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I don't know were the shot was taken other than its somewhere in the Pacific.

Sitting in the director 50 feet up and about 150 back from the bow I could watch the bow go down inti the ocean.

The bow cut down into the ocean and the water from the deck all the way up to the level of the ocean looked like a plate of glass was holding the ocean back as if it were a glass tank and the 2 walls of water were very smooth.

The only thing that was not smooth up and down was that a white stream of foamy water was shoothing through the oval hawspipe and the stream of foamy water crossed each other and would hit the vertical sheet of ocean water.

It gave you the impression that the ship had stopped all forward motion, which it had not.

That was just an amazing sight.

When the bow went down far enough so that when I looked port or starboard I was looking level with the oceans surface the bow would start to come up and the ship seemed to start forward again.

The bow seemed to plunge under the vertical walls of water and the water would come crashing down on the forecastle and on the 5" mounts.

As the bow plunged further forward the forecastle and mount 51 disapeared and about 1/2 of mount 52.

At this time the bow is coming up and clearing the ocean and the high winds would blow the water back over mount 52 and would blow streams of water and foam clear over the director.

I would watch all of this and just before the foamy water hit the front of the pilot house I would pull the canvas cover down to keep from getting soaked.

It would be all over in a minute and I would open the hatch to see everything all over again.

I never tired of watching all this.