Lets Explore U-475 Black Widow - Russian Submarine
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ม.ค. 2022
- Today we re explore the abandoned time capsule Soviet Submarine located on the river medway in kent.
Used as a means to train submariners during the Cold War, the Soviet B49, remained in operation for 27 years after it was commissioned in 1967.
After its decommissioning in 1994, the submarine was used as a public museum ship in Folkestone.
The submarine now sits abandoned and forgotten on the Medway River in Kent, waiting for restoration that may never come.
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From a cold war U.S. Submariner, thanks for the tour!! and not only we we lose the USS THRESHER we also lost the USS SCORPION in 1968.
I think the Soviets sunk the Scorpion (644B, 729 P/B, 731 B)
keep in mind the glow in the dark is full of radium
Maybe, maybe not. It might just be an ordinary phosphor though the colour is right for radium.
No it's not, if it only glows after being illuminated. Phosphorescence, not radioluminescence.
Great tritium illuminated dials.
Wow I loved that. Could never go inside myself. How you squeezed in some of those places is beyond me. Thanks for the share. Please stay safe and take care
Hold your Gieger counter up to those illuminated dials and see it go off the scale!!!!!! Youd be amazed at the level those will ping too on your reader.
That is one of the coolest explores I have seen, rooms and rooms of original equipment, normally finding just a dial or light is amazing enough, but to have so much in such a small space is mind blowing.
TheUSS THRESHER SSN593 has special meaning to all of us that worked at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where she was launched. Forever on patrol.
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Ahh yes, RIP uss thresher, I just watched on another channel about her and those brave men who sent out 37 pings, did they ever recover her or is she to far down? I can imagine the upset if the ship I worked on had gone down, my deepest sympathy x
great...now i have to rewatch "hunt for the red october"
Wow wow absolutely awesome look inside this sub Brilliant video
VERY VERY COOL VIDEO !!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent Ian Thank you
Great stuff guys love it
I would love to go in there and stay all day..and night..what a thrill that would be!!... Thanks for the video!!
Awesome
IKS Exploration! Chegando para prestigiar seu trabalho... Exploração show de bola este submarino é enorme e quanta coisa cabe ai dentro além dos militares... Excelente vídeo sucesso sempre... Tmj... Abração do AVENTUREIRO PAULEK!
Wow...Looks really 60's Tech..Great Video..
ROCKMAN😎!
That was amazing. I was glued to my phone for the whole time. Thank you for sharing this.
Thanks for your support folk :)
When all those dials glowed with lights off. That is radiation like the old watches they use to use some kind of radioactive element.
Man alive there is so many dials and switches and hand wheels to turn. Who ever the crew was really had to learn that sub inside out...
Makes a prison look like a hotel!
Yes remember seeing this in Strood, Canal Road near Rochester Bridge.
Also, just have a thought for the woman who made those dial's, many came down with illnesses due to the chemicals used in the manufacturing of them.
Crazy. If that were here in the states everything not screwed down would be stolen, the rest vandalized
A nice visit, still saw dollar bills hanging on the wall.
It's always tight on a submarine.
A recording of Sean Connery from the movie, The Hunt For Red October, should be played in the submarine!
50 people under water for ten days. i bet it smelled really nice in there.
esp, after what happens @ just after 47:15 !! LOL
Thank you for the video 📹 upload. I wonder if that was Debbie explaining the history 🤔 it would be nice to see her again in your videos 📹
Like the Harley poster
Definitely really cool visit for sure .
I wish I was there with you guys checking this sub out.
This was a great day, so hot in there must have been terrible to serve in one of these...
Was a classic would love to do another trip again
@@IKS-Exploration Would be will to pay to do an overnighter and get it on film...
I rode US boomers in the 1970s. This is a strange boat. The US boats of the 1960s did not have wood compartment bulkheads.
The place with the table looks like an officer's Mess.
There are things worst than being stuck on the bottom. It's going down and not finding the bottom.
Dont touch any thing,respect
Where in gods name do you find these timepieces 😍😍😍
This sub is moored in the Medway off chatham Reach- its easy to get to by a small boat.I didnt realise it was abandoned as it was starting to list heavily last time i was in Strood Railways staion looking out at it.
There were 2 US Subs lost: USS Scorpion and USS Thresher.
Once someone knew what all those nobs and dials were for !
Very cool
i been in this when it was in folkstone years ago
Wow the flag is still there I thought it would have been stolen by then
That room at 8:00 with the “geiger counter” in it is actually the medical bay.. that looks like an early xray machine
This thing is huge compared to WWI or even WWII fleet subs....I can just see tourists on Maui, who've signed up for a trip on Atlantis submarines, motoring out to the platform, expecting a cute, non threatening commercial submarine, when this monster slowly rises from the depths... The wife turns to hubby : " Harold, did you read the fine print on the release forms you signed " ?
I gather this is a diesel / electric sub. Still have the engines / motors aboard ?
It needs to have K-19 painted on the conning tower for the tourists to see.
@@dellawrence4323---"the sterilizer"
@@rearspeaker6364 K-19 was never called a “Widowmaker” in USSR. She had a nickname “Hiroshima”
@@volodymyrbuchak1852 ok, I'll correct that.
ALAAARM!!
That boat isn't ventilated. I'm glad no one was hurt breathing in stale gases in those tanks and bilge compartments.
Thanks a lot guys that was a real treat. Where is the sub located please?
Medway Kent
I doubt it abandoned as it appears level. Last time I saw it. It was leaning right over you couldn't have walked on it. The owners had given up trying to repair it. The outside looks far better than it did. Has a film unit used it?
Don’t know what it’s state it today this was filmed in 2017
Sad the sub sits like that.
THE BLUE BELL N I THINK THE SPEAKER LOOKING THING IS THE CLAXON .
You can tour a Foxtrot submarine in San Diego at the Maritime Museum. We did about 10 years ago & bought a ticket to take a the tour.
Yeah foxtrot b59 next to the queen marry ? Or is that a different sub ?
@@IKS-Exploration No it's the B-39 Foxtrot submarine & no there is no Queen Mary in San Diego.
@@Medmann48 yes your right sorry
now being planned to be scrapped.
I went on this Sub when it was docked at Folkstone , in 2001 I think
I remember it being there never went on it sadly
also at folkstone great exsperiance
They had height and weight requirements , the same for tank crews , and probably others
That many men in a little tube no thank you!!
So is she still out in the Medway? Last I read about the sub, they were doing some cleanup and repairs to correct all the saltwater corrosion.
She’s still there to be honest looking the same as she did in 2017 I believe so sad :(
@@IKS-Exploration That is very sad. These gray ladies need preserved and opened for the public to see and learn. Problem is that it is so costly to keep them preserved. I hope the owners can find a way and an organization or city to bring her into their patronage.
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How much would it cost to purchase her and convert her into a semi submersible Condominium or even a submersible AIRBNB?
@@bohemoth1 deep pockets......................
We’ve definitely had a helping hand with technology from off world sources…..we leaped from this to the microchip and digital tech in no time at all…….
Awesome x
I really wish the owners would translate and add signage to know what all the cupboards/ compartments or write them on paper for the visitors..
Its the folks from folkestone
dials had radium. any light excites the radium just like old watch faces. no power required.
Need to take my Geiger counter down there next time
Yup. Madam Curie would be proud.
@@angeloavanti2538 Looked like simple phosphorescence to me. Radium paint was self-luminous (that was the point). The phosphor in radium paint also degraded over time.
This looks familiar did you show this one sometime back?
Indeed I did in a series of videos
I thought it looked familiar how come you rerunning it?
8:22 Every Russian vehicle is required to have this, active or not
They scrapped a Russian sub that sunk in providence. Someone left hatch open in a storm and boat flooded and sunk. At least that’s what the story is. Juliet 484
What kind of Diesel engines? …would of liked to see the compressor room-s
look like russian switcher locomotive engines.
They don't make them like that no more 😂
how did you come by this Sub??
Great tour ! Next time use Google Lens to help ID some of the plaques and equipment. Noticed the 2 US $50 bills on the wall at around 25 minutes. Also western cigarettes. Curious
Isn't this a submarine they used in the movie k-19?
No don’t think so folks
As fascinating as that would be I won't be anywhere near of it without a full radiation suit and Geiger counters, the Russians tend to be not that careful with nuclear materials
Its not actually abandoned as far as I know it was going to be made into a museum but the cost would of been to much to do
Would be nice to see it turned into a museum
Look at all the bleach marks in the living quarters. Must be leaking enough to have mold all over the wooden panels and doors.
Damn! that torpedo is long, also is it still active torpedo?
Pretty crude boats
If I were drafted - I`d rather be a kamikaze than being a sailor on one of these.
Oeramuiseguro. Oseconplicaron
Poignant to see the pictures of the cars that they aspired to and the couple of dollars pinned to the wall. I am surprised that the political officer allowed that! 😂 Really needs a dehumidifier and soon to preserve this precious artefact.
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give me a ping Vasili.
one ping only.
They have fired on us Captain!
@@Arachnoid_of_the_underverse that's a russian torpedo, pitch is too high.
russian tactics ryan.........
i am stopping while i am ahead..................
@@rearspeaker6364 We have you in our sights comrade .......
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Russion Submarine. 😂
Russian my bad lol 😂