Don't know about the carriers, but we used to fish the horseshoe off Long Beach, and it was just awesome to watch the Tico class cruisers creep past the breakwall and goose it. The turbines would wrap up and the stern would squat down, and they would just take off, right there.
I'd swear they would do it just to show off.
The smoothest application of power I've ever seen.
I bet it was impressive. Here's the maneuver the gent I wrote about was talking about in his submariner days; 'emergency blow' as he called it. The USS Greeneville.
Edit: oops.
Just might want to make sure you don't do it when there's a vessel above you when you breach...
