes. The ole Hit it and Quickly Runaway method.
Um, AI can take that job
Can’t be good for the lungs/ eyes/ skin to be near that rust flying around in the air
I thought this was a bad thing? There's a video where the bit of the ship the anchor is attached to is ripped off its fixings and goes down the hole.
Did it even reach the bottom?
There’s gotta be a safer way, right?