never done vessel inspection but ive done two dives for deep sea platforms... got much respect for anyone who does this for a living... ive done everything from skydiving to free solo to cranes and i must say the only time i can say i felt fear was diving in open ocean...its truly an alien world.
@@wavygrxvy4880 it's because of the buoyancy force that acts underwater the ship of immersed area. Just like a centre of gravity force acts on any dry area to its centre
@@coleslaw0832 funny you say that, I've always been freaked out by being right beside those giant boats in the ocean. The sea itself isn't a problem but something that large just gives me the creeps for some reason.
Just the image of swimming next to a tanker (or any huge ship) is scary enough for me. To dive *under* it is real life horror. And diving close to a giant propeller? They can't pay me enough to do that.
When I was 9, my family vacationed to Carolina Beach. We got to check out the Cherry Point docks, where they load military cargo ships. My sister and I were horseplaying on the dock where two large cargo ships were moored up. At some point I fell into the water just feet away from the side of the cargo ship, and I remember rolling over and opening my eyes and seeing the blurry shape of the massive hull of the ship descending into the darkness. They quickly hauled me out of the water, but that nightmare image has stuck with me for life.
ive seen the underside(sorta) of docks in the victoria harbor. theres plenty of creepy crawlies in there as well as the massive ship. there cannot be any way in which that would be pleasant to fall into
5:36 Just imagine hearing some deep deep dark bass sound and some metal scratching as the propeller slowly starts turning and inevitably pulling you closer until...
@@puszzydestroyr69yesthatsga7 there we’re not passengers onboard the britannic when sank it bc it was a hospital ship on its way to pick up hurt soldiers in waw1
Absolutely amazing. I have never seen underwater video of a ship that large before. I was surprised to see air ‘venting’ out at different locations. It was a bit creepy at times!
@@henrikbragge Its sealing air to keep oil and lubrication from being contaminated by water and vice versa. So instead of oil escaping or water entering there is a constant flow of air with higher pressure
@@frechesferkel2749 Both can be used. Seawater is of course readily available for a ship, but causes corrosion over time. That's why ship engines aren't cooled with seawater directly. Fresh water has less corrosion problems, but you have to carry it with you, and if it gets contaminated with seawater in the heat exchanger there can be serious damage.
This is fantastic. To all those being really spooked by submerged objects, you work up to something like this. Start with piers, debris piles, sunken small craft, then to full on ship wrecks.
I've been a rod & reel fisherman all my life, and we endlessly search out underwater and submerged structure or cover because fish congregate there to feed. The thought of swimming around underwater objects or abrupt depth variations gives me primal fear because I know what I know about where fish hunt.
@@Resistculturaldecline Kevin I feel ya but when I was in the Bahamas they gave us pvc pipes with electrical tape ina zebra looking pattern… and it kept all the sharks and other perky fish away!!!
@@moderngod1 Hmm, that's interesting. I've read where striped swimwear could attract sharks as they could mistake it for forage fish in low vis water. Maybe the stripes and pipe shark illicit a completely different response? I've seen vids where blood from shark liver (or spleen?), just a tiny squirt would send actively feeding frenzy sharks running fast as they could get away, the moment it touches the water they're are full speed outta there. Supposedly a survival response, because orcas attack that shark's organ during territorial fighting. I'm anything but an expert, but I find it interesting.
@@Resistculturaldecline the pvc pipe and electrical tape imitates a poisonous snake. They’ll swim up… move sideways to see it better, register what it is and that distinctive color pattern of “hey I’m poisonous back off” we see in nature, then they dart off so fast. It blew my mind I’m like wow and here I was thinking ima need chain male suits n what not
@@moderngod1 That makes no sense. You mean that a length of pvc pipe with only electrical tape wrapped around it in a zebra-like pattern was enough to stave off sharks? Are you absolutely sure there wasn't an electrical circuit inside it running on a battery? Because sharks absolutely hate electricity, even pretty low voltages, and I know there are some shark-repellents based on exactly that.
Interestingly, people who have submechanophobia doesn't afraid of getting sliced or hit by the prop, but more of the size, unnatural shapes, and the murky mysterious environment surrounding it.
@@betelgeuse3653the thought of being sucked into a 13 foot propeller after watching a massive ship sail directly towards you for several minutes... In deep open water😳😲 terrifies me!
@@betelgeuse3653 I think it's a human primordial fear tied to the time large sea creatures could devour you without a trace. Most land animals fear going into the open water - for obvious reasons because they're evolved for life on land and are mostly helpless in water. These giant ships are just floating above you and therefore subconsciously become these "large sea monsters" especially if they're covered with barnacles and algae. Here's another thing: If a human stands on land and sees huge trucks and such pass, or even trains of several thousand tons, they don't feel as vulnerable. Why? Because on land you can always run away from the danger. Or hide. Or seek some short of shelter and protection. In the water however... you can't swim away nowhere near as fast as you can run on land, you can't hide and there is no shelter. Human vulnerability is very apparent in water. When you then combine the rusty and decaying metal of ships which make them appear like "decaying corpses" it exacerbates the creepy feeling. So it's little surprising a human in the water can feel awfully small and vulnerable right next to a giant man-made object. Would you swim in a pool which was made of metal and now is rusty and decaying? It would be an unpleasant experience. Would you swim in a dark, deep pool knowing people have dumped cars there and and all kinds of metal junk which shouldn't be there? Probably not. Therefore swimming in water with a lot of man-made, metal objects, like a harbor or right next to a huge ship in a harbor is equally unpleasant. Even if the ship doesn't move. As for diving and seeing a giant ship propeller right in front of you. It's dead still, however we as humans are all-too-aware of how they work and their immense power. Obviously the very thought of thinking *how* it works is going to make a person feel uneasy under water. People instinctively jump aside or backwards whenever a wild animal like a lion suddenly lunges at them in a zoo. People don't think "this thick glass or steel cage will protect me". We just instinctively react as if we're being attacked - even though we should know we're perfectly safe from the lion. Perhaps this explains the reason for submechanophobia. Human vulnerability in water as a primordial fear + giant manmade metal objects in this water + said objects decaying in the water + human imagination going into overdrive driven by all this.
I bet these guys get such an amazingly surreal feeling every time they have to get in the water next to such a giant and powerful thing, probably never gets old, I wish I weren't so afraid of such things because without anxiety and fear I imagine its an amazing experience.
@@garden0fstone736 u got to think of the area though of that propellor. just imagine the volume of water that thing sucks towards the blades a second. even at a low speed it must be hundreds of litres a second
We took a swim call off Catalina Island (southern California coast) in 1992 from the USS Ohio, SSBN 726 nuclear submarine. Me and 4 other guys were crazy/brave enough to jump in. I was surprised that it was moving! We had to swim pretty hard to get from amidships to the bow up front. We then body-surfed up onto the bow to get back aboard. No way was I going to climb up the ladder against that sinisterly-dark hull, probably crusted with sharp stuff! Damn that was scary AF. Can't believe I did that! A buddy of mine volunteered to be our shark watch. He was roped off and standing up on top of the sailing dive planes with an M14 keeping a watch out for us. Thanks buddy. Oh, and I almost forgot, but a pleasure boat was so curious they got within 100 yards to watch us. It's not every day you see a gigantic nuclear sub on the surface with hot dog cookouts and swimmers.
Even if you offered me a million dollars a day for life I wouldn't do this. I wouldn't survive the heart attack I'd have from sheer panic anyway. This ship is massive...
id do it for $10,000 a day - this kind of work is super chill as long as everything is locked out (pumps, engines, etc.) - nothing really scary or particularly hazardous here with the right precautions.
It's amazing to see this in clear waters. My experience in the strait's of Malacca where it meets the South China Sea are fighting currents and dealing with low visibility. These vessels are so big that you can get lost at the flat bottom circling looking for light shinning from your underwater tender or the ship's vertical side, hoping and praying, whilst your tank get's critically low. For the time's we used surface supplied air via an umbilical, it is a cross-country goddam sprint to the bow as we address our audience of the condition and texture of the barnacles and whatever eco system that's developed on the hull via a close circuit camera, hand-held, connected to the umbilical systems, balancing between breathing and speaking into the audio system and of course pretending to be like a bloody astronaut. Out of 5 dives, we might bail out on one just because the currents are too strong, though we still tried, or some other fuckery. Jellyfishes perhaps. The thin line between life and death is stretched out into just a handful of factors including overworking and underpaid of course. Most of the time we're working alone under those vessels. Whether it be scuba diving with an Olympus camera in an underwater casing or scraping off the marine growth with a scraper, we're all pretty much biting down on the mouthpiece and hey o let's go.
Straight up! This is the Best Video of its kind on the Internet. The pairing of underwater footage + awesome music makes this a WINNER in my book! Bravo!
Last night I watched this before going to sleep... And of course I was diving here in my dream which was terrifying but same time very relaxing. Now I enjoy this video very much.
This will forever go down as one of the most unnerving videos I’ve ever seen. The idea of being under a gigantic ship in the seemingly infinite deep dark waters below me as huge propellers awaiting me at the end of the ship is my biggest fear. Videos like this keep me up and fuel my mind with nightmares.
I've been watching a lot of these videos lately and really trying to figure out the psychology of why this stuff spooks me. So far, I've got nothing...other than that humans aren't meant to be in water, and we create unnatural objects that go in the water which then make us doubly uncomfortable because our bodies are doubling down on the unnatrualness of it all. Or something.
I think there's just something about the lighting and obscuration of something huge. If you've ever seen "The Mist", that film plays around with huge creatures obscured by, well, mist; and I think it has a similar effect. Then, as you said, there's the fact that the water is not our environment. We're just more helpless there and I think we know it on a primal level when in the sea.
Probably the fear of the unknown.. You can't see far in the ocean so their could be anything around you.. And these things we make give us comfort when your inside them.. Not out in the open water knowing your staring at your only safety and your not in it..
They are inspecting the tanker to ensure they aint smuggling anything illegal into the country. thats why they checked inside the seachests and at the stern where the rudder is.
I allwase had a fear of deep water with random structures like tubes drains chaines and walls and wors of all.. dead body’s . It sounds dum but there just something about it being underwater that makes it so scary. Maby it’s because you have a slower reaction time, you normally can’t see it until you’re right on top of it or Maby because you normally have no idea what’s down there. It could be enything from a bike to a literal grave. The worst part about it is I can never put my finger on it so I can never pin it down. I normaly say I’m afraid of massive lumping things in the water but it’s a lot more than that
I watched this beautiful video because i wanted to understand how difficult was for the German sailors to repair Bismarck's steering and save themselves.
I'm a diver. I had to dive under a tour boat that was anchored at the dock and the maintenance crew dropped tools in the water the day before and the boat docked right over them the next day. I had to go under the boat, and it was floating about 2 feet from the bottom and I literally had to skim underneath this massive boat with my facemask nearly scraping the bottom and my tank banging on the bottom of the boat! You want to talk about claustrophobic.....even today I wonder what the H was I thinking.
@@krafty-exe You know....come to think of it, I never thought of that! I really didn't. It seemed safe enough, I was in, under and the H outta there as fast as I could. It was in a large lake, early in the morning so it was calm, clear, but....2 1/2 feet of clearance. It just never crossed my mind. What you'll do for a dollar.
Very interesting video. To say the least it's a very long time ago that used to do snorkeling and some of what would be normal items can be very bewildering under water. I guess you have to have a certain ability to detach yourself from the moment and remain calm. I've often wondered about this important job. Now I know how it's done 👍
I thought they were impellers which are designed to suction water to cool the engines I could be wrong, but that's what I thought. The thrusters have propellers inside them. They are solely in the bow.
I find the way, that almost everyone (including me) are terrified of this, very interesting. You can stand near way bigger thing (mountain, building ...)that this ship and not feel that fear. Surely due to water , I guess.
Probably the fact that if your in the water it's down beneath you submerged in the darkness you don't know what's down there what's sttatched to the underside of the boat that's accumulated over years in not to bothered about this but if I swam up to a big ship like this and there was something to hold on naturally I'd want to be hauling my legs up too and holding them out of the water as its knowing your legs are under water next to the unknown that's abut uncomfortable also co,ws down to knowing what's under the water if you could see is so huge and potentially intimidating but u can't see yet you know it is
on the other hand, they are soo big they start spinning really slow. at this size you can see them start spinning and simply swim away. (and then go shoot the captain for this shit. XDXD)
I would love to do this, even just once, to swim around a ship that massive, it's amazing to see how much displacement it has, btw I never been on open ocean in ship, or lived near ocean.
This is one of my biggest fears. I would never do this. Once I'm under it, might get in panic immediately. Looking inside those compartments is even scarier.😥 This ship is huge.😳
I'm pleased to read that I'm not the only one who finds this terrifying. I expected the comments to be full of purely scuba/maritime analysis. There just something I find unsettling about objects underwater, that wouldn't faze me on land.
I thought this would freak me out, but once they were underwater and inspecting the hull it was not that bad. I think it’s more when you are one the surface and you’re beside something so huge, and you look underwater and this thing just disappears into the depths. I think being in the water and having a huge vessel sink by you and you just see it sliding into the murky depths.......shit, I’m giving myself the willys. Yah, it’s definitely the size and the dark ocean that gets me.
I wish I had some decent camera gear when I was diving 35 years ago. Would have had some awesome footage. Not in the greatest shape now and with age I no longer dive.
I dont know why but this doenst scare me so much. The thing that scared me the most was at 6:33 there's like a tiny hole and I thought the diver would dive into it and I got claustrophobia. XD Tight spaces are scarier to me than giant underwater things.
My fear isn't so much of tight spaces per se, but getting stuck underwater and drowning. Like that poor guy who got stuck in a cave while diving I could do this no problem, I love ships and am familiar with vessels and boat engines. But diving or free diving in underwater caves? Tight tunnels? Heck no!
Air pressure inside stern tube aft seal is automatically adjusted that it is slightly above water pressure from outside. Excess air is escaping through seal, visible air bubbles.
Those vents are intakes for ballast or cooling water for the engines. Some ships have a propeller at the front. We call that bow thrusters. They are capable of mo ing the nose of the ship to the side
This doesnt scare me. Machines in natural settings(sea, ocean etc.) doesnt freak me out. What freaks me out are machines in artificial bodies of water(pools, tanks, wells), like a drain in a deep pool or a turbine in a tank, eeek.
Very interesting to watch. Can one indicate what score the hull of this vessel gets? To me it seems ok. Imagine it can be worse, but also it can way much better. Obviously a new vessel will look better.
I think I had submechanophobia from staying in the Queen Mary hotel when they used to let you stay in the rooms back in the day and seeing some oddities at night and on the tour, like shadows and moving lights but definitely over it now years later. More fascinated by how we get our cargo across the ocean and how these work. These guys have a tough job. The music is just there to mess with you. I'm over the fear now, watching this confirms it. I even jetski next to big tankers and was nervous at first but it's totally fine! The Queen Mary, yes that was creepy no doubt!
Thank you for showing me a 12 minute video of my two biggest fears. Being in the water next to a giant ship and being near propellers
why did you watch then 😂
@@b123me it's fascinating and at the same time is so frightening
@@DagheCalamar yeah ig. i’ve always been fascinated with the ocean sense i was 3 and that’s all i want to do my whole life is to work in it.
@@b123me protect it because whithout life in the ocean we'll gona die
They call it "submechanophobia". Same bro
Can only imagine the amount of massive undersea mountains, canyons, shipwrecks, and miles of dark depths that hull has passed over.
thank you for this, now i will have nightmares for weeks from just picturing that
Such a cool thing to imagine
cool way to visualize that, thanks for the thought.
And the reverberations of the engines and props echoing in those valleys so far below the waves.
Nice name
never done vessel inspection but ive done two dives for deep sea platforms... got much respect for anyone who does this for a living... ive done everything from skydiving to free solo to cranes and i must say the only time i can say i felt fear was diving in open ocean...its truly an alien world.
Vibes bro
Still amazes me..... that thing is floating on water.
how does this magic car work?
@@wavygrxvy4880 it's because of the buoyancy force that acts underwater the ship of immersed area. Just like a centre of gravity force acts on any dry area to its centre
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Its the salt content of the water also the balance of the ships weight.
@@Zackislivid yes
Damn bro, thats straight up nightmare fuel
Those guys grates are where they store bodies
im scared of the ocean and big boats, my worst nightmare is this video
@@coleslaw0832 funny you say that, I've always been freaked out by being right beside those giant boats in the ocean. The sea itself isn't a problem but something that large just gives me the creeps for some reason.
@@GravyHucker personally the propeller is the only thing thats scares me the most. Imagine Diving next to it and it starts spinning
@@kuramazov it won't cause it's a pre-planned investigation
Just the image of swimming next to a tanker (or any huge ship) is scary enough for me. To dive *under* it is real life horror. And diving close to a giant propeller? They can't pay me enough to do that.
You have to have balls of steel to do 5his jobs
no matter how much they pay me i aint havin that crap
@@theformer1337agent they usually sign many agreements before diving, not using propeller, no boat nearby etc
@@rustteze *i know but if someone holds me at gun-point to dive under a giant-ass tanker im just gonna let them kill me*
submechanophobia
When I was 9, my family vacationed to Carolina Beach. We got to check out the Cherry Point docks, where they load military cargo ships. My sister and I were horseplaying on the dock where two large cargo ships were moored up. At some point I fell into the water just feet away from the side of the cargo ship, and I remember rolling over and opening my eyes and seeing the blurry shape of the massive hull of the ship descending into the darkness. They quickly hauled me out of the water, but that nightmare image has stuck with me for life.
Oh my gosh that sounds absolutely terrifying!
Nightmare for real
Oh my god wow
i would have pissed myself, had i been you
ive seen the underside(sorta) of docks in the victoria harbor. theres plenty of creepy crawlies in there as well as the massive ship. there cannot be any way in which that would be pleasant to fall into
5:36 Just imagine hearing some deep deep dark bass sound and some metal scratching as the propeller slowly starts turning and inevitably pulling you closer until...
That happened to the passengers on the HMHS Britannic, life boats were churned along with passengers by the propellers
@@puszzydestroyr69yesthatsga7 there we’re not passengers onboard the britannic when sank it bc it was a hospital ship on its way to pick up hurt soldiers in waw1
@@puszzydestroyr69yesthatsga7 and it wasn’t rms it was hmhs britannic
@@firewingman9448 ooops thank you
@@puszzydestroyr69yesthatsga7 np
Absolutely amazing. I have never seen underwater video of a ship that large before. I was surprised to see air ‘venting’ out at different locations. It was a bit creepy at times!
not venting, those are intakes and outlets for sea water and such.
Yeah, intakes for cooling water for the engine/engines
@@henrikbragge Its sealing air to keep oil and lubrication from being contaminated by water and vice versa. So instead of oil escaping or water entering there is a constant flow of air with higher pressure
@@henrikbragge Did they really cooling the engines with salt water?
@@frechesferkel2749 Both can be used. Seawater is of course readily available for a ship, but causes corrosion over time. That's why ship engines aren't cooled with seawater directly. Fresh water has less corrosion problems, but you have to carry it with you, and if it gets contaminated with seawater in the heat exchanger there can be serious damage.
Maybe a voice over with commentary on what we're seeing instead of the super spooky music
This is fantastic. To all those being really spooked by submerged objects, you work up to something like this. Start with piers, debris piles, sunken small craft, then to full on ship wrecks.
I've been a rod & reel fisherman all my life, and we endlessly search out underwater and submerged structure or cover because fish congregate there to feed.
The thought of swimming around underwater objects or abrupt depth variations gives me primal fear because I know what I know about where fish hunt.
@@Resistculturaldecline Kevin I feel ya but when I was in the Bahamas they gave us pvc pipes with electrical tape ina zebra looking pattern… and it kept all the sharks and other perky fish away!!!
@@moderngod1 Hmm, that's interesting. I've read where striped swimwear could attract sharks as they could mistake it for forage fish in low vis water. Maybe the stripes and pipe shark illicit a completely different response?
I've seen vids where blood from shark liver (or spleen?), just a tiny squirt would send actively feeding frenzy sharks running fast as they could get away, the moment it touches the water they're are full speed outta there.
Supposedly a survival response, because orcas attack that shark's organ during territorial fighting. I'm anything but an expert, but I find it interesting.
@@Resistculturaldecline the pvc pipe and electrical tape imitates a poisonous snake. They’ll swim up… move sideways to see it better, register what it is and that distinctive color pattern of “hey I’m poisonous back off” we see in nature, then they dart off so fast. It blew my mind I’m like wow and here I was thinking ima need chain male suits n what not
@@moderngod1 That makes no sense. You mean that a length of pvc pipe with only electrical tape wrapped around it in a zebra-like pattern was enough to stave off sharks? Are you absolutely sure there wasn't an electrical circuit inside it running on a battery? Because sharks absolutely hate electricity, even pretty low voltages, and I know there are some shark-repellents based on exactly that.
Submechanophobia. Fear of submerged, or partially submerged manmade objects. Edit: the music makes it scarier than it needs to be!!
Oh good, there is a name for that.
It’s those giant propellers that terrify me.
Interestingly, people who have submechanophobia doesn't afraid of getting sliced or hit by the prop, but more of the size, unnatural shapes, and the murky mysterious environment surrounding it.
@@betelgeuse3653the thought of being sucked into a 13 foot propeller after watching a massive ship sail directly towards you for several minutes... In deep open water😳😲 terrifies me!
@@betelgeuse3653 I think it's a human primordial fear tied to the time large sea creatures could devour you without a trace. Most land animals fear going into the open water - for obvious reasons because they're evolved for life on land and are mostly helpless in water. These giant ships are just floating above you and therefore subconsciously become these "large sea monsters" especially if they're covered with barnacles and algae.
Here's another thing: If a human stands on land and sees huge trucks and such pass, or even trains of several thousand tons, they don't feel as vulnerable. Why? Because on land you can always run away from the danger. Or hide. Or seek some short of shelter and protection. In the water however... you can't swim away nowhere near as fast as you can run on land, you can't hide and there is no shelter. Human vulnerability is very apparent in water.
When you then combine the rusty and decaying metal of ships which make them appear like "decaying corpses" it exacerbates the creepy feeling.
So it's little surprising a human in the water can feel awfully small and vulnerable right next to a giant man-made object.
Would you swim in a pool which was made of metal and now is rusty and decaying? It would be an unpleasant experience. Would you swim in a dark, deep pool knowing people have dumped cars there and and all kinds of metal junk which shouldn't be there? Probably not.
Therefore swimming in water with a lot of man-made, metal objects, like a harbor or right next to a huge ship in a harbor is equally unpleasant. Even if the ship doesn't move.
As for diving and seeing a giant ship propeller right in front of you. It's dead still, however we as humans are all-too-aware of how they work and their immense power. Obviously the very thought of thinking *how* it works is going to make a person feel uneasy under water. People instinctively jump aside or backwards whenever a wild animal like a lion suddenly lunges at them in a zoo. People don't think "this thick glass or steel cage will protect me". We just instinctively react as if we're being attacked - even though we should know we're perfectly safe from the lion.
Perhaps this explains the reason for submechanophobia. Human vulnerability in water as a primordial fear + giant manmade metal objects in this water + said objects decaying in the water + human imagination going into overdrive driven by all this.
Isn't it amazing you can approach your fears in the safety of videos like this?
shout out to the people who do this kind of stuff as a job. this is terrifying
I like the music. Pretty relaxing when your looking into the ABYSS.
I bet these guys get such an amazingly surreal feeling every time they have to get in the water next to such a giant and powerful thing, probably never gets old, I wish I weren't so afraid of such things because without anxiety and fear I imagine its an amazing experience.
Actually it is a pretty boring job with crappy pay. The good money is in saturation diving.
You just have to trust that no one will turn the engine on.. that terrifies me
Same
It takes time to turn it on, you will heard it turning on much before propeller would be able to start spinning :)
That is impossible as the crew are aware because they are hoisting flags that means "i have a diver down"
Pretty sure it wouldn’t start spinning fast. It would slowly start to turn as it builds up speed
@@garden0fstone736 u got to think of the area though of that propellor. just imagine the volume of water that thing sucks towards the blades a second. even at a low speed it must be hundreds of litres a second
I am both absolutely terrified and absolutely fascinated by the giant propeller and rudder.
This falls in the 'Hell no' category. The submechanofobia is strong with this one.
Haha, me too my friend, me too
We took a swim call off Catalina Island (southern California coast) in 1992 from the USS Ohio, SSBN 726 nuclear submarine. Me and 4 other guys were crazy/brave enough to jump in. I was surprised that it was moving! We had to swim pretty hard to get from amidships to the bow up front. We then body-surfed up onto the bow to get back aboard. No way was I going to climb up the ladder against that sinisterly-dark hull, probably crusted with sharp stuff! Damn that was scary AF. Can't believe I did that! A buddy of mine volunteered to be our shark watch. He was roped off and standing up on top of the sailing dive planes with an M14 keeping a watch out for us. Thanks buddy.
Oh, and I almost forgot, but a pleasure boat was so curious they got within 100 yards to watch us. It's not every day you see a gigantic nuclear sub on the surface with hot dog cookouts and swimmers.
Even if you offered me a million dollars a day for life I wouldn't do this. I wouldn't survive the heart attack I'd have from sheer panic anyway. This ship is massive...
id do it for $10,000 a day - this kind of work is super chill as long as everything is locked out (pumps, engines, etc.) - nothing really scary or particularly hazardous here with the right precautions.
I'll pay you $40 to scrape the bottom of my boat.
@@fufun4514 deal, where do I have to come
And the ocean is deep. Nerves of steel😑
@@fufun4514 I just crossed the border, how does $10 sound? 🤣
I can't believe this warehouse of cargo is floating in the ocean
And its even not a big one. In Port Rotterdam i have seen tankers and container chips so large this one can sail inside them.
and that isn't even one of the largest container ships. it's insane the scale of those things
@@jpsholland I couldn't imagine
Great place to dump a body
It's amazing to see this in clear waters. My experience in the strait's of Malacca where it meets the South China Sea are fighting currents and dealing with low visibility.
These vessels are so big that you can get lost at the flat bottom circling looking for light shinning from your underwater tender or the ship's vertical side, hoping and praying, whilst your tank get's critically low.
For the time's we used surface supplied air via an umbilical, it is a cross-country goddam sprint to the bow as we address our audience of the condition and texture of the barnacles and whatever eco system that's developed on the hull via a close circuit camera, hand-held, connected to the umbilical systems, balancing between breathing and speaking into the audio system and of course pretending to be like a bloody astronaut.
Out of 5 dives, we might bail out on one just because the currents are too strong, though we still tried, or some other fuckery. Jellyfishes perhaps.
The thin line between life and death is stretched out into just a handful of factors including overworking and underpaid of course.
Most of the time we're working alone under those vessels. Whether it be scuba diving with an Olympus camera in an underwater casing or scraping off the marine growth with a scraper, we're all pretty much biting down on the mouthpiece and hey o let's go.
that sounds terryfying.
I can imagine now how scary that is inspecting some huge mass of steel afloat from the eyes of a fish.
Giant enormous.
Thank you Diver
TH-cam: Hey wanna watch these divers explore under a big ship?
Me, high at 230 in the morning: Yeah sure lets do this!
Hellz yeah
👽
Everybody in this section of the comments high as shit 😂
I’m early but not far behind💚🍀
Say wat cuz ?
See now, this don't freak Me out. If I knew how to dive, I would go. I find this cool as heck. These guys are awesome.
That propeller is giving me anxiety 😬
My head hurts
Submechanophobia 🤪
note to self: never look under when next to a yacht.
*seeing that propeller terrifies me*
Scary phobia 😰
That’s like my biggest fear. Being underwater, close to a ship or boat or anything
Submechanophobia
me too
Same here
I wouldn’t do it alone but with a friend I’d be fine that’s just me though
I’m terribly afraid of the giant monsters that may be a mile below me while under a ship.
Same here 👀
omg i almost passed out when i say how deep the hull went and the size of this ship
Soo awesome. What a great job to have. The air pocket mirrors when under the ship are a sight to behold.
Straight up! This is the Best Video of its kind on the Internet.
The pairing of underwater footage + awesome music makes this a WINNER in my book!
Bravo!
As I am watching this video, my brain is recording the images for nightmares any given night to come
Last night I watched this before going to sleep... And of course I was diving here in my dream which was terrifying but same time very relaxing. Now I enjoy this video very much.
I am simply amazed by the scale of this ship, I'd love to go diving at one.
Same
@@M2DR_w too creepy!
i'd rather shit
There are some brave people on youtube i have had a bad experience with these once i accidentally touched the propeller on my boat
This will forever go down as one of the most unnerving videos I’ve ever seen. The idea of being under a gigantic ship in the seemingly infinite deep dark waters below me as huge propellers awaiting me at the end of the ship is my biggest fear. Videos like this keep me up and fuel my mind with nightmares.
I've been watching a lot of these videos lately and really trying to figure out the psychology of why this stuff spooks me.
So far, I've got nothing...other than that humans aren't meant to be in water, and we create unnatural objects that go in the water which then make us doubly uncomfortable because our bodies are doubling down on the unnatrualness of it all.
Or something.
Hell no. That’s all
I think there's just something about the lighting and obscuration of something huge. If you've ever seen "The Mist", that film plays around with huge creatures obscured by, well, mist; and I think it has a similar effect. Then, as you said, there's the fact that the water is not our environment. We're just more helpless there and I think we know it on a primal level when in the sea.
Probably the fear of the unknown.. You can't see far in the ocean so their could be anything around you.. And these things we make give us comfort when your inside them.. Not out in the open water knowing your staring at your only safety and your not in it..
Being with someone makes it less triggering. Imagine being alone. Whoooof
They are inspecting the tanker to ensure they aint smuggling anything illegal into the country. thats why they checked inside the seachests and at the stern where the rudder is.
Literally my biggest fear and these guys do it voluntarily… respect!
My submechanophobia is SCREAMING
I am screaming
I stay away from propellers, and pool drains it's scared me as a child
@@johnnyangel3441 oh wow. Me too
@@changchung LOL, my brother freaks around pool drains and he's 40!!
I allwase had a fear of deep water with random structures like tubes drains chaines and walls and wors of all.. dead body’s . It sounds dum but there just something about it being underwater that makes it so scary. Maby it’s because you have a slower reaction time, you normally can’t see it until you’re right on top of it or Maby because you normally have no idea what’s down there. It could be enything from a bike to a literal grave. The worst part about it is I can never put my finger on it so I can never pin it down. I normaly say I’m afraid of massive lumping things in the water but it’s a lot more than that
My son watch this video many times everyday. Thanks from Dubai
I watched this beautiful video because i wanted to understand how difficult was for the German sailors to repair Bismarck's steering and save themselves.
I'd assume, very, and that's why they didn't do it.
This just makes me appreciate land even more even though I do love the ocean and wanna go scuba diving this is just a hell no from me
Regular people: holy shit! that's so scary, I wouldn't be at it
Actual divers: why in the fuck are they doing ship husbandry in open water on scuba?
ship husbandry makes it sound like this thing is alive
Exactly my question. Also no coms to the surface or a signal line seems real stupid to me
I love the tanker ships.The soundtrack compliments the footage of this
big graceful giant.
I had to stop in the middle and come back at a later time. I was having heart palpitations. This is terrifying to me.
- I started watching this on my iPad, but it was too much. I switched to my phone, and I'm still itching and flinching like crazy 😅
How is a boat propeller scary
@@Chino.12oo submechanophobia
@@Chino.12oo It's a serious phobia and trust me it is just terrifying
5:40 imagine it turned on
man I thought I was going to sleep tonight...
@Malcolm Holmes not from that side bro, u would get chopped up into tiny little pieces before your mind could even think
@@X7.DBW_ clam chowder
I am always scared of that happening. I wonder if it has a name.
Welp guess I'll die 🙃🙂🙃🙂
Such an interesting perspective to see such a large ship from beneath.
I watch these videos in the morning to wake me up by getting the stress chemicals flowing.
Those grates with the openings going inside are making me much more uncomfortable than the screw
It's worse when you see there's smaller pipes inside the vents
@@blueterror2276 the part at 9:08 almost got me in panic. 😰
There is NO F.....G WAY I could ever do that. NO F......G WAY.
I'm a diver. I had to dive under a tour boat that was anchored at the dock and the maintenance crew dropped tools in the water the day before and the boat docked right over them the next day. I had to go under the boat, and it was floating about 2 feet from the bottom and I literally had to skim underneath this massive boat with my facemask nearly scraping the bottom and my tank banging on the bottom of the boat! You want to talk about claustrophobic.....even today I wonder what the H was I thinking.
@@chivone21 yeah dude a wave could have crushed you man with the force of the boat moving up and down! good thing you're here to tell the story
@@krafty-exe You know....come to think of it, I never thought of that! I really didn't. It seemed safe enough, I was in, under and the H outta there as fast as I could. It was in a large lake, early in the morning so it was calm, clear, but....2 1/2 feet of clearance. It just never crossed my mind. What you'll do for a dollar.
@@chivone21 ah okay i was think maybe in a ocean channel. a lake prolly made it seem not much of a bad idea
but still dangerous im sure
Submechanophobia: and i took that personally
this is more terrifying than any horror movie could ever hope to be
i love this kind of stuff. even if i do it during the night, alone. inspecting the hull makes me feel relaxed.
Very interesting video. To say the least it's a very long time ago that used to do snorkeling and some of what would be normal items can be very bewildering under water. I guess you have to have a certain ability to detach yourself from the moment and remain calm. I've often wondered about this important job. Now I know how it's done 👍
When he put the camera up into the rudder trunk my glutes literally cramped up. I had to get up and walk around until they relaxed.
The way you formulated that comment made it sound like the rudder trunk is the ships asshole. 😂
@@lamppuu1 Where else would a ship shit?
i love it man...
watching big moving ship or propellers are so satisfying in underwater.
I wouldn’t go down there for even $8 billion
I would
I would even for less
Why what's scary about it. There just swimming around a ship
I would pay to go there
Give me 8 thousand and my fat ass will ride the propeller
Flippin awesome. Scary, but awesome. The music added to it, especially Passagen (Convextion Remix)
Ships, ocean, propellers........ probably my biggest fears in life
I honestly don't know ships had water intake vents underneath that were so big ... imagine getting sucked in omg 😱
Wow..... that's what those things are?
@@invisiblerevolution those are the thrusters. They are used to make the ship go sideways
I thought they were impellers which are designed to suction water to cool the engines I could be wrong, but that's what I thought. The thrusters have propellers inside them. They are solely in the bow.
They're called Sea Chests.
They're for pulling sea water in to the ship for various reasons.
@@camaro97383i have a question what would happen if you got sucked in?
I find the way, that almost everyone (including me) are terrified of this, very interesting. You can stand near way bigger thing (mountain, building ...)that this ship and not feel that fear. Surely due to water , I guess.
Probably the fact that if your in the water it's down beneath you submerged in the darkness you don't know what's down there what's sttatched to the underside of the boat that's accumulated over years in not to bothered about this but if I swam up to a big ship like this and there was something to hold on naturally I'd want to be hauling my legs up too and holding them out of the water as its knowing your legs are under water next to the unknown that's abut uncomfortable also co,ws down to knowing what's under the water if you could see is so huge and potentially intimidating but u can't see yet you know it is
I CANT IMAGINE IF THE PROPPELLER STARTED WHEN HE WAS RIGHT NEXT TO IT
Nightmare fuel
on the other hand, they are soo big they start spinning really slow. at this size you can see them start spinning and simply swim away. (and then go shoot the captain for this shit. XDXD)
@BlackBot Entertainments LOL, why should it suck me in? its not a turbine. :) the laws of physic let me sleep well, thanks. :)
IMAGINE THE NOISE
@@billy5179 a propeller works by pushing water in front of it, it gets this water from behind the propeller therefore it creates a pulling force.
I would love to do this, even just once, to swim around a ship that massive, it's amazing to see how much displacement it has, btw I never been on open ocean in ship, or lived near ocean.
You may just have a career waiting for you lol
I don't think there's a waiting list to make a lot of money doing this.
Tem que ter muita coragem pra fazer essa vistoria no casco desse navio.
This is one of my biggest fears. I would never do this. Once I'm under it, might get in panic immediately. Looking inside those compartments is even scarier.😥
This ship is huge.😳
@Sen Se that's great!👏🏻👏🏻😊
How do they ensure nobody starts the engine while the divers are down there?
I'm pleased to read that I'm not the only one who finds this terrifying. I expected the comments to be full of purely scuba/maritime analysis. There just something I find unsettling about objects underwater, that wouldn't faze me on land.
Me too! I just think that I'm the only one
It's called submechanophobia
I thought this would freak me out, but once they were underwater and inspecting the hull it was not that bad. I think it’s more when you are one the surface and you’re beside something so huge, and you look underwater and this thing just disappears into the depths. I think being in the water and having a huge vessel sink by you and you just see it sliding into the murky depths.......shit, I’m giving myself the willys. Yah, it’s definitely the size and the dark ocean that gets me.
I wish I had some decent camera gear when I was diving 35 years ago. Would have had some awesome footage. Not in the greatest shape now and with age I no longer dive.
I love scuba diving and this to me looks like the best job in the world ☺️
Прозрачность хорошая 👍 .
У нас максимум 2 метра видимость в зимний период .
I have done a few of these in the past ,these guys are so lucky they have good viz and light ,it's not so great when you can only see maybe 3 feet .
What a video would be great with VR and a couple of hits of acid👍💯
Yes yes..... my guy!
I’m really curious what prompted this inspection. The vessel is largely free of growth indicating its been dry docked lately. Very cool to see.
It's going to be a solid nope from me Bob, have a good evening, I'll see myself out.
Me too
Bob the boat builder lol....
This literally kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. My worst fear.
I dont know why but this doenst scare me so much. The thing that scared me the most was at 6:33 there's like a tiny hole and I thought the diver would dive into it and I got claustrophobia. XD Tight spaces are scarier to me than giant underwater things.
Dang tootin! That's how l feel! Give me land, lot's a land, under starry skies above,🎶 don't fence me in🎶!
@@jmartin9785 lol 🤣
I have a little bit of claustrophobia but i can go into a box or really a lot of places just not here
My fear isn't so much of tight spaces per se, but getting stuck underwater and drowning.
Like that poor guy who got stuck in a cave while diving
I could do this no problem, I love ships and am familiar with vessels and boat engines. But diving or free diving in underwater caves? Tight tunnels? Heck no!
Whatever they pay you for this job, it is not enough. Respect.
Are the bubbles coming from the prop shaft normal?
That’s what I was thinking
Air pressure inside stern tube aft seal is automatically adjusted that it is slightly above water pressure from outside. Excess air is escaping through seal, visible air bubbles.
Oh!?.... thanks!
She is in passable condition. I would dry dock her for hull paint. But ship owners are so cheap they will let it go way too long. Nice Video;
Everybody gangsta till the diver from ‘finding nemo’ heard you hitting the boat.
Respected The Doctors,
The ships settled and level up the engine to stand.
It's Functioning great.
Thank you very much.
That was impressive! What are the large square openings with lattice protection used for?
Is ballast water exchanged there?
Thank you for sharing !
Its a water intake grate!
Not bow thrusters?
@@tsitracommunications2884 LOL dude, those ports had grates attached by a nut and cotter pin. No way would that stand up to the power of propulsion.
the ‘sea chest’..thats where sea water is sucked in and desalinated for engine cooling and for making steam for propulsion
I have nothing in common with boats or ships but this is just so fascinating
Thank you for this educational video! The vents what are they? I saw a ladder inside one of them I believe
Those vents are intakes for ballast or cooling water for the engines. Some ships have a propeller at the front. We call that bow thrusters. They are capable of mo ing the nose of the ship to the side
Класс!!!👍👍👍Сильно Завораживает!!!💪💪💪Спасибо!!!🤝🤝🤝
This doesnt scare me. Machines in natural settings(sea, ocean etc.) doesnt freak me out.
What freaks me out are machines in artificial bodies of water(pools, tanks, wells), like a drain in a deep pool or a turbine in a tank, eeek.
Wanderful video .. nicely done... I was ex seaman... seen this underwater hull inspections in US waters many time.....
Very interesting to watch. Can one indicate what score the hull of this vessel gets? To me it seems ok. Imagine it can be worse, but also it can way much better. Obviously a new vessel will look better.
It is still pretty good one. One year after drydock. White stuff on the hull is where barnacles trying to survive 😁
OOH, thank you!! My Thalassobya is in perfect shape!!!
We all have to agree to the fact that titanic movie is somewhat related to us watching this video today.
I think I had submechanophobia from staying in the Queen Mary hotel when they used to let you stay in the rooms back in the day and seeing some oddities at night and on the tour, like shadows and moving lights but definitely over it now years later. More fascinated by how we get our cargo across the ocean and how these work. These guys have a tough job. The music is just there to mess with you. I'm over the fear now, watching this confirms it. I even jetski next to big tankers and was nervous at first but it's totally fine! The Queen Mary, yes that was creepy no doubt!
Why are their air bubbles coming from the propeller shaft area?
I think the other guy inspecting the propeller from below
@@grizzlyBear69 it says in the description why the air is coming out
@@richardc1983 👍👍
Oh my, those codder pins are fresh and beautiful. I’d pass it.😎
6:30 Is the air coming off the prop shaft normal? If so, where does it come from?
That might be the exuast because some boats has underwater exuast
it is excess air from stern tube seal, please read description.
@@teegeedee6609 they don't, they have air exhausts. Also, if that was the exhaust, the prop would ventilate and lose a ton of efficiency.
Stern tube compressed air sealing
Pretty cool info about the tube seal! Thanks for sharing.
that music doesn't help my underships anxiety.
Divers are definitely a different breed of confident