Sea Stories

As has been mentioned, most of the events I can recount from my days at sea would fall upon disbelieving ears... for the simple reason being that the vast majority of 'sand crabs' utterly lack a frame of reference to draw a mental picture against.
Were I to sit and speak of riding the lee side of Hurricane Grace between Norway and Germany, a listener might be left thinking "dude, you've been watching too much 'Perfect Storm' ".
Funny thing that: Hurricane Grace WAS the storm the movie is set against. Now whom amongst you can draw the mental image of a 563 ft long Kidd Class DDG buried to the forward superstructure in a wave and the stern of the ship, including screws and rudder, hanging in the air?
Had I not been in the fleet for 13 yrs I'd be hard pressed to believe it myself.
Any other seadogs out there happened to catch the 'green flash' at sunrise? The split moment in time when your view of the rising suns light passes through the green spectrum of light? It lasts for perhaps an 'nth of a moment in time.
Of the hundreds of sunrises I've seen at sea, I caught it once purely by accident. I spent years afterward trying to catch it again but even knowing exactly what I was looking for it eluded me.
Without having seen it myself, I'd be hard pressed to believe the phenomena is anything but someones vivid imagination.
Any of you seadogs been to the IO on a calm day? When the water is so flat it's like glass all the way to the horizon?
Without having seen it myself... etc.
Triple and quadruple rainbows are a regular occurance in the tropics during a light rain, I spent 3 years on Guam and I've seen dozens. Try explaining one to a metronite from San Diego or Manhattan.
You get laughed at.
Ive heard USAF pilots and aircrew talk about things they've seen flyng in the northen latitudes and I have to remind myself about the glass flat IO and wonder "would they believe me if I told them?".
One never knows what another has seen or experienced.
Gunner Retired

I have a brother and a sister in law retired NAVY ,, alot good STORIES FROM BOTH ,,ALL GOOD,, i've taken a couple family cruizes on his ships,, ,, Glad i went to the Air haha,, ,, But it's all good,, i have a nephew told me today at our big family christmas dinner,,, (12 uncles and aunts on my dad side) he is going navy ,,, he grad this year with my son.. ...well merry christmas to all and happy new year

Sea stories? manny look at these as fancifull tales made up just to pass the time. i know most of mine are not for polite company:) and most people hear them and dismiss them as true fiction. untill the day they run into somone else to tells almost the exact same story.

as far as knowing what navy life is like. lock yourself in the closet for 9 months at a crack with a deck of cards, and have somone periodically throw firecrackers in the room with you. yes its alot of intense training and drillng but after 9 months even those become so routine that you do them in your sleep.

Double D, The only sea stories I have are about the cruises I've taken with Norwegian Cruise Lines, Carnival, etc. As an Army veteran, I don't know much about the Navy, so I'd like to learn more by hearing about your sea stories.