Oops! My bad! My hand slipped.

Wasn't as spectacular and disastrous as I was hoping for.
I though the chain or the spool, or whatever it's called, to horrible fail and snap loose and rip some stuff to shreds

I think you mean anchor's "aweigh."

...or maybe you don't.

^ Oh, sorry. What I meant was the part where the chain is connected to the ship. I don't know anything about ships

Whoa, big mechanical things are scary.

There's no way I would have been stood there filming that.

Sounds like my neighbour's Fiat Punto when he leaves for work around 4am.

He should have grabbed the chain.

^ That's one guy's chain, you wouldn't want to yank! - That things huge!

Maybe they should stick to building cars instead?

the hard part's reeling it back in

What the heck?! Where was that chain being fed to?

>> ^Wingoguy:
What the heck?! Where was that chain being fed to?


To the sea, I suppose, I think the anchor is rushing towards the bottom and because its so heavy, they have brakes that normally slows its descent.

>> ^Sagemind:
^ That's one guy's chain, you wouldn't want to yank! - That things huge!


ahem And THAT'S what SHE said.

The sea level rose a foot that day.

That's the type of thing that's so immensely power that you expect someone to die just from being in relative proximity to the event.

>> ^TheFreak:
That's the type of thing that's so immensely power that you expect someone to die just from being in relative proximity to the event.


Yeah, I had a Marvin the Martian moment when it was over...

"Where's the KABOOM?!? There's supposed to be an earth shattering KABOOM!!"

The brake? I think it's broke.

now i'm guessing here, but that looked way too long to be an chain falling into the water.
i think it's looped

Must have been one big old fish.

I found that quite uncomfortable.. hard to compare, but the noise and speed and devastating power of it reminded me of some huge mechanical robot in a raw disaster film. I can't remember what it exactly reminded me of, but it's a film like that. Pretty immense, and something we are powerless to stop.

>> ^mxxcon:
now i'm guessing here, but that looked way too long to be an chain falling into the water.
i think it's looped


Think about it, when the anchor hits the bottom, the chain doesn't stop, it just keeps falling out, making a big pile on the bottom of the sea. Sort of like ice cream running out of a soft serve machine uncontrollably.

^Wingoguy:
> ^BicycleRepairMan:
>> What the heck?! Where was that chain being fed to?
>To the sea, I suppose,


And the sea said: "Mmm, chain. Nom nom nom."

>> ^mxxcon:
now i'm guessing here, but that looked way too long to be an chain falling into the water.
i think it's looped

I was wondering the same thing, actually. I suppose the yellow-yellow-red-yellow-yellow links could be distance markers on a full chain, but I suspect that's where the chain is looped for testing the winch.

>> ^andybesy:
Whoa, big mechanical things are scary.
There's no way I would have been stood there filming that.


I agree