Impressions of a Floating City

Aircarft carriers are behemoth ships, which daily execute numerous controlled crashes, and though when I was in the submarine service we dismissively called them targets, they are amazing machines which one can hardly not be in awe of.

Jed Babbin recently had an opportunity to experience carrier life on the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and has written about for The American Spectator in a piece titled “A Day in Grootland.”

“Insurance people make their money by measuring risks. Lloyds of London says that the deck of an aircraft carrier is the most dangerous working environment in the world, and it’s not hard to see why. On the deck of a Nimitz -class carrier, there is constant motion among dozens of aircraft, fuel lines, catapults, jet blast deflectors, and arresting wires. The cats launch aircraft and the arresting wires catch landings in a rhythm that recovers one aircraft and launches another in the space of about sixty seconds.”

Via Kim du Toit who is in need of a cold shower after reading the article.

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