I'm a Maritime historian specializing in the 20th century to present day... I'm old now, disabled and in a wheelchair, but I've read almost everything there is to read about WW 2 naval battles, as well as WW 2 land and air battles... My father was at Omaha Beach during Operation Overlord (D-Day) and when I was old enough, he told me many horrifying stories about that battle... Anyway, in the past three decades, social media via TH-cam has made thousands of videos about historic topics that help people learn without having to read books... Most are very good at educating people, some are not. This video has it's share of little mistakes, but overall it's very good and people who know nothing about the sinking and discovery of the Musashi, will learn most of the important facts in about 25 minutes! 👏
Another brilliant and interesting story. This is becoming one of my weekly "sea fix" go to programs in my retirement. Years ago, I was Navigator aboard the RV Melville AGOR 14. We did an expedition to test a new navy deep water side scan sonar towed system. We searched for the Japanese carriers sunk in the Battle of Midway. Very deep water - much deeper than what the Titanic rests in. Later, another ship went back with a camera ROV to video our findings. The Melville ended her long oceanographic career as the oldest ship in the research fleet. She is now in the Philippines Navy. The autonomous underwater vehicles are changing science and naval warfare. The Manta for example. I would not want to be a sea warrior in future wars. Now a drone waiting on the seafloor can sink a warship.
well once at billionare level yoru money makes its own money you just do what ever the fk you want for the rest of ya life just dont leave witnesses if its illegal or be the Saudis and own ya own COuntry and have a trillion dollar trust fund and play the Religious influence mode of Civ Earth 2024.
Judging by how much Musashi wreck is scattered, it’s kinda terrifying how devastated the explosion that destroyed her would have be had it goes up on the surface. I mean, 2/3 of her hull from the base of second turret all the way to the tip of her stern has been basically ripped to pieces. Even Yamato still has most of her hull (aside from a part where second turret was) but Musashi middle and stern were basically disintegrated.
Well it tumbled down a 4000 ft tall volcano at 20-25 knots….. id imagine that torn it up pretty good after it had a bunch of holes blown in it🤷🏻♂️ “paper tiger” the biggest underestimation in history 🤣
Great video. I am absolutely obsessed with shipwreck stories of all types. I grew up on Lake Michigan and spent many, many hours on those waters and I think most people are unaware of how terrifying the Great Lakes can be. This is one of my top two or three channels that covers these stories. Keep up the great work!
Hate that Paul Allens' sister stopped the hunt for these ships after he died. I remember a few years back hearing every few months about different ships they had discovered.
Mushashi is probably too deep to plunder. However, by 2014, HMS Electra and HMS Exeter had been totally removed by illegal scavenging. Battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse had been badly cut up. British, Australian, American and Dutch ships lost in the Battle of Java Sea have met the same fate. With that background, it's no surprise that families of the fallen do not want these wrecks found. Search for a 2016 article on The Guardian website - "British second world war shipwrecks in Java Sea destroyed by illegal scavenging"
New subscriber here. I am so glad I came across your channel. You are the best presenter I've ever watched on TH-cam. I really like the way you explain certain concepts so that the uninitiated understand everything in your videos.
Most battleships don´t make nice to look at wrecks . The ammunition going off is one thing but also the closed amored watertight compartments imploding later on , chilling to think about that they had air till the last moment . Think to get a mostly intact wreck it must have been filling up quick with water
This was before Paul Allen bought his own ship, the RV Petrel, which went on to do so much more. I would love to hear stories of the other wrecks that were found, especially since most content creators focus more on how those ships were sunk than how they were rediscovered
Ironically, Japan intended for Yamato and Musashi to play pivotal roles in defeating the American fleet (or fighting it to a draw) but both ships spent most of the war in port, escorting convoys or ferrying troops - another example of old admirals preparing for the last war. Kinda sad that they never got to do what they were built for (fortunate of course for the Allies).
Kantai Kessen was always a retarded doctrine that only worked against a handful of Russian Dinghies. It was absolutely asinine to think sinking a few American battleships with those two 71000 ton pigs was going to have any meaningful impact in the war when American industrial capacity allowed them to crap out a new Essex class carrier every 3-5 weeks each one with an aircraft complement capable of sinking a Yamato or Musashi. The US at least gave their BBs an actual AA suite that made them somewhat useful at escorting troop carriers and Fleet carriers. The IJN AA was pathetic by all accounts and second in its ineffectiveness at shooting down airplanes only to the Kriegsmarine. Even if the IJN did get their silly decisive battle, they would still be ground down into dust in a long war of attrition. The US wasn't going to roll over just because they lost a few battleships or carriers that they could replace in the time that it takes a Yamato to get filled up on supplies.
Super coverage and articulation about Yamato’s sister ship lost right before the amazing underdog victory in Leyte Gulf. Could have been the Yamato instead…. The very interesting and multi-country engaging hobbies someone can pursue with fabulous wealth and special motivation (and regained good health)!
What saddens me most is the crushing of parts of the ship. The massive explosion is a horror but the implosion implies there was air inside, which might have been many people sealed inside water tight compartments. I know death would have been as sudden as in the explosion, with less suffering than other deaths, but it makes me shudder.
Don’t feel bad. Japanese lived to die for the emperor. The mothers raised their kids so they would gladly die for the emperor’s glory. Think kamakaze. They loved to rape and kill civilians. Read the history of the Japanese in China and how they murdered mothers, children, and defenders who surrendered to them. Very sick society.
You just made me think of the few minutes, seconds that some of those trap sailors might have experienced. Knowing that you were going to die and hoping it would be quick...
@@waterlinestories and completely understand that which is why I initially subscribed but it doesn’t do any harm to mix it up now and again as this cracking stream illustrates. Best wishes.
There is a small error at 2:49 that picture shows an agano light cruiser not the musashi (2 turrets forward 1 at the stern and the big plattform in front of the catapult). If it is one of the last moment pictures of the Battle of Leyte gulf it should be the Noshiro. (Musashi was sunk one day before at the first part of the battle of leyte gulf called the battle of the Sibuyan Sea)
Another excellent video from this channel. The amount of research which must have gone into making this video is staggering. I think it says about the integrity of Mr Allen right from the beginning to treat the site of a war grave. A person with less integrity would have plundered the ship to make a quick profit. I hope the descendants of those people who died may have some closure.
That is interesting about the heavy armor sections being riveted. Rivets shear when they fail, whereas welds tend to tear. When welding became practical, it was a game changer, providing many advantages over rivets.
I thought you kept saying the explosion was seen by the Kirishima, which was famously sunk at Guadacanal. After looking over the order of battle, I was mishearing Kiyoshimo.
In dis documentary, it becomes clear to me, that, in contrary to Yamato, the Mushashi could not be welded. Incredible!!😲 The Yamato, who was also very heavily armoured, could be welded. I have seen and heard this a couple of days ago in a documentary about the Yamato. Both ship were awesome creations of engineering.
NICE mate i really like ya stuff. i,ve back watched the lot. n now wait 4 more. cheers.:-). ya animations r as good as ya story telling. but the education on stuff i knew of. but lacked details. mint
Thank you.. i stand corrected.... i always thought Paul Allen was searching for sunken treasure ships. Specially after finding the wwIi japanese submarine so i giess he was using the mega yacht Octopus for the search
Why is it any time something is considered as big as the Titanic or "Unsinkable", it always ends as a story of Hubris? You'd THINK someone would learn. Hopefully the Titan Submersible will be the last, but we all know better........
@@shaunmcclory8117 I'm not gonna be the kind of dick commenter that says: "Go Google It", so for possible future commenters, to save you the trip: Excessive Overconfidence, over the top Pride. Like the prize fighter who overestimates his opponent in the ring to the point of making himself a spectacle, only to get his own lights knocked out about 15 seconds into the first round. Or Bruce J. Ismay. Or Stockton Rush.
i mean in theory that isn't true but would the ship be sea worthy like a ship made of closed cell foam isn't likely to physically able to sink capsize yea break apart in light seas but the foam isn't going under also that ice ship they dreamed up in ww2 it couldn't sink break apart and melt yes but not sink but nothing that is unsinkable is practicable
I hope they survey the shinano sometime - her hull would be mostly intact and she would probably be upright given other carrier wrecks that have been found
What gives a pause to ponder is about another ship Allen's crew found, the Indianapolis. It was returning from bringing the nukes to Tinian when it was torpedoed by the Japanese sub I-58. So, what would have happened if it had been sunk on it's way TO Tinian?
That autonomous vehicle looks a lot like a torpedo, I wonder if it sounds like one as well? I know the Pacific Ocean is a big place but dropping one of those in the same patrol box as a fast attack sub could result in an unwanted item of similar size coming back towards you… avec a lot of aluminised PBX 💥😮
Paul Allen is using his fortune in a way I think would be more gratifying than just buying up companies and whatnot. Getting out of the rat race and launching expeditions.
1:24 "...52 types of anti-aircraft guns." Incorrect. Yamato-class BBs carried 40 AA weapons of three types per the original design: twelve 127mm heavy AA guns, twenty-four 25mm medium AA guns, and four 13.3mm machine guns. This AA battery was seen to be inadequate, consequently, many more guns were added during numerous refits, mainly 25mm triple mounts. The exact number of additional guns and their installed positions in each ship are unknown because both were sunk in combat with USN air forces and the pertinent IJN shipyard records were deliberately destroyed before the Occupation forces arrived in Japan.
Sooooo the send an ROV to look at some small debris and find the ship? Where was it on the scan? That’s like seeing a crumb on the ground,bending to pick it up and coming back with a loaf of bread.
Sou do Brazil país onde tudo é difícil 😂. Mas quero dar os parabéns para o Dr. Paul Allen e seus companheiros que fizeram essa expedição de resgate da História Mundial. Isto foi incrível 😅. Parabéns a todos os amigos que estão no grupo.
Imagine if the Japanese had surrendered early enough in the war for the Yamato and Musashi to have been turned over to the US. I expect they would have been used as test ships for the atomic bomb tests.
Noticed that Musashi and Yamato wrecks look almost identical in relation to damage and placement on the ocean floor. Curious if there was some kind of "self destruct device" on both vessels?
Just hope they monitor the site to prevent Chinese salvage ships from looting the wreck! The Chinese have no regard for naval ship-wrecks classified as war-graves, especially as they hate what the Japanese did to them before & during WWII.
Six. Three dive-bombers, three torpedo planes. I didn't find anything about their crews, but US Navy search and rescue was doing pretty good work at that point in the war.
I'm a Maritime historian specializing in the 20th century to present day... I'm old now, disabled and in a wheelchair, but I've read almost everything there is to read about WW 2 naval battles, as well as WW 2 land and air battles... My father was at Omaha Beach during Operation Overlord (D-Day) and when I was old enough, he told me many horrifying stories about that battle... Anyway, in the past three decades, social media via TH-cam has made thousands of videos about historic topics that help people learn without having to read books... Most are very good at educating people, some are not. This video has it's share of little mistakes, but overall it's very good and people who know nothing about the sinking and discovery of the Musashi, will learn most of the important facts in about 25 minutes! 👏
Thanks, that's a fair and reasonable comment. I appreciate that. 👍🏻
with that knowledge you realize the communist were the bad guys
Another brilliant and interesting story. This is becoming one of my weekly "sea fix" go to programs in my retirement. Years ago, I was Navigator aboard the RV Melville AGOR 14. We did an expedition to test a new navy deep water side scan sonar towed system. We searched for the Japanese carriers sunk in the Battle of Midway. Very deep water - much deeper than what the Titanic rests in. Later, another ship went back with a camera ROV to video our findings. The Melville ended her long oceanographic career as the oldest ship in the research fleet. She is now in the Philippines Navy. The autonomous underwater vehicles are changing science and naval warfare. The Manta for example. I would not want to be a sea warrior in future wars. Now a drone waiting on the seafloor can sink a warship.
Amazing. That must have been an incredible experience.
As soon as i hear the word "unsinkable" I wonder what the GPS coordinates of its wreck are.
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Absolutely same! XD
The Octopus is a truly insane vehicle, not only an ultra-luxury yacht but also a capable deep-sea explorer? Being a billionaire must be nice.
well once at billionare level yoru money makes its own money you just do what ever the fk you want for the rest of ya life just dont leave witnesses if its illegal or be the Saudis and own ya own COuntry and have a trillion dollar trust fund and play the Religious influence mode of Civ Earth 2024.
Judging by how much Musashi wreck is scattered, it’s kinda terrifying how devastated the explosion that destroyed her would have be had it goes up on the surface. I mean, 2/3 of her hull from the base of second turret all the way to the tip of her stern has been basically ripped to pieces.
Even Yamato still has most of her hull (aside from a part where second turret was) but Musashi middle and stern were basically disintegrated.
@@thinaphonpetsiri9907 Wait till you find out what happened to HMS Hood, and the British battlecruisers at Jutland
Well it tumbled down a 4000 ft tall volcano at 20-25 knots….. id imagine that torn it up pretty good after it had a bunch of holes blown in it🤷🏻♂️ “paper tiger” the biggest underestimation in history 🤣
@@92Psycoif you watch the explosion, how did 5(?) survive?
one hundred tons of powder
she got absolutely bombarded by a lot of dive bombers and torpedoes
Great video. I am absolutely obsessed with shipwreck stories of all types. I grew up on Lake Michigan and spent many, many hours on those waters and I think most people are unaware of how terrifying the Great Lakes can be. This is one of my top two or three channels that covers these stories. Keep up the great work!
Thanks, I really appreciate that
It is kind of funny how we think of the Great Lakes as lakes, when in reality they are closer to being seas.
Hate that Paul Allens' sister stopped the hunt for these ships after he died. I remember a few years back hearing every few months about different ships they had discovered.
Mushashi is probably too deep to plunder. However, by 2014, HMS Electra and HMS Exeter had been totally removed by illegal scavenging. Battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse had been badly cut up. British, Australian, American and Dutch ships lost in the Battle of Java Sea have met the same fate. With that background, it's no surprise that families of the fallen do not want these wrecks found.
Search for a 2016 article on The Guardian website - "British second world war shipwrecks in Java Sea destroyed by illegal scavenging"
New subscriber here. I am so glad I came across your channel. You are the best presenter I've ever watched on TH-cam. I really like the way you explain certain concepts so that the uninitiated understand everything in your videos.
Thanks. That's the aim. Welcome aboard
Most battleships don´t make nice to look at wrecks .
The ammunition going off is one thing but also the closed amored watertight compartments imploding later on , chilling to think about that they had air till the last moment .
Think to get a mostly intact wreck it must have been filling up quick with water
Makes my weekend awesome to start it off with Waterline stories
Thanks 👍🏻😀
A few hours of R&R on a Sunday afternoon. Time to binge my favorite channel. Have a lovely weekend everyone🌊⛴️⚓️
😀 enjoy
Like this new thing with the conversions in the corner. Thank you sir. Cuz I'm american so have no idea what the measurements were for me.
Just a heads up! The photo of Robert Craft appears to be incorrect. That Robert Craft is/was an NFL owner.
lol. He’s been busy between NFL and Asian massage parlors
😂😂 I noticed that as well. I was like “WTF.”
Good spot, thought I recognised him. 😂
Maybe he does both
LOL. He’s always wrong about something or other. Very consistent mistakes, but I’m sure he’s passionate. Pobodies nerfect after all.
I really enjoy this channel. The research and presentation is top notch. Subbed after the Bantry Whiddy disaster. I live to the East of that.
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This was before Paul Allen bought his own ship, the RV Petrel, which went on to do so much more. I would love to hear stories of the other wrecks that were found, especially since most content creators focus more on how those ships were sunk than how they were rediscovered
True and then was bought by the US Navy and fell over in a dry dock last year.
@@thereissomecoolstuff . Typical US naval and military mentality, if it brakes don't worry the government will replace it...
Ironically, Japan intended for Yamato and Musashi to play pivotal roles in defeating the American fleet (or fighting it to a draw) but both ships spent most of the war in port, escorting convoys or ferrying troops - another example of old admirals preparing for the last war. Kinda sad that they never got to do what they were built for (fortunate of course for the Allies).
Kantai Kessen was always a retarded doctrine that only worked against a handful of Russian Dinghies. It was absolutely asinine to think sinking a few American battleships with those two 71000 ton pigs was going to have any meaningful impact in the war when American industrial capacity allowed them to crap out a new Essex class carrier every 3-5 weeks each one with an aircraft complement capable of sinking a Yamato or Musashi. The US at least gave their BBs an actual AA suite that made them somewhat useful at escorting troop carriers and Fleet carriers. The IJN AA was pathetic by all accounts and second in its ineffectiveness at shooting down airplanes only to the Kriegsmarine. Even if the IJN did get their silly decisive battle, they would still be ground down into dust in a long war of attrition. The US wasn't going to roll over just because they lost a few battleships or carriers that they could replace in the time that it takes a Yamato to get filled up on supplies.
Super coverage and articulation about Yamato’s sister ship lost right before the amazing underdog victory in Leyte Gulf. Could have been the Yamato instead….
The very interesting and multi-country engaging hobbies someone can pursue with fabulous wealth and special motivation (and regained good health)!
That Robert Kraft is the Patriots NFL team owner😂
As someone who doesn’t who that is or who the Patriots are, I see how could be an easy mistake.
Nothing but the finest sources for these videos !
What saddens me most is the crushing of parts of the ship. The massive explosion is a horror but the implosion implies there was air inside, which might have been many people sealed inside water tight compartments. I know death would have been as sudden as in the explosion, with less suffering than other deaths, but it makes me shudder.
Don’t feel bad. Japanese lived to die for the emperor. The mothers raised their kids so they would gladly die for the emperor’s glory. Think kamakaze. They loved to rape and kill civilians. Read the history of the Japanese in China and how they murdered mothers, children, and defenders who surrendered to them. Very sick society.
You just made me think of the few minutes, seconds that some of those trap sailors might have experienced. Knowing that you were going to die and hoping it would be quick...
Brilliantly done and wonderful to see you cover an historical tale of naval horror rather than your usual fantastic civilian cases. Best wishes. 🇬🇧🙏🇦🇺
Thanks. I wanted to convert the civilian search more so than the naval affairs. 👍🏻
@@waterlinestories and completely understand that which is why I initially subscribed but it doesn’t do any harm to mix it up now and again as this cracking stream illustrates. Best wishes.
Wow, thanks for such an intriguing & well explained docu !
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There is a small error at 2:49 that picture shows an agano light cruiser not the musashi (2 turrets forward 1 at the stern and the big plattform in front of the catapult). If it is one of the last moment pictures of the Battle of Leyte gulf it should be the Noshiro. (Musashi was sunk one day before at the first part of the battle of leyte gulf called the battle of the Sibuyan Sea)
it's Yahagi, it's one of the pictures from the Ten-Go operation
Nice episode. Loving this channel.
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Incorrect picture of Robert Kraft ????
Another excellent video from this channel. The amount of research which must have gone into making this video is staggering. I think it says about the integrity of Mr Allen right from the beginning to treat the site of a war grave. A person with less integrity would have plundered the ship to make a quick profit. I hope the descendants of those people who died may have some closure.
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Hey, Paul, great story. Love listening to the stories about older ship wrecks than the new stinky ships. 😂😂😂😂
🤣 thanks Beverly.
@waterlinestories Oh Paul, it is most definitely my pleasure. You are my number one site 😉😉
That is interesting about the heavy armor sections being riveted. Rivets shear when they fail, whereas welds tend to tear. When welding became practical, it was a game changer, providing many advantages over rivets.
Very good work, look forward to the next release
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Am I the only one that gets excited when I see this channel drops a vid?
funfakt : I worked as a CNC Lathe mechanic for HDW , and I make Parts for the Occtopus. And yes its also "Spyship" ;)
Finally, something well made, and distracting to politics, and war....
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Agree
Love Mr Kraft,go Pats what a class act, great man
The Musashi sank at the Sibuyan Sea here in the Philippines.
Awesome upload as always.
Thanks👍🏻
I stumbled across your Contant and I love it. My dad was in World War II. Title said Microsoft yacht that reference to the Microsoft company
I thought you kept saying the explosion was seen by the Kirishima, which was famously sunk at Guadacanal. After looking over the order of battle, I was mishearing Kiyoshimo.
17:12 that is the wreck of the sister ship Yamato ,not the Musashi
OMG THANKS FOR COVERING THIS
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Great video, fascinating story
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Freaky. Just this morning I was reading abt Battle of Surigao Strait (25 October 1944)
In dis documentary, it becomes clear to me, that, in contrary to Yamato, the Mushashi could not be welded. Incredible!!😲
The Yamato, who was also very heavily armoured, could be welded. I have seen and heard this a couple of days ago in a documentary about the Yamato.
Both ship were awesome creations of engineering.
No. It was both Yamato and Musashi that their armor could not be welded together and used rivets instead.
Time to find the Shinano!
Poor Musashi, never got it's own 'Space Battleship' animé series...
U.S sold all that scrap iron to build their IJN and sold petro too.
Hello Niedersachsen 😉! Very interesting video. Have you ever considered making one about the "Medusa" and the raft of the "Medusa"? 👋
Gruß dich, Danke. I'll have to look it up.
Are you also in Niedersachsen?
@@waterlinestoriesNein, Baden-Württemberg. Freu mich über deine Antwort!
Great Video, yes, some people from Microsoft are doing good things with their money, for humanity 👍
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Thank you so much for making such good content! This is interesting.
Awesome. Thanks👍🏻
NICE mate i really like ya stuff. i,ve back watched the lot. n now wait 4 more. cheers.:-). ya animations r as good as ya story telling. but the education on stuff i knew of. but lacked details. mint
😀 thanks mate. I really appreciate that
Thank you.. i stand corrected.... i always thought Paul Allen was searching for sunken treasure ships. Specially after finding the wwIi japanese submarine so i giess he was using the mega yacht Octopus for the search
Maybe add some stenciling or decals to the walls, like beware of props, etc. Posters and clipboards also.
3:15
imagine all ship sink in this goofy way as if they lose 100% buoyancy reaching 0 hp, how terrifying.
Impressive. Very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's salvage ship...
Why is it any time something is considered as big as the Titanic or "Unsinkable", it always ends as a story of Hubris?
You'd THINK someone would learn.
Hopefully the Titan Submersible will be the last, but we all know better........
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Hubris. What an underused word.
@@fatovamingus ...because nobody knows what it means!...i know i don't😅
@@shaunmcclory8117 bitchin
@@shaunmcclory8117 I'm not gonna be the kind of dick commenter that says: "Go Google It", so for possible future commenters, to save you the trip:
Excessive Overconfidence, over the top Pride. Like the prize fighter who overestimates his opponent in the ring to the point of making himself a spectacle, only to get his own lights knocked out about 15 seconds into the first round. Or Bruce J. Ismay. Or Stockton Rush.
Musashi had 125 anti air guns.. problem is there was 150 planes😅
Anyone who studied physics even at a basic level knows nothing is unsinkable, but some have a better chance of staying afloat than others
Every ship is sinkable if you try hard enough 😂
It's kind of like the same crap today they try to sell your warranty for something. When the product breaks the warranty doesn't cover it
i mean in theory that isn't true but would the ship be sea worthy like a ship made of closed cell foam isn't likely to physically able to sink capsize yea break apart in light seas but the foam isn't going under also that ice ship they dreamed up in ww2 it couldn't sink break apart and melt yes but not sink but nothing that is unsinkable is practicable
I hope they survey the shinano sometime - her hull would be mostly intact and she would probably be upright given other carrier wrecks that have been found
11:37 hi yeah, I’d like a decal for my ROV that makes me look like a Bond villain.
What gives a pause to ponder is about another ship Allen's crew found, the Indianapolis. It was returning from bringing the nukes to Tinian when it was torpedoed by the Japanese sub I-58. So, what would have happened if it had been sunk on it's way TO Tinian?
That autonomous vehicle looks a lot like a torpedo, I wonder if it sounds like one as well? I know the Pacific Ocean is a big place but dropping one of those in the same patrol box as a fast attack sub could result in an unwanted item of similar size coming back towards you… avec a lot of aluminised PBX 💥😮
Only 5 battleships were sunk at Pearl Harbor, but point well taken.
Sir, this is a jewel.
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This kid misses Paul Allen. He has done a lot for the PNW and the world. Hope he is in a better place.
Paul Allen is using his fortune in a way I think would be more gratifying than just buying up companies and whatnot. Getting out of the rat race and launching expeditions.
Unfortunately, Paul Allen passed away on October 15, 2018.
11 wrecks down, only Kongo to do... I wonder if we'll ever find whatever little bits haven't been scrapped of her
The IJN holds the record for building two of yhe largest submarines ever. Yamato and Musashi.
Great story. A bit of a mess, quite a contrast to the Bismark that looks relatively intact hull-wise
Bismark shot off more of her ammo, that may at least partly explain it.
Don't start nuthin, won't be nothin'. Sincerely, the United States Military. Semper Fi. 🇺🇲🇺🇲
17:49 - By then, the USN torpedoes were (finally) working!
One has to say, that is a beautiful warship.
Honestly tho,i want them to find Shinano
1:24 "...52 types of anti-aircraft guns."
Incorrect. Yamato-class BBs carried 40 AA weapons of three types per the original design: twelve 127mm heavy AA guns, twenty-four 25mm medium AA guns, and four 13.3mm machine guns. This AA battery was seen to be inadequate, consequently, many more guns were added during numerous refits, mainly 25mm triple mounts. The exact number of additional guns and their installed positions in each ship are unknown because both were sunk in combat with USN air forces and the pertinent IJN shipyard records were deliberately destroyed before the Occupation forces arrived in Japan.
u didn't talk about Beehive shells on Masashi's Main Guns during Battle of the Sibuyan Sea
The story of thar Yamato-class aircraft carrier you briefly mentioned is a wild one, too. Any plans to make a video about it?
Sooooo the send an ROV to look at some small debris and find the ship? Where was it on the scan? That’s like seeing a crumb on the ground,bending to pick it up and coming back with a loaf of bread.
Sou do Brazil país onde tudo é difícil 😂. Mas quero dar os parabéns para o Dr. Paul Allen e seus companheiros que fizeram essa expedição de resgate da História Mundial. Isto foi incrível 😅. Parabéns a todos os amigos que estão no grupo.
If it’s a Microsoft sub it will no doubt crash with thee blue screen of death joining the Musashi - send a Linux sub to recover it or just embaress it
When you’re at the bottom of the ocean and low on oxygen, that’s when it’ll need to do a forced update.
Imagine if the Japanese had surrendered early enough in the war for the Yamato and Musashi to have been turned over to the US. I expect they would have been used as test ships for the atomic bomb tests.
All 8 battleships were not sunk at Pearl Harbor. Maryland, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania were only damaged, but not sunk.
Noticed that Musashi and Yamato wrecks look almost identical in relation to damage and placement on the ocean floor. Curious if there was some kind of "self destruct device" on both vessels?
It’s called the ammunition storage of the 46cm guns
The Royal Navy mounted a larger calibre gun.
Has no one learned if you name a ship "unsinkable" you've doomed it to do just that smh
The survivors of the Musashi cry on the shoulders of those of the Arizona.
I have never been a fan of Microsoft, but there is no doubt that the world today is far, far poorer without the presence of Paul Gardner Allen.
"A near miss is not a direct hit..." wow really?!!
3:00 lol I mean, the battleships were lined up nicely, days before the attack... against Naval Protocol.
I wonder if the ships computers are running windows. Something tells me not
The plural of aircraft is aircraft
Great!!
HOW DO YOU GET THE OLD PERSONAL VIDEO FOOTAGE THAT YOU SHOW.. LIKE WHEN THEY ARE IN DRAWING ROOMS AND PLANNING?
Let’s see Paul Allen’s card
What about the Shinano????
Robert Kraft: owner of the New England Patriots and Mariner.
Just hope they monitor the site to prevent Chinese salvage ships from looting the wreck!
The Chinese have no regard for naval ship-wrecks classified as war-graves, especially as they hate what the Japanese did to them before & during WWII.
20:55 I wonder if there is anything on that film
Waiting for Zuikaku 🙂
Kirishima? It was already sunk, how could her sailors witness anything?
How many US planes were shot down during the attack?
Six. Three dive-bombers, three torpedo planes. I didn't find anything about their crews, but US Navy search and rescue was doing pretty good work at that point in the war.
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And it was a total waste of time, money, and material. It was obsolete when launched considering how the Pacific War evolved.
anchor weight is interesting
Man musashi still pretty even tho she in pieces