The Most Horrifying Nautical Disaster You’ve Never Heard Of
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Simon the Vulture. No One Needed To See This.
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You speak so fast, I had to slow down the replay.
You are obviously reading off of a script, but worse of all, you run on your words like one continuous sentence. You are the worse speaker I have ever encountered.
Yay, you did a video about the fishing grounds off my hometown Geraldton 😂
The stories from fellow fishermen from items they've brought up, seeing the replica boat they used to get to safety, and having a museum full of Batavia relics I feel like you missed out on images and graphics used 😭
If you do another video, pm me and I'll get you some better footage to use
The people who drowned were actually the lucky ones. This is honestly one of the most horrific shipwrecks of all time. I read a book about it written by a historian; I almost couldn’t finish it. It gave me nightmares, this was Lord of the Flies, the Rape of Nanking, and the Siege of Saint Petersburg all wrapped up in one, taking place on a tiny deserted island in one of the remote places on earth.
Those who drowned drunk being the luckiest, going down in a happy/oblivious state...
what's the name of that book?
@@mayoite160 My guess is: Batavia's Graveyard aka 'De ondergang van de Batavia' by Mike Dash.
@@mayoite160 island of angry ghosts , the same author also wrote wreck on the half moon reef which is a remarkable story of survival where after giving up hope of rescue, the survivors chopped up the wreck and built a smaller boat to sail to Batavia.
I promise you Nanjing and St Petersberg were worse in both scale and detail. Feel free to not belittle them by claiming that this was broader in scope of horror than either of those. Nothing happened here that didn't happen in some form in St.P or Nanjing.
Me, an Australian, rolling on the floor laughing at Simon's pronunciation of Wallaby.
Wal ARE bee
Me, a Dutchie, having the same reaction to the pronunciation of Cornelisz.
I would have missed it if it wasn't for the fact I read your comment before the video. 😂 Has Simon never watched Finding nemo? (P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney!)🤣
As a Rugby fan that's how I'm going to pronounce Wallabies from now on.
I, an American, had a similar reaction. I would never have thought "wallaby" rhymed with "wasabi" but there we are.
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I've begun listening to Simon's narration at 3/4 speed. He speaks so quickly I fear he's in danger of 'winking out' like the Scalosians on Star Trek TOS.
That's exactly what I had to do. It sounded like he was talking at a normal speed.
I can’t do that on Apple TV.
I thought I was the only one
half speed is better
I’m convinced he dives into a pool of 🗻before recording. 😂
The crew that stayed behind and got drunk, turns out they were the smart ones.
I’ll drink to that!
Smart? Or lucky.
A little Mix of both.
@@headmondronary2127 It's not luck if they're drunk all the time. At a certain point being sober for it would have been bad luck.
preferably the latter
I’ve not heard of this chilling and desperately-shocking story. Another story of terrible depravity is that of the Méduse in 1810. After its loss, 400 passengers were evacuated to boats while 147 had to take refuge on an improvised raft, which proved impossible to tow. After 13 days at sea the 147 was reduced to 15.
I remember seeing the painting of that in the Louvre many years ago and being somewhat blown away by it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa
I actually tough this video was going to be about The Medusa
I read a book about this wreck. After x days at sea the survivors of boats or raft had to endure a sunblistering hot desert as well. For some it took longer than 13 days!
It was a xtr interesting read, written with some seamen jargon to make it extra pungent. the author knew alot about what happened.
the painting is only a mild reflection of what happened. i saw some footage of a 1950's or sthg movie, which was far from the reality pictured in the book "wreck of the medusa"
It is also remarkable that such horrific but avoidable disasters were "forgotten in history", and still
Taking too fast
This reminds me so much of some of the more terrible epidodes of "The Walking Dead", namely, those in which the greatest dangers were not the zombies but madmen in positions of authority with deranged followers. Civilization has its problems, but when it collapses it's hell on earth.
The West Australian Maritime museum contains artifacts from the Batavia,including part of the Batavia itself,a skeleton of one of the victims(with sword cuts to the head),a stone gateway that was being transported to Batavia as well as coins and personal items. A fascinating part of Australian history.
It is a great museum, go there often. The tiny part of the Batavia that survived shows how massive it was.
@@Crossingt l always thought how small it looked,considering there was over 300 people on board plus provisions and cargo.
I remember seeing a museum display of the artefacts from the Batavia in Brisbane shortly after the wreck was found. Like something out of fiction.
Fascinating?!?
I read Maritime as Marmite and was wondering why in the world they would possess such items
I think any passenger who survived all that would be grateful to live a drama-free life for the rest of their days.
Or be able to handle the bullshit easier when they get back home.
What you're really saying is we should bring antibiotics on our naval voyages to treat anyone with a raging case of syphilis. Or set them against the sharks?
Wait - what do have against sharks? 😉
By the time the brain damage shows it's too late. Best you can do with meds then is make them non-contagious.
And also be prepared to explain away a murdering rapist's evil doing on the equatorial sun.... seriously, a comment under a thread suggests we do that
We could make walking the plank a real thing then.
Might as well save space and get some entertainment in the process!
Even more incredible than the hideous affair is how you can possibly pronounce wallaby as "wullarbee" incredible.
Holy Hell Simon is speed talking these days!!
SLOW DOWN a bit.
Bloody hell!
I have actually walked on West Wallaby Island and seen the forts the 2 factions created. To think that almost 500 years ago this was the site of a pitched battle while I stood they in total silent was 'eerie'.
Can I man one of the forts and take on the Chinese navy there? 😫
Almost 400 year's ago not 500.
@@RhysapGrug That's fair.
@@Chris-hx3om hope I didn't come across as a dick 👍
@@RhysapGrug Not at all.
If you mentioned that the young lady who was sexually assaulted as a pretext for the mutiny was later put on trial and accused of helping the mutineers, I missed it: sorry if you did, but this was one of the more shocking aspects of the aftermath.
What was the e outcome of the trial?
@@haleytruslow7200 she was acquitted and returned to the Netherlands in 1635
@@haleytruslow7200 It was the past, so she probably never saw the sun again.
@@haleytruslow7200 a suspended 6 month sentence in the Lacrosse Wisconsin county jail
@@deeznutsifier69420 I think she was the first European to not spend time at the Lacrosse Wisconsin county jail. 😄
Peter Fitzsimons wrote a book on the Batavia mutiny and massacre! It goes into great detail about the people and actions of the survivors of the wreck and the summary justice handed out to the perpetrators of this horrendous crime! Well worth reading!
Excellent read!
Peter "two syllables" Fitzsimmons.
Have read a couple of his books and a writer he is absolute rubbish. Haven't read this one however so I won't comment upon it.
Peter Fitzsimons team.
@@billyshane3804 there are better books on this rather than by the woke pirate
You mean the book written by his researchers and then paraphrased after he dons his pirate look.
If you’re interested in seeing a full-scale replica with artifacts from the ship, including the table from the Commander’s quarters, go visit Lelystad in the Netherlands. It’s really quite remarkable to see how these people must have lived throughout such a long journey. The museum doesn’t focus on the horror, just the ship itself, but it’s very interesting.
I've been on it . It's awesome,I recommend it ✌️
I had actually randomly stumbled upon this story when i was having a random wiki rabbithole evening.
Not sure what set the rabbithole off, as is usually the case, but i do remember being very surprised at the shocking way it all transpired.
Crazy stuff
Maybe the word Batavia or jawa or dutch Indonesian
Oh man, I completely feel for you, as I too have had those days where you are just clicking on a seemingly innocent video only to go down a seriously messed up rabbit hole, finish watching and then click on another messed up rabbit hole of information. It is good to be finally enlightened about this though. I am from Western Australian and took my kids to the maritime museum and we read about the Batavia and the museum seriously cuts out everything, all it says is: the ship accidentally made landfall among the Abrolhos and women and children perished from starvation. Then years later I stumble on this clip and my jaw hit the floor! So much of history is kept hidden when it comes to disasters such as this!
@@platinumare Haha, yeah exactly.
I think i was reading up on the VOC and our history in other continents, and when reading one wiki page, you'll come across names and events that have links, and before you know it, you have 10+ tabs to read, which on themselves also create new tabs.
So i then choose to follow a specific one instead for that evening and just close them all when i either have to go to bed because it's the middle of the night, or need to eat something, an obsessive hunt for basically trivia knowledge.
I mean, this has little relevance to us today, but i do agree that a lot of history is simply not being told.
Here in Holland, the Batavia is a famous name though, so i assume i have learned something about it at elementary school, but i do not remember anything about mutiny and massacres.
Maybe the museum was trying to keep it light, because i can imagine some parents complaining about reading a story of atricious acts when passing by a wooden ship.
People could be asking why they're glorifying horrible people.
I'm not saying that i agree with them, but i could understand if the museum chose for that route.
Then again, you could complain to them for not telling enough, but you would probably be a smaller minority than the other complainers.
dude talks faster than a life insurance salesman at a funeral home.
Even at 0.75% speed he speaks too fast.
Listen dude. Lay off the caffeine. Try breathing in occasionally. Don’t edit out any natural pauses in your speech. You are not impressing anyone, just making them avoid your videos.
Think David Attenborough and you won’t go far wrong.
Anyway, I’m switching you off for now.
If you want a selling point make it effective communication. If I want a drink of water I don’t want a fire hose in my face.
@@nicholasmartin297 - Well said. Painful at any speed.
You can speed it up in the settings if it's too slow.
@@nicholasmartin297 I thought I was the only one, although I'm proficient in English I find that he speaks incredibly fast and it's actually a distraction from what he's saying.
One of those stories that makes you feel ashamed of humanity while ensuring that you do all you can to prevent such lunatics from wielding power ever again.
Ahh, one of your videoes is much closer to home than usual! I'm from Geraldton the city on the mainland pretty much directly east of the Abrolhos islands. We sure do love our Batavia memorabilia despite the horrors that occurred, lots of place names come from Batavia and its crew and the whole stretch of coast is called the Batavia Coast.
On a brighter note than Batavia's story to do with the Abrolhos though, on the weekend just gone, Jeremy McClure, became the first person to swim from the Abrolhos to the mainland (no such luck for the Batavia's crew). If the 70km swim wasn't enough though, Jeremy is also blind! Awesome story of human endeavour and determination to be added to the Abrolhos Islands' history.
Do you know Nic Thomas?
70km is a far swim. Yikes
when your mother tongue is Dutch and are fluent in English and still don't understand 90% of the names...
the way he pronounced Pieterszoon like Pee-eh-ters-zoon had me laughing
Souties in Suid Afrika klink net so kak as hulle probeer Afrikaans praat.
English is my mother tongue and I live in the Netherlands. These pronunciations were painful. Cor-NAY-le-zon (Cornelisz) becomes Corn-a-LEEZ? And don’t get me started on how he said Gijsbert Bastiaensz. Yikes. 😂
You can't claim fluency in English then.
At 3:09 you state that the Dutch East India Company was worth 78 Dutch Guilders; I'm assuming you meant to say 78 million Dutch Guilders.
That's Simon for you - can't even get it right whilst plagiarizing someone else script !!
Maybe he was talking about the value of shares in the company?
I'm so glad to have episodes like this as part of my history. I heard about the Batavia as a kid on a trip to West Australia. I suspect my parents kept a few things from me.
I'm reminded of the "Merry Minuet" by the Kingston Trio: "...what Nature doesn't do to us will be done by our fellow man."
I learned about this in primary school aged 9 when at school in Perth, Western Australia. There was an amazing diorama at the Fremantle Museum that I remember seeing many times during school tours.
Is Simon trying to say Wallaby??? Wol-a-bee 😂
Woll ahh beeeees
@@JoshWookiee I keep thinking of the Simpsons episode 😅
Well, I'll be...
He's putting the emphahsis on the wrong syllahble...
It made me think of Benedict Cumberbatch talking about peng-wings (penguins) on the BBC South pacific series 😂
...and for those of you who caught those closing remarks about the 1770 Australian landing in Botany Bay, that was Captain James COOK and not Kirk! The fact that the fictional ship S.S. Botany Bay was a Star Trek vessel found in The Wrath of Khan movie only makes things more confusing!
As I merchant seaman, I recommend carrying a case of Tiger Sauce in case you have to subsist on "long pig". Ha Ha
You've mentioned this shipwreck before, but didn't go into the sad details of what transpired. I wonder if it was the syphilis, or a person being in power can, and sometimes will, do horrific things; or perhaps, it's a combination of the two.
I mean Hitler allegedly had syphilis too, so there might be something to the disease driving people mad. Or at the very least contributing to their madness.
This amounts to excuses for a murderous rapist.. . It's right up there with explaining that a mass shooter was "having a bad day"
@@richardcooley6061 utter B.S.
@@TheVirtualObserver As a slightly different theory: Maybe they just thought they wouldn't have anything left to loose. Like a Walter White thingy
So Bonespur actually has syphilis?
Get the paperback "Batavia's Graveyard" by Mike Dash for the full story.
Excellent example of the sapien animal. Given a little stress, completely able to launch the most horrific endeavors imaginable. Syphilis not to blame.
Syphilis had good representation.
Didn’t help that the instigator of the whole thing was very likely a raging psychopath.
a fine specimen of that in moscow right now
Like Simon's horrific pronunciation of "wallaby"
In the Star Trek episode The Conscience of the King, there is a Governor Kodos who seized power after the colony's food supplies are destroyed. He kills half the colonists to 'save the other half'... arbitrarily picking who lives or who dies. Could that episode have been inspired by this story?
If you turn your screen upside down, Simon has a magnificent head of hair.
I'm so glad you covered the tragic story of the Batavia. Excellent work crew.
A suggestion for this channel is how the world powers came up with the Geneva Convention governing the rules of war.
What has been seen cannot be unseen.
@@chadcuckproducer1037 szon tzo- fight your enemy with your friend
hey yeah! you"re RIGHT! A nice head of hair!😂
Simon as a lifelong learner, asking the same question every class the minute it gets weird... "What the f*** are you talking about?".
Island of Angry Ghosts (the Batavia ) and Wreck on the Half Moon Reef (Zeewyk) are two great books by Hugh Edwards who was one of the discoverers of The Batavi.
Both true stories which are diametrically opposite and show both sides of the human spirit.
If you come down and visit us here in Perth WA, you can take a short flight or long drive up to Geraldton where there are extensive informative guided tours of the Abrolhos islands where this all took place, including to the make-shift fort which as this video points out, still stands today. You’ll also be treated to great snorkelling/diving, as well as wine and local seafood along the way.
hello from albany
No woll-ahr-bees then?
Whether past or present, humanity's seemingly endless need for brutality against his fellows , even in the face of life threatening danger to all, still never fails to appall and disappoint. !!! 😞
( exasperated sigh)
We now know our cousin the Chimp the same waging war and eating each other. Our other cousin though the Bobono have everyone has sex with everyone else all the time at all ages and are very peacefull making Make Love not War an effective way to control our primate instincts.
78 Dutch guilders in 1628 would be worth less than USD6,000 today. I suspect some words are missing like "hundred thousand", or "million".
Yes, the VOC was worth 78 _million_ guilders
You really ought to feature the French frigate Medusa which ran aground of the coast of Africa. The "raft" built to transport the majority of the survivors was a hell that only left 15 alive when rescued.
Sounds like an island based script for a series better than Lost 🤣
I was just thinking it would make one hell of a movie!
Sounds like a source to compose a "Lord-of-the-Flies" novel.
Lord of the Flies was a pyschological horror. The Batavia mutiny is closer to Friday the 13th (or one of the sequels).
Oooh, you mentioned LordOfTheFlies - so now you get to hear my rant about Piggy's glasses - he was short sighted so his glasses would have diverging lenses and be no good for making fire. The plot hangs heavily both on him being unable to see distance without his glasses and them being stolen for making fire. I'm not being picky - it's like saying he was both very short and also the only person able to reach the top shelf. Pass this on to everyone you know (and enjoy the look of glazed boredom in their eyes).
@@transientaardvark6231ngl, you're kinda right
Us Western Australians are well aware of the story of the Batavia. Knew it was about it from the thumbnail. Crazy story
Yeah me a dutch Person new it to instantly from the thumbnail and also about that were very brutal people back then
love this story . I am an ausie and its amazing how many ausies dont even know about this story . they are gobsmacked when i tell them about it
This is a very well know story here in Australia…. Well for those who love history….
Soon to be cancelled!
I have heard of this and watched a really great documentary on it. It was horrific and insane…like the adult version of Lord of the Flies
Wow
Makes you wonder if the "Lord of the Flies" was based on this. Or at least inspired by this.
This sounds like a factual adult version of “Lord of the Flies”!
*marooned in austrailia*
Them: hey at least we are alive right?
*Literally everything living in Aussieland* : hold that thought
Dat pronunciation of "wallabies" though 😂😂
If you need a guide, look up our national rugby team. Rugby is pretty popular in the UK too
I’ve spent the night on Beacon Island, Wallaby Island and dove on the wreck site of the Batavia. My home town of Geraldton is directly inland from the Abrolhos islands. And yes, sorry Simon, you butchered a lot of the names and pronunciations 😂
But it’s great to see a short documentary about the history of the wreck and the brutal followings.
His pronunciations hurt me. I live in the Netherlands, married to a Dutchman, and I love this story. He butchered those poor people’s names. 😂😂
Never listened to a English men tell you anything about history. As an American,it herts me to hear them butcher the native pronunciation of names.
pls forgive, Dutch names are hard to prenounce, if you not from Dutch background. but overall correct historical
Did you find any treasure? I'd luv to dive that site. Cheers from 🇨🇦
@@hyphenpearce3224 It has been explored, but never found the 2 missing silver chest, as reported
special english divers working for the VOC recovered most- of the treasure, The replica Batavia can been seen in Lelystad, its worth while to visit , excellent work
You out did yourself on this one. This is one of my favorites! Nice job.
I live in Geraldton, the costal town near the Abrolos Islands, I think what the dutch called a 'winter storm' can be more aptly described as a Tuesday for the area
There is a wonderful museum in Fremantle (Perth) with this story and artifacts. Recommend a visit if you are ever in town
Just a little correction Simon . Wouter Loos and Jan Pelgrom de By van Bemel, where dropped off at Broken Anchor Bay, at the mouth of the Hutt River, 450 kilometres north of present day Perth, W.A They also had been given a Chapman (a Nautical seaman book still in publication today The 56th version)
They missed Kalbarri by that much
@@TT-dx4ez And a hundred and fifty or so years too early, only the Murchison river mouth would have existed then .
@@johnnyrot1075 I know. ouch
I teach about this event every year and it never fails to horrify students...
Watching Simon furiously gesticulate is so satisfying.
I thought when he said "a population of wah-LAR-bees that could be hunted for food" I thought he meant a tribe of people.
Same 😂 thanks for clearing that up
Same omg 😂 I had to play that part over to makes sure I heard it right.
I was like- so this is a story of cannibalism then- oh no wait, Simon has somehow drastically botched the prounciation of a medium sized Australian marsupial and no tribes people were harmed in the making of this mutany.
The pronunciation was rough, but he definitely didn't stick an r in there, thankfully.
I heard that and said "a population of what??!" FFS Simon. I know your pronunciation of other languages is pretty bad, but this is a new low.
Make sure you are sober and in a quiet room with no distractions before smashing the play button!
I managed to understand about 2/3 of Simon’s lightning fast recitation before listening a second time!
"Simon’s lightning fast recitation before listening a second time!" You're quite right! In my opinion he ruins what otherwise would be very interesting videos with his dizzying speech cadence!
Hear hear
@@FrLawRE Too bad he didn't spend some time with a Dutch language recording. He butchered every single name rarely pronouncing them the same the second time.
I knew about the wreck of the Batavia having seen the documentary on the BBC many years ago. A truly terrifying story, even more so because it was true. Imagine the warnings they'd have to announce before showing it if it was repeated today.
We all know that Elon's expedition to Mars is going to make this look like My Little Pony.
The Devil and the Deep Water by Stuart Turton is loosely based on this and is a good novel.
There are relics of the Batavia at the Maritime Museum in Fremantle, Perth. It includes a large section of the hull. It is well worth a visit.
I'm in the Netherlands and I've been in the replica of the Batavia that was created in Lelystad. They obviously also have a bunch to say about the ship...
And in Geraldton.
These are great and so are your topics and narration. The only comment i would make is that i find the tempo just a tad fast. Other than that, great work and thank you. The recent Iranian one was fabulous.
Great summarization of this horrific story. I worked for 4 years in the Western Australian Maritime Museum in Fremantle and loved being in the Shipwrecks Museum which houses the remaining timbers of the Batavia, skeleton (of a murdered male) and loads of coins and other artifacts. I've never understood how the Batavia story hasn't been made into a Hollywood movie. Too gruesome, maybe? I won't comment on the gruesome pronunciation of our furry friends. 😆
If you want to learn more read Batavia by Peter Fitzsimons.... amazing read, he writes historically accurate novel on Australian history. He has many brilliant books!!
I read this. On a cruise! Great book.
There’s also “Lucretia’s Batavia Diary” by Howard Gray. A chilling read!
The best book in English is Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash. It’s nonfiction, so it’s dense, but it’s well worth reading. He doesn’t miss a detail.
fitzSimmons is an AWFUL writer. Read anything else.
They made a mass effect 2 mission out of this event
ME2 was a slow panic attack
I was wondering which then I remembered the most forgettable person's Loyalty Mission
I'm not sure what I like more about this video. The historical storytelling, Simon's glorious British accent, or that godly beard he's rocking.
Lord of the Flies for adults.
Never fails to sadden, seeing what we are willing to perpetrate on others.
Then there's the stuff that just sickens anyone not caught up in the madness.
WTF!!!
What a sorry, tawdry cluster of unintended consequences...forgive us Father, we're all just cretins.
Nice one Simon, wol-arr-bees aside. Ironically, it was a former member of Australia's rugby union team "The Wallabies", Peter Fitzsimons (known as a bit of a shit-stirrer in Australia), that wrote a fantastic book about the Batavia. According to the book there were later some aboriginals with streaks of blonde hair that utilised some Dutch words found in Western Australia. So those blokes might have gotten on alright with the natives..
Peter Fitzsimmons is the archetypal "Rugby Wanker". An absolute joy to make a joke of.
Excellent book and one on the best audiobooks ever produced. I found it hard to finish. The brutality was beyond belief
The Fitzsimmons one?
@@jenA9026 yes
@@jenA9026 you can also find excellent videos on the island it all happens on and the show graves and discoloured sand where all the bodies were buried.
Wasn’t expecting the Batavia when I opened this video.. learnt about it when I was in year 7 when we were at a school camp in Geraldton.
Playing this video on x75 playback speed is what I imagine it’s like to have a conversation with Simon at a bar after he’s had a few too many lmaooo
Soon as I saw the thumbnail as a West Australian I just thought "Batavia". Also with the rest of the criminals banished to the mainland, it was the first contact with Australian Aboriginals by Europeans, not the 'First Fleet' in Sydney, though what happened with that contact we'll never know.
There's a collection of diaries of the first fleet called "buried alive" because the original settlers considered themselves as such thinking Britannia had abandoned them.
As an Aussie it's hilarious hearing you say war-larh-bee
I love reading about nautical disasters and Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash is one of my favourite books of all time … probably read it 10 times. You won’t regret reading the book, it is absolutely engrossing.
I have dived the wreck site many times even with Max Cramer (RIP) I was a tour guide for "live aboard" tour boats at the Abrolhos Islands....cool gig
Why am I suddenly reminded of Benedict Cumberbatch's very strange, varied pronounciations for penguin...though I'll give it to Simon, at least he was consistent with his mispronounciation of the poor wallabies.
One does not even need to be all that isolated to lose their grip on their humanity, Simon. Left to our own devices, human beings are far from benign animals. The fewer examples of ‘good’ one has to refer to, the more ‘evil’ they will do… and ultimately become.
How many channels do you have now, Simon? I’m beginning to think you are but one of identical septuplets or something. 😉
Look what happened during the pandemic…
@@grahamstrouse1165 People stayed home and took up crafts and hobbies because they were bored?
@@wasd____ some people were turning their neighbors in in Australia. people went karen in America. ppl in my gfs fam were talking containment camps for anyone refusing a vaccine. but yeah, some people did take up new hobbies. i got serious into astronomy.
What an amazing story teller, and this story, WOW, I think some of these weird people are still running some parts of the government, or other places! I totally enjoyed the video, even though the story is atrocious!
Well said, sir. How completely INSANE! !!
Wait what? Is that how you say wallaby? Sounds so strange.
Very strange. The island is spelled "Wallabi" so maybe it is pronounced differently?
As a proper perth boy, this was one of my favourite childhood stories
Good Lord this is horrifying.
I crave learning, thank you for your videos ✌
love the way he says wallaby hahaha cheers for the laugh bro.
I was just thinking, "Simon's pronunciation is pretty good today."
But alas.... wallaby/wallabies.
I'm putting it down to the nautical theme, including mutiny and potential piracy, that he pronounced it Wal-Arr-Bee.
Bless him. SuMAIrily
Ask a single Dutch speaker in this comment section. None of his pronunciations were even remotely good.
Good one! Can you do the horrible story about the wreck of the Medusa?
147 got on the raft 17 were found alive
Most of the silver from the missing two chests was brought up by marine archaeologists in the 1970's. A lot of relics from the wreck have also been recovered and there have been numerous archaeological excavations of the islands. The Batavia is not the only VOC wreck on the West coast either. There have been several and quite a bit of evidence that shipwrecked Dutch people survived on the West coast for a reasonable amount of time.
A bit of history that would normally take an hour to tell, done in 15 minutes. Good show. ..
The Vereenigd Oost-Indischo Companje, VOC, forerunner to the British East India Company ... and just as bloodthirsty
A rival company. Not a fore runner.
The British East India company actually predated the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie by 2 years. Never became quite as rich or powerful though.
@@Jack-Hands Maybe not as rich but running most of India is plenty powerful.
This video is much better if played on
.75 speed.
Australian history is just so intense...
There was a TV movie/docudrama about this, back in the day.
78 Dutch Gilders = $7.9T ? Was that an error? A Dutch gilder is only a little over 2 euros now. I know inflation is a thing but that seems …. ridiculous.
Yes, that was an error. Wikipedia cites it being 78 million. Which makes a lot more sense.
@@MeriaDuck Thank you I kept going wait a minute that means no human alive could actually have owned one Dutch guilder which makes absolutely no sense.
I love this dudes content but I can’t help but wonder that there is a person behind the scenes that is holding our host captive by the way he rushes through the content each and every time like he wants to get done with it and out of the room as soon as possible.
I also wondered that maybe The commercial sectian at beginning took so much time, that he must rush with the actual content
He has a million other channels.
Very interesting but I do wish that man would take a damn breath!
Yeppers, it was hard at some points with how he mumbled mashed a good chunk of his dialogue where I couldn't work out what he was saying. and I deal with family that speak cockney just to mess with us.
I had to switch off after 3 minutes. Talks much too quick, made my head ache. I guess I am in the minority though.
Played at 1.75 and Simon virtually craps himself; there is so much verbal friction you almost expect his beard to spontaneously ignite.
Thanks 👍👍👍 good stuff.
Wait I actually visited a replica of that boat in the Nieuwland museum in Lelystad. I knew it sank but not this exact story. Also I am dutch and I have spoken this language since I can remember but I cannot follow this story based on the names because the pronunciation.
Yes I agree; investing a bit of time into proper pronunciation of the names, especially where the stresses should be in a name, would've helped a lot.
Cornelis is pronounced as cor-NAY-liss, for example. You could say corNEEless in English, like you would with, say, Cornelia.
@@MeriaDuck For us, Dutch people those names are easy. English names are easy because we get taught English from a young age. For others Dutch is jibberish!
I saw the Thumbnail and knew this was about the Batavia
This is a part of history that most have not been exposed to, and in my humble opinion I found the part I watched to be a welcomed extension of my ongoing education regarding the world and mankind in general. I couldn't watch beyond the 4-minutes and 23-seconds that I viewed, as I found my heartrate elevating quickly, and though I did not check, I'm sure my blood pressure was rising accordingly. My unwholesome condition was not trigged by the content. I found that the delivery by the orator is overwhelming to the average (or at least my) nervous system to the point of aggravation, and in large dosages could leave you foaming at the mouth. If others can withstand this coup de main, my hat tilts with respect to your ferrous mental heedfulness meted in massive and tremendous quantities.
For future reference: go to settings (the cog wheel) and adjust speed to 0.75 or even 0.5 and you'll find the audio much more listenable.