Ghost Ship: The Octavius

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[Ms.Pronounced_Name]

I love Simon being confused about the coco-pop and not realizing that he's shining a spotlight on just how poorly he is feeding his captives

[colinr]

As a sailor in the Australian Navy, the captain will sometimes stop in the middle of the ocean and Le the crew go for a swim. Obviously, when it’s very calm. Went for a swim once and it struck me, as I’m swimming about, that I am suspended over two miles of water and you have no idea of what is below you. I suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of dread. I swam as quickly as possible back to the ship and never swam in the ocean again. Yes, the beach is fine, but the ocean depths are just scary.

[TheKalaxis]

Couple of points.

1. It's pronounced "Crack-N" and is from Nordic myths.
2. Cthulhu is from Lovecraft and is an elder God living in the sunken city of Ry'leh.
3. The fear of the sea and deep water is called Thalassophobia and is very common.

[wendyrichards]

One of the things that makes this story unlikely is the supposed survival of a wooden ship hull that has been periodically trapped in sea ice for thirteen years. It's well known that Shackleton's ship, Endurance, was so badly damaged by being trapped in ice that it sank. Endurance (Circ 1912) was especially constructed with a heavily reinforced hull for polar conditions, it seems wildly unlikely that an ordinary 18thC trading ship could have survived similar conditions on and off for over a decade.The massive pressures of sea ice forming around such a ship, even once, would probably have crushed the hull as if it were made of matchsticks. Still, it's an exciting story and probably afforded much excited discussion everytime it got republished. It's hard to begrudge the people of the 18th and 19th centuries a few shivery thrills though, when life is all smokey fireplaces, lack of indoor plumbing but plenty of starched collars and cholera, a bit of entertainment is necessary.

[ruthstevens]

Lol, you said you are afraid of the sea; in the next breath is Surfshark. Just gold!

[maryconnealy]

My husband bought a smart watch and one of it's selling points was good up to 30 feet under water. My husband said, "If I'm thirty feet under water, my watch working isn't my biggest problem.

[matthieusaade]

Fact boy got Kraken and Chtulu confused 😂

[eetadakimasu]

I love that Simon curses out Alexa but thanks GPT😂

[MikeJones-yoen]

Still waiting for that “Encoding the Known” channel from Simon

[vonneely]

The ocean is the one environment where something the size of a blimp can sneak up on you.

[gabbyn]

The Kraken (not krayken) is much older than Lovecraft; it was already feared in the age of Discovery, being an equivalent to here be dragons. Science dismissed these tales as seafaring yarn, until Architeuthis was discovered. Architeuthis is rather a big squid, not a kraken, but with its remains being found only rarely on a shoreline, when they are already too decayed to identify the species, while the tentacles and suckers on them are still visible, it is no wonder that people believed that it was a kraken.

[deborahbranham-taylor]

Who needs the story of a ghost ship, when you have the almost unbelievable tale of the Endeavor, and Ernest Shackleton and his crew. I highly recommend looking up the movie Endeavor, and also an amazing film biography on the Shackleton expedition to the North Pole.

[ignitionfrn]

2:05 - Mid roll ads
3:25 - Back to the video
4:35 - Chapter 1 - Dead in the water
9:55 - Chapter 2 - Shiver me timbers
15:55 - Chapter 3 - What are the odds
19:30 - Chapter 4 - Gloriana
22:10 - Chapter 5 - Dead reckoning
25:30 - Chapter 6 - Thar she blows

[gavynmarrey]

My respect for Simon & his tangents has gone up a notch because of his Star Trek watching.

[seanb]

Swimming in the Deep Open Ocean was one of the strangest feelings I have ever experienced.
You can actually feel the vast depth of water beneath you. Still a chilling memory decades later.

[joelfisher]

The movie with John Cusack is called 2012. The day after tomorrow is Jake Gyllenhal and Dennis Quaid

[harrisonbutchart]

Simon: *does two tangents, apologizes and promises we’ll get into the actual content*

Also Simon: *puts an ad right after the second tangent*

[Furzkampfbomber]

We have quite a history of mining where I live. It's actually where the 'Schwibbogen', the german candle arch, comes from, which symbolises the entrance of a mine. Thus, we have many, many old decommissioned mines in the area, some of them hundrets of years old. You can visit a lot of them and many of them have old shafts which are completely filled up by groundwater by now. You can usually see quite far into the deep, since the water is crystal clear, but after a couple of meters, there is always still just complete, pitch-black darkness, which in some cases reaches down hundreds of meters.

This gives me always the creeps, since my imagination starts to run wild here. We have actually quite a large and active cave diver scene here, with people diving into those old shafts regularly, a thought which completely freaks me out.

[ScarabD]

4:04 I think the editors in the basement would like more food, Simon.

[sXsKidd]

The pronunciation of Kraken hurt my soul