Hey Group, Sorry for the low quality vid. I was filming quickly as I wasn’t sure how long I’d be there before getting kicked out. This is a concept that has intrigued me for a while. If you have access to these or vessels like them down here in TX I’d be interested in hearing from you and filming more comprehensive vids in this subject.
Also, I know I’ve some misinformation in the vid. I’ll be more knowledgeable on these and have more time to film without pressure at a later time. Gimme a mulligan.
@@barelysurvival336 Yep not a good thing to drop the round ones from height. The poor bastard that would have done that would have been in a real bind because he would be standing up working the release mechanism. As for the others that would have been inside with him, they would be strapped in with a seat belt and free fall the 60+ feet to the water. You can imagine what would happen. The two floats on top are a self righting kit. This was brought about because of one that flipped upside down and drowned the entire crew inside. The diesel engine is a Westerbeke. These had an aux. water pump to pump water around the top ring located below the self righting kit in case of fire.
I’ve seen that pod for over a decade outside the CC Flea Market. Always wondered what it looked like inside. If it was me, I would ditch the top mount units (whatever those are), ditch the engine, and propeller. Weld a stovepipe on the top for air ventilation, rebuild the center console, take out the seatbelts and mounts, and bury that sucker halfway in the ground, leaving the top dome uncovered, turning it into an emergency storm shelter. Might do a new coat of epoxy inside and out after pressure washing inside and out. Add some type of electrical system and maybe fans or a cooling unit. Add a ham radio and transceiver. Deck it out with emergency supplies. Can’t really do cellars down in our part of TX, but it might work as a half buried shelter.
@2:50 - you mention Sump Pump - but isn't the boat waterproof in the first place? Why would you need a Sump Pump for something that water can't get into? I thought it's designed to float in water.
Hope you're doing better good to see your videos again hope you're up for recovering well from your eye surgery. Keep them coming I'll keep watching thank you.
No matter...you do what’s most comfortable for you! I truly enjoy your videos! I live way down south Texas! Harlingen....I’ve learned a lot of things, watching your videos! So keep it up! I’m a true fan! 🥰
This is a Survival Systems International capsule as you say it is designed to be used by oil workers, your video shows Free Fall lifeboats and this is not one of them. it has a controlled descent via a winch and gently sets you in the water. it is USA made in San Diego it has the best safety record in the oil industry for saving life over 2,200 lives world wide. How do i know this because i have worked for this company for 30 years. it sits in a Hold and Launch platform and you access it through the front doors. it is no longer made because it did not meet the current SOLAS regulations. however their are many still in service. you get in launch and wait for rescue from the stand by vessel. it is round because it makes it very strong, it has to be strong in case you get pushed under the rig and hit risers or legs. Your partner in Safety
At least in Europe Free fall ones are only used for low height applications, as Freighter and tankers, as i know not from high legs like stationary oilrigs.
.............Looks like a winning idea, folks..!! I have never seen one of those and didn't know they existed. As with any type of storm shelter, I would build a very sturdy steel frame work above ground and surround the entrance/escape hatch area to ensure that storm debris did not fall across it and block my ability to get out. Another great idea !!.......I like your new hat too....... ATB to you and family..............
Those would be a heck of a neat floating motel room camper... kinda a way to go to a remote dive site camp out for a week, dive, enjoy the sunset and return to the dock.. kind of a mobile motel room. Lol.
Hey I heard about tornadoes ripping through Texas Bob... I'm in Maryland I hope you and your family is safe!! The first person I thought about was you when I was watching the news that morning...
What an absolutely excellent point you make about using a decommissioned lifeboat buried underground as a shelter. Very few modifications would be necessary, other than perhaps a steel framework to prevent crush damage from the weignt of the soil pressing down on the structure (which would depend on the depth of the bunker). Given the inherently high structural strength of a free fall lifeboat, the extremely harsh working environment it's designed to operate in and the exceptional quality of it's materials and construction, and that it is annually, very strictly inspected and well maintained, they are considerably better than the thin steel culvert drain pipes which are sold as shelters! For someone on a low budget that wanted to utilise the space beneath their feet to install their own shelter, cosy lounge, private space, etc, a lifeboat could be the solution, even if it's partially buried and using the excavated soil to conceal the portion above ground, giving it a grassy mound appearance! As a result of your excellent suggestion, you have a new subscriber.
Round ones are mo use as boats but remove the motors give them back up power and lights with water food and air vents, buried underground they would make perfect cheap tornado/hurricane shelters .. for A family or couple of families. As Uv light is the biggest issue in the degridation of the shell burying protects them a hood. Of plastic DP membrane would protect against most penetrating rain/ soil water.. And being buried they would be insulated against extreem weather.. fire/ heat snow and noise ..as well as flying objects .
So good to see you posting. Great video. Not do-able for me but I can see the possibilities for people who could put the time in making this work. The knowledge to make this work is above my skill level and I'd think the shipping cost from Texas would probably double the cost if not more. It's a great idea, just to many barriers for me. This inspires me to look at ways of doing things in my area. Surely, there are items that can be modified so they work as something else close by me. Makes me think of the old saying ... there's more than 1 way to skin a cat! I understand the saying but always wondered - why would anyone skin a cat?!! ~Sherrie in South Carolina
Ok, just watched it. Two things....First, what a cool idea using one of those for an underground shelter. The shape of it lends itself to being very strong, as far as holding up to the pressures of being buried in the ground. Paint it with tar or, like you said, epoxy and it should be almost entirely corrosion resistant. I love it! Second....I loved those small-box overlays you did here. Really cool editing skills, Bob. I love the things I'm learning from you! Video-wise and other-wise. Cheers, brother!
You would have to be careful some one might think you are a flying UFO an shoot at you LOL I worked off shore Louisiana when I was a young man made dam good money !!!!!!!!!God bless and stay healthy bob and keep the family alive
I like it Bob but maybe a little small for a comprehensive quarters for even two, but maybe two of them side by side with a corridor to connect the two... Just a thought 👍 as always love the vids plz keep them coming!
That is a great little survival pod!! Burry it half in the ground or entirely... there’s a ton of things you could do to make that a survival bunker! I can see a little wood stove in there too... id coat it in Rhino liner 👍🏻✌🏻🇨🇦
That was off the weedy path so had to watch. Yeah, if your anywhere near a coastal area. What can you show about caves..making use of those..w water in them. Thanks.
Could be cool in a low-brow amusement park - paint it up to look like a UFO and put some weird looking control panels so kids could climb through. Of course you would need someone in an alien costume to scare the heck out of them when they popped back out.
I spoke to soon before watching the ending and yes you were at the Trade Center in Corpus Christi. Those Life Boats have been sitting there for years now it seems like,I do know they've been sitting there since 2002 and possibly longer??
The design leads to its strength however I would not venture at dropping one of these into a pit and covering with dirt, it was not designed for that purpose. One would still have to spend thousands on a steel frame to support a concrete slab above the pod just to take the load of the dirt that would cover it in the end. Give me one of the "drop launch" lifeboats and it makes an excellent platform for a cruising vessel for the coastline. If one does not destroy its integrity by adding cheap and flimsy windows to the upper half it will probably survive a cat 3 hurricane without much damage.
Hey Bob, I've lived in Corpus Christi now for 9 years I see that submarine almost every day. That is at the Corpus Christi Trade Center right? I am working at getting my family and I a piece of land so I can build a Permaculture designed Homestead and was wanting to make an underground shelter of some kind ... this was great to see, Thanks! I always thought that there is no way that thing had enough room to be used that way but I can see now that it wouldn't be too bad!
Life pod cost minus what you can scrap the excess metal you want to strip away from the inside and out. Wonder how much you can get the cost down to. I live down here in the swampy part of Texas. I wouldnt bury it under the ground. I would turn it into a "hobbit house". That thing stripped down on the inside and covered in dirt should be pretty easy to keep cool and you dont have to worry about flooding problems.
You could use this as the heart of the shelters and connect metal draining pipe as walking tunnels to other pods for cooking sleeping rooms could fix them up and allow the customer to select each room for the multi pod bomb shelter. I see something amazing in my head from using these we could put Atlas out of business.
Barely Survival I know they don't even hide the ventilation system. I offered to tell him how for $. It would be easy just put tubes in the plastic fencing and it would be concealed completely. All those types of companies work with the feds anyways I could build something alot better.
I wonder how much it cost? I would like to have one for a homemade floating house/cabin..I been in to sailboats for years, and I could make a heck of a neat floating camper out of it. Lol Edited because I can't spell! ( Or maybe I can't tap the right buttons..) lol
@@mjarboesdf that's not bad.. around here a lifeboat sells for $3500-$5500. $1500 is about half of what the engine alone will sell for here!. If I had the extra $$$ I would be all over it. Lol.
Looks like the lady that bought the first tsunami ball in the USA for over $13,000 didn't do her research to well lol she could have bought one of these for around $1,500 and put alil money into it to fix it up and still would have saved thousands! She would have way more room, could stand up, walk around and stretch out, could have saved her neighbors on both sides and wouldnt be near as claustrophobic in this big thing compared to her tiny ball!
Why not add A/C and Heater to keep people cool while hot weather and to keep people warm while too cold weather?? It will be great to have that A/C and heater.. You show me water bottle for people drink water that's cool and you show me bathroom, show public 😖, should cover, private bathroom.. And put box for foods..Good to have an feedback add better idea..
Hey Group,
Sorry for the low quality vid. I was filming quickly as I wasn’t sure how long I’d be there before getting kicked out. This is a concept that has intrigued me for a while. If you have access to these or vessels like them down here in TX I’d be interested in hearing from you and filming more comprehensive vids in this subject.
Also, I know I’ve some misinformation in the vid. I’ll be more knowledgeable on these and have more time to film without pressure at a later time. Gimme a mulligan.
All good that's really neat I want one
@@barelysurvival336 Yep not a good thing to drop the round ones from height. The poor bastard that would have done that would have been in a real bind because he would be standing up working the release mechanism. As for the others that would have been inside with him, they would be strapped in with a seat belt and free fall the 60+ feet to the water. You can imagine what would happen. The two floats on top are a self righting kit. This was brought about because of one that flipped upside down and drowned the entire crew inside. The diesel engine is a Westerbeke. These had an aux. water pump to pump water around the top ring located below the self righting kit in case of fire.
I’ve seen that pod for over a decade outside the CC Flea Market. Always wondered what it looked like inside. If it was me, I would ditch the top mount units (whatever those are), ditch the engine, and propeller. Weld a stovepipe on the top for air ventilation, rebuild the center console, take out the seatbelts and mounts, and bury that sucker halfway in the ground, leaving the top dome uncovered, turning it into an emergency storm shelter. Might do a new coat of epoxy inside and out after pressure washing inside and out. Add some type of electrical system and maybe fans or a cooling unit. Add a ham radio and transceiver. Deck it out with emergency supplies. Can’t really do cellars down in our part of TX, but it might work as a half buried shelter.
@2:50 - you mention Sump Pump - but isn't the boat waterproof in the first place? Why would you need a Sump Pump for something that water can't get into? I thought it's designed to float in water.
You have such a great dog. He just sits there waiting for 'daddy' to get on with it and "lets go for a ride."
Hope you're doing better good to see your videos again hope you're up for recovering well from your eye surgery. Keep them coming I'll keep watching thank you.
It's always a pleasure to see you & Huck...
Hi Bob, happy to see you are doing so well. I've never seen one of those pods in person. Thanks for the inside view, pretty cool. God bless
No matter...you do what’s most comfortable for you! I truly enjoy your videos! I live way down south Texas! Harlingen....I’ve learned a lot of things, watching your videos! So keep it up! I’m a true fan! 🥰
This is a Survival Systems International capsule as you say it is designed to be used by oil workers, your video shows Free Fall lifeboats and this is not one of them. it has a controlled descent via a winch and gently sets you in the water. it is USA made in San Diego it has the best safety record in the oil industry for saving life over 2,200 lives world wide.
How do i know this because i have worked for this company for 30 years. it sits in a Hold and Launch platform and you access it through the front doors. it is no longer made because it did not meet the current SOLAS regulations. however their are many still in service. you get in launch and wait for rescue from the stand by vessel. it is round because it makes it very strong, it has to be strong in case you get pushed under the rig and hit risers or legs.
Your partner in Safety
At least in Europe Free fall ones are only used for low height applications, as Freighter and tankers, as i know not from high legs like stationary oilrigs.
Ace Degenerate 👍😁how long did it take to think of that.
.............Looks like a winning idea, folks..!! I have never seen one of those and didn't know they existed. As with any type of storm shelter, I would build a very sturdy steel frame work above ground and surround the entrance/escape hatch area to ensure that storm debris did not fall across it and block my ability to get out. Another great idea !!.......I like your new hat too.......
ATB to you and family..............
Great idea Bob! I'll have to explore those as options for myself. Glad to see that you seem to be recovering well. Love the hat!
Been checking the channel every morning for a new upload
Those would be a heck of a neat floating motel room camper... kinda a way to go to a remote dive site camp out for a week, dive, enjoy the sunset and return to the dock.. kind of a mobile motel room. Lol.
Hey I heard about tornadoes ripping through Texas Bob... I'm in Maryland I hope you and your family is safe!! The first person I thought about was you when I was watching the news that morning...
400 miles away. All is safe here.
@@barelysurvival336 we just had a mini tornado in Maryland where I live. It wasn't too bad.
What an absolutely excellent point you make about using a decommissioned lifeboat buried underground as a shelter.
Very few modifications would be necessary, other than perhaps a steel framework to prevent crush damage from the weignt of the soil pressing down on the structure (which would depend on the depth of the bunker).
Given the inherently high structural strength of a free fall lifeboat, the extremely harsh working environment it's designed to operate in and the exceptional quality of it's materials and construction, and that it is annually, very strictly inspected and well maintained, they are considerably better than the thin steel culvert drain pipes which are sold as shelters!
For someone on a low budget that wanted to utilise the space beneath their feet to install their own shelter, cosy lounge, private space, etc, a lifeboat could be the solution, even if it's partially buried and using the excavated soil to conceal the portion above ground, giving it a grassy mound appearance!
As a result of your excellent suggestion, you have a new subscriber.
Round ones are mo use as boats but remove the motors give them back up power and lights with water food and air vents, buried underground they would make perfect cheap tornado/hurricane shelters .. for
A family or couple of families.
As Uv light is the biggest issue in the degridation of the shell burying protects them a hood. Of plastic DP membrane would protect against most penetrating rain/ soil water..
And being buried they would be insulated against extreem weather.. fire/ heat snow and noise ..as well as flying objects .
srry to be so late to the party...place over in E. Houston sells retired lifeboats and has a few of these.
Yessir, many things you can do with life boats. Some use them for house boats.
This is great Bob!! I’ve always wondered what these units look like. You are blazing a great trail Bob!
Thinking it might be a fun tangent.
Indeed!! I look forward to seeing what you have in mind my friend!
I bet the engines in those have zero to low hours! Interesting video as always Man! Keep them coming! 😎
They’re probably started periodically but not a lot of hours, that’s for sure.
Those are wicked cool. Love to see more.
It would make a good garden shed.
So good to see you posting. Great video. Not do-able for me but I can see the possibilities for people who could put the time in making this work. The knowledge to make this work is above my skill level and I'd think the shipping cost from Texas would probably double the cost if not more. It's a great idea, just to many barriers for me. This inspires me to look at ways of doing things in my area. Surely, there are items that can be modified so they work as something else close by me. Makes me think of the old saying ... there's more than 1 way to skin a cat! I understand the saying but always wondered - why would anyone skin a cat?!! ~Sherrie in South Carolina
Always love your videos, you have so much knowledge. Keep up good work.
good to see u make a new video
Ok, just watched it. Two things....First, what a cool idea using one of those for an underground shelter. The shape of it lends itself to being very strong, as far as holding up to the pressures of being buried in the ground. Paint it with tar or, like you said, epoxy and it should be almost entirely corrosion resistant. I love it!
Second....I loved those small-box overlays you did here. Really cool editing skills, Bob. I love the things I'm learning from you! Video-wise and other-wise. Cheers, brother!
You would have to be careful some one might think you are a flying UFO an shoot at you LOL I worked off shore Louisiana when I was a young man made dam good money !!!!!!!!!God bless and stay healthy bob and keep the family alive
I like it Bob but maybe a little small for a comprehensive quarters for even two, but maybe two of them side by side with a corridor to connect the two... Just a thought 👍 as always love the vids plz keep them coming!
This would be a specialized vessel. The largest get up to 40 ft long.
Great place for the Mother in law too.!
ja estava pensando em algo assim à alguns anos...gostei
This could become its own channel!
That is a great little survival pod!! Burry it half in the ground or entirely... there’s a ton of things you could do to make that a survival bunker! I can see a little wood stove in there too... id coat it in Rhino liner 👍🏻✌🏻🇨🇦
smalltownmoto 1 would make a good place to go in case of a tornado if yo burry half you could still watch the event 😳
Great idea and video, keep them coming...
Bob,
Are these in Corpus Christi off of SPID by the Trade Center indoor Flea-Market by any chance??
That was off the weedy path so had to watch. Yeah, if your anywhere near a coastal area. What can you show about caves..making use of those..w water in them. Thanks.
I know where that is located. There used to be 2 of them but I believe someone purchased it. :)
Where does one find used lifeboats?
Where can I get one of these? I would have a transporter to Ohio but I just need to know where to find one
That was really interesting, you are a fountain of knowledge!! Thank you for sharing. Just subscribed.
Could be cool in a low-brow amusement park - paint it up to look like a UFO and put some weird looking control panels so kids could climb through. Of course you would need someone in an alien costume to scare the heck out of them when they popped back out.
Thanks, I like the idea of it.
I spoke to soon before watching the ending and yes you were at the Trade Center in Corpus Christi.
Those Life Boats have been sitting there for years now it seems like,I do know they've been sitting there since 2002 and possibly longer??
Falling off that oil rig must be one hella landing
Thank for a great video, I learnt something new
So the 2 upper pods are for storage?
Make a cool watch tower to.
im gonna be converting a 130man into a solar/diesel electric hybrid cruiser in the next year or so, where have you seen these for sale?
Is that a store for used ones?
Awesome video great idea
OUTSTANDING hat ! 👍🏻🇺🇸
Appreciate it. Old hat was getting a bit tattered. Time for an upgrade ;)
The design leads to its strength however I would not venture at dropping one of these into a pit and covering with dirt, it was not designed for that purpose. One would still have to spend thousands on a steel frame to support a concrete slab above the pod just to take the load of the dirt that would cover it in the end. Give me one of the "drop launch" lifeboats and it makes an excellent platform for a cruising vessel for the coastline. If one does not destroy its integrity by adding cheap and flimsy windows to the upper half it will probably survive a cat 3 hurricane without much damage.
That is really cool. Thanks for sharing. God bless
Good lookin brother
Hey Bob, I've lived in Corpus Christi now for 9 years I see that submarine almost every day. That is at the Corpus Christi Trade Center right? I am working at getting my family and I a piece of land so I can build a Permaculture designed Homestead and was wanting to make an underground shelter of some kind ... this was great to see, Thanks! I always thought that there is no way that thing had enough room to be used that way but I can see now that it wouldn't be too bad!
How is your eyesight doing?
Stabl-ish. Not great, but holding.
@@barelysurvival336 hope it gets better.
Not a troll just saw this and was curious... Keep on trucking!!! @Barely Survival
Ha ha, I know right where those are, they have been there since at least 2007.
I used to live down there.
Great idea.
there awesome they are
Where can I get one of those?
Online auctions.
Make a great little home👍
Life pod cost minus what you can scrap the excess metal you want to strip away from the inside and out. Wonder how much you can get the cost down to. I live down here in the swampy part of Texas. I wouldnt bury it under the ground. I would turn it into a "hobbit house". That thing stripped down on the inside and covered in dirt should be pretty easy to keep cool and you dont have to worry about flooding problems.
Love the hat man
I appreciate the vid. Would be interested in getting one sent to tenn. If the cost of it and shipping wasnt bananas.
I want one!!
You could use this as the heart of the shelters and connect metal draining pipe as walking tunnels to other pods for cooking sleeping rooms could fix them up and allow the customer to select each room for the multi pod bomb shelter. I see something amazing in my head from using these we could put Atlas out of business.
Atlas is trash. Wouldn’t take much.
Barely Survival I know they don't even hide the ventilation system. I offered to tell him how for $. It would be easy just put tubes in the plastic fencing and it would be concealed completely. All those types of companies work with the feds anyways I could build something alot better.
think ill get one and install my anti gravity unit instant flying saucer
I wonder how much it cost? I would like to have one for a homemade floating house/cabin..I been in to sailboats for years, and I could make a heck of a neat floating camper out of it. Lol
Edited because I can't spell! ( Or maybe I can't tap the right buttons..) lol
If i am not mistaken, i thought i heard him say that one cost around $1,500
@@mjarboesdf that's not bad.. around here a lifeboat sells for $3500-$5500. $1500 is about half of what the engine alone will sell for here!.
If I had the extra $$$ I would be all over it. Lol.
Merci
wheres a place that sells the life boats that are retired
Thanks for sharing the video! Nice to see your whole face! You’re cute! 😁
Happens from time to time. Eyes aren’t symmetrical anymore so the shades are the mainstay.
Holy shit! Bob has eyes!
Your dog looks like he heard this all ready
The toilet seat 🤣!!
I want one
Gee, it even comes with an old sea dog. :)
thats so cleaver
Painted with ceramic epoxy stretches the life time to eons ...
@@texasrox2010 They find hidden caverns underground cities to ..
Why bury it? Just float it on the water in case the world foods and then it can double as the holiday home.
There's one on the river lea in london. I want one.
Looks like the lady that bought the first tsunami ball in the USA for over $13,000 didn't do her research to well lol she could have bought one of these for around $1,500 and put alil money into it to fix it up and still would have saved thousands! She would have way more room, could stand up, walk around and stretch out, could have saved her neighbors on both sides and wouldnt be near as claustrophobic in this big thing compared to her tiny ball!
I live on a lifeboat
I was actually looking for the symptoms of Covid-19...
It looks like an orange donut or UFO.
Why not add A/C and Heater to keep people cool while hot weather and to keep people warm while too cold weather?? It will be great to have that A/C and heater.. You show me water bottle for people drink water that's cool and you show me bathroom, show public 😖, should cover, private bathroom.. And put box for foods..Good to have an feedback add better idea..
In the ground, the temps will be more stable. Powered heat and cool might be needed... but never plumbing in an underground structure.
ATLAS SURVIVAL SHELTERS
Not impressed with them from what I have seen.
LINK 5 OR 6 AND START YOUR OWN ISLAND LOL
Ha! First!
Judging you Rob ; )
Lol! It's ok with me. ;-)
I say put it in the water and live in it ufo house
take her down the river !!!!
JEJE I KNOW WHERE TO GO FOR FOODING OR URRACAN SEASON 😂😂 HID INSIDE THAT THING ..😂😂
why you pay for them?only CALL the Oil Company and ask for ABANDED Oil Rigs,you can TAKE ALL FOR FREE.
Stick to the title of the video