If you were in the Navy and you fell off a big ship would they do whatever it takes to save you or just?

Question

go o'well can't stop now

Answer 1

The military follows the ethic of: 'no one gets left behind.'

They will do everything they can to bring you back.

Answer 2

When someone goes overboard aboard a Navy ship, everything on the ship stops. The conduct a full main overboard exercise. The muster the entire ship to their man overboard station where each person is accounted for. Once each department has every person accounted for a phone call is made to the personnel department which keeps track of all personnel and all department numbers as they are called in. If a department has a person that is not accounted for that person is looked for until they are found. If they are never found they know that that is the person they could be looking for. While that is going on a SH-60 helo is put in the air to look in the water for the person overboard. Onboard they have a seach and rescue swimmer prepared to jump in a rescue the person in the water. The ship during this time is now doing slow circles around the point where the person was spotted overboard or seen when they fell overboard. This is a HUGE exercise. The Navy like any other branch does not just say oh well. We are all shipmates and if we can save someone from falling overboard we will do everythng we can to do so. It is always the number one priority to be safe aboard ship, but sometimes an accident will happen or an idiot will throw something overboard to make it look like a person overboard. In either case we still stop and look.

Answer 3

They will turn around and backtrack looking for the person that fell overboard. We had an incident once where the lookout heard a splash in the water and reported it. They called Man Overboard, which means everyone reports to their assigned man overboard station to get accounted for. We had one Marine that was unaccounted for, so the ship turned around, and we spent a good hour looking. Luckily, he really didn't fall over the side. He fell asleep in a helicopter! Don't know what the splash really was (probably someone throwing something over the side).

Answer 4

When I was going through boot camp in Great Lakes, IL, they showed us a video of a guy who fell off of a carrier and was retrieved a few days later. No one noticed he was gone because he was somehow accounted for at muster for 2 days (bear in mind that there are 7000-some odd people on a carrier) he was found by a turkish frieghter and returned to the ship later.

So, yes. They will try to get you. On my sub, we ran man overboard drills all of the time. There are few circumstances in which a man can fall overboard from a sub, but it is quite likely in a surface transit.

Answer 5

they search for you..if you are seen falling its pretty much immedite, you'll be back onbaord in about 15 minutes or so...if no one see's you, you will be there until someone notices your gone, they will search the ship and send a helo back to look for you...you have to use your training to stay afloat till then...if they don't see you...your most likely become missing at sea

Answer 6

they would say " man over board " and ring the siren, and toss you a life preserver. The Navy teaches take care of your own people..

Answer 7

If they notice you fall over, all hands will immediately turn to for Man Overboard Ops.

Answer 8

Do you know how much time and effort it takes to get a man who has fallen overboard. I say throw him a life preserver and pick him up on the way back!

Answer 9

theyll send a smaller boat for you i dont think theyll stop the ship and trun around but they might slow down

Answer 10

They do anything and everything they can to rescue any man overboard.