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En un mar picado las Imágenes de este video son Impresionantes - YouTube

lomapaseo

Thanks for posting that video, evenually I puked all over my keyboard

Slasher

Did the skipper of that boat lose his command like Queeg did in similar circumstances?

TowerDog

Mal de mer....

Nah, that was rather refreshing but not suitable for landing seaplanes if one was low on petrol..

tartare

Jaysus, Mary and Joseph.
Does the sea state scale go that high?

probes

Yeah, that would certainly make one think again about the dream of living in a lighthouse. Or at least consider a really sturdy one.

Caboclo

I assume the video was taken from the SAR chopper who was hanging around just in case...

G&T ice n slice

I believe that they just give up at a certain point ...

"Sea State Phenonmenal"

wave height over 14 metres (46 feet)

I think after that "you're on your own guys"

tony draper

Yer lumpy water,can a reet buggah.
Thanks Mr R.

beaufort1

I believe that the footage was take off Ushant. The ship with the red slash on the hull is one of the 'Abeille' salvage tugs, one is based in Brest and there is another the 'Abeille Liberte' based in Cherbourg. The lighthouse is close to a place called the 'Raz du Sein', a nasty piece of water with insane tidal flows and standing waves.
I took a Nelson 45 down through that way in the summer of '91 in no more than a F2 to F3 and also timed when the tide should have been slack and managed to bury her in green water up to the flying bridge. We went through a piece of sea for a duration of about 9 nm's which was like a slalom course, the sea was just a series of steps caused by standing waves due to tide.
I also have a series of photos (hanging in my house) taken from a helo looking back towards the Ushant headland at dawn after an Atlantic storm in Dec. 1989 had passed through.Huge waves and swell.

probes

beaufort -

SpringHeeledJack

SHJ

Nervous SLF

How long did it take and how many very brave souls were used to build that lighthouse?

Mallan

I've seen bigger goffers in a tea cup.

tony draper

Indeed Mr SLF,think of the poor buggas who had to build them,good documentary about the Stevenson family who were involved with the building and running of seemingly most of the lighthouses round our shores for generations on the telly a while back,they were apparently very disappointed in Robert Louis who took up the pen rather than the trowel.

Ancient Mariner

I have this sudden urge to go back to sea. Always loved a bit of rough weather.
Per

tony draper

Once you had mastered the art of walking at a angle of 45 degrees you were ok

SOPS

Tony...just how did they build lighthouses out in the ocean like the one in the video?

MagnusP

There's a Stevenson lighthouse on the Isle of May in the Forth. There's an open day next month with trips from the Scottish Seabird Centre in North Berwick. If the weather's OK, I might take a trip out. Just too late for seeing puffins, unfortunately.

tony draper

With great difficulty Mr SOPS,plenty of stuff on tinternet about the struggle with the sea over building lighthouses,see here.
Bellrock.org.uk : Stevensons : Who Built the Bell Rock Lighthouse?