Created/Owned By ABH Saupp, Jeffrey (Watts), ABHAN
Last Updated: Mar 27, 2015
Memories For This Unit
Best Moment Being off the coast of Cape Canaveral Florida as a rescue ship for a night launch of the Space Shuttle. WOW...
Scuba diving in St. Thomas. 100 yard underwater visibility at 60 feet deep. Saw a 5 foot long Barracuda.
Getting ready to go around the Horn of South America, everything in the hangar bay triple chained and ready for the "worst seas in the world" only to have it be flat as glass...
Snowstorm dropping over 6 inches of snow while steaming north near Chili. People building snowmen on the flight deck. Clearing off the snow by firehose.
Other Memories Riding out "The Perfect Storm" off the coast of Jacksonville FL with the ship "Stern to" the 30 foot swells. Pulling back in afterwards and seeing the stern Accom ladder, gone... everything else ripped off and dangling in mid-air