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Blitzo

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More interesting is when they returned to port, and preferably how much of the last year they've actually spent in port.
 

Jeff Head

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Maybe somebody can do a count and tell us the size of the crew.

I will blowup and enhance the photo to see...but counting shadows in one line from the pic as shown gives approximately 65 to the line...and there appear to be 22 lines.

So that would be1430 personnel right there...which is probably not the entire crew.

But...that is just an estimate.
 

vesicles

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Celebrating Chinese New Year, seems to be at port, I wonder where this is:

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Ok, I now know where his photo came from. It's actually a scene from the CCTV Chinese New Year Eve Gala, an annual entertainment extravaganza organized by the CCTV. It's usually over 5 hours long and is aired on the evening of the Chinese New Year Eve. This tradition started in the early 1980's and has become a fixture and a tradition. On the New Year Eve, you eat a big meal with family and watch the gala on TV.

And the CV-16 scene shown above is from the gala, where the sailors said "happy New Year". So I don't think this can be evidence of where the carrier is now since the scene should have been shot long before the gala and simply edited into the show.
 

delft

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Ok, I now know where his photo came from. It's actually a scene from the CCTV Chinese New Year Eve Gala, an annual entertainment extravaganza organized by the CCTV. It's usually over 5 hours long and is aired on the evening of the Chinese New Year Eve. This tradition started in the early 1980's and has become a fixture and a tradition. On the New Year Eve, you eat a big meal with family and watch the gala on TV.

And the CV-16 scene shown above is from the gala, where the sailors said "happy New Year". So I don't think this can be evidence of where the carrier is now since the scene should have been shot long before the gala and simply edited into the show.
I would imagine this was created a few days ago and I can't imagine her going to sea again to spend the New Years festivities working. Quite likely she has been at sea ever since leaving Dalian months ago until a few days ago.
Looking at the shadows I think it cannot be at her Northern base so it must be in the South where indeed we would expect her to have been through the winter.
 

antiterror13

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I will blowup and enhance the photo to see...but counting shadows in one line from the pic as shown gives approximately 65 to the line...and there appear to be 22 lines.

So that would be1430 personnel right there...which is probably not the entire crew.

But...that is just an estimate.

I am always in the impression that the size of the crew is about 2,000, which is quite small due to automation
 

A.Man

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I will blowup and enhance the photo to see...but counting shadows in one line from the pic as shown gives approximately 65 to the line...and there appear to be 22 lines.

So that would be1430 personnel right there...which is probably not the entire crew.

But...that is just an estimate.
Oh, my goodness, you really spent time and counted the number. Don't work too hard, the Old Man, but thanks!
 
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