5 Sinking Ships Caught On Camera

5 Sinking Ships Caught On Camera

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[Dyzziee]

Ships don't sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don't let what's happening around you get inside you and weigh you down

edit: please stop replying to me is just a quote i found on the internet and put it here you dont need to keep saying ok goddamn

[cliffnelson]

There is something very
Hauntingly final about watching a ship sink.

[TheNoobYouHATE]

Just to clarify in case anyone's wondering.
Ships designated for sinking are stripped of anything valuable or harmful to the environment.

[SpearFisher]

This is the most not click bait I've ever seen. The initial image literally launched the whole video and I'm very impressed.

[cowgirlmollyrae]

I can’t even imagine being on a boat or ship that is sinking in the middle of nowhere in the ocean. Titanic is forever embedded in my brain to remember to appreciate dry land.

[jujuUK]

Imagine. you're a crab. just scuttling around, chilling, then that dirty rusty thing lands on top of

[TMJ]

Seeing ships sinking, or large objects under the water gives me anxiety.

[sierralvx]

Another incredible one that deserves a mention is the Oceanos. In 1991 off the coast of South Africa, the ship with 500 people on board suffered a critical valve failure in the rocky seas and as it started taking on water, the captain and the crew abandoned the ship without telling the staff and passengers. The entertainment crew had to step up and call the south african coast guard to come rescue them as she was listing. They were able to get some off in the lifeboats that the crew left and then the rest had to be airlifted off by helicopter. With the 20 hours the ship took to sink. they rescued EVERYONE and as the ship finally submerged an ABC news helicopter was able to capture it's last moments.

[sailingspark]

the MV Twin Capes was sunk due to being unsafe. Not because of her age, but because of poor planning of her modifications. if you look at the side on shot of her at 1:20, the cage like structure and the bridge are all add-ons. They wanted to make her more luxurious and offer fine dining while making the 17 mile crossing. All well and good, but they never upgraded her engines, rudders, or thrusters, making her "sail" in higher winds. She actually collided with the jetties several times on approach to Cape May and because she was so uncontrollable in anything above a mild breeze, she spent more time at the dock than in use. The decision to strip and sink her was one of economics as it was cheaper than undoing all that work.

[DamonHowe]

#2:

The script: “The decision was made to sink the ship.”
The translation: “The Coast Guard REALLY wanted to shoot at something for once.”

[jeremy]

There is also the story about the Harley Davidson that was inside a shipping crate in Japan on the day of the Tsunami, and it sailed all the way to Washington State, where it was found, cleaned up, and repatriated after a year at sea. Because of the license plate on the back of the bike, they were able to find the owner of said bike.

[cassandrajenkins]

I always feel sad when I see ships sink. It’s like a funeral.😢

[amenhotepavoskin]

1:36 That "Welcome aboard!" on a sinking ship really woke me up.

[LindaTCornwall]

Anyone else thinking, wish the had an underwater view too with that first one?

[khwajamdasim]

I feel grief seeing such big precious objects buring intentionally in the water.

[bamagrad]

In the case of the intentional sinkings, it's a shame no one thought to deploy an underwater camera or to hop into the water with a go-pro to get footage of the ship plummeting to the bottom

[jmreeves]

This video is a good metaphor for life. The ship they wanted to sink took forever, but the shops that people didn't want to sink went down fast.

[KiwiStag]

The Rainbow Warrior was docked in Auckland, NZ when it was bombed. The two agents arrested - acting on behalf of the French government of the time - were a man and a woman (Alain Mafart and Dominique Priaulx I think their names were). As agreed with France, they were to serve out their time in an offshore gulag, but the French government actually sprung them from that and it was not until several weeks later that NZ found out about it and mounted a the French claimed not to know anything about where the agents were, nor would they mount an investigation into it and go looking for them. NZ had no choice (diplomatically) but to forget the matter. They served two years of a 25 year sentence. Was justice served? I think not.

[wheelbarrow]

With regard the the Rainbow Warrior sinking, it was not two men who were arrested. It was a man (Alain Mafart) and a woman (Dominique Prieur), both French secret service agents who posed as newlyweds to get close enough to the ship to gather intelligence. They were responsible for sourcing and delivering the limpet mines that were attached to the hull of the ship by French divers that caused the initial sinking of the ship in Auckland.

[AngelDRose]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the Oceanos. A somewhat modern (1990’s) cruise ship that sank off the coast of Africa. It’s amazing that everyone survived.