MMC wrote:
Didn't get nailed by that one (did get sent to DC Central for a tube of
relative bearing grease), but first 'shellback initiation' I pulled a
rotation at the bullnose as look out for the IDL! Weather was nice so it was
better duty than monitoring the "flushing circulatory action indicator"!

Either of you guys ever encounter a Sea Bat?

DSK

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Either of you guys ever encounter a Sea Bat?



Hmm....don't remember that one. Is there a story to go with it?...

I do remember sending one young troublemaker into Radio 2 to empty the drip
pans for the grid leak in the TBK transmitters...(c;

Either of you guys ever encounter a Sea Bat?


Larry wrote:
Hmm....don't remember that one. Is there a story to go with it?...

I do remember sending one young troublemaker into Radio 2 to empty the drip
pans for the grid leak in the TBK transmitters...(c;


I think they taught that one in 'A' school.

One of the most powerful yet scarce creatures in the ocean,
the Sea Bat, has rarely been captured by man and never by
civilians It is a vicious predator and when captured,
must be confined in strong steel container such as a large
Navy-issue bucket. After a short time in captivity, the Sea
Bat becomes lethargic and so usually a chief will have to
poke into the bucket with a broom or a mop to rouse the Sea Bat.

I'm sure you get the picture.

Regards
Doug King, ex-BT1(SW) USN

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I'm sure you get the picture.


Got it. I think I knew that chief...(c;

Never saw one myself, but we had a Cheif Boats on the USS Holt (FF 1074)
that would get new guys on the night watches going by telling them that the
flying fish were sea bats. Couldn't catch them in a box, had to use a bucket
as they would chew their way out of a box and were EXTREMELY dangerous.
MMC
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MMC wrote:
Didn't get nailed by that one (did get sent to DC Central for a tube of
relative bearing grease), but first 'shellback initiation' I pulled a
rotation at the bullnose as look out for the IDL! Weather was nice so it
was
better duty than monitoring the "flushing circulatory action indicator"!

Either of you guys ever encounter a Sea Bat?

DSK

"MMC" wrote in
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Never saw one myself, but we had a Cheif Boats on the USS Holt (FF
1074) that would get new guys on the night watches going by telling
them that the flying fish were sea bats. Couldn't catch them in a box,
had to use a bucket as they would chew their way out of a box and were
EXTREMELY dangerous.


I have a story to go with that. David, one of the guys who go with us on
Lionheart from time to time and who owns a 36' sailing cat on our dock, was
sitting at the helm about 3AM, 180 miles off the GA coast, about half
asleep with the autopilot running, staring at the radar. I was tending
winches, which is the 2nd two hours of the watches we stand....

A huge flying fish flew straight in under the Amel's hard top from port and
smacked David hard in the belly at full speed, whatever they fly! It
knocked him clean off the helmsman's seat onto the deck. I got a towel
over the damned smelly fish and got him overboard straight away without
getting the fish oil on me as David picked himself up off the deck.

We were, at that point, BOTH awake for the rest of our watch...(c;

The adrenaline charge was strong enough to make my back ache...