The Hunt For The Lost 6000 Shipwrecks Of WWII
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Scattered around the coasts of the world are ticking time bombs, so far virtually unknown to the public; 6,300 wrecks, sunk in the Second World War, have been rusting away in the sea for over 70 years. The threat they pose goes way beyond all the oil spill catastrophes ever experienced. In 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground off Alaska, polluting the coast with 37,000 tonnes of leaked crude oil. That’s just a fraction of what’s assumed to lie in the wartime wrecks. Researchers estimate they still hold up to 15 million tonnes of oil.
The film takes us to the Baltic coast of Poland, to Norway, to the USA and the Pacific Ocean. We accompany scientists examining how badly the seabed is already contaminated in some places by seeping oil. They monitor critical wrecks and develop hazard scenarios. They warn that the oil in quite a few sunken ships must be pumped away as a matter of urgency.
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Considering the damage done to the sea in millennia of conflicts, it shows a remarkable ability to defeat all that is thrown at it..
It doesn't defeat,it suffers.
@@dejanaleksov1552 I get your point.
@@littlemeg137 Not my point, but I get yours.
Lol I’m more worried about the half dozen soviet nuclear submarines that they dumped in the Baltic Sea
excellent.. in comparison to history channel a strong competition ..well done
Unlikely math. 15 million tons of oil divided by 6,300 wrecks would equal 2,381 tons of oil per wreck. Freighters of the time probably ranged from 1,000 tons to 5,000 tons in total.
Perhaps the iron from the steel is causing an algal bloom that's creating the subsequent oil? 🤷🏻♂️
@@Kazyumi actually there are bacteria that eats oil. Research that.
Not only that bogus stat........they get all bent out of shape over crustaceans dying in an outrageously toxic 40:1 water/oil mix. Even a million tons of oil spread over a large chunk of ocean amounts to FAAAAAR less than that. Pretty much a fart in the windstorm....
@@ohwell2790 I know. All oil spills have been dealt with and resolved by nature anyway.
US battleship Arizona has been leaking oil into Pearl Harbour ever since she sank in December 1941. Extracting the oil sounds great but triggering a flood of oil would generate certain environmental damage.
It appears WWII is ongoing! What a bummer! Best of luck to all of us and let's go salvage oil!!
The war is horrible why is the planet so crazy
I remember in Fort Lauderdale going to the beach in the late 60's and being covered in a tar like substance from swimming. Not sure if it was from the wrecks or more recent shipping in the area.
For crying out loud, anyone reading a history of the Battle of the North Atlantic would have read about the millions of tons of shipping German U-boats sunk after 1941, especially in 1942 the U-boats had a "target rich environment' along the east US coast....
Yep and since they were always the aggressors they should pay for all the cleanup of both sides with their Japanese and Italian cousins.
Just think about when the USS Arizona & USS Utah let loose
just finished watching a film on how nuclear power will rule on the water it was from the early '70s LOL
Yes. That's only slightly more optimistic than those who insist that certain states will be utilizing nothing but electric vehicles by 2035. The folks who make those kinds of demands or prophecies will seemingly never learn; never be deterred from their eternal, unfounded optimism.
would if it were allowed.
Huge bio-hazard - nonsense!
There are *natural* oil seeps all over the world, including under the sea. Whatever the environment, you can bet that some kind of lifeform is taking advantage of it and that includes areas with oil, radiation and anything else.
The problem is that the ships rust, and will dump a lot of oil rather rapidly. And that can't be taken advantage of within a short time, resulting in rather large areas of dead ocean.
When the ocean die we die💀😔
I don’t fully understand how this poses a threat to the world. I can see how it damages ocean ecosystems but at the same time I feel like the amount of wrecks similar to the one seen here, even however in mass numbers they are, wouldn’t even pose a threat to anything with respect to the size of our oceans. Just my thoughts.
Yes there's a lot worse that's gone into the sea since WW2.
Your mom knows all about how dangerous seamen can be when covered in oil😅 ask her
I definitely agree. A threat to the world??
Rather over dramatic. Respectfully of course. Good video still.
It's a snowball effect... at least I think that's what they're getting at.
Really? You have got to be kidding me. You really can not see the threat to the world? Wow some peoples kids!
@46:48 just goes to show it cost a quarter to cover up the problem and forget about it till it pops back up again instead of doing the job right once and for all😂😂😂😂
Not just the oil, but also the cargo from these ships. I know of a Liberty Ship off the UK that is packed with explosives and if it exploded it would do great damage to the nearby city. Also there is a UBoat in Norway that was carrying Mercury that sank on the way to Japan.
Trying to remember the name of the ship USS Montgomery possibly??
Found it! SS Richard Montgomery.. thanks for reminding me to look that up 👍
The industry and investors must be taking care of the planet because its the only space craft that has so many humans
Good luck with that.
I knew this was/is going to happen. Just a matter of time.
And all the waste chemicals, DDT and stuff like that. Nuclear Waste too.
I feel the risk of nuclear war is now greater, or war brewing with China, however was a very good documentary. I just hope we get past the current risks to deal with the black tears.
if they pump out the oil then can’t it be used for fuel today. l don’t think that it would go bad. why can’t we make the ocean safer and then use the fuel for what it is compatibility is
The concern would have ,is how do we fix this?,besides these 6000 ship,you must also realize the aircraft carriers,the massive warships,all those damaged and abandoned planes,at bottom of the oceans ,in truth nobody will do anything till they all leak at once and then catch fire,watch all the finger pointing then.
Actually someone has been doing something. Sea bacteria have been eating the leaking oil for the last 80 years. They are thriving.
would it be possible to shoot steam into the oily sand and extract the oil and then refine it for reuse?
There's been so many ships sunk from storms, conflicts, and errors since engines went to sea - perhaps an ecology-minded billionaire could help support an effort to extract petroleum products from the sea?
Completely overblown and hysterical claims
Do you have a complete list of the Ships in the 5-150m range (I'm a P.A.D.I OWDI, a IANTD and G.U.E. Tech Diver). I have dove the Hermes off Sri Lanka, U.S.S. New York (Subic Bay), an LST (Subic Bay), U.S S. Huston and H.M.A.S. Perth (Java Sea - these could have oil) and we located a preciously unlocsted wreck in Sri Lanska (we found an (Auxillary Ship which was a fuel tender but it took bombs right in the tank). The War ships we "look but don't toich" as they are official "War Graves" both in a legal sense or if not depending on law snd location, it is still an ethical isssue for, at least the people I dive with, so any disturbance should only be done if there is an environmental risk and done with disclosure and in a respectful way. Yes, all the fisherman fish on wrecks and they both have helped us find wrecks but thier nets and lines are a huge hazard to us. We also are aware there is fsr more than oil on the warships. There are potentially tons of high explosive, which all can be "live" especially the "primers" in the "fuse room". When we dive these we are very careful to not disturb anything and to have the historic maps of the ships (US and UK WWII Ships the blueprints are available on request. Exactly,.the ammunition is still potentially and likely live on wrecks beyond 50m as any deeper to go there for long or to enter requires technical wreck diving training, special gas mixs, snd / or semi or closed circuit refreshers.
Meanwhile natural oil plumes are everywhere
Shhh....don't tell people that?!?! It will kill their industry!
These people are idiots using buzz words to seduce other idiots that can’t comprehend how big the ocean is, let alone how deep it is. It’s a literal fart in the wind.
They could easily retrieve most of the oil/fuel if they WANTED to! We now have deep-sea drilling capability & deep-sea recovery ability, so the only excuse is "who is going to pay for it?" They forget that any recovered oil/fuel can probably be recycled/re-refined & that would significantly offset the costs, but no one thinks about that for some reason? Most wrecks are closer to the surface than where they currently drill undersea wells. If they can waste billions on defence, they can certainly manage preventative draining of these wrecks. It's a no-brainer really....prevent future damage to the ecosystems.
You gotta find all the ships which go fing luck.
Just shoving down a drill to bore under the ocean floor is alot easier then have to have very delicate work to extract oil from ships. Who likely have weaker steel so you need to be careful and you wont have people that far down to carry that out in a good manner.
Also live ammunition is a thing.
Plz common sense its not that easy as you may belive it is.
The solution is very expensive , so make one convention and close the chapter.
It's a mess a it's an environmental ocean disaster welcome to the fifth apocalypse.
I'm not particularly anti German, far from it. Germany was rebuilt by free nations and ultimately by the lands it invaded and occupied. Shouldn't the aggressor pay for the damage their war created?
According to your statement who's the aggressor?
I may be wrong but oil comes out of the ground no?
What about ordinance? After all, the predominant source of sunken wrecks of so many bodies of water.
you would think they would want the oil sell it and reuse it in say.. a oil fired power plant. "gold" comes in many forms besides shiny yellow metal, oil is black gold.
I believe the losers and aggressors of ww2 should have to foot the bill for all of it.
Pump the oil and fuel out. Its worth money.
Sorry we can’t see them so it’s ok……
Synthetic Oil CAN NOT BE REMOVED BY ANY DISPERSANT ☣️⚠️ 2:23
They took the Eeeeemoreeeeeee
To Poland.
They keep rehashing these documentaries on different titles channels I've already seen this
the governments view: if it comes out slowly nobody will notice, problem solved.
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The outer banks New York to Florida man like 530 some ships suck just the
I'd make Germany pay. Take their money.
War is hell, I understand that, but it seems a little messed up that the Allies bombed an unarmed hospital ship. Pretty sure that's a war crime.
Everyone was doing it.
it def is
Collateral damage. Sorry, sucks to be you but then don't park in a harbour we want to blow up.
They bombed a military port.
How were they supposed to know where it was?
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Government war equipment take loitering to another level
Again, Pete Pete and repeat.....new material needed
Let the Germans pay.
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Ever see the local pond drained or dried up? All the random assorted shit deemed worthless down there? Same with the ocean by a factor of 10.
Folks, don’t worry about this. The oil came from the earth and it goes back to the earth. “Black tears” sounds melodramatic, but they will disintegrate and go away.
In The Kingdom ofHawaii the US has made a tourist attraction of the USS Arizona sunk when Japan attacked the illegal occupying US navy. Hawaii is still a neutral Nation State. No treaty off annexation.
Can't hear either person talking at the same time.