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Originally Posted by look 171
So sailors ever fall overboard during rough seas?
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Only on Tuna Boats
They do. If you look closely at the picture I posted, the two young men are wearing float coats. The "nets" are also down since it is helo recovery time. The thing on the deck one of the men is staring at is called the Rapid Securing Device (RSD).
The helo, guided by the LSO (who stands looking up at the helo from the little shack on the left in the picture) puts a "main probe" in the RSD and the LSO then clamps two bars hydraulically around the probe.
No one is on deck during landing.
Ships routinely secure what are known as "weather decks" during big seas.
Jim's ship was not for the feint of heart.