Holy crap! This is HUGE. Apparently the Navy is tasked with testing their ships on occasion for their ability to stay together when something explodes next to them. In this case that something was 10,000 lbs of explosive sitting in the water next to it. According to the video’s producers, “this is NOT a real combat situation, rather, it’s a routine structural integrity test called a Full Scale Shock Trial (FSST) – and the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), USS Jackson, passed ‘with flying colors’.
And as per Christopher P. Cavas of Defense News: The explosion was large enough for the US Geological Survey (USGS) to have reported a 3.7 magnitude earthquake about 168 kilometers east northeast of Daytona Beach Shores, Florida — an area confirmed by the Navy to be within the region where the Jackson test took place. The report set off a flurry of media reports about a possible connection with the LCS tests. The USGS promptly reclassified the event as an “experimental explosion.” ”
Wow. Watch this it’s insane.
” Attention on deck…there will be a HUGE fish fry in the galley”.
Environ
mentally unsavory
Apologies up front for anyone who thinks I’m hugging a tree overly hard … but … this is what permanently damages the hearing of mammals that use sonar echo-location to both converse with others of their kind as well as find tasty fish to eat. Sound travels much faster and MUCH farther in water. If you think a 10oz grenade was loud in basic training, imagine that it weighed 10,000 lbs and the sound was transmitted in a medium much more conducive to scrambling your brains.
Whales have been found dead with bleeding ear holes from the stunningly loud sonar equipment on Navy ships. Imagine that sound, except thousands of times louder …