A) Ships always have reserve personnel on board to cover for any sudden shortage - and there are always three shifts so that things can run 24/7.
B) Aircraft carriers are not merely seaborne platforms for landing planes - they are floating cities. Think about it - a ship at sea needs to be completely self-sufficient. There are crews onboard to desalinate the water coming onto the ship and crews to clean the water leaving the ship. There are crews to run the generators to power the ship and crews to run the reactors to power the engines and crews to run the steam engines that power the catapults. There are galley crews to make the food and galley crews to clean the dishes and galley crews that ration out the food that's onboard. There are tailors to fix uniforms and exchanges that sell sundry goods that the people onboard might need. And that's even before we start talking about the people who run the bridge and the people in the engine rooms and the pilots and the flight crews and the airplane mechanics and the rescue chopper crews...
As you can see, the list goes on and on. The real marvel is that they manage to make the ships run with ONLY 5000 people onboard.
B) Aircraft carriers are not merely seaborne platforms for landing planes - they are floating cities. Think about it - a ship at sea needs to be completely self-sufficient. There are crews onboard to desalinate the water coming onto the ship and crews to clean the water leaving the ship. There are crews to run the generators to power the ship and crews to run the reactors to power the engines and crews to run the steam engines that power the catapults. There are galley crews to make the food and galley crews to clean the dishes and galley crews that ration out the food that's onboard. There are tailors to fix uniforms and exchanges that sell sundry goods that the people onboard might need. And that's even before we start talking about the people who run the bridge and the people in the engine rooms and the pilots and the flight crews and the airplane mechanics and the rescue chopper crews...
As you can see, the list goes on and on. The real marvel is that they manage to make the ships run with ONLY 5000 people onboard.
