The New Carissa Disaster 1999 | A Plainly Difficult Documentary

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MV New Carissa was a freighter that ran aground on a beach near Coos Bay, Oregon, United States during a storm in February 1999.

The New Carissa started leaking its fuel into the local environment creating a toxic disaster.

After being set on fire with napalm to burn off its fuel the ship broke in two.

The bow was towed out to see where it was hit by multiple naval artillery pieces and torpedos.

The Stern would stay on the beach for nearly 10 years before being dismantled.

00:00 Intro
01:06 Background
03:37 The Disaster
09:10 The Fire
11:50 The Aftermath
15:55 My Ratings

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I hope you enjoyed the video! Have any naval disaster in mind for the future? Let me know below!

[tobbsdasock]

To be honest after beaching, settling, being blown up, burned, broken in half, dragged out to sea, blown up again and then shot up by two Navy vessels the thing still wouldn’t sink I’ve got to admire the Japanese workmanship that built the thing.

[AndyFletcherX]

Must have been the first time the US Navy torpedoed a Japanese ship for many years

[scottbruner]

I used to be stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. A good friend of mine was part of the base EOD team, and he told me about this incident, as he was part of the team that tried to blow up the ship. They had to be very careful, the right amount of explosives to do the job, not too much causing the ship to release it's fuel to the environment, instead of just burning.
What a shit-show it was, he said.

[bobdavidson]

I saw the removal back then. I remember being struck by just how big the barges and the wreckage were. I took a lot of photos, the hugeness was amazing.

[joez.]

"Poor watch keeping" is an understatement., Even a cheap marine GPS from 1999 came with an "anchor drag alert"" feature.

[cereal]

It's refreshing to see a story without human casualties for once.

[OAleathaO]

2:47 - "I told you it's a confusing web...or maybe it's just me." To anyone outside the shipping industry it can certainly seem like it. And, unsurprisingly, it is meant to be. That way when issues arise regarding a particular ship, you have to first spend months or years trying to track down who actually owns the ship before you can even begin the process of suing them.

[kevinwebster]

You drop anchor and don’t set an anchor watch to make sure you aren’t dragging then it’s the crews fault. Plain and simple. The country that the ship is registered in should pay compensation. Also the international community needs to make flag of convenience illegal. A ship should be registered in the country that the company who owns it is home based.

[samuelb]

As a side note oregon has some of the most dangerous harbor entrances anywhere. And some of the most unpredictable and intense weather 50' waves and 100+mph winds are not unheard of.

[Gkitchens]

As always I think your ratings are spot on. I've only disagreed with one of your legacy scale ratings once. Never disagreed with your disaster scale. I think most people outside of the PNW have never heard of this disaster.

[windinthefirtrees]

As a fourth generation of this area you did a great job!! So many people came from around the world to see this! We rolled our eyes at the foolish people!!

[LilAnnThrax]

I love never sleeping on Friday nights so I'm always up for your new uploads

[JoshuaR.Collins]

I'd love to see you do a video on the Damascus Missile Explosion from 1980.
the tldr of it is that during routine maintenance work an accidentally dropped socket wrench punctured the hydrazine (a very nasty and corrosive fuel) tank witch (over the next 12 or so hours) ultimately lead to the complete destruction of a gigantic Titan II missile carrying a nuclear warhead. The 740-ton silo door, witch was closed at the time, was sent flying as was the nine-megaton W53 warhead on board. The warhead landed about 100 feet (30 m) from the launch complex's entry gate, and thankfully did not explode. 1 person was killed and 21 other people were injured.

[jacekatalakis]

Not sure I like the hissing and dead air at the start before the music kicks in, but as good a vid as ever.

Man, 1999 was a wild year for disasters. This, the Bellingham pipeline blast, everything else...wild, wild year for disasters both man made and natural

[beefgoat]

"New Carissa, what is your status?"
"Balls"
"This is gonna be a disaster"

[jeremyr]

I was there. My friends and I used to sit on the bluff above the site and watch. For awhile that was a pretty common pastime in the Coos Bay area

[stazeII]

Good job on this one. As an Oregon native, can also say perfect pronunciation of Oregon, Coos Bay, etc. :) remember all this happening, and saw the ship remains and when it was removed.

[rynngrey]

While in Port Angeles, WA, my uncle was told by crewmen from the Deadliest Catch series in Alaska that he was insane for regularly sailing out of New Port, OR. Here if the weather is even mildly bad, no one crosses the bar; We've known people personally who've died doing so in Bandon and Gold Beach. I can't believe the crew put down one anchor for a 640 ft vessel - there was readily available maps and, charting equipment, which plot the depths of the Oregon coastline. This is the captain's fault because they're in charge of checking a ship's course and schedule.

[thejudgmentalcat]

Got up to snow, wind (cat refused to go outside and then complained to me), then a PD video. It's a good day, no matter what the cat says 👍