These divers are doing excellent work studying the mating habits of anchors in their natural habitat. Sea grass anchors cannot breed in captivity so their numbers have been dwindling. Hopefully scientists can bring them back from the edge of extinction.
The weight of the chains helps hold the ship in place, not only the chain but also the stock and this one here is a stockless anchor. Mostly used because it can be conveniently rolled up through the cats hole/hawsepipe. Admiralty anchors have better stability but are more difficult to store. *was reading for my Seamanship exams when I Saw this*
Even without the anchor the sea bed changes constantly due to ocean currents and weather. We have anchorage areas, which usually are surveyed to make sure we do little impact on sea life or keep vessel’s from dragging their anchors on underwear pipelines. These areas also are like a parking lot but for boats. Which help minimize the cluster fuck at sea ports
@@Industry-insider it never actually falls, but the way it moves/ stays stuck to the ground. When its dragged over a bump of any kind, it just stays stuck to the ground while normally things would fall much slower in water. This anchor is just super dense.
Hands down the best recommendation so far by TH-cam. I didn't ask for this video but my subconscious has always wanted to see how anchors work. So here we are getting my desire satisfied 😂😂
You didnt know how anchors worked????? Like the Big heavy thing that looks like some sort of massiv hook? You couldnt imgine how it works???? For Real???
I bet you would love to go out in your own boat, hands down my favorite thing was finding a nice anchorage and laying it down tightly. If you mess it up, your boat will slide and drag with the current or the wind and you never settle, when you get it right it's very rewarding. Same with docking.
I know I'm going to catch hell for saying this, but turning up the sand and causing that small amount of damage, in the small, confined area an anchor will cause, is actually good for the ecosystem(so long as it's not widespread and extensive). The odd anchor here and there isn't in any way bad for the environment. I'm certainly not a marine biologist, so take what I say with a grain of salt. That being said, I've been keeping aquariums and breeding and selling both fish and aquatic plants for almost 30 years thus making aquatics something of a specialty of mine. I don't see damage in this video. I see lots of opportunity for the organisms inhabiting this area as well as a renewed/recycled strip of ground for new, healthy growth. Now if this were a reef I'd have a VERY different response.
If you think anchors are destructive imagine a scallop dragger going back and forth all day pulling a heavy drag. Not much survives on the bottom after that.
@@etherealstars5766 not nearly as damaging as beach goers and tourists with their sunscreen, and the poachers In certain countries that shall not be named. Or pollution from some countries that shall not be named.
@@lucasmontec What happens when a farmer plows,, well stuff grows back plowed earth on the surface or underwater will both produce more when the substrate is disturbed, moves nutrients up that are locked down deep and better grow the grass..
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All those people arguing down in the comments for an anchor and seagrass. That s why i love videos like this. There's always somebody trying to prove a point, when there is nothing to say except "this video sounds like undervater darth vador LOL".
Fun fact: the chain for the anchor is the main thing that keeps a ship in place. The anchor itself is merely there to dig into the ground and stop the chain from drifting; it is a fraction of the weight of the entire system. They deliberately put more chain in the ocean which often slacks in the water horizontal to the ocean floor like you see here
Actually it is the anchor that is the main thing that keeps a ship in place. But the chain is there to make sure the pull on the anchor is as horizontal as possible. Due to the weight of the anchor chain the first part of the chain will stay flat on the bottom and therefore the anchor will be able to work as designed. When using rope or a chain that is too short or too light the ship will pull it off the bottom and the pull angle on the anchor will not be parallel to the seafloor and therefore more likely to break out of the soil. So anchor and chain together are the anchoring system but the anchor is what holds the ship in place and the chain is what makes te anchor stay in place due to a better pull angle.
It looks more like a fluke type anchor to me, something like a giant Danforth or Fortress. Those are definitely made for "soft bottoms" which would be mixed. Not an expert so I could be wrong but my own anchor looks like that, it has a hinge and it's manufacturer recommended for grass dirt sand and any soft bottom.
Do you realize how large the ocean is compared to how small and few the anchors are? This is like a single footprint in the Amazon. The impact can be observed on the smallest scale, but is utterly insignificant IRL.
@no On a realistic scale, this is still negligible. I think you underestimate the size of the ocean environment, and/or over estimate the damage done by anchors and the duration of their temporary effect. These aren't old growth forests, they are plants that grow back in weeks, in an area of a few feet within thousands of miles of ocean.
@@FACTBOT_5000 in fact, some seagrass meadows are even older than some forests, as they can take up decades upon decades to grow, some Posidonia oceanica meadows are hundreds of years old, and they are quite important as they are the base to the whole ecosystem. Also you might want to know that most part of the oceans you claim are basically big deserts with minimal live on the seafloor, and those areas, such as the seagrass meadows' are vital for most of the fishes you eat, as their live usually starts near the coast, and yes, the seagrass meadows are highly damaged by the thousands and thousands of anchors. They cannot be banned tho, there are places where they can be dropped without any kind of impact, or at least, a minimal one.
Irreparable? So even after 100,000,000 years the reef won't recover? How do we know this? It's very frustrating when the word "never" is used incorrectly
@@bryanxcr600 its takes hundreds and thousands of years for a reef to repair that kind of damage. For all intents and purposes, that is near irreperable.
@@foundationsoversight8479 The damage from a single anchor can be repaired in 3 seasons by a healthy reef. The damage from thousands of anchors? Completely different story. Also, notice how I mentioned a healthy reef. Reefs have all kinds of pressure on them these days, be it silt from nearby onshore development, to crown of thorns or parrotfish overpopulation, to reef disease, and finally the big one, ocean warming. In the big scheme of things, a hurricane/cyclone can destroy an entire reef in one or two days. As long as the reef is in a healthy ecosystem, it can bounce back within a decade or so. As it is, established reefs are struggling and environments for a reef to bounce back from severe damage are much fewer and far between these days.
@@012345673122 Dear numbnuts………nothing is being destroyed here……..grass grows back…….sand shifts with the current and tide…….please stop being a snowflake. Also for your information large ships have designated anchorage areas which is far away from coral or sensitive areas. You really should check your facts instead of diving in with both feet which I’m guessing is sporting some sort flip flop made in some hell hole that smells like a donkeys asshole.. 😂😂
How crazy there are divers down there next to the ships anchors. Then it starts moving and they flinch at first, then follow it. It's cool how clear the water is down there. I'd hold onto the anchor let it pull me lol
@@crinkly.love-stick Yeah, that. I know nothing about anchors, and hardly anything about scuba diving, but this seems risky to me. I would've moved away when the anchor started moving.
The posidonia meadow in southern Ibiza is a world heritage site and yet they built the new Botafoc dam.. the mega yatch tourism only generates misery.. the same happens in Formentera, Mallorca, Menorca....
@Professor Frog 29 people agree. Have you seen die offs under open sea fish farm nets? The waste from the fish kills everything and the fish become infested with sea lice that is transferred to wild fish causing a disease pandemic. Point: stop trolling, be informed. Have a nice day.
Really. Why even say something like this when it's clear as day it's attached to nothing. The fact that you can see and comphrend that scares me for America
@@dustinherman3860 1) If it's attached to nothing then why is it moving? 2) Do you know what a canoe is? 3) Are your seamanship skills as bad as your grammar and spelling skills?
I always thought when ships pulled anchor, they weren’t pulling it in as much as they were pulling the ship to the anchor, then when directly overhead were able to hoist it up and on with great effort. I learned something.
It is a mix, but typically when you are pulling the anchor you are also actively powering ( slowly ) towards the anchor - so as to not stress the anchor winches unnecessarily. What we saw here was likely just the current dragging the boat or the boat backing up to try to get the anchor to dig in.
@@dirtyaznstyle4156 I’m afraid that’s not the case, at least partially. I’m a pilot and know a bit about aircraft but nothing about sailing, ships, and nautical nomenclature. I had to read up, starting from scratch and learned a fair bit. The process of pulling up an anchor was an extremely involved process. I had no idea just how much equipment, technique and effort went into this. I’m speaking on what I’ve learned mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries of sail. The “capstone”, (the enormous drum that uses spokes to gain leverage in pulling), is an entire subject in its own right with so much too it. Too much to detail here, but my initial presumption wasn’t too far off. The crew does indeed work the capstone and pull the ship towards the anchor for a bit. It seems to be a mix. They’re working not only to pull the tons of anchor, but also the tons of guide wire/chain. Modern systems use automated steam, hydraulic and other energies and are entirely different. I can’t speak to that, no idea, but in the age of sail, raising the anchor was a science and exercise in tremendous teamwork and tech. The HMS Victory, for example, took 300 men 5 hours to raise the anchor. Think about that. That blows my mind. Anyone with even a budding interest in sailing or military history should check it out. Its definitely left me with more appreciation and respect for the men who did this work and helped build the modern world through commerce/transportation.
No we need to plant more. Sea grass is actually one of the most affective combat practices against global warming . Make all areas of sea grass protected sights and ban anchoring to other areas!! You can make hundreds of anchors, we only have one planet. Plus the animals need it!
A highly unusual situation that the anchor should land with the flukes pointed into the ground and stay in that position. Normally, it would land and the stock would pull it over so the flukes could be laying on the seafloor.
As a scuba diving instructor, in my opinion, both divers performed potentially dangerous act. At the beginnng,the diver in frame's right foot was to close to the chain and top shank of the anchor. It could've been his leg got stuck under. No one wants several tons of weight crushing one's limb. The camera diver was also too close. Both divers should've approached the anchor away from the chain direction and stayed clear within a few meters from the anchor. Good thing that both of them were ok and sure is this video quite interesting to watch.
Here on the grass beds of Sarasota bay you can see many trails through the grass left by boats churning through. Manatees abound here and almost all of them bear the scars from boat propellers. Sad to see.
You can drop a weight and buoy to semi anchor. But that is NOT an anchor... that will keep you still for longer than a few minutes... its still enough to get your bearings and figure out where you are with a sea chart.
Okay.. ..anchors can actually help the sea bed. When the ground is disturbed by any form of plowing it brings nutrients to the surface and airrates the soil.
Bossman said we have to make sure this anchor makes it through the sea grass with as much destruction as possible. Let him know when we are through and he'll circle back around for another pass. Rodgers that.
"Impact caused by anchors on seagrass beds" Literally a meter in hundreds of thousands of miles on seagrass which bounces back faster than weeds on a summer day.
@@jhanwan8318 Because literally it's an anchor, on a meter of seagrass that bounces back quickly. You act like they are side by side 24 hours a day terraforming the seafloor. When it's actually a anchor point in on one section in thousands of miles of sea, in which the odds of a vessels dropping it within the same spot are basically zero unless it's a port. You also don't factor in that the majority of seagrass is present within bay lines and shallower inlets due to water clarity not possible for large vessles to anchor upon. Hurricane Michael eliminated nearly 50% of the seagrass during the storm within its location, it's all back now. You're crying about the literal 1% damage it causes while there's thousands of more factors eliminating it. It's the same thing as crying about the coral reef when it shows that "scientists" were just lying and making absurd claims about "climate change" and "coral bleaching" and turns out they didn't have a clue what they were talking about as it bounced back from their 99% claim.
Yes, but you have to consider the different scenarios. I come from an island in Italy so we are quite in the tourism thing, many yachts usually come from April to September. In summertime everyday there are hundreds of yachts anchoring near us and they represent a serious treath to seagrass beds. There are no actual limitations because of the number of boats and the Coast Guard just doesn't catch up with the large numbers. I imagine we are not the only area facing this problem :(
This was about commercial boat anchors causing damage, from commercial vessels far larger and far more frequent than personal yachts, in which in fact they do not cause that much damage, even a hundred yatchts dropping anchors will do nothing. Because the entire premise the "boat anchors destroy sea grass" narrative is overblown BS. Hence how storms can literally strip them by 30-40% only to have them recover. Once again to reiterate, boat anchors cannot and could not damage the seagrass to the point of any alarm, you're talking about small patches of it with thousands of miles of it present in which it bounces back at an astounding rate. Just because there's a patch missing from a common, heavily trafficked area is not a concern. I live by a marina in WA state, the seagrass has been killed numerous times and is still back heavier than ever. Even the state Department of Natural Resources has been monitoring the eelgrass for the past 18 years in the Sound and has remained completely stable despite the heavy traffic we get from commercial craft pouring into Seattle and coming from CA. The entire premise of boat anchors is a joke, storms and natural causes combined with actual pollution do a thousand fold more damage.
This is a contrived situation. Normally when you haul up an anchor you are dragging the *boat* towards the anchor and lifting the chain off the bottom. Anchors are designed not to drag.
The procedure for dropping anchor includes paying out as much chain as necessary followed by backing up the vessel until the anchor embeds itself into the ground and stops the vessel. This right here looks like as if the anchor was just dropped or dropped without backing up, allowing it to drag along the seafloor and having it wedge eventually. Or the floor was not suitable for anchoring and the anchor cannot embed itself into it.
Seems dangerous if that anchor pulls up fast could hit the diver. He seemed shocked when it started to move. Very cool to hear the movement and shocked it didnt dig in.
80% of the ocean floor has yet to have been explored or mapped, this anchor essentially has had as much impact on the ocean floor as a person walking on the white house lawn
Sea grass is one of the best combat strategies for climate change there is. It's more efficient and faster yeilding in absorbing co2 than most of our rain forest that remain! Up to 40% more infact!! To watch this is truly painful :( seagrass is actually very delicate. I cultivate it at a marine biology institute and actually, digging up the sand affects the roots and stems. Also if so many other boats are doing the same thing in other areas, destruction is just going to keep happening. We need to protect these areas at all costs. We only have one planet. Boats need to anchor in areas free from sea grass, not only that but it's destructive to the habitat of certain threatened species.
Fun fact the anchor is not what holds the boat in place it’s the weight of the chain. The only purpose of the anchor is once it digs into the sea bed the weight of the chain holds the boat in place.
And here we have a sea anchor making it's slow journey across the see floor. This sort of behavior is typically only seen in the monsoon season off the Pacific West coast but do to high salt content and warming waters they have been pushed further south earlier then usual. It is typical to see one or two of these guys in an area usually a couple of hundred feet apart moving at roughly the same speed and direction.
These divers are doing excellent work studying the mating habits of anchors in their natural habitat. Sea grass anchors cannot breed in captivity so their numbers have been dwindling. Hopefully scientists can bring them back from the edge of extinction.
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That's why on nautical charts you have designated achorages for ships.
Alaska is a good one
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Ooooh, good to know
Agreed the right sand is essential cant just anchor anywhere
The weight of the chains helps hold the ship in place, not only the chain but also the stock and this one here is a stockless anchor. Mostly used because it can be conveniently rolled up through the cats hole/hawsepipe. Admiralty anchors have better stability but are more difficult to store.
*was reading for my Seamanship exams when I Saw this*
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@@arielalicaway6554 praise the mighty Squirtle
That reminds me of getting my boaters permit at age 12. Fun Times!
Why is that diver pushing that anchor? Doesn't he know he's moving the ship too?
Ken Hasard really?
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Even without the anchor the sea bed changes constantly due to ocean currents and weather.
We have anchorage areas, which usually are surveyed to make sure we do little impact on sea life or keep vessel’s from dragging their anchors on underwear pipelines. These areas also are like a parking lot but for boats. Which help minimize the cluster fuck at sea ports
Yeah but the currents don't scare the seabed and put holes in the seabed like anchors.
So is this anchor attached to a boat right now? Lmao
@@sharoncook8727 no it's just moving on its own as they're known to do
@@sharoncook8727 yeah..
Lots of excuses. You live in this world ,putting a big impact admit it and try to fix it...not pointing finger
I love how normally things move slower in water, but this is so heavy it falls like it’s on normal land.
Falls? When
@@Industry-insider it never actually falls, but the way it moves/ stays stuck to the ground. When its dragged over a bump of any kind, it just stays stuck to the ground while normally things would fall much slower in water. This anchor is just super dense.
You would be surprised
@@congruentcribof course it stays stuck to the ground. It’s metal and gravity is pulling on it lol
Hands down the best recommendation so far by TH-cam. I didn't ask for this video but my subconscious has always wanted to see how anchors work.
So here we are getting my desire satisfied 😂😂
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th-cam.com/video/2YvwXJGsbEg/w-d-xo.html This is also a good video on anchors and anchor chains.
You didnt know how anchors worked?????
Like the Big heavy thing that looks like some sort of massiv hook? You couldnt imgine how it works???? For Real???
@@robingreengrow1377 people learn that when they get a boat, it's not common knowledge and people with the knowledge are aware of that.
I bet you would love to go out in your own boat, hands down my favorite thing was finding a nice anchorage and laying it down tightly.
If you mess it up, your boat will slide and drag with the current or the wind and you never settle, when you get it right it's very rewarding. Same with docking.
I know I'm going to catch hell for saying this, but turning up the sand and causing that small amount of damage, in the small, confined area an anchor will cause, is actually good for the ecosystem(so long as it's not widespread and extensive). The odd anchor here and there isn't in any way bad for the environment.
I'm certainly not a marine biologist, so take what I say with a grain of salt. That being said, I've been keeping aquariums and breeding and selling both fish and aquatic plants for almost 30 years thus making aquatics something of a specialty of mine. I don't see damage in this video. I see lots of opportunity for the organisms inhabiting this area as well as a renewed/recycled strip of ground for new, healthy growth.
Now if this were a reef I'd have a VERY different response.
thanks for the info
I'd say it's like tilling organic gardening. Killing microbes and undoing the ecosystem
Also I imagine the ship will be back, doing its usual shipping route, tearing up the sea bed again before it has a chance to recover
Your basis for saying that?
@@9mmwaffle. nah
If you think anchors are destructive imagine a scallop dragger going back and forth all day pulling a heavy drag. Not much survives on the bottom after that.
The fishing industry as a whole is very damaging.
@@etherealstars5766 not nearly as damaging as beach goers and tourists with their sunscreen, and the poachers In certain countries that shall not be named. Or pollution from some countries that shall not be named.
@@thisperson2963 You're completely fucking wrong.
@@thisperson2963 up to 50 percent of ocean waste is directly linked to commercial fishing. Stop spreading lies you ignorant child.
@@thisperson2963 WTF with all these "can't be named" shit? Voldermort isn't real dude.
If i was the one diving and that anchor moved unexpectedly I mightve just shat my wetsuit right then and there it wouldve scared that bad
Why?
@@Tableshaft why what. Why it would've scared me. Cause I wasn't expecting to move. now if I was expecting to move... thats a different story
@@chris2fer1977 oh
Lol like wait a minute.. what the fuck? There isnt a ship anywhere around.
@@OregonPotFarmer they tend to stay on the surface.
as a farmer it looks like a good thing.
How can farmer knowledge equate to anything related to the sea, really?
@@lucasmontec magic🤔
@@lucasmontec Dirt, plants, ..
@@lucasmontec What happens when a farmer plows,, well stuff grows back plowed earth on the surface or underwater will both produce more when the substrate is disturbed, moves nutrients up that are locked down deep and better grow the grass..
@@dafrasier1 seems legit....
They both jumped so hard when that anchor started moving lol
Didn't know what was at the other end I guess.
Well yeah because that’s a good 1000lbs
That’s a crap anchor that just drags. Old and dated design. Newer ones just digs straight in and leaves the rest of the seabed alone.
That’s not how any of this works
Cloud K20 it is a crap anchor for that bottom though
@@robboss1839 the problem here is a lack of length in chain. The weight of the chain is what keeps the anchor In place.
@westAlone yes tides do change drastically
I've seen plenty of Danforth's drag through seagrass, they're pretty common
Legends say they’re still following the anchor up until now.
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I can see it now, a whole SGLM (sea grass lives matter) movement is about to begin. Finally, someone being a voice for the sea grass!!
Biodiversity and ecoexclusion
Plant lives matter
This is much less invasive then bulldozing an entire piece of land
All those people arguing down in the comments for an anchor and seagrass. That s why i love videos like this. There's always somebody trying to prove a point, when there is nothing to say except "this video sounds like undervater darth vador LOL".
Your narrow minded if u think there is nothing to say about this Video than the noise in it.
For ME there is nothing to say cause TH-cam recommended to a guy living on a montain and having 0% of interrest about the sea a video about seagrass.
Fun fact: the chain for the anchor is the main thing that keeps a ship in place. The anchor itself is merely there to dig into the ground and stop the chain from drifting; it is a fraction of the weight of the entire system. They deliberately put more chain in the ocean which often slacks in the water horizontal to the ocean floor like you see here
Actually it is the anchor that is the main thing that keeps a ship in place. But the chain is there to make sure the pull on the anchor is as horizontal as possible. Due to the weight of the anchor chain the first part of the chain will stay flat on the bottom and therefore the anchor will be able to work as designed. When using rope or a chain that is too short or too light the ship will pull it off the bottom and the pull angle on the anchor will not be parallel to the seafloor and therefore more likely to break out of the soil. So anchor and chain together are the anchoring system but the anchor is what holds the ship in place and the chain is what makes te anchor stay in place due to a better pull angle.
@Agame your comment isn't a fact but fun. The fun part of it it that it shows how a DH youtube expert you are dear dead weight
4:1 is a good ratio, what the depth is have 4 times the chain out 👌🏽 in rough weather go 5 or more, adjust till it’s not pulling on the anchor.
That’s a claw type anchor.. you’re supposed to drop it on sand while slowing to stop so that it digs into the sand.
It looks more like a fluke type anchor to me, something like a giant Danforth or Fortress.
Those are definitely made for "soft bottoms" which would be mixed.
Not an expert so I could be wrong but my own anchor looks like that, it has a hinge and it's manufacturer recommended for grass dirt sand and any soft bottom.
"Hey! You scratched my anchor!"
Don't worry people these days still get that reference.
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Do you realize how large the ocean is compared to how small and few the anchors are? This is like a single footprint in the Amazon. The impact can be observed on the smallest scale, but is utterly insignificant IRL.
@no On a realistic scale, this is still negligible. I think you underestimate the size of the ocean environment, and/or over estimate the damage done by anchors and the duration of their temporary effect. These aren't old growth forests, they are plants that grow back in weeks, in an area of a few feet within thousands of miles of ocean.
@@FACTBOT_5000 in fact, some seagrass meadows are even older than some forests, as they can take up decades upon decades to grow, some Posidonia oceanica meadows are hundreds of years old, and they are quite important as they are the base to the whole ecosystem.
Also you might want to know that most part of the oceans you claim are basically big deserts with minimal live on the seafloor, and those areas, such as the seagrass meadows' are vital for most of the fishes you eat, as their live usually starts near the coast, and yes, the seagrass meadows are highly damaged by the thousands and thousands of anchors. They cannot be banned tho, there are places where they can be dropped without any kind of impact, or at least, a minimal one.
@@lictaseolictineo4161 someone with actual fckin sense.
I thought this was going to be a disappointing video but I am happy to see that there is very little damage.
Its like a sea plow, I wonder if it helps promote growth of younger plants by clearing the older foliage.
I’d this was an hour long I’d watch every minute of it.
Insightful efforts. Well done!
As long as ships aren’t allowed anywhere near a reef it can still recover, but if they drop on a reef it’s irreparable
Irreparable? So even after 100,000,000 years the reef won't recover? How do we know this? It's very frustrating when the word "never" is used incorrectly
@@bryanxcr600 its takes hundreds and thousands of years for a reef to repair that kind of damage. For all intents and purposes, that is near irreperable.
@@foundationsoversight8479 The damage from a single anchor can be repaired in 3 seasons by a healthy reef. The damage from thousands of anchors? Completely different story. Also, notice how I mentioned a healthy reef. Reefs have all kinds of pressure on them these days, be it silt from nearby onshore development, to crown of thorns or parrotfish overpopulation, to reef disease, and finally the big one, ocean warming.
In the big scheme of things, a hurricane/cyclone can destroy an entire reef in one or two days. As long as the reef is in a healthy ecosystem, it can bounce back within a decade or so. As it is, established reefs are struggling and environments for a reef to bounce back from severe damage are much fewer and far between these days.
@@foundationsoversight8479 thats exactly why its the wrong word. Its a lengthy repair and a considerable amount of damage. Not irreparable.
@@bryanxcr600 Pedantic spitfuck.
Anyone else loving the sound of the anchor gently scratching the seabed as it effortlessly glides along. 😋
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Knob head! That peaceful sound is the sound of destruction. Those anchors scrape through the seabed for miles which destroy coral reef beds.
@@012345673122 Dear numbnuts………nothing is being destroyed here……..grass grows back…….sand shifts with the current and tide…….please stop being a snowflake.
Also for your information large ships have designated anchorage areas which is far away from coral or sensitive areas.
You really should check your facts instead of diving in with both feet which I’m guessing is sporting some sort flip flop made in some hell hole that smells like a donkeys asshole.. 😂😂
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@@012345673122 B's!!
I had know idea that when you anchor there are divers down there making sure everything is ok!
I wonder where you apply for that job.
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Lol.. that's not true...
They don't
How crazy there are divers down there next to the ships anchors. Then it starts moving and they flinch at first, then follow it. It's cool how clear the water is down there. I'd hold onto the anchor let it pull me lol
Then it rips your arm off and you die. 😵
Sounds fun, until it rolls over on you
@@crinkly.love-stick Yeah, that. I know nothing about anchors, and hardly anything about scuba diving, but this seems risky to me. I would've moved away when the anchor started moving.
This is just Kyriakos Grizzly pulling the rope.
The posidonia meadow in southern Ibiza is a world heritage site and yet they built the new Botafoc dam.. the mega yatch tourism only generates misery.. the same happens in Formentera, Mallorca, Menorca....
Imagine the seagrass bed after screening the battleship movie
Sit in front of the anchor and protest, that will make them stop
Plowing a garden turns the soil and mixes the nutrients.
@Professor Frog 29 people agree.
@Professor Frog 29 people agree. Have you seen die offs under open sea fish farm nets? The waste from the fish kills everything and the fish become infested with sea lice that is transferred to wild fish causing a disease pandemic. Point: stop trolling, be informed. Have a nice day.
@John Arizona
Pasensya na god bless
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Pinatawad. Pagpalain ka ng Diyos!
@Professor Frog Trust me, they do.
Ooooo I’ve never seen a wild anchor before. Rare footage... nice!
I want to know how big the canoe is attached to this thing?
it's depends wht is depth of sea where she is anchored
Really. Why even say something like this when it's clear as day it's attached to nothing. The fact that you can see and comphrend that scares me for America
@@dustinherman3860 1) If it's attached to nothing then why is it moving?
2) Do you know what a canoe is?
3) Are your seamanship skills as bad as your grammar and spelling skills?
@@dustinherman3860 Oh boy I hope this is sarcasm
Made from a fully grown redwood.
What are u old man of the sea? “You tore up my sea grass!!”
STAY OFF MY GRASS YOU YOUNG WHIPPER SNAPPER
I always thought when ships pulled anchor, they weren’t pulling it in as much as they were pulling the ship to the anchor, then when directly overhead were able to hoist it up and on with great effort. I learned something.
It is a mix, but typically when you are pulling the anchor you are also actively powering ( slowly ) towards the anchor - so as to not stress the anchor winches unnecessarily. What we saw here was likely just the current dragging the boat or the boat backing up to try to get the anchor to dig in.
@@unom8 Thank you! Very informative.
The anchor can’t weigh more than the ship lol it would have to if that were the case
@@dirtyaznstyle4156 do yourself a favor and google everything first, no matter how trivial or how sure you feel about it.
@@dirtyaznstyle4156 I’m afraid that’s not the case, at least partially. I’m a pilot and know a bit about aircraft but nothing about sailing, ships, and nautical nomenclature. I had to read up, starting from scratch and learned a fair bit. The process of pulling up an anchor was an extremely involved process. I had no idea just how much equipment, technique and effort went into this. I’m speaking on what I’ve learned mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries of sail. The “capstone”, (the enormous drum that uses spokes to gain leverage in pulling), is an entire subject in its own right with so much too it. Too much to detail here, but my initial presumption wasn’t too far off. The crew does indeed work the capstone and pull the ship towards the anchor for a bit. It seems to be a mix. They’re working not only to pull the tons of anchor, but also the tons of guide wire/chain. Modern systems use automated steam, hydraulic and other energies and are entirely different. I can’t speak to that, no idea, but in the age of sail, raising the anchor was a science and exercise in tremendous teamwork and tech.
The HMS Victory, for example, took 300 men 5 hours to raise the anchor. Think about that. That blows my mind. Anyone with even a budding interest in sailing or military history should check it out. Its definitely left me with more appreciation and respect for the men who did this work and helped build the modern world through commerce/transportation.
This is great footage though. I never really thought about what happens at this angle.
I subscribed. I like seeing under water things.
What a majestic creature to observe on nature’s ocean.❤
Im amazed it did not run off by human presence.
Incredible sighting
We must ban seagrass beds!
No we need to plant more. Sea grass is actually one of the most affective combat practices against global warming . Make all areas of sea grass protected sights and ban anchoring to other areas!! You can make hundreds of anchors, we only have one planet. Plus the animals need it!
@@peggyholliday5285 gLoBaL wArMiNg!1!1 more like global freezing
Guess we can get around to finding a cure for cancer some other day. This is much more important!!
This is the way
@no I don’t really think I cared
What a strong man can push the anchor
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Oh no.
.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the millions of acres of sea grass beds have been ruined by anchors.
How will we survive?
LOL
I assumed that was a lost anchor at first but if they are just swimming around a random ships anchor that is INCREDIBLY dangerous
A highly unusual situation that the anchor should land with the flukes pointed into the ground and stay in that position. Normally, it would land and the stock would pull it over so the flukes could be laying on the seafloor.
Wow this underwater yard looks beatiful
No matter where Man goes he leaves a scar behind.
looks like the anchor wasn't damaged much, so good job.
Why didn't you hold it, and keep it from moving?!?
Nothing to see here, just a sea man walking his anchor
It's grass. It grows back.
you are stupid this is the biggest problem on earth and cause for most problems
xzesstence see thats where your wrong
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The BIGGEST problem on earth?
BIGGEST?
@@MYOB990 there will be the time when you will understand it, nature is a good teacher, but you dont listen to your mother
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My mother would disagree.
Oh, wait. You are talking to trees or something.
Nothing more destructive than to think that this is destructive!
As a scuba diving instructor, in my opinion, both divers performed potentially dangerous act. At the beginnng,the diver in frame's right foot was to close to the chain and top shank of the anchor. It could've been his leg got stuck under. No one wants several tons of weight crushing one's limb. The camera diver was also too close. Both divers should've approached the anchor away from the chain direction and stayed clear within a few meters from the anchor.
Good thing that both of them were ok and sure is this video quite interesting to watch.
That poor starfish man it got chucked at the anchor 😢
Due to increased CO2 levels, which helps increase plant growth, the amount of seagrass in Australian waters is now at an ALL-TIME RECORD HIGH.
This was in Alaska. Yeah, in Anchorage.
You environmentalists worried about that little swath of sea floor when the sea grass will grow back to same length within a week...
I was waiting for it to skip, guys you gotta be more careful than to sit so close omg
Here on the grass beds of Sarasota bay you can see many trails through the grass left by boats churning through. Manatees abound here and almost all of them bear the scars from boat propellers. Sad to see.
Fuck the manatees lol.
I don’t even know why I said that it just seemed funny.
10 year's later, imagine how much worse it is today.
does anyone have a eco friendly anchor
Ya they are called docks 🤣
You can drop a weight and buoy to semi anchor. But that is NOT an anchor... that will keep you still for longer than a few minutes... its still enough to get your bearings and figure out where you are with a sea chart.
Okay.. ..anchors can actually help the sea bed. When the ground is disturbed by any form of plowing it brings nutrients to the surface and airrates the soil.
Is called “drift”
it was a joke you wankas
Bossman said we have to make sure this anchor makes it through the sea grass with as much destruction as possible. Let him know when we are through and he'll circle back around for another pass. Rodgers that.
"Impact caused by anchors on seagrass beds" Literally a meter in hundreds of thousands of miles on seagrass which bounces back faster than weeds on a summer day.
@@jhanwan8318 Because literally it's an anchor, on a meter of seagrass that bounces back quickly. You act like they are side by side 24 hours a day terraforming the seafloor. When it's actually a anchor point in on one section in thousands of miles of sea, in which the odds of a vessels dropping it within the same spot are basically zero unless it's a port.
You also don't factor in that the majority of seagrass is present within bay lines and shallower inlets due to water clarity not possible for large vessles to anchor upon.
Hurricane Michael eliminated nearly 50% of the seagrass during the storm within its location, it's all back now. You're crying about the literal 1% damage it causes while there's thousands of more factors eliminating it.
It's the same thing as crying about the coral reef when it shows that "scientists" were just lying and making absurd claims about "climate change" and "coral bleaching" and turns out they didn't have a clue what they were talking about as it bounced back from their 99% claim.
You are that "climate change are not real" of people. Sorry no point to argue
this time it was just seaweed
Yes, but you have to consider the different scenarios. I come from an island in Italy so we are quite in the tourism thing, many yachts usually come from April to September. In summertime everyday there are hundreds of yachts anchoring near us and they represent a serious treath to seagrass beds. There are no actual limitations because of the number of boats and the Coast Guard just doesn't catch up with the large numbers. I imagine we are not the only area facing this problem :(
This was about commercial boat anchors causing damage, from commercial vessels far larger and far more frequent than personal yachts, in which in fact they do not cause that much damage, even a hundred yatchts dropping anchors will do nothing. Because the entire premise the "boat anchors destroy sea grass" narrative is overblown BS. Hence how storms can literally strip them by 30-40% only to have them recover.
Once again to reiterate, boat anchors cannot and could not damage the seagrass to the point of any alarm, you're talking about small patches of it with thousands of miles of it present in which it bounces back at an astounding rate. Just because there's a patch missing from a common, heavily trafficked area is not a concern.
I live by a marina in WA state, the seagrass has been killed numerous times and is still back heavier than ever. Even the state Department of Natural Resources has been monitoring the eelgrass for the past 18 years in the Sound and has remained completely stable despite the heavy traffic we get from commercial craft pouring into Seattle and coming from CA.
The entire premise of boat anchors is a joke, storms and natural causes combined with actual pollution do a thousand fold more damage.
This is a contrived situation. Normally when you haul up an anchor you are dragging the *boat* towards the anchor and lifting the chain off the bottom. Anchors are designed not to drag.
The procedure for dropping anchor includes paying out as much chain as necessary followed by backing up the vessel until the anchor embeds itself into the ground and stops the vessel. This right here looks like as if the anchor was just dropped or dropped without backing up, allowing it to drag along the seafloor and having it wedge eventually. Or the floor was not suitable for anchoring and the anchor cannot embed itself into it.
Maybe the current is pushing the boat. This anchor hasn’t really latched onto anything solid.
Solution : Stop using Anchors, put 500 ft. long posts at anchorage points in the Ocean, with parking meters on 'em, problem solved!!
Best idea ever 10/10
Awful for the sea floor but it’s very interesting to see a large anchor under water like this.
Nothing can happen, the diver always holds it! ☝️☺️
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Seems dangerous if that anchor pulls up fast could hit the diver. He seemed shocked when it started to move. Very cool to hear the movement and shocked it didnt dig in.
That anchor is worn out, I have witnessed this even on “newish” anchors.....the geometry is all wrong,....the angle of dangle twist fluke and stock
I respect your knowledge on anchors
Yes yes, the angle of the dangle and the heat of the meat. Very common problems.
Lmao that was great.
It hadn't ever occurred to me that anchors don't just sit motionless on the seafloor like Mr. Krabs' house
James Bond goldeneye at the end lol
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its should reduce the drift? anchor is not doing its job?
Thats why I have to get off my ski every 30 sec to get sea grass out of impeller 🤦
So, plowing a field is now a Bad Thing?
"Hey, man. Your anchor is, like, in my sea grass, man". Quote the aqua-hippies.
Only thing to do is fine captain if they drag or drop anchor out of shipping lane have specific area where mooring is allowed
Ahhh the algorithm has brought us together again.
A pleasure as always
Some wise man once told me that the chain weight holds down the ship not the anchor.
Yep - an anchor will make a mess of grass! Not particularly enlightening information 😂
80% of the ocean floor has yet to have been explored or mapped, this anchor essentially has had as much impact on the ocean floor as a person walking on the white house lawn
Forget about the non issues of an anchor on the sea floor and look above the water. We took em all down tree by tree
When they said humans are out to deforest the ENTIRE planet, I did not expect this.
I love how this implies that this hasn’t been happening for literally centuries of human seafaring.
Is the ship heaving up the anchor? Or just draging by current?
I think it's due to current and wind because of the angle and intermittent motion of the anchor
Cool!!
What are they suggesting we stop using anchors?
Sea grass is one of the best combat strategies for climate change there is. It's more efficient and faster yeilding in absorbing co2 than most of our rain forest that remain! Up to 40% more infact!! To watch this is truly painful :( seagrass is actually very delicate. I cultivate it at a marine biology institute and actually, digging up the sand affects the roots and stems. Also if so many other boats are doing the same thing in other areas, destruction is just going to keep happening. We need to protect these areas at all costs. We only have one planet. Boats need to anchor in areas free from sea grass, not only that but it's destructive to the habitat of certain threatened species.
That grass does need mowing. Great work anchor. Now in 4 trillion more years you might make a dent in it.
A shame!
Anchor lives matter
jubileu gamepreis You anchor racist. Admit your sins
Fun fact the anchor is not what holds the boat in place it’s the weight of the chain. The only purpose of the anchor is once it digs into the sea bed the weight of the chain holds the boat in place.
I must be very bored to click on this. I need to find a girl.LOL
Girl won't change much dude, trust me 😅
@@zee9709 i know i guess i am bored lonely and stupid.
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So, what your solution to keep still the ship then?
Duct tape..... duct tape fixes everything. If it doesn’t we can always use the rest to immobilize whoever made this vid
So that anchor is slowly ripping up the ocean floor depending on the current?
Tilling or turning soil on land or under water is never a bad thing.
Not all ships/boats anchors are anchored on seagrass..sometimes anchored on corals....
And here we have a sea anchor making it's slow journey across the see floor. This sort of behavior is typically only seen in the monsoon season off the Pacific West coast but do to high salt content and warming waters they have been pushed further south earlier then usual. It is typical to see one or two of these guys in an area usually a couple of hundred feet apart moving at roughly the same speed and direction.
Is there a problem here? I didn't see it.