Exploring a Crashed WWII Bomber with My R/C Submarine

[deliziosetiefkuhlkost]

I would totally watch hours of you just finding treasures on the lake floor and then pulling them up with the bag and the compressor. Great content

[allnightXV]

Even the RC Submarine has a better Controller than the Titanic submarine

[bigdatapimp]

Crazy how the stainless steel exhaust is still pristine looking on that old radial...

[JPSRose]

It's almost like we only need a remote control submarine to investigate wrecks!

[cjuice]

That plane has a ball turret on the nose, tall single vertical stabilizer, and blister turrets on the side. I'm pretty sure that's a Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer. The Privateer was commonly used as a patrol bomber by the Navy and Coast Guard during WW2 and the Korean War.

[joehopfield]

I took intensive scientific diving classes to work underwater, use lift bags, etc. The instructors always emphasized that scuba is often the wrong tool for the job, even if fun. So cool to see you experiment and learn without risking life or limb.

[nokbeen]

Excellent content as always.

I work as an industrial subsea ROV Pilot, and filling bags with nitrogen and achieving equilibrium is the way we move things around subsea. We lift items weighing several tons using lift bladders, and a load monitor under the blader tells us how much we’re lifting, so that the ROV (with a lift capacity of 500kg) doesnt overload it’s thrusters. Usually we make it so it lifts around 100kg, giving us 400kg buffer.

[daylen]

Now I want someone to make a submarine like this that can do realtime 3D mapping so you can get a little 3D map of where you're at like in the movies. Would help massively with navigating I Imagine, especially if they do 360 cameras that can track where the cable is as well.

[patrick-is-so-cool]

What a time to get recommended a submarine related video 👀👀👀

[PRRFanDoesTrainz]

I love these diving videos lmao. We really need more of these because I love seeing you guys salvage this neat stuff.

[azuresstuff]

There is a similar crash site near where I live: A P-47 Thunderbolt that is only about 5-10 ft underwater. I've gone freediving in the area before and still am always amazed by how in tact it is after almost 80 years of sitting in salt water, even surviving a hurricane that pushed the wreckage hundreds of yards away from the original crash site

[gatoratcomcast]

Reminds me of my SCUBA days. RC is safer, deeper and more comfortable. Catalina Island had lots of fish. It was another world. Congratulations on flying underwater.

[underseaowl]

That "thing" on the side of the fuselage at 11:06 looks to be the port waist gunner position. They were mounted way out on the side in order to be able to shoot downwards, as it lacked a ventral turret like the B-17 or B-24.

[AlRoderick]

The PB4Y privateer is basically the Navy variant of the B-24 Liberator, so unlike the most famous PBY the Catalina, this is a land-based airplane. Well it was until they crashed it. The PBY designation means that it's a patrol bomber produced by consolidated, it doesn't follow quite the same letter number sequence that they would standardize in the Cold War.

[Nate.]

When you were exploring the plane I could not shake the feeling that something was going to pop out. It just triggered something inside of me and my fight or flight response was just always on. GREAT VIDEO!

[angerthosenear_yt]

The rideshare recovery looked like a great deal of fun. Crazy to think of how many are actually underwater though.

[jacobkrause]

This was the best video of the bomber I’ve ever seen. I’ve got about 10 hours diving on this wreck. This was so cool to see someone else enjoying the wreck as much as I have!

[harrodharrod]

"It's too deep for me." Mad props for realizing your limits as a scuba diver, even though the circumstances (line directly to the wreck and what seems to be pretty calm, non-busy water) woud make it very tempting to just go there and see it for yoursef.

[bargle]

This is like those guys that find stuff in the water with magnets, but better.

[Christian-mqhx]

That controller is better then the one on the sea gate sub💀