Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "The Drydock - Episode 317 (Part 2)" video.

  1. Q & A : I would VERY MUCH enjoy seeing footage of ships battling huge storms. Now we have seen a bit of the Halsey typhoons. But I'd like to see some storms from the North Sea. I mean USS Washington lost an Admiral in a small storm outside of Scapa Flow. I always forget his name too. Admiral Lee's immediate predecessor & I often wonder how well Washington would have done had that Admiral survived & Admiral Lee not been aboard at the "Big Night Battle of Guadal Canal." Idk, I personally believe that it was "divine intervention" and that it saved the lives of numerous US sailors. Admiral Lee was imho one of the smartest Admirals the US had as far as knowing his battleships. Like him turning down a possible night battle cuz of lack of training. Yes, we missed out on what may have been a spectacular victory. But with the lack if training it also could have been a spectacular defeat as well. And I totally appreciate Lee not wanting to risk his men's lives when they had not trained for such a thing. And the chance of losing lives in "friendly" fire incidents is very much more possible in a night battle. Sorry, but anyway, yes big ships in BIG STORMS!! Smaller ships in BIG STORMS. I think the reason in what is known as "the Bermuda Triangle" that there are places where the water is VERY DEEP & then not so deep. And when a ship is in a storm & runs across one of the more shallow spots that the waves grow considerably much bigger than the previous waves & that is why numerous ships have been lost there.
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  2. Somewhere along 1:19:40 you were asked about using soap for fighting oil fires. And spoke that although on a lot of oil rigs they use explosives to blow a fire out. That suggesting such a thing on a warship is not going to win you any medals. My only argument is that if you actually deliver those explosives & it works, you may be "posthumously" awarded a medal. But most on board may not be in favor of either!😊😊😊
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  3. @Anglashock  Drach's 5-6 hour Drydocks have been a large part of my quest for sanity & intelligence in an incredibly stupid & crazy world for the past four years. Instead of therapy or a psychiatrist I just plug in a long Drydock & kick back. Either that or I listen to an old Grateful Dead concert. Jerry Garcia is my "other" therapist. It's almost 30 years now that he passed away. But his music is still loved by many. I sincerely believe that he was a more gifted guitarist than Jimi Hendrix!
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