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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KingofThings, post: 275604, member: 468&quot;]Thanks Bakers!!!</p><p>This group of lines makes me think I should write a poem, maybe a song (never done that) about the time my ship went all quiet and dead in the water at night off Hawaii.</p><p>No bow wave, no wake.</p><p>It&#039;s not normal and highly unusual for a warship to do this intentionally.</p><p>So I woke up. No alarms or general quarters klaxon.</p><p>Oddly enough, one of few, not actually already awake on watch.</p><p>-</p><p>I got partially dressed and went out on deck...</p><p>-</p><p>OMG!!!!!</p><p>It was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen at night in nature!</p><p>-</p><p>The Pacific ocean was glass!</p><p>NOT a ripple!</p><p>This is incredibly rare!</p><p>-</p><p>The sky completely clear, no moon, the stars SO bright I could easily get around the ship!</p><p>-</p><p>BUT....</p><p>No horizon to be seen!</p><p>I could not tell the night sky from the water!!!</p><p>It was as if we were floating in space!!!</p><p>-</p><p>We remained like that for at least an hour and I stayed out there for awhile more since it was still like that forward of us.</p><p>It was truly a once in a lifetime experience. Obviously I&#039;ll never forget this.</p><p>-</p><p>WOW were there a lot of upset guys the next day!!!</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I just asked them if they were all dead?</p><p>How could you not react to dead silence and no movement of the ship? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":p" unselectable="on" /></p><p>-</p><p>Hope it was ok to share that. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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