Is this Possible? Jumping off a the deck of a aircraft carrier?

Your jumping about 60' which is doable. Jumping next to a ship (i.e. it is going to be moving back and forth) makes it a really sketchy activity.

RuKiddingMe!! wrote:

I friend of mine states, when he was in the Navy (in the 70s), he would jump off a aircraft carrier(the deck)! Is this possible?

i didnt run today, to cold, no much snow

I don't know if i believe it or not....states he did it 6 or 7 times, in several different ports

Its possible.

The water you're jumping into needs to be deep.

Olympic Divers jump from 10 meters, or 33 feet so 60 feet is clearly possible. If you have ever jumped from a 10 meter board you'd know how much 18 meters or 60 feet could hurt.

Start at about 2:00. Then tell me how dangerous jumping off a carrier is.

My grandpa was on a carrier in the 60s (USS Wasp) and says that they HAD to jump off as part of emergency training. Really your only option if the ship is going to sink...jump and float around until you get picked up by another ship. Hopefully not in the north Atlantic.

Yojo wrote:

My grandpa was on a carrier in the 60s (USS Wasp) and says that they HAD to jump off as part of emergency training. Really your only option if the ship is going to sink...jump and float around until you get picked up by another ship. Hopefully not in the north Atlantic.

How is that your only option? If the ship is sinking, couldn't you just stand patiently until you are lowered into the water and then start floating?

60 feet is not all that high. Assuming ship is anchored. Getting back onboard seems like it would be harder

not recommended wrote:

The water you're jumping into needs to be deep.

I'm no expert but I would guess if an aircraft carrier is floating in some water, that water is very deep!

In addition to the risk of sinking pretty far underwater with the ship, as the above poster's link explains, there's also a pretty big risk of fire and or explosion on a sinking warship. Basically the only way one of these is going to sink is if it's under attack, and you never know when the next anti-ship ballistic missile is going to come crashing down at Mach 10. There's also the risk that the thing swiftly goes vertical and drops you hundreds of feet into the water or onto a lower part of the ship. Basically the least risky thing to do is get away from a giant sinking ship as fast as possible.

RuKiddingMe!! wrote:

I friend of mine states, when he was in the Navy (in the 70s), he would jump off a aircraft carrier(the deck)! Is this possible?

i didnt run today, to cold, no much snow

I jumped from the top deck/promenade of a cruise ship once, while in harbor.

No idea how high up it was, all I know is that it was higher than any bridge I'd jumped off of, or cliff dive/jump.

Here's what it was like "falling, falling, falling...the water should be here soon, sht, the water isn't here yet, still falling, falling, SPLMASH!!!"

And we went in so deep that we had to swim to the surface, not just pop right up on our own.

I've always enjoyed challenges like that -- there's tons of videos on youtube of people doing stuff like that, you may want to check it out.

Anyone jumped into the Columbia river at the Gorge in WA?

I did that one a few years ago, from the second highest spot and that was a good smack into the water, swim back to the surface. Looking back I wished I'd gone off the highest spot, but I didn't know it was there until my friends had already leaped from the 2nd highest spot.

At some level it reaches a "stupid human tricks" level, me thinks.

I wonder if there is a youtube video of someone jumping off a aircraft carrier...

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not recommended wrote:

The water you're jumping into needs to be deep.

I'm no expert but I would guess if an aircraft carrier is floating in some water, that water is very deep!

Great comment. Laughed so hard I almost spit my coffee

kksks wrote:

Yojo wrote:

My grandpa was on a carrier in the 60s (USS Wasp) and says that they HAD to jump off as part of emergency training. Really your only option if the ship is going to sink...jump and float around until you get picked up by another ship. Hopefully not in the north Atlantic.

How is that your only option? If the ship is sinking, couldn't you just stand patiently until you are lowered into the water and then start floating?

The suction of the ship going down would pull you under. You need to jump off and swim away.

I have no idea how high a carrier deck is. We used to jump at the "Cliffs" on the Susquehanna River when we were in high school. It was 60 or 70 feet depending on where you jumped from. Not me in the video, but here is the place...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJxTz4PgKlI

In Navy bootcamp they teach you how to hold your arms and legs in the event you would have to jump off ship or aircraft carrier. Also how to clear water of oil etc.. I seem to remember them saying the deck was 90 feet above the water.

125 feet into shallow water surrounded by rocks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MutuAMecIo

When I was in high school (1963) we would jump off this cliff at Lake Berryessa in Northern California that was well over 60 feet. We wore tennis shoes because the impact would sting like hell. We had to pull our elbows into our ribs to keep our arms from being pulled up and jerking our shoulders. (Another method was to straighten your arms close to body with your fists clenched or pointed down) It was important to keep your fists away from your chin if you didn't want to knock yourself out. Jumping off an aircraft carrier in port would be easy. Jumping off an aircraft carrier that is moving sounds suicidal.

Anyone jumped into the Columbia river at the Gorge in WA?

I did that one a few years ago, from the second highest spot and that was a good smack into the water, swim back to the surface. Looking back I wished I'd gone off the highest spot, but I didn't know it was there until my friends had already leaped from the 2nd highest spot.

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I haven't jumped from that spot on the Columbia, but I've done a spot on the Skykomish. I was there one day and some guys scuba diving in the river checking out the interesting under water caves (which have trapped and killed kayakers) below a water fall. They had a rope. We helped them use the rope to measure the jump distance from the cliffs. One was 65ft and the other was 35ft. We measured the water depth too, I think it was 20ft. And there were boulders in the water so you had to jump just right. 65ft is a long ways to jump but it's not too painful. I highly recommend keeping shoes on your feet for that height and entering the water with good technique.

Now jumping from a ship, the danger comes once you are in the water from hitting the ship hull under water either while decending in the water or while floating back up. It's hard to maintain your orientation when you hit the water from so high. Not sure if the ship would suck you towards it if the engine was running or move from rough water.

I think there are places to cliff jump in Mexico that are much higher than 60ft.

Big John. That tree jump is NOT 75 feet. It is 50-60 at best thus you were not jumping "60-70 feet". teens/adults that cliff jump at lake tend to be serial embellishers about the height. So much so that you start to believe it yourself.

I find people typically add 15-20 feet . I used to jump cliffs as a kid that I thought were 70-80 feet high and turns out about 50 when I went back as an adult to survey the area...

I've probably visited 15-20 bridges, lakes, ocean cliffs etc. and I can promise you there hasn't been 1 where the person I'm going with hasn't embellished the height by minimum of 10 feet. When you are standing at the top of a cliff about to jump into water vs. looking at it from below it seems a heck of a lot higher (every single person here that has cliff jumped knows what I'm talking about)

You might get scoffed at if you say you've jumped a 50 foot cliff but you'd be one of the few telling the truth as people "equate" that differently.

Agree?

Man, all these videos look like TBIs waiting to happen.

Be careful out there...