Sinking the Vandenberg - Full Episode
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ธ.ค. 2016
- In the turquoise blue waters of the Florida Keys, a new attraction is drawing scuba divers from around the world: The USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. The Vandenberg is the world’s second largest intentionally sunk shipwreck.
Prior to being sunk, this mighty ship transported troops to the battlefields of World War II, carried European refugees to distant shores, and later helped win the Cold War. Left abandoned for years as part of a ghost fleet, the Vandenberg has at last found her final resting place - seven miles off Key West, in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
In her last mission as an artificial reef, this massive ship is already attracting a variety of fish and other marine life. Now, natural resources managers are trying to determine what impact this artificial reef has on fish populations and the health of the surrounding natural reefs.
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Richard Milla
When this ship was the USS General Harry Taylor it was still a troop transport, she brought me to America as an 8 1/2 year old refugee from Bremen Hafen Germany to New York on March 29, 1952. Thank you and "GOD BLESS AMERICA" I am proud to be an American Citizen, Army veteran , retired New York City Police Officer 22 years, retired U.S. Customs Officer of 18 years and am now retired. Presently living in Whitestone, New York, and living the good life that this country has given me.
Great story. Thank you.
Thank you for your service!!!!! And I’m glad your here!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏻😇✌️👍🦋
Thanks for serving your new country. We are glad you are here!
This ship brought my grandmother the Ellis Island
Such and awesome shipwreck. These guys are legends!
So excited to hear Peter Thomas's voice narrating again. I've never heard him on anything but "Forensic Files".
His voice made that show what it still is today (& this one too!)
I literally came here to comment the exact same thing. I still fall asleep to forensic files every night. His voice is the most soothing voice I've ever heard.
This guy's voice is so friggin creepy, I can't watch this documentary.....
As the General Harry Taylor, the ship brought my Holocaust survivors parents and my brother to the US in 1950. I'm so glad that it is serving such a wonderful purpose today.
Sailed on her many times from Pearl to Kwajalein to track Minuteman missiles out of Vandenberg AFB.Much more useful end than just being scrapped,although watching your old home at sea go down stirs up a lot of memories.
InstaBlaster.
Would have been nice to see more of the sinking that's kind of why people came here to watch
0:24 The ship was not '...Abandoned for years...". She was part of the Reserve Fleet which was prepared for storage and carefully monitored 24/7. On a periodic basis workmen would board the ship and make visual inspections for safety and security. She was never abandoned.
that sounds eerily like grandparents...
I was a Gunners Mate on the USS Speigel Grove LSD 32. We were out of Little Creek Virginia Amphibious base.
Wreck diving is amazing. I miss it.
From my observation the Vandenberg is the gem now
That’s me carrying the stuff in the white suit
What time frame of the 30 minute documentary are you shown?
At 13:15 ?
I live in port Canaveral remember well the van coming and going many times know many of the crew's that were on her
My Grandfather was on that ship
@@jjump122 was my dad's ship WW II
My grandfather served on the USS Harry Taylor as well. Clark "Pinky" Curry was a member of the ship's band and helped to transport many soldiers during WWII.
Only seen a couple of seconds of footage of the sinking atleast half the time was spent with the camera looking at some men cheering......waist of time.
I saw this ship while being prepared for sinking. I was on board a cruise ship and thought it was a Russian ship, because of thr renaming for the movie. I looked it up and found out about the movie as well.
It's hard to believe that some fools think that it's a bad thing to sink these ships!!
a lot of chemistry in the water
Would sinking vessels along the coast of Pacifica assist in preventing further erosion ?
Lived in Satellite Beach during the mid-seventies and remember the “white ship with the satellite dishes”.
Cutting charges, eh? Interesting how quickly the ship sank and pretty much in an upright position and without what appeared to be enormous explosions.
9-11 ;)
@@cyberp0et I know right? Did you know it was actually Walt Disney that sank this, using submarines energized by aliens using gluten as a medium via red baseball hats?
I will never forget my time aboard her as 1st Mate. All of MERCHANT MARINE OFFICERS, Was members of the AMO, 👮♂️ AMERICAN 👮 MARITIME 👮♀️ OFFICERS UNION…
The narrator sounds like the guy who does the narration for Forensic Files.
I think they are the same narrator
Just found out my parents came to the US on this ship as displaced persons.
What about the USS Oriskany ? 880+ feet in length sitting 22 miles off the coast of Pensacola, in the Gulf of Mexico. Largest man-made reef in the world. ????
Why does a US ship have what i assume is Russia text ?
All I hear is the voice of forensic files
Why did it cost 8 million dollars? How?
Paperwork; multiple fees processes, multiple approval request (yes hard copy and soft), multiple plans submitted, responses to multiple government (local, state and federal) inquiries, required testing and retesting on sinking models, software simulations, required multiple site visits during the process(at the ship, the sinking site), radar scanning and soil testing at/from the sinking site multiple times during different seasons and time of day/month. Labor to prep for sinking; removing cable, wire, lead based paint, asbestos wrapped pipes, non support walls, infrastructure, fuel, oil and other petroleum by-products, machinery, corrosive materials deemed not habitat friendly. Fees; various transportation, hauling, storage, explosives, towing, site prep, multiple insurance coverage for different stages of the process including prior, during and after the sinking. That about covers it, salaried/hourly compensation not covered.
Why did you sink it so deep? 145 feet deep is beyond alot of divers skill
I used to be a diver. It sits in 165 feet of water. That is not for the average diver. I did not say or mean to say you sunk it. You better learn to read and comprehend what you reading as well know what you are talking about
Anyone else notice that she seems to have lost one of the large radar dishes between the surface of the ocean and the bottom? lol
indeed, I was wondering myself.... It must have fallen down....
mrpagrant they both have fallen on to the deck
Could always watch it happen here th-cam.com/video/kfCQC9Nkj4Y/w-d-xo.html
Never made sense to me to sink a ship so people could explore it. Like wouldn't it be much easier to explore it if it were still afloat?
This isnt the point though :D read the desciption of the video : In her last mission as an artificial reef, this massive ship is already attracting a variety of fish and other marine life. Now, natural resources managers are trying to determine what impact this artificial reef has on fish populations and the health of the surrounding natural reefs.
Pretty sure that would cost several hundred thousand annually to do that. Based on current floating museums (battleships, submarines, etc.), annual cost. The curator of the battleship New Jersey has a TH-cam channel and wow! Very labor intensive($) to keep her afloat as a museum. I don’t think she would get the same number of visits as that ship so she would run into a deficit pretty quick.
@@JohnSmith-gb5vg but that supports my point. They aren't sinking it so people can explore it, they are sinking it because it's too costly to maintain. Besides, being underwater severely limits how many people CAN explore it now. If it's because of cost or to create reef, they should say so, and don't make up bogus excuses like it's for exploration.
How TF is someone going to explore it underwater if it isn't underwater?
"New York is great but if it was Topeka it would be cheaper, and the history would be easier for me to understand. I mean for real why didn't they just make it Topeka, and then there also wouldn't have been so much crime. WTF, some people are so stupid."
AHHHH ATTRACTING FISH LIFE,IS THAT HOW YOU JUSTIFY POLLUTING THE OCEAN?-GOTCHA NOW😰
The ship is cleaned of toxic materials before sinking, a process which ususally costs more than simply scrapping it. Lots of laws and regs have to be followed.
Please define "POLLUTING" Leanne. While doing so, can you ensure that you don't also meet your own definition of polluting?
Respectfully Signed,
Every Person You Have Polluted With Your Very Existence.
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I spent a month on her in Key West getting her ready to sink.
Always want to sacrifice the sports fisherman because they can't fight back like big fishing companies
My mom came to america on this boar when she was a baby!
She ain't pretty but she is a long serving hero.
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To bad it was not saved all history this ship had .. 😢.. oh well
All this concern about a "clean" ship being sunk to make a new artificial reef. What about the thousands of cargo ships military's ships and planes sunk during the first and second world wars ? And the nuclear bombs. I guess that was to long ago to matter.,.,.,.,.
You are right to point that out. It is a good idea to do it cleanly if
you do it on purpose, especially near a reef system. But people still
dump lots of trash into the oceans while they are toothbrushing
an artificial reef.
Understand your point but most if not all (pacific losses excluded) were sunk too deep to be reefs and, yes they are polluting the seabed, which, not much can be done about removing the oil from the leaking fuel tanks due to the depth. As for the Nuclear testing, the saltwater actually contains and dilutes the radiation. Studies at the Trinity site(can only dive for so long) reveal substantial reduction in radiation levels and sea life is flourishing (yes they capture and test for radiation effects).
Next time we are being attacked we should board their ships to clean them before we sink them, I agree. Where were smart people like you during WWII? Gosh it's so simple.
This is a cause of Sea Rise!
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Imagine the bridges that could be built with the steel that ship is made with ! But oh well, I suppose we can always buy more steel from China, so what need is there for the countless thousands of tons of steel the Navy sends to the bottom of the sea every year.
Well most steel in general comes from China Origin wise
Man thinking they know best again , if God want metal ships as reefs He would have created them .
I mean he did. Or else God would have stopped them. Why can’t man be instruments in God’s hands? It’s like saying, if God wanted music he would have created it
The reason we are sinking ships to make artificial reefs is because most natural reefs are dying so why not make new ones while the natural reefs have a chance to heal
Well God created man, so its basically the same thing.
@donna Adam’s seriously your ignorance or stupidity surprises me
HaHaHa win the cold war
We've become a nation of idiots!
Surrounded by many nations that are hostile to us, we choose to take excellent steel that could be recycled into industry, and military uses and what do we do?
We spend HUGE chunks of money and expend HUGE numbers of man-hours and sink it into the ocean. And then we have to listen to people rationalize this in the terms of enriching a small number of peoples play time.
I like sinking ships for reefs, but let's sink crappy ships. That sort of steel is NEEDED in industry.
We out-expensed our cost for scrapping these type of ships, in the US. It would have cost millions more to scrap it here in the US if you could find a salvage yard that had the space, people and time to handle that. Sending it to a foreign scrap yard (normal process), they would not sell the recovered metals back to us.