Kewl Skimmer Pics

I know that most of us prefer to see pictures of surface ships with the periscope reticles superimposed over them, but these two recent pictures of skimmers on the Navy Photo page caught my attention even without the "bullseye". First, we have a picture of USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) operating in the North Atlantic fog:

Next, we get a bow view of the new High Speed Vessel Swift (HSV 2) moored in Souda Bay, Crete:

Pretty neat. As mentioned earlier, though, I still prefer to look at skimmers in positions something like this:

And we all hope that our skimmer and airdale "friends" don't get lots of pictures of us like this:

Going deep...