how far out were you

We were 16-18 nm ESE from Manasquan inlet which is probably about 12-14 nm off the coast.

saw one once when i was fishing by sandy hook,very big boat!!!also saw a submarine at earle that wasn't there when we started fishing!!my buddy didn't have a fishfinder on his boat.but i still wonder what that would have looked like!!!

Never saw a Carrier up close (been within 100 yards of the Intrepid, but I was on land). Very cool.

We saw a few Navy ships over the years, some small (like 80-100 feet) and two or three submarines during fleet week in 2000. All of them are really impressive, especially when you come upon them unexpectedly.

That was probably LHD-5, the USS Bataan, an Amphibious Assault ship.


http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/08/0805.htm

Believe it or not a Nuclear carrier, a CVN, is even bigger.

Must have been pretty coll to see it out there under way.

FinFan

That does look similar. They did identified themselves as a carrier though, just didn't catch the name. When talking to them I thought it was us that was too close. When they replied they read off the name on the transom and then the registration numbers on the bow to confirm who they were speaking with and we were almost a mile away from them.

There cool to see. I seen a battle ship the future looking one on Saturday.I was about the same distance out.

Simply awesome!

I've seen carriers on the Hudson during fleet week, up close it's hard to conceive how big they are. Just imagine one of them doing 34 knots.....

Was this it?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/USS_Bataan_%28LHD-5%29%3B10080504.jpg/750px-USS_Bataan_%28LHD-5%29%3B10080504.jpg

I was in California many year ago and in the staights out there, is the fleet of retired ships anchored. At that time, you could cruse right up next to them and fish (which we did). I bet you can't get too close to them now.

You get close these days and they'll be spraying a load of .50's across your bow.... and unfortunately, that's probably the appropriate response.

I believe the distance you need to maintain is is 1500' away from any military vessel.