Carrier Arresting Cable Breaks

My dad was on the deck of the USS Saratoga back in the 70s.

He witnessed a cable failure one day and it chopped one guy's legs off, so fast that it was like a block of tetris cubes simply moving down a notch and the foundation disappeared. Amputee in seconds, out in the ocean. Not a good situation. Rare, but at least the people in the video here kept their legs hopefully. Incredible that the one guy jumped over it twice like that.
 
Nick said:
My dad was on the deck of the USS Saratoga back in the 70s.

He witnessed a cable failure one day and it chopped one guy's legs off, so fast that it was like a block of tetris cubes simply moving down a notch and the foundation disappeared. Amputee in seconds, out in the ocean. Not a good situation. Rare, but at least the people in the video here kept their legs hopefully. Incredible that the one guy jumped over it twice like that.
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On the Kitty Hawk, it was high on the awareness scale. there was talk of people being beheaded by a slinging cable. Every time you were on the flight deck during ops it was a very dangerous place.

That guy got some serious air to avoid that cable. Michael Jordon kind of air, truly amazing!
 
Now that's jump rope with a purpose! I wish there were a TV show named Deadliest Traps instead of Deadliest Catch. Carrier flight deck crewmembers have crab fishermen beat hands down, and they do it for ~$30k a year.
 
The Fez said:
Now that's jump rope with a purpose! I wish there were a TV show named Deadliest Traps instead of Deadliest Catch. Carrier flight deck crewmembers have crab fishermen beat hands down, and they do it for ~$30k a year.
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and months and months at a time...
 
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