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Originally Posted by BReif61 View Post
How does that helicopter get secured to the deck? I can’t see sailors running out to tie it down with the rotors at speed and the deck being washed like that. How do they prevent a swell or big wave from “tossing” it overboard/skidding it near the edge?

(I have a hunch that someone here knows this answer)
Hmm

Some good info here and other neat videos.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/6177/watching-this-mh-60r-land-on-a-heaving-ship-in-the-north-sea-is-terrifying

I am not familiar with the Danish Shipboard securing system but I assume that lock into the grid (the circle in the video) on landing.

We always chock and chained, even with our Rapid Securing Device, before beginning the shut down procedures.

BTW, that green bar in the video is, I think, the Danish version of an artificial horizon reference: It stays level while the ship rolls and pitches.
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