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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The US Navy destroyer <keyword id="2132528" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="USS-Kidd">USS Kidd</keyword> was spotted flying the skull and crossbones as it returned to its homeport this week.</li><li>The Kidd is named after an admiral who was killed at Pearl Harbor, but the infamous <keyword id="63518" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="pirate">pirate</keyword> Captain Kidd has long been its mascot.</li><li>Three ships have been named Kidd, and they have been the only US Navy ships authorized to fly the Jolly Roger.</li></ul>The US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG-100) hoisted the Jolly Roger — a black banner adorned with a white skull and crossbones that is commonly associated with piracy — as it returned to its homeport this week.A Navy photo, <a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36644/heres-why-the-destroyer-uss-kidd-was-flying-a-huge-pirate-flag-as-it-pulled-into-port">first spotted by The War Zone</a>, shows the unusual <keyword id="6379295" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="flag">flag</keyword> flying alongside the American flag as the destroyer sails into port at Naval Station Everett in Washington after a deployment to the 4th Fleet area of operations, which includes the eastern Pacific and Caribbean.<div type="image" title="Guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100) pulls into its homeport of Naval Station Everett (NSE)" height="342" width="457" msid="78285692" hostid="261"></div>While the skull and crossbones were initially associated with piracy, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/09/13/why-did-one-of-the-u-s-navys-most-advanced-subs-return-to-port-with-a-pirate-flag/">submariners adopted the fearsome flag during World War I</a>, when the British submarine HMS E-9 hoisted the Jolly Roger after sinking the German battle cruiser Hela.It became a tradition, one that spread beyond the Royal Navy and came to mark a successful patrol, not necessarily the sinking of an enemy vessel.In 2017, the Navy released a photo of the Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Jimmy Carter transiting the Hood Canal as it returned to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor. In the Navy photo, a black flag that appears to be the Jolly Roger can be seen.<div type="image" title="Cmdr. Melvin Smith, commanding officer of the Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23), looks on as the submarine transits the Hood Canal on its way home to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor." height="664" width="1000" msid="78285695" hostid="261"></div>The USS Kidd, despite <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-outbreak-aboard-deployed-us-navy-destroyer-2020-4">an early COVID-19 setback shortly after the start of its deployment</a> in April, had a relatively successful deployment, supporting counternarcotics operations and at one point assisting the Coast Guard in intercepting 805 kilograms of cocaine worth about $30 million, <a href="https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/display-news/Article/2354882/uss-kidd-completes-counternarcotics-deployment/">the Navy announced</a>.But that's not why the ship flies its pirate flag.The first USS Kidd (DD-661) was a Fletcher-class destroyer named after Rear Adm. Isaac Kidd, who was killed aboard the battleship USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.The rear admiral had the nickname "Cap" — a reference to the Scottish pirate Captain William Kidd — when he went through the US Naval Academy.The crew of the USS Kidd, which was commissioned in 1943, adopted the pirate as their mascot. On the USS Kidd's first voyage, the crew flew the Jolly Roger with the permission of the admiral's widow, Inez Kidd, who convinced Navy leaders to permit it. The crew of the USS Kidd became known as the "Pirates of the Pacific."The USS Kidd is the only surface ship in the US Navy permitted to fly the flag of piracy.<div type="image" title="The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100) returns to its homeport, Naval Station Everett, after a six-month deployment with the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, Dec. 10, 2017" height="714" width="1000" msid="78285697" hostid="261"></div>The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Kidd (DDG-100), commissioned in 2007, is the third ship to bear this name, and it "continues the tradition of this legacy and flies the Jolly Roger proudly and with distinction," according to the Navy.<a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/mandatory-fun/navy-uss-kidd-jolly-roger">As Task &amp; Purpose notes</a>, this week's photo of the USS Kidd flying the Jolly Roger comes just a few months after the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-effectively-bans-confederate-flag-on-us-bases-2020-7">Pentagon issued a memo placing restrictions on the flying of certain types of flags</a>.A 3rd Fleet spokesman told Insider that "the Jolly Roger serves as the unit flag for the USS Kidd (DDG-100)," adding that it is "specifically allowed by the memo."<div type="image" title="USS America" height="1500" width="1000" msid="78285699" hostid="261"></div>Other Navy vessels have also been known to fly nonstandard flags, such as the amphibious assault ship USS America, which was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-flattop-sails-the-pacific-with-captain-america-battle-flag-2020-3">spotted earlier this year flying a blue battle flag with the iconic Captain America shield on it</a>.

A US Navy destroyer just sailed into port flying the Jolly Roger — here's why the USS Kidd flies a pirate flag

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The US Navy said Monday that the number of <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> cases on the <keyword id="576264" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Destroyer">destroyer</keyword> <keyword id="2132528" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="USS-Kidd">USS Kidd</keyword> has climbed to at least 47 from 18 on Friday, when the outbreak was announced.</li><li>In the same update, the service revealed that there are currently 955 active coronavirus cases among sailors assigned to the <keyword id="42406" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="aircraft-carrier">aircraft carrier</keyword> <keyword id="2479263" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="uss-theodore-roosevelt">USS Theodore Roosevelt</keyword>.</li><li>The more than 1,000 coronavirus cases aboard these two deployed warships account for most of the 1,659 cases among the Navy's military personnel.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>The US Navy is currently dealing with a worsening situation aboard a deployed destroyer as it continues to deal with nearly 1,000 coronavirus cases aboard a sidelined aircraft carrier.The Pentagon <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-outbreak-aboard-deployed-us-navy-destroyer-2020-4">revealed the existence of a coronavirus outbreak</a> aboard the destroyer USS Kidd on Friday. At that time, only 18 sailors assigned to the ship had tested positive, but the number more than doubled over the weekend.The Navy announced Monday that the number of positive results has climbed to 47. Two sailors have been medically evacuated to the US, and another 15 sailors were moved to the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island for further monitoring.So far, 45% of the crew of the destroyer, which is returning to port, has been tested.<div type="image" title="The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), front, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Russell (DDG 59), left, and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52), transit in formation" height="563" width="1000" msid="75415418" hostid="261"></div>There continue to be a significant number of cases aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.There are 955 active coronavirus cases on the USS Theodore Roosevelt — nearly one out of every five sailors assigned to the carrer. That number includes those who tested positive and continue to test positive, those who initially tested negative but have since tested positive, and those who are awaiting final testing before they can be classified as recovered.Fourteen sailors have recovered, with the requirement for recovery being two successive negative tests.At this point, all of the USS Theodore Roosevelt's roughly 4,800 sailors have been tested at least once.The outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt was first announced on March 24, when there were only three cases on board. As the numbers started to spike, the ship was forced into port in Guam, where it has been sidelined for a month and where the vast majority of the sailors assigned to the ship have been taken ashore.The coronavirus cases aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Kidd account for most of the cases in the Navy, which has seen 1,659 active-duty military personnel test positive for the virus.Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-sailors-destroyer-coronavirus-2020-4">Business Insider</a>

Number of coronavirus cases aboard deployed US Navy destroyer more than doubles over the weekend

How the Navy plans to treat sailors and disinfect the ship after a 2nd coronavirus outbreak at sea

<ul class="summary-list"><li>There is a <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> outbreak aboard another US Navy warship at sea, the Pentagon revealed Friday, revealing that there have been multiple cases aboard the <keyword id="576264" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Destroyer">destroyer</keyword> <keyword id="2132528" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="USS-Kidd">USS Kidd</keyword>.</li><li>While the Pentagon did not reveal the total number of cases, CNN, citing Navy officials, reports that at least 18 sailors have tested positive.</li><li>The outbreak marks the second aboard a deployed warship, following the outbreak aboard the <keyword id="42406" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="aircraft-carrier">aircraft carrier</keyword> USS Theodore Roosevelt.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>There is a coronavirus outbreak aboard another US Navy warship at sea, this time aboard the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Kidd, the Department of Defense revealed Friday.Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman told reporters at the Pentagon on Friday that one sailor aboard the warship who displayed coronavirus symptoms was flown off the ship. The sailor was found to be positive for <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword>, the disease caused by the coronavirus."There have been other positive cases," the spokesman said, without revealing the total number of cases. Reuters first <a href="https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/1253693871126700035">reported</a> the outbreak, revealing that there were over a dozen cases. CNN, citing Navy officials, <a href="https://twitter.com/rabrowne75/status/1253704052959035395">reported</a> that there are at least 18 positive cases aboard the destroyer.A medical team has been sent out to the ship to conduct evaluations and contact tracing.The destroyer, which has been conducting a counternarcotics mission in the US Southern Command area of responsibility, will be returning to port, where a portion of the crew will be removed while the ship is disinfected.The outbreak aboard the USS Kidd marks the second coronavirus outbreak aboard a ship at sea.The first deployed warship to see sailors fall ill with the novel coronavirus was the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, which was deployed to the Pacific.The Navy announced the first three cases aboard the carrier on March 24. The number of cases quickly multiplied, and the ship was forced into port in Guam, where it has been out of commission for a month.The service said Thursday that it has finished testing the entire crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, and 840 sailors have tested positive for the virus.The USS Theodore Roosevelt is mostly empty at the moment, as around 88% of the crew of roughly 4,800 sailors has been moved ashore in Guam. One sailor assigned to the carrier, 41-year-old Aviation Ordnanceman Chief Petty Officer Charles Robert Thacker Jr., died of the virus earlier this month.Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-outbreak-aboard-deployed-us-navy-destroyer-2020-4">Business Insider</a>

There is a coronavirus outbreak aboard another US Navy warship at sea — this time a destroyer

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The US Navy flaunted its aircraft carrier strength on social media on Sunday, as the chief of naval operations announced that six of the Navy's 11 carriers are at sea.</li><li>The post comes as the service continues to deal with the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> outbreak aboard the aircraft carrier <keyword id="2479263" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="uss-theodore-roosevelt">USS Theodore Roosevelt</keyword> that has left the carrier sidelined in Guam for more than a month.</li><li>The US military has repeatedly stressed the need to maintain readiness during the pandemic, with the secretary of defense saying just this week that "these are uncertain times ... so we got to remain vigilant out there on the front lines."</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>The US Navy flaunted its aircraft carrier strength on Sunday, revealing that it currently has more than half of the carrier fleet underway.Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday tweeted that six carriers, the Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan, Nimitz, Lincoln, and Ford, are all underway, adding that the Navy is a "#ForcetobeReckonedWith."The Navy also mentioned US carrier strength in its daily COVID-19 email update.The Navy's carrier flex comes as the service continues to grapple with the challenges of a coronavirus outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.The aircraft carrier's Pacific deployment was upended by the virus, which has left the ship sidelined in Guam since late March.The service is no longer providing specific details on the Big Stick's status, but as of the last detailed update on April 30, the ship was dealing with 1,102 active cases among the roughly 4,800 sailors assigned to the carrier.The entire ship was tested for the coronavirus, and more than 4,200 sailors were moved off the ship in response to the outbreak on board. Sailors have started to return to the ship, but it may be a few more weeks before the carrier is ready to get underway.In addition to the carrier, the Navy also had a serious outbreak <a href="https://news.usni.org/2020/05/06/swo-boss-insidious-covid-19-spread-on-uss-kidd-shows-evolution-of-navy-response-to-pandemic">aboard the deployed destroyer USS Kidd</a>, which was forced to return to port.Despite these setbacks, the Navy has repeatedly stressed that it has not been weakened by the coronavirus, reporting in its recent COVID-19 updates that it has more than one-third of its 299 ships currently deployed at sea and that these vessels do not have any active cases.Among the six of the Navy's 11 <keyword id="413144" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Aircraft-carriers">aircraft carriers</keyword> mentioned Sunday, at least two, the Nimitz and the Reagan, had reported coronavirus cases among sailors assigned to them, although they did not result in outbreaks aboard the ships, and one, the Truman, has been unable to return home due to the coronavirus.Throughout the pandemic, the US military has emphasized the need to maintain readiness as countries like China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran continue to cause headaches.Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Monday that while the US is largely focused on the ongoing fight against the coronavirus at home, the US military is "still seeing all the same bad behavior out there that we saw before.""These are uncertain times," Esper said. "You don't know how states or militaries will act. So we got to remain vigilant out there on the front lines."Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned US service members last month that "many of our adversaries, as you know, are trying to exploit this crisis, so it's important that we maintain readiness."The general added that it would be a "terrible and tragic mistake" for US adversaries and rivals to think they can get the better of the US "at a time of crisis.""As the forward deployed force of our country, we have a duty to ensure we are ready to respond. We cannot simply take a knee or keep everyone in port until this enemy is defeated," Adm. Gilday said in a message to the fleet this week."We are America's away team," he continued. "The uncertainty caused by COVID-19 makes our mission of protecting America at sea more important than ever."Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-flaunts-carrier-strength-after-coronavirus-knocked-one-out-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

US Navy flaunts aircraft carrier strength after COVID-19 knocked one out for more than a month

Washington, Apr 24 (AP) Another Navy ship at sea has reported a coronavirus outbreak and is returning to port, the Navy said Friday. A Navy statement said at least 17 members of the crew of a destroyer, the USS Kidd, have tested positive and it expects the number to grow. It said it is evaluating the extent of the outbreak aboard the ship. The Kidd is in the Caribbean, where it has been operating as part of a counter-drug mission. One sailor who displayed symptoms was flown off the Kidd on Thursday to a medical facility at San Antonio, where he tested positive for the virus. "As a result, the Navy has - using lessons learned from other cases - flowed a medical evaluation team onto the Kidd" to conduct more testing, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said. "They are preparing to return to port, where they will undertake efforts to clean the ship" and remove a portion of the crew. The Navy continues to struggle with a coronavirus outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier that is docked in Guam and has more than 800 confirmed virus cases. (AP) IND

Another Navy warship at sea reports a coronavirus outbreak

Washington, Apr 29 (AP) The number of coronavirus cases aboard the USS Kidd rose to 64 as the Navy destroyer pulled into port at San Diego on Tuesday to get medical care for the crew and to disinfect and decontaminate the ship.The Kidd is the second Navy ship to have an outbreak of the disease while at sea, the other being the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier that has been docked at Guam for a month. The Roosevelt has more than 900 sailors with confirmed cases of COVID-19, but the entire crew has now been tested.The Navy has moved swiftly to get the Kidd's crew ashore. That was a point of contention with the Roosevelt, whose skipper, Capt. Brett Crozier, felt compelled to write to several other commanders pleading for more urgent Navy action to protect his crew of nearly 5,000. Crozier was then relieved of command for what the Navy's top civilian official at the time, Thomas Modly, called poor judgment. Modly resigned several days later, and the Navy is now seeking higher-level approval to reverse his move and restore Crozier to command.The Navy said that 63% of the Kidd's crew of more than 300 had been tested as of Tuesday. One sailor was medically evacuated to the United States on April 22 after experiencing shortness of breath. Fifteen were transferred to another ship with a medical facility for closer observation of symptoms.Sailors being removed from the Kidd at San Diego will be isolated with twice-daily medical screenings. Crew members who have tested negative will enter quarantine for a period of observation, with military health professionals monitoring them for symptoms. Also, a small contingent of sailors who tested negative will remain on the ship for essential services and deep cleaning. The cleaning is expected to take two weeks.The destroyer had been off the Pacific coast of Central American doing counter-narcotics operations.With the Roosevelt and Kidd both in port, the Navy said no deployed ships currently have known coronavirus cases aboard. Thirteen ships that previously had one or more active cases while in port have zero cases now, the Navy said.(AP) AMSAMS

Coronavirus cases aboard 2nd Navy ship still rising, now 64

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A top US Navy official said it was no closer to identifying <keyword id="94769" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="drones">drones</keyword> that swarmed US warships, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/drones-swarmed-u-s-warships-are-still-unidentified-navy-chief-n1263115">NBC News reported. </a></li><li>The drones hovered near warships in training exercises off the California coast in 2019.</li><li>Documents suggest the drones are more powerful than commercial models.</li></ul>The US Navy is no closer to identifying mysterious drones that were spotted hovering around US warships off the coast of California, a top Navy commander said. Speaking at an event in Washington, DC, on Monday, Adm. Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations, said that the sightings were still being assessed by naval intelligence, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/drones-swarmed-u-s-warships-are-still-unidentified-navy-chief-n1263115">reported NBC News. </a>"No, we have not," Gilday answered, as quoted by the outlet, when asked whether the Navy had identified the drones spotted in 2019 near US vessels off the Californian Channel Islands. "I am aware of those sightings, and as it's been reported, there have been other sightings by aviators in the air and by other ships not only of the United States, but other nations - and of course other elements within the US joint force," Gilday said."Those findings have been collected and they still are being analyzed," he said.Gilday was referring to a series of puzzling incidents uncovered by documentary filmmaker Dave Beaty, in which the destroyers USS Kidd, USS Rafael Peralta, and USS John Finn were tracked by the drones during exercises in a military zone near the California coast. Further details of the incidents were <a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39913/multiple-destroyers-were-swarmed-by-mysterious-drones-off-california-over-numerous-nights">obtained by the The Drive, a cars-focused website that also covers defense issues</a>. It obtained details in March using FOIA requests. According to deck log documents obtained by the website, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/drone-technology-uses-applications">the drones surpassed</a> the capacity of commercially obtainable drones. As many as six at a time hovered round the ships, often in low-visibility conditions, and had flashing lights. They were able to keep up with the warships at a speed of about 16 knots. The incidents took place near sensitive US military and training facilities, and prompted an investigation by US naval intelligence and the FBI, according to The Drive. Gilray, though, was clear in his remarks Monday that there was no evidence the drones were extraterrestrial in origin, NBC said.

Mysterious drones swarmed US warships, and the Navy has no idea where they came from more than a year later

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="174935" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Greyhound">Greyhound</keyword>" director <keyword id="6318547" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Aaron-Schneider">Aaron Schneider</keyword> told Insider how the movie was made without any water.</li><li>The movie uses a combination of CGI, photogrammetry, and gamer tech to make the ocean battles look real.</li><li>That's impressive given the entire movie is based around a battle at sea.</li><li>Schneider filmed on a partial piece of a destroyer built on a soundstage surrounded by a green screen.</li><li>He also used a program often used in the gaming world called NVIDIA WaveWorks which created an open ocean environment. </li></ul>Gone are the days when movie productions would have to film on a large body of water to tell stories set out in the ocean. But it's still rare not to use any water to make that kind of movie.Turns out that's what the <keyword id="95258" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tom-Hanks">Tom Hanks</keyword> World War II high seas movie "Greyhound" (available now on Apple TV Plus) pulled off thanks to a mix of dazzling CGI and game developer tech.Director Aaron Schneider ("Get Low") admits he's always been taken by the tech side of the business — before directing he was a cinematographer for years. But while teaming with Hanks to direct the star's script about an inexperienced US Navy captain (Hanks) whose destroyer leads a merchant ship convoy against German U-boats during World War II, Schneider got to go full-on geek.<h2>10,000 photos of the USS Kidd were taken to create a 3D model of the destroyer in 'Greyhound'</h2>Though Schneider and Hanks had been talking about making "Greyhound" since late 2017, the urgency by Steven Spielberg to make "The Post" (in which Hanks plays Washington Post editor-in-chief Ben Bradlee) put things on hold.That turned out to be a huge benefit for Schneider. He used that time to heavily research the battleships and submarines that took part in the "Battle of the Atlantic," which is what "Greyhound" is loosely based on.Instead of reading a few books and watching a couple of World War II <keyword id="406" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Movies">movies</keyword>, Schneider built a website of everything he needed to know about US Navy battleships and German submarines.<div type="image" title="Aaron Schneider Robyn Beck Getty" height="1355" width="1806" msid="76946708" hostid="261"></div>"Pictures, YouTube links, Wikipedia pages, high-resolution Navy archive photographs. I collected all these things and built a research website that was indexed and categorized in a way that as the crew came on the movie, they could take a deep dive into whatever they wanted," Schneider told Insider.Then he went a step further. The director and a friend flew to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and took around 10,000 photographs of the retired USS Kidd, which is one of the last existing destroyers still in World War II configuration.Those photos were then used to create a photogrammetry — essentially a 3D model — of the entire destroyer. Schneider used the model to figure out where he would place the camera when shooting the movie while keeping the claustrophobic feel of being on a destroyer.Finally, it was time to shoot the movie in early 2018, but the tech didn't end.<h2>'Every drop of water in the movie is digital'</h2>"Every drop of water in the movie is digital," Schneider said. "Anything you see out the window or over Tom's shoulder. In fact, most of the fire is digital, too."Typically a movie set at sea will at some point have scenes shot in a giant water tank, but that wasn't the case with "Greyhound." The chilly Atlantic Ocean, the thrilling battles between the destroyers and U-boats, and even the ice that builds up outside the ship's pilothouse was all created with CGI.Thanks to the photogrammetry of the USS Kidd, the production knew the layout of every inch of a World War II-era destroyer. That was vital in how it built the pilothouse and balconies that we see Hank's Commander Ernest Krause character navigate through most of the movie, which was all built on a soundstage surrounded by a green screen.Those scenes were then matched by CGI shots of the rest of the massive ship.<div type="image" title="greyhound 2 apple TV plus" height="1056" width="2552" msid="76946715" hostid="261"></div><h2>A program called NVIDIA WaveWorks created the movie's authentic ocean battles</h2>To really get the feel that Krause and his destroyer were at sea, Schneider used NVIDIA WaveWorks, a plug-in program usually used by game developers that provides interactive ocean simulation."It creates an open ocean and floats an object on the ocean based on the physical mass," Schneider said. "So if I type in the model type of a boat, it will float that object the way it would be on the ocean."In other words, the program provided realistic blocking for the movie's boats based on real-life physics. The location of the destroyers, merchant ships, and the U-boats and battle sequences were all done through WaveWorks."The goal was always to use real physics into believing that this was actually photographed in a real-world kind of way," Schneider said. "If you wanted a big close shot where the ship goes by, well, if you were doing that in real life you could be on a little Zodiac, but a Zodiac floats differently on the water than a big camera ship, so you tell the program, 'float me on a Zodiac' and then all of a sudden the sea is affecting your camera ship much differently but still in a physically real way."The result is a thrilling 90-minute movie of non-stop battles on the high sea. But as we've learned here, the real bit of movie magic was that Tom Hanks was dry and warm the whole time while filming his scenes."Greyhound" is currently available on Apple TV Plus.

The director of 'Greyhound' says his WWII movie about an ocean battle was filmed without a single drop of water

US NavyUSS Nimitz (CVN-68), a US Navy aircraft carrier. Photo is from after her 1999-2001 refit.The USS Nimitz, the US Navy's oldest operating aircraft carrier just departed San Diego to head into the Pacific, where the USS Carl Vinson and USS Ronald Reagan carriers are <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-strike-groups-north-korea-2017-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">already keeping watch</a> over a defiant North Korea.The Nimitz will sail with the guided-missile destroyers USS Kidd and USS Shoup from their designated carrier strike group, as well as the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Howard and USS Pinckney, and the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Princeton, <a href="http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=100818" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according to a US Navy statement</a>. By Business Insider's count, that will mean the US has three aircraft carriers, two cruisers, and 12 destroyers simultaneously operating in the Pacific, often with Japanese and South Korean navy ships nearby. While the US Navy has stressed the "routine" nature of these deployments to Business Insider on multiple occasions, there's no denying that this is a huge display of force in the Pacific.Meanwhile, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has defined North Korea as a "<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-mattis-north-korea-a-clear-and-present-danger-to-world-2017-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">clear and present danger</a>" to the world, and the UN has moved to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-un-slaps-targeted-sanctions-on-18-n-korean-officials-firms-2017-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">once again sanction North Korean</a> businesses and individuals in an attempt to cut off the flow of funds into the world's most heavily militarized country. <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/united-states-intercepts-icbm-tensions-rise-north-korea-nuclear-test-military-defense-ballistic-missile-2017-5">Watch how the US would shoot down an incoming ICBM in its tracks</a></h3> Please enable Javascript to watch this video

US sends third aircraft carrier to the Pacific as massive armada looms near North Korea

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image">(AP/Lai Seng Sin)A crew member of a Royal Malaysian Air Force CN-235 aircraft looks out the window during a search and rescue operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane over the Straits of Malacca, Thursday, March 13, 2014.</div></div>KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - An investigation into the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner is focusing more on a suspicion of foul play, as evidence suggests it was diverted hundreds of miles off course, sources familiar with the Malaysian probe said.
In a far more detailed description of military radar plotting than has been publicly revealed, two sources told Reuters an unidentified aircraft that investigators suspect was missing Flight MH370 appeared to be following a commonly used navigational route when it was last spotted early on Saturday, northwest of Malaysia.
That course - headed into the Andaman Sea and towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean - could only have been set deliberately, either by flying the Boeing 777-200ER jet manually or by programming the auto-pilot.
A third investigative source said inquiries were focusing more on the theory that someone who knew how to fly a plane deliberately diverted the flight hundreds of miles off its scheduled course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
"What we can say is we are looking at sabotage, with hijack still on the cards," said the source, a senior Malaysian police official.
One of the most baffling mysteries in the history of modern aviation remains unsolved after nearly a week.
The latest radar evidence is consistent with the expansion of the search for the aircraft to the west of Malaysia, possibly as far as the Indian Ocean.
There has been no trace of the plane nor any sign of wreckage as the navies and military aircraft of more than a dozen countries scour the seas across Southeast Asia.
Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said he could not confirm the last heading of the plane or if investigators were focusing on sabotage.
"A normal investigation becomes narrower with time ... as new information focuses the search, but this is not a normal investigation," he told a news conference. "In this case, the information has forced us to look further and further afield."
Investigators were still looking at "four or five" possibilities, including a diversion that was intentional or under duress, or an explosion, he said. Police would search the pilot's home if necessary and were still investigating all 239 passengers and crew on the plane, he added.
<h3>INDIAN OCEAN "BIGGEST CHALLENGE"</h3>
If the jetliner did stray into the Indian Ocean, a vast expanse with depths of more than 7,000 meters (23,000 feet), the task faced by searchers would become dramatically more difficult. Winds and currents could shift any surface debris tens of nautical miles within hours, dramatically widening the search area with each passing day.
"Ships alone are not going to get you that coverage, helicopters are barely going to make a dent in it and only a few countries fly P-3s (long-range search aircraft)," William Marks, spokesman for the U.S. Seventh Fleet, told Reuters.
"So this massive expanse of water space will be the biggest challenge."
The U.S. Navy was sending an advanced P-8A Poseidon plane to help search the Strait of Malacca, a busy sealane separating the Malay Peninsula from the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It had already deployed a NavyP-3 Orion aircraft to those waters.
U.S. defense officials told Reuters that the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, USS Kidd, was heading to the Strait of Malacca, answering a request from the Malaysian government. The Kidd had been searching the areas south of the Gulf of Thailand, along with the destroyer USS Pinckney.
"It's my understanding that based on some new information that's not necessarily conclusive - but new information - an additional search area may be opened in the Indian Ocean," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters in Washington.
Carney did not specify the nature of the new information.
Satellites picked up faint electronic pulses from the aircraft after it went missing on Saturday, but the signals gave no immediate information about where the jet was heading and little else about its fate, two sources close to the investigation said on Thursday.
U.S. experts are still examining the data to see if any information about its last location could be extracted, a source close to the investigation told Reuters. Malaysia's civil aviation chief confirmed on Friday the government was working with U.S. investigators to establish if there was any satellite information that could help locate the airliner.
LAST RADAR SIGHTING
The last sighting of the aircraft on civilian radar screens came shortly before 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, less than an hour after take-off. It was flying as scheduled across the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand on the eastern side of peninsular Malaysia, heading towards Beijing.
However, Malaysia's air force chief said on Wednesday that an aircraft that could have been the missing plane was plotted on military radar at 2:15 a.m., 200 miles northwest of Penang Island off Malaysia's west coast.
This position marks the limit of Malaysia's military radar in that part of the country, a fourth source familiar with the investigation told Reuters.
Malaysia says it has asked neighboring countries for their radar data, but has not confirmed receiving the information. Indonesian and Thai authorities said on Friday they had not received an official request for such data from Malaysia.
The fact that the plane - if it was MH370 - had lost contact with air traffic control and was invisible to civilian radar suggested someone on board had turned off its communication systems, the first two sources said.
They also gave new details on the direction in which the unidentified aircraft was heading - following aviation corridors identified on maps used by pilots as N571 and P628 - routes taken by commercial planes flying from Southeast Asia to the Middle East or Europe.
Hishammuddin said it remained unclear if that aircraft was MH370. "We need to get verification and we are working very closely with the experts," he said.
MILITARY DEPLOYMENT GROWS
Ships and aircraft are now combing a vast area that had already been widened to cover both sides of the Malay Peninsula and the Andaman Sea.
An already difficult search task has been complicated in some areas by a choking haze caused by burning forest and farmland that has enveloped much of Malaysia and spilled into the Strait of Malacca. The haze, exacerbated by a prolonged dry spell, has reached hazardous levels in several spots.
"The haze will affect the search and rescue operations for sure. The visibility at the ground level has dropped to less than 3 km (1.9 miles)," Amirzudi Hashim, a senior meteorologist at the National Weather Center, told Reuters.
India had deployed ships, planes and helicopters from the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands, at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, an Indian military spokesman, Harmeet Singh, said on Friday.
Two Dornier aircraft were searching the land mass of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, a total area of 720 km by 52 km, Singh said.
China, which had more than 150 citizens on board the missing plane, has deployed four warships, four coastguard vessels, eight aircraft and trained 10 satellites on a wide search area. Chinese media have described the ship deployment as the largest Chinese rescue fleet ever assembled.
The Boeing 777 has one of the best safety records of any commercial aircraft in service. Its only previous fatal crash came on July 6 last year when Asiana Airlines Flight 214 struck a seawall with its undercarriage on landing in San Francisco. Three people died.
(Additional reporting by Anshuman Daga, Yantoultra Ngui and Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah in Kuala Lumpur, Tim Hepher in Paris, Mark Hosenball, Andrea Shalal, Will Dunham, Phil Stewart and Roberta Rampton in Washington; Ben Blanchard in Beijing; Amy Sawitta Lefevre in Bangkok; Writing by Stuart Grudgings and Alex Richardson; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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