Hi friends! This is our recreation of the Admiral Nakhimov disaster in real time. I uploaded it yesterday but a rendering error cut off about 5 minutes of the intro - grr! Here is the final version. :) ~Mike
I lived in a Soviet apartment building for 5 years. In case of fire, our instructions were to go to the roof. However, there was a locked hatch at the top. They told us someone would unlock it if there was a fire. Right.
The soviets weren't / aren't / will Never be, the smartest ones in the room. Many postulate why this is. I surmise it't because for 400 years they have been eradicating their best and brightest in a vain attempt to not be overthrown . IDIOCRACY . . . ☆
My mother told me about this disaster before Titanic 1997 was even released, 2 days after sinking she was to board a group of tourists from Moldova SSR to Odessa to board the modern cruise ship Taras Shevchenko, they were to pass closer to the wreck of the A.Nakhimov and throw flowers into the sea, by relatives on board Shevchenko, it was a very sad moment she said and gave her nightmares, which made her sleep with the life jacket on.
Do you know, that biggest maritime disaster in terms of casualties happened in Black Sea? It was SS Armenia which evacuated civilians and soldiers from besiegen Crimea. Sunk by German bomber plane. Amount of casualties is not known exactly as evacuation was very fast, but there were at least 15 000 victims, perhaps as much as 18 000...
@@milangacik994, trust me, the biggest maritime disaster was the wilhelm gustloff. The soviets knew about the civillians, and killed nearly 10000 people. The Armenja was a military used transport ship.
It's astonishing to think how slowly they move up to each other, yet, because of the sheer scales involved, it's practically impossible to avoid when they notice too late, and the impact is absolutely devastating. If people had a better perspective of how much mass can affect stopping and turning power, I'm pretty sure they would be less people getting hit by trains because the physics are very similar. It's terrible to think that those who died instantly in the initial collision are the lucky ones, outside of the survivors themselves. It's also remarkable to think how many survived considering how fast she sank. It's lucky that so many were on top.
how horrific, an entire minute of dread to watch and wait and realize exactly what is about to happen, with nothing that you can actually do about it. and the contrast between the music and lights to sudden darkness in the sea. chills. you did a fantastic job on this animation!
Definitely reminds me of the Empress of Ireland. Another ship slammed in her side, leaving a massive hole in her hull. And rolling over on her starboard side and sinking in a matter of minutes. May all the people who were lost on board rest in peace.
@@Hansalicious This disaster involved misunderstandings, violations of navigation rules, "radar hypnosis" and the fact that the Nakhimov's lights were virtually indistinguishable against the shore lights. I wonder how "Soviet" negligence differs from "American", "Swedish" or "Estonian" ones?
Hi friend Mike! I just want to say how much I really appreciate your real time videos. They are both beautiful and tragic and they leave me thinking for a long while processing just how quickly these things can happen. These videos make historic events feel so much more real and less distant and removed from our experiences. Your other videos are also so very good at keeping the human experience at the forefront of the historical facts. But there's something so raw about these real time videos that I really appreciate. Thank you and your team for putting so much work into bringing light to these often glossed over histories.
Passengers rushing to one side of a sinking to correct a list would have 0 effect unfortunately. The ship displaces tens of thousands of tons, and is now ballasted with thousands of tons of water. A couple hundred tons of people moving to one side of the ship will not do anything
One of the most messed up things I've heard on this channel is what you've said about what happens when the funnels of a great, sinking ship hit the water. The idea of being sucked into one of these massive funnels as the ship is sinking is outright nightmare fuel. If the engine rooms haven't flooded much before the funnels hit the water, I imagine that suction could be horrifying (not something I thought I'd see myself saying)
Interesting that she began life in 1925 as the German liner SS Berlin. She actually sank 3 times. While being used as a hospital ship in WW2 she was sunk by a mine in 1945. After the war she was raised in 1947 by the Soviets Union as part of war reparations. After being raised, explosives placed by the retreating Germans detonated and she sank again. Raised for a 2nd time she was then converted to a liner.
Losing all power at the same moment that millions of gallons of water suddenly came pouring into the ship must have been absolutely terrifying for those people below deck who were rendered instantly blind in a pitch black Hell.
Wow! Thus has to be one of the best animations of a ship sinking in real time. I literally got goose bumps when the ships were about to hit, the music and laughter up to the second was as if I hovered over the scene and got to see it myself. Great job!
That was riveting and terrifying! The slow motion, inevitability of the collision was triggering my anxiety. I can only imagine those poor passengers who lived it. 😩thank you Mike Brady and your fantastic team for bringing this solemn tale of this ship to life. Perhaps some captain or bridge crew will see this, think of the tragedy, and go to work the next day and think twice of their team. You never know.
It may be strange to say that I love these videos, but they give a very real perspective to something that can be hard to grasp as actually happening. They put you into the scene, instead of just hearing the facts. That being said, is there any way to make the nighttime ones a bit brighter without ruining the world you are creating? It just gets so hard to see all of the work and detail that went into it! (Even though I do understand why it’s important) Love your work as always!
the irony is that the freighter had engines full astern, trying to slow down, but if he had been all ahead with full left rudder he could have missed the cruise ship. these big ships lose maneuverability the slower they go.
Wow, 1986 was a very bad year for the Soviet Union, especially in and around the Ukrainian SSR. Amazing (and terrifying) animation! It's incredible how fast these huge ships can sink--the fact that 800+ people survived is miraculous, considering how little time they had to escape the ship.
@@kotfillip1142 У Путина и русских разный менталитет. Равнодушие и безответственность - единственное выживание. Оба капитана были заняты собой. Менталитет СССР сделал людей апатичными, лишенными аналитических и человеческих качеств.
@@kotfillip1142 I once read a relatively new western book on Battle of Kulikovo (1380 ad). The author managed to add Putin even there lol. Seriously bro - just don't waste your time on them, they really regard us subhuman by virtue of being Russian.
Amazing and dumbfounding! Two ships within sight of each other, no fog, or other sight issues, and this tragedy happens. A real head-scratcher for me, hard to figure what the freighter captain was thinking.
It's bad enough when ships collide but the terror of this happening at night is impossible for anyone who wasn't there to believe. I can think of nothing worse than all the lights going out and being plunged into pitch Black darkness especially if you are trying to make your escape from deep inside your ship. RIP to those who perished condolences to their families.
For all foreigners, who is not in that theme: That steamer was like a washout keeper for those poor souls who was disciplinary prosecuted and deprived from their “visa” ( permission to travel abroad), alcoholics, divorced seaman, who’s wives reported their low moral qualities to party , old timers. That vessel has cruised along USSR Black sea coast line inside border waters. We have called that steamer “ Two funnels- one salary”, meant no valuta earned, rubles only. That motley crew was unmotivated, undisciplined. Many of the crew smuggled theirs onboard, thats why nobody knows victims number for sure. Captain had left Bridge in the most dangerous moment, no any captains never left Bridge and let the command to young mate . No safety drills were executed upon departure from Odesa. Basic navigation rules were violated by both captains and no Port Control had intervened. That catastrophe was only matter of time.
Amazing! Thank you Mike for posting this and also for lightening the animation a bit to see it better. I know it is far more terrifying in the true darkness of that night with only the lights of the other ship and the shore in the distance under a star filled sky. Truly amazing! THANK YOU THANK YOU!
I remember seeing a little of that back when I was a kid. This is the best rendering yet I have seen of the incident. A lot of bad stuff happen in the USSR in 1986.
Thanks my friend Mike Brady, for taking my mind off of "things" and helping to put things in proper perspective. So sad so many people had no time to escape!
WOW! Another superb presentation by Mike and his team. Your consistency is remarkable, Mike. Recreating the event in real time is dramatically effective! A couple of minor quibbles: (1) Regarding the lifeboats, the word is "taut," not "taught." (2) At 12:45, the word "rescue" is misspelled. Small beans, to be sure! Your entire team is to be commended for an understated tour de force!
I love the fact you left the text on screen for a moment because as a slow reader it is always a pain having to pause the video to be able to read the text and I didn't have to do here which I really appreciate 😊😊
It's amazing that there were survivors when no lifeboats were launched and I'm sure it would've been worse if they weren't near shore. Also an interesting fact about this ship is it actually sank one previous time after hitting a mine when was originally called the Berlin but they managed to salvage the ship and bring it back into action after a few years.
Here's some note about why Pyotr Vasev have got so close to Nakhimov: Basically the Pyotr Vasev crew wanted to get to the port before midnight because in that case they could get a surplus on their annual shipment plan which could provide them salary bonuses. They wanted to pass Nakhimov as close as possible, but horribly miscalculated her position on Data Bridge navigation system (they picked the wrong part of Nakhimov to estimate the remaining distance).
Clear incompetence of Nakhimov's crew. Collision was imminent, yet alarm wasn't sounded, davits weren't lowered. And passengers probably never had a drill to muster stations. But, given that it was late USSR, regulations were loose and corners were cut here and there.
У Путина и русских разный менталитет. Равнодушие и безответственность - единственное выживание. Оба капитана были заняты собой. Менталитет СССР сделал людей апатичными, лишенными аналитических и человеческих качеств.
Not only did the freighter not change course, having her engines astern helped the Nakhimov separate. I believe the best course of action during a collision is for the hitting ship to maintain contact so that the ships can share bouyancy and stability. If Nakhimov stays upright longer maybe a few life rafts could be launched... who knows.
They were trying to avoid hitting them so even if they had once again put the engines ahead that would have just pulled off then rammed them again . These things are huge we all know what battleships are , it takes 12 miles for one to turn around, stopping a ship or even turning quickly doesn't happen . the bow of a ship is the toughest part of it ,,,if they hadn't reversed the engines they might have flipped the lighter passenger ship over as they plowed into it doing even more damage and maybe splitting it in half or run right over it making things a lot worse ..
@randym7961 once the collision happens they can stop engines. Running them astern makes situation worse in 10/10 times. She can always back away if it seems that the shared bouyancy is insufficient. She can provide lighting and just buy time for people to get off. The ships staying together also "plugs" the hole a bit so water enters slower.
This could've been avoided had maritime rights been followed: vessel to starboard has rights over portside vessel, hence passenger vessel should have let the freighter go by and cross roads behind it. Another case like Andrea Doria, only this one went down in a blink😢 Thanks for the video, didn't know about this tragedy ⚓️🛟🔦☸️
This was a very cool format and idea. It would be cool if you had a POV change to on the ship. If you had a time stamp of an event etc. Been following your stuff fir a while, this was cool.
This is terrible! I can't begin to know the horror of what these passengers of the doomed ship had to go through and what they felt. 7 minutes is not enough time to get off a sinking ship. This would be one of my worst nightmares, to die in the middle of the ocean or wherever in the water. They didn't have a chance! And all of those lives lost. What a terrible tragedy.
Dear developers! It's just incredible! Admiral Nakhimov has been my love since childhood! I finally waited for someone to blow it up in 3d! Amazing ship detail and timeline animation! I myself made this liner in the game minecraft Teardown, I also made sketches in 3d, although I do not have the original drawings, I would like to know what you used to achieve such accuracy in appearance?I have a lot of photos that I managed to find on the Internet, I can say with confidence that you have a very accurate model! If you have the originals of his drawings? I would really like to purchase the originals, because this is my long-standing dream! Contact me, it's very important!
I don't know how you do it but, watching some of your ships including this one is like watching real movies. Great job and this one was extremely interesting. thanks
Hi Mike, Idea for you: since the SS United States is now slotted to be sunk and turned into a reef, maybe a video abput artificial reefs made put of ships?
You’d think that the Nakhimov would turn hard a starboard instead of hard to port; same thing for the P Vasev, turning hard to port. That way rather than a T-bone collision, it could have been at an angle, potentially minimizing the damage.
I have a photo as a primary school student from the main saloon of the ship. There we had a celebration where we became "chavdarcheta". Something like the "oktyabryata" (the October children) in the USSR. The captain is also in the photo, but I have no idea what his name was. This must have been 1985 - a year before it sank.
From Wikipedia: "The event was not reported in the news for forty eight hours. The survivors were only allowed to send telegrams saying 'Alive and well in Novorossiysk.'"
My Navy training says shous/boots off, life jacket on, not inflated and swim as far from the ship as you can to avoid flotsam coming up from below. Inflate life jacket.
i would of hated to be in a scenario like this iv never been on a ship but videos like this make me a bit on and off about it i feel so sorry for the people in the days when it happened.
I admit I don’t really know too much about this sinking or of the AHS Centar but one sinking in seven minutes and the other in three is especially frightening because you’d literally have to be sitting in a lifeboat ready to launch at time of impact to get a chance to survive.
Wow absolutely tragic to say the least! I'm surprised I'd never heard of this disaster at sea? Amazing how quickly the ship capsized and sunk! The portholes should have been closed while at sew possibly giving passengers a little more time to find an escape! Thank you for the great video and story!
In terms of design, according to the omniscient Wikipedia, when the Admiral had been converted, several bulkheads were removed. Had they not been removed, the ship might have been able to stay afloat. Also, the ship had very poor ventilation, so all the portholes were open. The subsequent inquiry found both captains equally guilty, and both were sentenced to 15 years in prison, but were out in 5. Two military divers died in the effort to recover bodies, after which recovery efforts were ended. The captain of the freighter ultimately, perhaps in a moment of poetic justice, died in a shipwreck, but he got to live twenty years longer than the victims of the SS Admiral Nakhimov disaster.
Can you make a video on the ship HMS Patroclus? She was built in 1923 and sunk on November 4th, 1940, by German uboat U-99, and 56 people died, and 263 people survived.
And right after my birthday, the 4th power unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. But it's still scary: how ships sink, how reactors explode, and especially if it happened suddenly and people's joy is replaced by panic and their death. Something always happens to someone from second to second, and even if you didn't expect it, as shown in this video, there is almost no time left to evacuate, and joy is replaced by panic and, God forbid, death, which were so funny
Hi friends! This is our recreation of the Admiral Nakhimov disaster in real time. I uploaded it yesterday but a rendering error cut off about 5 minutes of the intro - grr! Here is the final version. :)
~Mike
mike how are you doing today
That explains why the video started off with the impact.
Thanks Dave!
@@Crazytrain2015 To be fair, it's a good recreation of the experience of those sleeping in their cabins. 😳😢
That's alright
This sinking is terrifyingly quick. I thought Lusitania's was short. They had almost no time at all. But it is a miracle not everyone died.
water was much warmer
@@dima343.Actually, in the black sea after nightfall, even at the end of summer, that water was frigid.
Yes, over 800 survivors seems miraculous after sinking so quickly in the night...
How about empress on ireland?
423 of the 1,234 on board perished. Sixty-four of those killed were crew members and 359 were passengers.
I lived in a Soviet apartment building for 5 years. In case of fire, our instructions were to go to the roof. However, there was a locked hatch at the top. They told us someone would unlock it if there was a fire. Right.
The soviets weren't / aren't / will Never be, the smartest ones in the room. Many postulate why this is. I surmise it't because for 400 years they have been eradicating their best and brightest in a vain attempt to not be overthrown .
IDIOCRACY . . . ☆
Most of the people who got trapped were children who had parents that went out dancing and locked up
And who care where you live?
@patosan8120
NOW...we see why they call you a Pato. Pato... ☆
@patosan8120 I think you've missed the point of their comment
Note:
Most of the casualties were children who were locked in their cabin by their parents who went to the Night Events!
Damn :( Such a sad comment that I almost disliked it on impulse. That's terible.
terrible*
Dang, it just went from terrible to gut wrenching..
They presented the event in such a way that the horror is manageable. Otherwise, I think it would be unwatchable.
How tragic. RIP
The most tragic thing about this disaster is how absolutely avoidable it would have been...
Could have been, not would have been.
In Russia, you'd say "I'm going slow" while going at full speed.
With drunk Russians this type of thing is unavoidable.
@@RobertCraft-re5sf NATO captains are well known to sink ships when they are fully sober....
@@RobertCraft-re5sf
This is just a stupid stereotype. You clearly don't know how drunk the Finns, Danes and Dutch can get.
My mother told me about this disaster before Titanic 1997 was even released, 2 days after sinking she was to board a group of tourists from Moldova SSR to Odessa to board the modern cruise ship Taras Shevchenko, they were to pass closer to the wreck of the A.Nakhimov and throw flowers into the sea, by relatives on board Shevchenko, it was a very sad moment she said and gave her nightmares, which made her sleep with the life jacket on.
Do you know, that biggest maritime disaster in terms of casualties happened in Black Sea? It was SS Armenia which evacuated civilians and soldiers from besiegen Crimea. Sunk by German bomber plane. Amount of casualties is not known exactly as evacuation was very fast, but there were at least 15 000 victims, perhaps as much as 18 000...
@ really ?? I never j knew this ! I always believe Wilhelm Gustlov was the worst maritime disaster.
@@milangacik994How awful!
I actually genuinely agree with you @@victorpostica6058
@@milangacik994, trust me, the biggest maritime disaster was the wilhelm gustloff. The soviets knew about the civillians, and killed nearly 10000 people.
The Armenja was a military used transport ship.
It's astonishing to think how slowly they move up to each other, yet, because of the sheer scales involved, it's practically impossible to avoid when they notice too late, and the impact is absolutely devastating.
If people had a better perspective of how much mass can affect stopping and turning power, I'm pretty sure they would be less people getting hit by trains because the physics are very similar.
It's terrible to think that those who died instantly in the initial collision are the lucky ones, outside of the survivors themselves. It's also remarkable to think how many survived considering how fast she sank. It's lucky that so many were on top.
So much better with the intro, glad you got the rendering issue sorted. Another great animation from Jack
"Jack...Jaaaack!"
how horrific, an entire minute of dread to watch and wait and realize exactly what is about to happen, with nothing that you can actually do about it. and the contrast between the music and lights to sudden darkness in the sea. chills. you did a fantastic job on this animation!
Definitely reminds me of the Empress of Ireland.
Another ship slammed in her side, leaving a massive hole in her hull. And rolling over on her starboard side and sinking in a matter of minutes.
May all the people who were lost on board rest in peace.
In Nakhimov's case there was no fog, no miscommunication, no nothing that would make this disaster happen. Pure soviet negligence.
@@Hansalicious
This disaster involved misunderstandings, violations of navigation rules, "radar hypnosis" and the fact that the Nakhimov's lights were virtually indistinguishable against the shore lights. I wonder how "Soviet" negligence differs from "American", "Swedish" or "Estonian" ones?
@@karolinasandrapaulinamarit8090 Someone hasn't read about Chernobyl.
Yeah, we know. Mike covered her years ago.
@@PersephoneDaSilva
And someone hasen’t read about Bhopal and Fukushima.
Hi friend Mike!
I just want to say how much I really appreciate your real time videos. They are both beautiful and tragic and they leave me thinking for a long while processing just how quickly these things can happen. These videos make historic events feel so much more real and less distant and removed from our experiences. Your other videos are also so very good at keeping the human experience at the forefront of the historical facts. But there's something so raw about these real time videos that I really appreciate. Thank you and your team for putting so much work into bringing light to these often glossed over histories.
Holy cow! The screams. It really is like a baseball stadium full of fans, like a Titanic survivor once described it. So eerie.
This was absolutely horrific!
Rest in peace to all that died that evening in 1986.
A nightmare. Imagine being trapped inside, in the dark. These poor people 💔
most of the victims were children
@@dannys942yeah, what is even worse
Passengers rushing to one side of a sinking to correct a list would have 0 effect unfortunately. The ship displaces tens of thousands of tons, and is now ballasted with thousands of tons of water. A couple hundred tons of people moving to one side of the ship will not do anything
True although going to striken side would hasten it. Perhaps direct leaping would have been best and making clear from the suction once she goes under
One of the most messed up things I've heard on this channel is what you've said about what happens when the funnels of a great, sinking ship hit the water. The idea of being sucked into one of these massive funnels as the ship is sinking is outright nightmare fuel. If the engine rooms haven't flooded much before the funnels hit the water, I imagine that suction could be horrifying (not something I thought I'd see myself saying)
Interesting that she began life in 1925 as the German liner SS Berlin. She actually sank 3 times. While being used as a hospital ship in WW2 she was sunk by a mine in 1945. After the war she was raised in 1947 by the Soviets Union as part of war reparations. After being raised, explosives placed by the retreating Germans detonated and she sank again. Raised for a 2nd time she was then converted to a liner.
Two of then "new" Black sea liners Taras Shevchenko and Shota Rustaveli also were made in Germany (East).
@ So what?
Losing all power at the same moment that millions of gallons of water suddenly came pouring into the ship must have been absolutely terrifying for those people below deck who were rendered instantly blind in a pitch black Hell.
From fun and joy to death in a matter of minutes. You just never know when the Grim Reaper will strike.
Wow! Thus has to be one of the best animations of a ship sinking in real time. I literally got goose bumps when the ships were about to hit, the music and laughter up to the second was as if I hovered over the scene and got to see it myself. Great job!
This wasn't even in a fog like with The Empress or Doria. Absolute negligence.
I hope the captain of the Vasev was brought to justice.
@geoffallshorn5167, apparently, the captain's of both ships were blamed for the disaster
That was riveting and terrifying! The slow motion, inevitability of the collision was triggering my anxiety. I can only imagine those poor passengers who lived it. 😩thank you Mike Brady and your fantastic team for bringing this solemn tale of this ship to life. Perhaps some captain or bridge crew will see this, think of the tragedy, and go to work the next day and think twice of their team. You never know.
It may be strange to say that I love these videos, but they give a very real perspective to something that can be hard to grasp as actually happening. They put you into the scene, instead of just hearing the facts. That being said, is there any way to make the nighttime ones a bit brighter without ruining the world you are creating? It just gets so hard to see all of the work and detail that went into it! (Even though I do understand why it’s important) Love your work as always!
the irony is that the freighter had engines full astern, trying to slow down, but if he had been all ahead with full left rudder he could have missed the cruise ship. these big ships lose maneuverability the slower they go.
Wow, 1986 was a very bad year for the Soviet Union, especially in and around the Ukrainian SSR. Amazing (and terrifying) animation! It's incredible how fast these huge ships can sink--the fact that 800+ people survived is miraculous, considering how little time they had to escape the ship.
It was the ending of CCCP, they lived on borrowed time like Putin and Russia today.
@@harrydardanel7893 Вы даже здесь, в такой трагедии будете по Путина писать? Как будто никогда корабли не тонули.
@@kotfillip1142 У Путина и русских разный менталитет. Равнодушие и безответственность - единственное выживание. Оба капитана были заняты собой. Менталитет СССР сделал людей апатичными, лишенными аналитических и человеческих качеств.
@harrydardanel7893 глупость и ещё раз глупость. Аварии были и будут, что на Украине, что в Южной Корее, что в России, что в богоподобном США.
@@kotfillip1142 I once read a relatively new western book on Battle of Kulikovo (1380 ad). The author managed to add Putin even there lol. Seriously bro - just don't waste your time on them, they really regard us subhuman by virtue of being Russian.
It’s my friend, Mike Brady, from Oceanliner Designs!!!!!
Was this the real video from then
That is terrifying to watch. Thanks for posting, it vividly shows how little time sleeping passengers had to get out
Absolutely riveting! The real-time breakdown of the SS Admiral Nakhimov sinking is both chilling and fascinating. Incredible work!
Amazing and dumbfounding! Two ships within sight of each other, no fog, or other sight issues, and this tragedy happens. A real head-scratcher for me, hard to figure what the freighter captain was thinking.
A mere calculation error
Андреа Дориа при таких же обстоятевах потонуло но гораздо дольше
I mean, Pyotr Vasev captain was drunk.
@@Hansalicious капитан васва был склонен к опасным маневрам при расхождении в итоге доигрался.
@@musonchick Дак как я слышал он под шофе был в месте с частью команды
It's bad enough when ships collide but the terror of this happening at night is impossible for anyone who wasn't there to believe. I can think of nothing worse than all the lights going out and being plunged into pitch Black darkness especially if you are trying to make your escape from deep inside your ship.
RIP to those who perished condolences to their families.
Днём в коридорах судна если погас свет такая же тьма где нет иллюминаторов
Great video. So hard to believe that in a great big ocean 2 ships would collide
For all foreigners, who is not in that theme: That steamer was like a washout keeper for those poor souls who was disciplinary prosecuted and deprived from their “visa” ( permission to travel abroad), alcoholics, divorced seaman, who’s wives reported their low moral qualities to party , old timers. That vessel has cruised along USSR Black sea coast line inside border waters. We have called that steamer “ Two funnels- one salary”, meant no valuta earned, rubles only. That motley crew was unmotivated, undisciplined. Many of the crew smuggled theirs onboard, thats why nobody knows victims number for sure. Captain had left Bridge in the most dangerous moment, no any captains never left Bridge and let the command to young mate . No safety drills were executed upon departure from Odesa. Basic navigation rules were violated by both captains and no Port Control had intervened. That catastrophe was only matter of time.
This channel is great best of 2024 award worthy
I really like your videos and have watched many if not most of them. However, I think they are much better when you narrate them.
Amazing! Thank you Mike for posting this and also for lightening the animation a bit to see it better. I know it is far more terrifying in the true darkness of that night with only the lights of the other ship and the shore in the distance under a star filled sky. Truly amazing! THANK YOU THANK YOU!
7 minutes to sink. What were both captains thinking? How terrifying for the passengers.
Thanks Mike.
Thank you for the reupload showing the lead up to collision. Much appreciated!
Wow, it's almost like a movie 🎬🏆the music is much closer to the real atmosphere on board, thank you so much🙏
It's crazy that a channel with 2d designs turned into top notch 3d animation.
I remember seeing a little of that back when I was a kid. This is the best rendering yet I have seen of the incident. A lot of bad stuff happen in the USSR in 1986.
That view on the deck is wild. Knowing nothing you could do in the next 20 seconds would stop tons of people from dying.
Thanks my friend Mike Brady, for taking my mind off of "things" and helping to put things in proper perspective. So sad so many people had no time to escape!
WOW! Another superb presentation by Mike and his team. Your consistency is remarkable, Mike. Recreating the event in real time is dramatically effective! A couple of minor quibbles: (1) Regarding the lifeboats, the word is "taut," not "taught." (2) At 12:45, the word "rescue" is misspelled. Small beans, to be sure! Your entire team is to be commended for an understated tour de force!
I love the fact you left the text on screen for a moment because as a slow reader it is always a pain having to pause the video to be able to read the text and I didn't have to do here which I really appreciate 😊😊
Just keep reading , my friend, the brain gets better at what it does most, you'll slowly get faster and faster.📚
@nhhdjdhdj6496 I know I'm unfortunately dyslexic so that's the reason I'm so slow.
But thanks for the encouragement
This video is an absolute masterpiece thank you very much
It's amazing that there were survivors when no lifeboats were launched and I'm sure it would've been worse if they weren't near shore. Also an interesting fact about this ship is it actually sank one previous time after hitting a mine when was originally called the Berlin but they managed to salvage the ship and bring it back into action after a few years.
Wow..7 mesmerizing minutes of eek. Excellent production.
Here's some note about why Pyotr Vasev have got so close to Nakhimov:
Basically the Pyotr Vasev crew wanted to get to the port before midnight because in that case they could get a surplus on their annual shipment plan which could provide them salary bonuses. They wanted to pass Nakhimov as close as possible, but horribly miscalculated her position on Data Bridge navigation system (they picked the wrong part of Nakhimov to estimate the remaining distance).
Clear incompetence of Nakhimov's crew. Collision was imminent, yet alarm wasn't sounded, davits weren't lowered. And passengers probably never had a drill to muster stations.
But, given that it was late USSR, regulations were loose and corners were cut here and there.
У Путина и русских разный менталитет. Равнодушие и безответственность - единственное выживание. Оба капитана были заняты собой. Менталитет СССР сделал людей апатичными, лишенными аналитических и человеческих качеств.
@harrydardanel7893 ого, и тут Путина приплели.
Not only did the freighter not change course, having her engines astern helped the Nakhimov separate. I believe the best course of action during a collision is for the hitting ship to maintain contact so that the ships can share bouyancy and stability. If Nakhimov stays upright longer maybe a few life rafts could be launched... who knows.
They were trying to avoid hitting them so even if they had once again put the engines ahead that would have just pulled off then rammed them again . These things are huge we all know what battleships are , it takes 12 miles for one to turn around, stopping a ship or even turning quickly doesn't happen .
the bow of a ship is the toughest part of it ,,,if they hadn't reversed the engines they might have flipped the lighter passenger ship over as they plowed into it doing even more damage and maybe splitting it in half or run right over it making things a lot worse ..
@randym7961 once the collision happens they can stop engines. Running them astern makes situation worse in 10/10 times. She can always back away if it seems that the shared bouyancy is insufficient. She can provide lighting and just buy time for people to get off. The ships staying together also "plugs" the hole a bit so water enters slower.
This could've been avoided had maritime rights been followed:
vessel to starboard has rights over portside vessel, hence passenger vessel should have let the freighter go by and cross roads behind it.
Another case like Andrea Doria, only this one went down in a blink😢
Thanks for the video, didn't know about this tragedy
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The freighter repeatedly assure the liner that they were fine.
This was a very cool format and idea. It would be cool if you had a POV change to on the ship. If you had a time stamp of an event etc. Been following your stuff fir a while, this was cool.
An excellent presentation of a tragic and sad event .😢
That was a fantastic recreation of this tragic event. It looks as if it was filmed.
Very well done. Thank you!
На этом судне моя подруга работала бортпроводницей. Чудом спаслась ! Впечатления на всю жизнь !
This is terrible! I can't begin to know the horror of what these passengers of the doomed ship had to go through and what they felt. 7 minutes is not enough time to get off a sinking ship. This would be one of my worst nightmares, to die in the middle of the ocean or wherever in the water. They didn't have a chance! And all of those lives lost. What a terrible tragedy.
This is a good reminder that you may not have time for much of anything. Get your butt on deck and be prepared for anything.
The part where people get sucked into the funnels made my skin crawl. Absolutely horrifying.
Wow! I could almost make out the ships in the extreme darkness.
A typo in subtitles on video. 12:59 you wrote "A. Kanhimov's". Probably meant "A. Nakhimov's"
Looks great! Keep it up!!!🖖
So eell detailed, got you thinking you were there. RIP those lost.
Dear developers! It's just incredible! Admiral Nakhimov has been my love since childhood! I finally waited for someone to blow it up in 3d! Amazing ship detail and timeline animation! I myself made this liner in the game minecraft Teardown, I also made sketches in 3d, although I do not have the original drawings, I would like to know what you used to achieve such accuracy in appearance?I have a lot of photos that I managed to find on the Internet, I can say with confidence that you have a very accurate model! If you have the originals of his drawings? I would really like to purchase the originals, because this is my long-standing dream! Contact me, it's very important!
I don't know how you do it but, watching some of your ships including this one is like watching real movies. Great job and this one was extremely interesting. thanks
Hi Mike, Idea for you: since the SS United States is now slotted to be sunk and turned into a reef, maybe a video abput artificial reefs made put of ships?
weird I have never heard of this disaster, thank you! good work on the video.
Seems like no lessons were learned from the Empress of Ireland. Tragic.
Anyways… an incredible animation from Jack! 😊❤
Yeah. Almost like Empress but without the fog.
@ The similarities are there.
@@PersephoneDaSilva Yep and sank in just minutes instead of 14.
You’d think that the Nakhimov would turn hard a starboard instead of hard to port; same thing for the P Vasev, turning hard to port. That way rather than a T-bone collision, it could have been at an angle, potentially minimizing the damage.
I have a photo as a primary school student from the main saloon of the ship. There we had a celebration where we became "chavdarcheta". Something like the "oktyabryata" (the October children) in the USSR. The captain is also in the photo, but I have no idea what his name was. This must have been 1985 - a year before it sank.
This is the first time I have heard of this disaster.
Brilliant animation! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Love ocean liners and there history
Thank you for this very informative and highly interesting video!
She sank twice as fast than the Empress of Ireland.
From Wikipedia: "The event was not reported in the news for forty eight hours. The survivors were only allowed to send telegrams saying 'Alive and well in Novorossiysk.'"
Im from Miami, born and raised and let me just say I respect the ocean. I don’t fear it; I *RESPECT* it
We know you fear the ocean, but wont admit 😂
@@pagodebregaeforro2803 No need to fear it if you don't go in it. STAY DRY!
Hi Mike, I liked the video, but I like them better with your narration😊
So tragic, but yet, so preventable.
My Navy training says shous/boots off, life jacket on, not inflated and swim as far from the ship as you can to avoid flotsam coming up from below. Inflate life jacket.
Excellent job on this video
Does anyone have the feeling these two ship repeated empress of Ireland and Storstad. May the soles on both nakhimov and the empress rest in peace
i would of hated to be in a scenario like this iv never been on a ship but videos like this make me a bit on and off about it i feel so sorry for the people in the days when it happened.
Watch it, then watch it at 2x speed. Great job with yhe animation.
I admit I don’t really know too much about this sinking or of the AHS Centar but one sinking in seven minutes and the other in three is especially frightening because you’d literally have to be sitting in a lifeboat ready to launch at time of impact to get a chance to survive.
This was terrifyingly similar to the Empress of Ireland
One of the most terrifying things ive seen
Wow absolutely tragic to say the least! I'm surprised I'd never heard of this disaster at sea? Amazing how quickly the ship capsized and sunk! The portholes should have been closed while at sew possibly giving passengers a little more time to find an escape!
Thank you for the great video and story!
I like how even as the ship sinks and the power cuts the people still dance on the deck
Mike, this takes me back to your video "Why do Ships Float."
I hope that captain and crew can never rest again….. That was so badly handled. I can’t believe it completely unavoidable man’s incompetence.
It's a bit of a shame there's no voiceover on this one, but it was eery just hearing the ambient sounds.
3:15 if you zoom in, you can see some sparks coming from the port bow
How did they get sparks?
This isn't actual footage
how horrifyingly quick the rooms of the ship became graves.
It's hard to believe so many actually survived this tragedy!
If cruise ship turned to port and freighter turned to starboard they would have avoided impact
In terms of design, according to the omniscient Wikipedia, when the Admiral had been converted, several bulkheads were removed. Had they not been removed, the ship might have been able to stay afloat. Also, the ship had very poor ventilation, so all the portholes were open.
The subsequent inquiry found both captains equally guilty, and both were sentenced to 15 years in prison, but were out in 5.
Two military divers died in the effort to recover bodies, after which recovery efforts were ended.
The captain of the freighter ultimately, perhaps in a moment of poetic justice, died in a shipwreck, but he got to live twenty years longer than the victims of the SS Admiral Nakhimov disaster.
Interesting..vid just. To. Dark to. Watch
This ship being sunk twice is unbelievable.
Technically, three times, as I think it sank again after salvage.
@ sunk while salvaging? I’ve never heard of those!
@@Beckford4000 Oh yes that's true.
Can you make a video on the ship HMS Patroclus? She was built in 1923 and sunk on November 4th, 1940, by German uboat U-99, and 56 people died, and 263 people survived.
This ship sink 1 day after my birthday 😲
And right after my birthday, the 4th power unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. But it's still scary: how ships sink, how reactors explode, and especially if it happened suddenly and people's joy is replaced by panic and their death. Something always happens to someone from second to second, and even if you didn't expect it, as shown in this video, there is almost no time left to evacuate, and joy is replaced by panic and, God forbid, death, which were so funny
@ oceanliner designs if possible in your next video can you do a what if the titanic's stern stayed afloat