Ghost Ship: The Unidentified Shipwreck 130 Feet Below The Caribbean | Dive Detectives
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- Saba is a tiny Caribbean island that harbors a mystery. Resting atop the pristine coral atoll known as Saba Bank is a rarity - a true “Ghost Ship,” an unidentified shipwreck, in 40 meters (130 feet) of water. Mike and Warren Fletcher, the Dive Detectives travel to this mysterious and wild place with hopes of discovering its secrets.
In 2006, a Dutch Navy ship was conducting a routine mapping exercise when its sensors became tangled underwater. Resting below was a mystery a 96-meter (314-foot) freighter that had apparently never been reported, and it seemed none of the locals knew anything about its origins. In order to unlock the secrets of the ship, the Dive Detectives must brave the area’s wild seas and conduct a challenging penetration dive into the heart of the vessel.
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For those that don't know, this ship has been identified as MV Marina, ex Warna, ex Warina, a Polish general cargo ship built in 1968 at the Bulyard Shipbuilding Industry shipyard in Varna, Bulgaria with a gross registered tonnage of 2,466 tons. It was purchased by a company in the British Virgin Islands that used it to ship concrete around the Caribbean. On August 14th, 2000 the crew reported that they were having issues with the ship taking on water in high seas off of Tortola and they abandoned ship. The next day a plane flew over the ship seeing that it was still sinking. The next day a salvage crew went out to the ship and noticed that one of the seachests was left open, managed to close it, pump the water out, and tow the ship back to Tortola where the original crew stripped the ship of all it's valuables, then departed again. No one knows exactly what happened next, but we can all see where she is now. The owner died in 2001, so we have no explanation as to why they wanted to sink the ship.
Yes we all watched the same video here.
No way is that a Polish built ship. It doesn't have any wheels on it!!
Old ship probably in need of extensive maintenance and repairs so sink it for the insurance loss would be my first thought as to why
Ships that have been built in Poland are afloat as every other one's, with no need for any wheels.@@robertschumann7737
So this is interesting. Where I live we had a bit of a problem, as we had had an asbestos abatement program, but nowhere to ship the abated asbestos. It sat in containers for years with nowhere to go. A guy I know, who had been a ship's engineer on vessels that plied the Caribbean waters, came up with what I thought was a rather wacky idea. He'd arrange for a South American country which still accepted asbestos imports to agree to take it, then hire a ship to take it down there. However, at some point on it's journey he'd have the crew declare an emergency and abandon ship, with the vessel mysteriously sinking.
Yes, almost exactly the same scenario as we see here. That engineer knew stuff.
Not that I condone what happened but asbestos underwater isn't going to give anyone methosphilioma.
@@wes11bravoProbably the safest place for it...
"steering wheel isn't there" 19:38 left side of the screen. The sheer amount of over dramatization in this is amazing...
Maybe but the voice over guy crushes
What was on screen there looks way to small to be the Steering wheel and looks more like a Valve by its size
You are also assuming that all ships have huge helms! Some don't even have wheels. But the ship was stripped before it was purposely sunk.
Saba intriqued me as I flew over it often in the early 80s for a small airline out of St. Thomas. Windward uses a Twin Otter to fly there from St. Martin.
The problem with these over-dramatised 'documentaries' is that they intentionally leave out key facts.
"Mike must go it alone". As they show two other divers ready to go. Who filmed Mike as he "went it alone"? Had he "went it alone", he would have broke the cardinal rule of diving: Never Go Alone.
With credibility of the video destroyed right there, why bother watching further?
I am 1 min in, so i wont disagree but benefit of the doubt could they have meant hes the only one with the expertise to figure out what hes looking at in terms of their investigation? Unfortunately, the drama they feel the need to add to something already quite exciting does get tedious after watching these type of shows for a bit.
@@ginnygin7141 It makes me wonder what else is factually incorrect. No one knows what ship this is or when it sank? I highly doubt that. Someone would notice their cargo didn't arrive. How many ships this size and age disappeared along that route over the years? Not many. The southern Caribbean is one of the most heavily surveilled regions on the planet. A huge ship doesn't go unnoticed, or it's sudden disappearance.
@@ginnygin7141 It turns out there was no mystery at all. The ship was built in Poland, renamed Marina and began taking on water off Saba in 2000. The crew abandoned ship, was rescued and the ship prevented from sinking by rescuers who found it was being flooded through an open valve. It was towed to Saba.
The owner was contacted and the ship was released to the crew. It left harbor and sank shortly after the crew once again abandoned it.
I agree seems like click bait and false information right off the bat.
@slartybarfastb3648 Well, they concluded that it was an insurance scam, and that the boat was purposely sabotaged to sink, but that doesn't make sense because how can you claim insurance if you never report the boat as sunk or missing. I dont really understand what they're trying to say happened tbh.
Thank you for posting the "Dive Detective" series with Mike and Warren Fletcher. I'm fascinated by what is hiding below the water. This is a current mystery. The Hamilton and the Scourge is a mystery from the the 1800's. I'm looking forward to watching this documentary again too.
i liked the hamilton and scourge episode because i believe i had ancestors on the hamilton! i love this series in general but that one hit home
One thing with this type of documentary…cut to the chase and stop trying to make it ‘scary’. Getting permission to look for the name would be the first thing to do. And trying to make 32 meters deep is deadly; yeah of course you have to be careful but it’s not too dangerous
Yeah I ended up skipping ahead so many times. The history is more interesting than the divers imo.
dive starts at 9:30
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A wonderful documentary about Marina / warina ship 🚢 ( Ghost 👻 ship) letters found..1968 ....thanks (Timeline) channel .....
This dude got problems with decompression in almost every movie... maybe he should ask director for more time on stops. Or stop pretending.
Or get checked for a PFO
Glad I’m not the only one who noticed that this guy always winds up with decompression problems. It might be time to go back to diving class. Ya’ think?
Oh come on!! Spoiler alert please!! Oh wait, I guess saying Warren doesn't have decompression issues would actually be the spoiler since he gets one on the deepest dive on every episode. Let me guess, he breathes a bit of oxygen and is just fine?
Wait what other docs did the guy get the bends?
Great show
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Living in the USVI...I always wondered what Saba was like. Whenever you'd get the weather report on the radio, it was from the USVI, "Down island to Saba". I knew people from ALL OVER the Caribbean. Never a should from Saba.
With the greatest respect, one gentleman reminds me a little of mcgiver.
I kept thinking Mike looks a little like Richard Dean Anderson! Glad I’m not the only one!
Fascinating! The whole time this was unfolding, I was thinking that something deliberate/unlawful was done, it had an shady sense about it.
The Fletchers are a terrific and engaging team! first saw them involved with the Clive Cussler series, which was great. Think it was called the Sea Hunters > definitely worth watching!
Signs on control boards, is always from the maker, showing the id number and manufacturing date, already this early in the documentary they could had found the company who made it, and the serial number would tell you witch hull (ship) it was installed in
Interesting documentary
There's nobody else there to help me except for the camera crew
Nice documentary, great work too :) Crew on the ship sure did something fishy, and captain got his Karma for contaminating the sea.
As a mariner the first thing I would have done would be to
reveal the name
This ship has been down there awhile. All that growth from marine life. No way it’s recent.
24 years in warm water
It was sunk around the 2000s
The guys name is "Mike Hunt"...Reallly?...
no... I.P. Daley...
The ship looked to be in an absolutely horrendous condition at the time she was taken under tow.
From the dive footage it was obvious that she had been stripped of whatever was considered to have had a resale value, including the mattresses from the Crews beds!
She suffered a not unfamiliar fate, being intentionally sunk by dishonest owners, rather than by being disposed of in a responsible manner, itself a potentially expensive undertaking.
I didn't know Ashton Kutcher is a diver :O
I was thinking Tom Cruise 😂😂
Discount MacGuyver
The Marina was a Floating High Stakes Casino
03:22 Okay, Sgt. Schulz.
18:43 is where Mike Hunts. I swear I’m an idjit. But this show is quite interesting. I like the mystery and the details in the findings. I knew of a shady guy with the name of Fletcher that admitted to me he would burn 2 of his trucks down for the insurance money but then he wrecked 3 others. Then he cried about his insurance rates being ridiculously high. For my truck and trailer with $250,000 load insurance was $980 a month. His was damn near twice that amount. Pure theft.
Why does this dude feel sick in every episode after diving? Are they looking to add drama to the story? Maybe diving isnt this dudes calling.
what are the sacks filled with
I would gladly take this ship for free. :D How can scrapping teh ship cost more than its worth? Such a massive piece of metal with third world work cost...
Ha-ha that was awesome. Thanks! I am from Bulgaria, and the last thing I expected is that the ship was build here. Varna is one of the largest cities in my country and is located on the coast of the Black Sea, so it's a port city... I recently went on a vacation with my kids there and there is an interesting maritime museum worth visiting. Here's a short video of one of the exhibits there for anyone interested: th-cam.com/video/czmLZATcRYo/w-d-xo.html
I'm fairly certain a ghost ship has to be floating. A ship that is sunk is just a ship wreck. Why do they keep calling this a ghost ship?
Not exactly the "Rhime of The Anciet Mlariner."
A tad over-dramatic. Also, I don't get the point of the part about anchoring off Statia oil terminal damaging fishing around Saba. They are two different islands 16nm apart.
I find it odd that it seem to be worth the money to let the ship be cut up and recycled as scrap metal... A ship around 100 m long should contain many tons of steel.
This one must've been a little underfunded, why else would they take such a small dive boat 26 miles out into that churning sea. I've been on 50 footers out that far and its like being in a rowboat at times.
Come on it ain't nowhere near rough for a boat that size it's got powerful propulsion also 26mile is not that far out.
These are the worst types of production's. Over dramatic to the point of the viewer asking themselves "Do these people think I'm stupid?" First dive Sharks (oh my 😮) it's the freaking Caribbean, what did you expect? Water is too ruff and risky! Did you not notice before leaving the boat? Sorry I'm Out.
Gotta be aliens...
The DCS issues every episode is getting really old, either it is fake because it is reality show drama, or he should not be diving. Also it is in 130' of water, she was sent down as an artificial reef, I have dove many sites around the Caribbean, with the exact same back story.
so they could've just gotten the name from the ship's hull and looked in a book for a ship matching its description...? that's my takeaway...
😂 no one in the ship to help him! What about the camera man? Complete BS.
First comment!
Little dumb to get in the water with no indication the wreck was near. And WTF does the anchor have to do with the story?
Why do they aim these programs at trailer park residents?
Otherwise it could have been an interesting documentary..
If bro can't dive a basic depth without "dying" maybe don't dive. What a terrible documentary this was.
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For Warren and me. 😅😅
Ok enough with the boat stories
It’s a ship.
Thanks for this pointless click bait video, with zero conclusion.
Over the top dramatic 'Yank documentary'. Typical...
Overly dramatic BS, American shows suck
Can you please give us more meaningless metric measurements thanks
marina is a womans name
I think I dated her years ago