My guess would be it's some sort of automated anomaly and not alive whoevers responsible will be really disappointed to find hundreds of thousands of fish with flags on them.
@@vibby1586 Summoned a demon to collect all the worlds merchant ships. The demon is probably laughing at the subversion of the rules and waiting for the summoner to ask what's taking so long so it can drop the massive pile of fish on top of them to answer the question.
@@vibby1586 That assumes there was conscious intent behind its creation, if its naturally occurring then its a natural process that cares about legality. Like how does it know what the laws are?
Unironically something that the Foundation would maybe have. A whole department all about finding loopholes in anomalies to exploit? Sounds like a sub-department for MisCom, my favorite department for how _mindfuckery_ they are.
the fact that the foundation is marking fish as “merchant vessels” and its actually working is wild. i like the solution to SCP-7200, it’s very creative writing by the author!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I love it!!!!! Starts out with many unsuccessful and/or rejected containment plans (I love the MTF squad name "the bigger boat" 😂 great nod to Jaws movies and making this selection PERFECT for SharkWeek 🦈) Very innovative idea of making fish Merchant Ships since the SCP invariably is focusing on indescriminately eliminating an exponentially increasing amount of Merchant Ships and isn't exactly worried about quality control 😅 so anything in the water bearing an international merchant ship flag is ripe for the taking.... Thanks Volgun once again for introducing me to an SCP I might never have checked out.....
Some aliens far away stealing ships- "Although humans seem to have gone to enslaving wildlife as there means of ocean transport, it should be noted that even if they are empty, they clearly have no idea we exist and these are not decoys, therefor we shall continue to collect samples of there ocean bearing vessels, and study there current patterns, evem if humans are clearly going insane."
@@yaelz6043 contractor survival 101. If they want to hire us as contractors just so that they can save on giving us a salary and medical, then we have the right and duty to rip as much money out of them as possible every time they do something stupid.
I’m a Sailor who works on Merchant vessels and this SCP is Genius! Number one, despite they’re being countless ships in the ocean, crossing an ocean you can go days without seeing another vessel. I don’t know what’s more terrifying, disappearing in a place no one can see you- or the fact the occurrences are happening closer to shore every year. Also Flags Of Convenience are a real thing! Of course it’s a tax loophole and does not involve fish lol
I sailed Matson for a few years and it's crazy how long you go "alone" in the open ocean. I also thought it was funny how far cell phone coverage goes. Getting all the alerts at once from over the horizon because of Tinian and Saipan in the middle of the trip from LA to Guam.
@icecoldrugby i always refered to the open ocean as "the wettest desert you'll ever see". It is pretty wild how barren and empty the ocean is once you leave the shipping lanes or out past the labrador and the gulf stream
@@jwalster9412I disabled my airbags. Front bumper sensor was dangling precariously so I nixed the whole thing. So now what am I left wi- and it’s gone. Thanks a lot 7200j
The inclusion of that note about the "unpleasant shrieking sound" makes me think this SCP is at least partly inspired by the old legends of Sirens. The crews of these ships are probably hearing some sort of cognitohazardous singing that's hypnotising them, but when the audio is transmitted through the ship's radio (presumably a side-effect of however the sound is manifesting in the first place), the anomalous power is lost and the true noise is revealed. Also, the idea of registering fish as boats, and that actually *working*, is one of the funniest concepts I've ever seen in an SCP! Plus, it's nice to see an anomaly actually being effectively countered for once.
Does that mean the sirens are just eating the fish and accepting it because hey, what's the difference between a fish and a sailor once they're in your belly? That's hilarious
@@dweebicusmaximus siren population booming from all the sailors they can eat per ship but now they are forced to eat individual fi- oh i mean uh, "ships" or maybe just the parasites, microbiome, whatever you would consider a sailor of those ships 😱
I'd buy that. Even with the odd instance of the Trojan Seahorse destroying itself. In that case, I think the hypothetical Sirens would just be crooning "kys", so it did lol
@@herpymcderpy9624 He just left a bot to do it and is going to be really really amused that he has a whole pokeball full of fish now, but doesn't seem to remember setting it to do that. Oh well, time to toss it at somebody to troll them.
@@Center-For-I.E.D.Mismanagement "hey maaaaaan, how about... ...we just... ...register fish as trading vessels, ... ...and trick uhhh... ...SCP-... ...7200 this way." "shit maaaaan, that so stupid, ... ...that MUST work. but how are gonna do it?" "some 3rd world country must be chill with that."
@@gabetessin5837whatya think the chaff is for? heat seeking D-class torpedoes (I almost just added -pedoes to D-class as if that's anywhere near what i was trying to communicate lmfao whoops)
@@lightingthelatenight9942 There's no need for the cryptic hints and skirting around the issue mate, that just makes you look childish. Have the testicular fortitude to say what you actually mean or don't say it at all - it's nigh on impossible to get banned from commenting here, but if your luck does run out then phrasing won't save you: Gemini can work out that you want to sound cool and edgy by hinting that you know the word _paedophile_ without actually saying it just as fast as the rest of us can...
These fis- I mean _merchant ships_ have been legally classed as civilian vessels and are 100% compliant with the -simplified- requirements for vessels of their class, and have been registered according to international maritime law! All of you doubting the legitimacy of their classifications should be ashamed of yourselves for keeping independent entrepreneurs down with your unfounded prejudice!
So there’s an interesting fact related to this story. Back in the late 80’s & early 90’s, there was a serious and genuine problem with ships disappearing. They eventually determined that it was piracy; pirates were going on board, killing the crew, and reflagging & renaming the ship. The solution was registration numbers, which are mentioned in the story, because those registration numbers were welded into various areas of the ship and always checked by inspectors in ports. Thus, the odds of the SCP described in this tale being very confused ghost pirates is a non-zero.
"Did we finally get ahold of a real vessel laden with riches this time?" "No you idiot, just more fish! It's always fish! It's been nothing but fish for the past few weeks! I'm going to go crazy if I see any more fish!" "Uh boss, I hate to break the news, but..." *Pirate dumps a huge crate worth of fish on the deck.* "WHY DO WE KEEP GETTING FISH? IS THE BOAT DETECTION BROKEN OR SOMETHING? WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!?"
See, this is peak SCP. A dangerous, but handleably simple SCP with several attempts and an ultimately highly creative solution. Like this is just awesome
Secure. Contain. Protect. Fish. While it's great a work-around has been discovered, it leads to so many more questions. Like, how is this affecting the category of "civilian vessel" so indiscriminately it's taking fish? If something/someone is causing this to happen, why aren't the fish seeming to pose a problem to them? How can the Foundation tell how quickly the rate of events is increasing if they're mostly happening to fish? Such a weird one, but that's hardly a bad thing.
I guess its just one of those anamolies that kinda, happens. There is no real underlying reason for it or entity behind it, it simply does happen, like a rule of the universe akin to physics. And like a physics, its impossible to fight against but a lot easier to play around the defined rules once you know them. At least thats how I like to interprit it, as I feel thats what makes SCP distigusihed from other horror or anamolous settings. As for how they got the numbers, I guess mass tracking, which they probably dont have to track every fish, maybe every one in 10 or 100 if applying enough trackers was even a problem in the first place, and maybe an AI is used to distinguish SCP 7200 events from normal death and predation. This is a lot of speculation though.
We simply don't know what is causing this to happen or if there even is a goal in disappearing ships and in my mind all points to this SCP being a thing that just happens for no purpose. If that were the case taking fish instead of ships wouldn't be a problem, since the SCP isn't a thing that can differentiate between them, because it's just a thing that happens.
The process involves registering each fish individually as a "boat". I would imagine that, if they're doing this, they're probably also putting tags and/or transponders on them while they're at it. Not something so sophisticated that it could record what happens to the fish, but just something that puts a little dot on the radar so somebody can see how many are active at any given moment and where.
I mean: If you can tell how many Civilian ships are disappearing as opposed to prior readings, you can guess how many of the fish are vanishing instead.
@@morse4989 there will come a day where for instance the ecosystem dies or they need to dedicate so many fisheries they go broken masquerade / run out of ability to make fisheries, it could easily be staved off for a few cenuries at the current rate however, which given the SCP universe is really not a threat at all
I really really like the Foundation’s solution for this SCP. It’s definitely one of the more creative procedures I’ve seen in the lore and very funny and satisfying to learn about. But admittedly I’m kind of annoyed at the lack of development around what the actual phenomenon itself is. Maybe I’m missing something here, but the article doesn’t seem to give you much in terms of what is actually happening to these ships and making them disappear.
There's three clues I'll see here to work with. 1. the "shrieking sound" picked up on the radio. 2. The lack of the phenomenon not effecting military ships 3. Operation Trojan horse failing in instant detonation of all weapons upwards. This implies the AI detected anomalous phenomenon directly above the ship
I don't mind myself. This SCP is less about the event itself and more about the solution to the event. There's a number of SCPs like this, and I tend to like them, I don't need every detail explained If it isn't the focus. Some things are better left mysteries
@@carto4028 Those were pretty cool tidbits, but at least for me I’d like a little more to explore what’s happening to the ships. I’m not saying it needs to be entirely explained, because the mystery is nice, just wanted more in terms of the Foundation trying to understand the phenomenon.
In case anyone's curious, there's about 50-60k ships in the ocean at any given time. If that is less than 0.02% as the article suggests, that's 250-300 _million_ SCPF-class vessels, with millions more each year. That sounds like a lot, but the total amount of fish in the ocean is in the trillions, so a complete ecological catastrophe is _probably_ unlikely.
I guess it depends on what they eat, how they affect their environment, etc. I know that where I live, lionfish are becoming a big problem. Not just because they're predatory towards several species of native fish and have no natural predators here, but also due to them eating organisms which keep coral reefs healthy. So they actually cause destruction of the reefs themselves, which affect more species other than just the ones they eat or compete with for food.
I really like this SCP for a couple of things but first and foremost is the fact that it was short and sweet. It was a stand alone story that needed to say what it needed to say in these few addendums and attempt logs. Left enough uncertainty in there to allow us to be intrigued as to what the true of the SCP is. Slap a little silly containment procedure on preventing this SCP from gaining more ground and done! There is also enough "space" for people to add their twist to this story for the future! Very cool! Seeing more of these ones would be pretty cool.
I like how this SCP also just turns off all forms of aircraft and satellite surveillance of some of the largest vehicles ever made that navigate vast tracts of open water with nowhere to hide.
I love this skip so much, because it shows the resourcefulness of the foundation to take an anomaly that cannot be understood or contained and find a loophole to make it work. I love when that stuff works like that. So well written and this is phenomenal
This is so funny bc the foundation has 0 idea how or why 7200 exists but they figured out they can just fake ships with fish and not have to deal with it
Kind of... If only the foundation can find out what it is they're dealing with. Though it's somewhat implied that the entity itself seems to target stuff that's weaker than what they captured before or that around the target... Like when the foundation puts an escort, they only target the merchant ship and not the armed military escort ships until the escorts give chase. The Entity is targeting "weaker ships" every time. The registered fishes are good enough "Thaumiel" object because to the entity, they are weaker than an average Merchant ship. As long as there are thousands of fishes "registered" as "merchant ships", it can be safely assumed that they will target the fishes first
Wild theory but here i go. Its a kracken...stay with me now. Krackens dont attack ships for food. They dont eat them they just sink them because thats what krackens do. The ships still move with broken propulsion because they are actually being dragged The shrieking implys the presence of a creature, which a kracken is. The loss of communication when out of sight is due to the kracken "removing" the ship as that is its purpose. The explosions shooting upward was the only way the AI could hurt the creature by propelling the bottom of the boat into it. Military ships are not targeted because they are a greater threat. The fish make the perfect bait because a krackens only purpose is to hunt what we consider to be ships. If we call a fish a ship then the krackens nature is to attack that fish. Thats the best theory i got.
@@ambiguousdrink4067 an excellent question, you may want to go to your local on-site director for more answers and possibly even directions, nevertheless i wish you luck.
Ok this is special. I like this because it's the first example I've personally seen of truly paranormal thinking. It would never have occurred to me to try and game the system like this because I was simply thinking too conventionally. Maybe I'd have tried something like this with tiny drone boats, but I doubt it. I am genuinely impressed. This feels like a real example of what such an agency would think like, you'd have to just dump previous conceptions when faced with novel situations and that's harder to do than you might expect. Solid stuff. (I'm still very much not a fan of the current wardens/mods/owners of the SCP lore however, it's a shame that true community distributed ownership is impossible on a planet infected by the church of intellectual property law virus.)
I was (pleasantly) surprised to see visuals being added as a part of the story. I also liked that you could still listen to the story just fine without the visual since it added something extra rather an be an integral part of the story. I'd love to keep seeing that in the future!
I think "this ones actually pretty well contained, and how they did it is with absolute bureaucratic bullshit" is one of my favorite SCP sub-subclasses. I wonder what the legality is if you catch and eat a legally registered merchant vessel?
I love how fucking slapdash this solution is. They never figure out what is going on, what rhe SCP is, how it does what it does, we dont even find out what happens to the ships. Its got a deeply threatening ticking time bomb where its getting stronger and stronger each year, this is a true unknowable eldritch horror... And they fix it with the equivalent of duck tape. "Yeah just distract it with fish, this should hold for a few more years."
i think this is a prime example of how keter should be handled: attempting to neutralise or control the entity/effects should be the first priority, not a biography And this has to be the most clever and ridiculous Containment procedure ive heard of yet
Labeling fish as ships reminds me of when lawyers were able to get bees labeled as fish in California. It was done so bees can be protected because bees were dying off in California thanks to the almond farms. So in summary bees are labeled as fish to protect the environment.
Can I just say thank you Volgun for that "I'd like to turn your attention to the screen" bit there. I listen to these before bed and would probably have missed those images otherwise
These a are SUCH good videos! I found them recently and am absolutely addicted! The quality and sound effects as well as the narration are top notch! Keep it up, you deserve 1 million subs.
Creative problem solving. Love to see it, but if the rate of SCP 7200 events keeps increasing geometrically they are going to have to address it directly at some point.
My favorite part of every video is the "Good afternoon everyone..." and "Thanks for listening if you indeed still are..." It just sets the mood so well.
Been a while since I watched this channel. Glad to see it's still just as good as I remember. On an unrelated note, I've been watching Broadchurch recently so when I heard "Dr Miller" I instantly thought of David Tennant yelling "MILLAH!"
Whoever is the patreon who named themselves Hello is either intentionally or unintentionally hilarious. Every time you say their name in the credits I immediately get a flashback to SCP-3935
So if I’m understanding this right. It’s an anomaly that “eats or disappears” merchant vessels but it’s definition of merchant vessel is directly related to what is officially defined as sea worthy and the flags that identify a ship as a merchant vessel. So they’ve tricked the anomaly into eating fish by way of technical classification.
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So an SCP with a loophole? That is hilarious and implies this SCP only cares about what is legally considered a boat.
My guess would be it's some sort of automated anomaly and not alive whoevers responsible will be really disappointed to find hundreds of thousands of fish with flags on them.
@@vibby1586 Summoned a demon to collect all the worlds merchant ships. The demon is probably laughing at the subversion of the rules and waiting for the summoner to ask what's taking so long so it can drop the massive pile of fish on top of them to answer the question.
@@vibby1586 That assumes there was conscious intent behind its creation, if its naturally occurring then its a natural process that cares about legality. Like how does it know what the laws are?
@@Exquailibur Through magic. Because at the end of the day that's what an SCP is 99/100 times. Some magic person, place, thing or event.
@@alexzander7629 Well obviously lol, magic is just anything that dont align with the laws of our world's physics.
Ah yes, the lesser known sister division to the memetics division, the semantics division.
Audibly chortled
Very nice
Unironically something that the Foundation would maybe have. A whole department all about finding loopholes in anomalies to exploit? Sounds like a sub-department for MisCom, my favorite department for how _mindfuckery_ they are.
Somehow I think an expert in semantics would be incredibly useful against some of the skips with more ridiculous or esoteric rules for containment
@@chance9512 check out the devils deal by the volgun also
the fact that the foundation is marking fish as “merchant vessels” and its actually working is wild. i like the solution to SCP-7200, it’s very creative writing by the author!
It took me a while to realise what their plan was, that's actually great
only a government agency would ever consider that a sea demon would obey international maritime law
This is the most hilarious containment procedure that I've yet heard of.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I love it!!!!! Starts out with many unsuccessful and/or rejected containment plans (I love the MTF squad name "the bigger boat" 😂 great nod to Jaws movies and making this selection PERFECT for SharkWeek 🦈)
Very innovative idea of making fish Merchant Ships since the SCP invariably is focusing on indescriminately eliminating an exponentially increasing amount of Merchant Ships and isn't exactly worried about quality control 😅 so anything in the water bearing an international merchant ship flag is ripe for the taking....
Thanks Volgun once again for introducing me to an SCP I might never have checked out.....
I think Sea Nuke woulda worked better
Diogenes runs in holding a fish: "Behold! A BOAT!"
😂😂 fellow Diogenes appreciator 🤝
This one deserves way more likes lmao
🤣🤣🤣
Ah yes, a fellow man of culture
I know not who you are, but you made my day
Employee: "Codename Sea Nuke."
05 council: "That's...That's not even a code name. Or a good idea."
We all know what employee did this.
Cant say its bad unless youve tried
I love how the default is just dropping a nuke on it. Sounds reasonable,
@@Jesus_Offical ... Bright at it again.
Addendum: Updated codename to "Let's go sea a nuke!"
lol SCP-7200 looking at these fish and checking its clipboard:
“Eh. Close enough.”
Some aliens far away stealing ships-
"Although humans seem to have gone to enslaving wildlife as there means of ocean transport, it should be noted that even if they are empty, they clearly have no idea we exist and these are not decoys, therefor we shall continue to collect samples of there ocean bearing vessels, and study there current patterns, evem if humans are clearly going insane."
Diogenes, looking real confused at his fish supper:
"I get paid by the ship so screw it, by the time management catches on I'll be gone".
@@yaelz6043 contractor survival 101.
If they want to hire us as contractors just so that they can save on giving us a salary and medical, then we have the right and duty to rip as much money out of them as possible every time they do something stupid.
@@anarchyandempires5452 based.
I’m a Sailor who works on Merchant vessels and this SCP is Genius! Number one, despite they’re being countless ships in the ocean, crossing an ocean you can go days without seeing another vessel. I don’t know what’s more terrifying, disappearing in a place no one can see you- or the fact the occurrences are happening closer to shore every year.
Also Flags Of Convenience are a real thing! Of course it’s a tax loophole and does not involve fish lol
I sailed Matson for a few years and it's crazy how long you go "alone" in the open ocean.
I also thought it was funny how far cell phone coverage goes. Getting all the alerts at once from over the horizon because of Tinian and Saipan in the middle of the trip from LA to Guam.
Unless... you're attempting a coverup all of the fish ships that exist!
@icecoldrugby i always refered to the open ocean as "the wettest desert you'll ever see". It is pretty wild how barren and empty the ocean is once you leave the shipping lanes or out past the labrador and the gulf stream
Ah yes, fish are boats if you register them and slap a flag on em.
And cars are, cars aslong as they have four wheels, a seat, and an air bag
If it's seaworthy, it's a ship
@@jwalster9412I disabled my airbags. Front bumper sensor was dangling precariously so I nixed the whole thing. So now what am I left wi- and it’s gone. Thanks a lot 7200j
Welcome to the wild world of international law for ship registries and classifications being utter BS!
An Iceland Catfish, registered in Liberia? What a world!
The inclusion of that note about the "unpleasant shrieking sound" makes me think this SCP is at least partly inspired by the old legends of Sirens. The crews of these ships are probably hearing some sort of cognitohazardous singing that's hypnotising them, but when the audio is transmitted through the ship's radio (presumably a side-effect of however the sound is manifesting in the first place), the anomalous power is lost and the true noise is revealed.
Also, the idea of registering fish as boats, and that actually *working*, is one of the funniest concepts I've ever seen in an SCP! Plus, it's nice to see an anomaly actually being effectively countered for once.
And I was just imagining it's the crew screaming as their floating brick hits Mach 1.
Does that mean the sirens are just eating the fish and accepting it because hey, what's the difference between a fish and a sailor once they're in your belly? That's hilarious
@@dweebicusmaximus
siren population booming from all the sailors they can eat per ship
but now they are forced to eat individual fi- oh i mean uh, "ships"
or maybe just the parasites, microbiome, whatever you would consider a sailor of those ships 😱
I thought of it more as the boat itself was running away screaming...
I'd buy that. Even with the odd instance of the Trojan Seahorse destroying itself. In that case, I think the hypothetical Sirens would just be crooning "kys", so it did lol
Some entity beyond mortal comprehension just jacking specifically merchant ships because it's funny.
My assumption is that its aliens researching humanity.
@@jwalster9412 Trazyn is at it again
@@herpymcderpy9624 He just left a bot to do it and is going to be really really amused that he has a whole pokeball full of fish now, but doesn't seem to remember setting it to do that. Oh well, time to toss it at somebody to troll them.
@@KnightsWithoutATable probably orikan again
only stealing registered merchant vessels & sticking to the letter of that register evidently a very bureaucratically minded ghost
I can just imagine a bunch of off-duty Foundation personnel getting absolutely blitzed and coming up with Operation: Convenient Flag
Blitzed off of SCP-420-J, right?
@@Center-For-I.E.D.Mismanagement "hey maaaaaan, how about... ...we just... ...register fish as trading vessels, ... ...and trick uhhh... ...SCP-... ...7200 this way."
"shit maaaaan, that so stupid, ... ...that MUST work. but how are gonna do it?"
"some 3rd world country must be chill with that."
the Foundation legal team is anything but boring
Can't be worse than the team who came up with "Sea Nuke"
@@billul1 "we put a nuke in the sea that will be a bajillion dollars" thanks DARPA!
Fish as instance "chaff" is such a fun and silly idea, it's nice to see some whimsy from the scp universe every so often,
Those poor fishes, I figured D-Class would be the anomaly fodder. 😢
@@gabetessin5837whatya think the chaff is for? heat seeking D-class torpedoes (I almost just added -pedoes to D-class as if that's anywhere near what i was trying to communicate lmfao whoops)
You're a whimsy mate.
@@lightingthelatenight9942 There's no need for the cryptic hints and skirting around the issue mate, that just makes you look childish. Have the testicular fortitude to say what you actually mean or don't say it at all - it's nigh on impossible to get banned from commenting here, but if your luck does run out then phrasing won't save you: Gemini can work out that you want to sound cool and edgy by hinting that you know the word _paedophile_ without actually saying it just as fast as the rest of us can...
@@lightingthelatenight9942 I mean they do make up a lot of the ranks of the D-Class (which is also why I never feel bad for them lol)
These fis- I mean _merchant ships_ have been legally classed as civilian vessels and are 100% compliant with the -simplified- requirements for vessels of their class, and have been registered according to international maritime law!
All of you doubting the legitimacy of their classifications should be ashamed of yourselves for keeping independent entrepreneurs down with your unfounded prejudice!
So there’s an interesting fact related to this story. Back in the late 80’s & early 90’s, there was a serious and genuine problem with ships disappearing. They eventually determined that it was piracy; pirates were going on board, killing the crew, and reflagging & renaming the ship. The solution was registration numbers, which are mentioned in the story, because those registration numbers were welded into various areas of the ship and always checked by inspectors in ports.
Thus, the odds of the SCP described in this tale being very confused ghost pirates is a non-zero.
Thanks. That's probably it.
"Did we finally get ahold of a real vessel laden with riches this time?"
"No you idiot, just more fish! It's always fish! It's been nothing but fish for the past few weeks! I'm going to go crazy if I see any more fish!"
"Uh boss, I hate to break the news, but..."
*Pirate dumps a huge crate worth of fish on the deck.*
"WHY DO WE KEEP GETTING FISH? IS THE BOAT DETECTION BROKEN OR SOMETHING? WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!?"
See, this is peak SCP. A dangerous, but handleably simple SCP with several attempts and an ultimately highly creative solution. Like this is just awesome
Watching this while I'm standing watch on a tugboat as a civilian Merchant Mariner is exactly what I needed right now. Thanks Volgun!
don't worry bro the fish have your back
now all you need to worry about are the giant squid that actually exist
@@JohanJolos yea don't know which is worse to run into tbh, with the fish I've seen I'll take the SCP
*giant monster noises*
*thalassophobia intensifies*
Don't worry, 0nly 0.3 actual vessels are affected each year thanks to the containment procedures
SCP-7200: *Steals boats with no way to conventionally stop it*
The Foundation: “You know what means!”
Fish!
- ing!
*FISH!*
The ghost pirate (or whatever) that's responsible for 7200 must be getting really frustrated with all these damn fish.
Secure. Contain. Protect. Fish.
While it's great a work-around has been discovered, it leads to so many more questions. Like, how is this affecting the category of "civilian vessel" so indiscriminately it's taking fish? If something/someone is causing this to happen, why aren't the fish seeming to pose a problem to them? How can the Foundation tell how quickly the rate of events is increasing if they're mostly happening to fish? Such a weird one, but that's hardly a bad thing.
I guess its just one of those anamolies that kinda, happens. There is no real underlying reason for it or entity behind it, it simply does happen, like a rule of the universe akin to physics. And like a physics, its impossible to fight against but a lot easier to play around the defined rules once you know them. At least thats how I like to interprit it, as I feel thats what makes SCP distigusihed from other horror or anamolous settings. As for how they got the numbers, I guess mass tracking, which they probably dont have to track every fish, maybe every one in 10 or 100 if applying enough trackers was even a problem in the first place, and maybe an AI is used to distinguish SCP 7200 events from normal death and predation. This is a lot of speculation though.
We simply don't know what is causing this to happen or if there even is a goal in disappearing ships and in my mind all points to this SCP being a thing that just happens for no purpose. If that were the case taking fish instead of ships wouldn't be a problem, since the SCP isn't a thing that can differentiate between them, because it's just a thing that happens.
The process involves registering each fish individually as a "boat". I would imagine that, if they're doing this, they're probably also putting tags and/or transponders on them while they're at it. Not something so sophisticated that it could record what happens to the fish, but just something that puts a little dot on the radar so somebody can see how many are active at any given moment and where.
Less salmon
I mean: If you can tell how many Civilian ships are disappearing as opposed to prior readings, you can guess how many of the fish are vanishing instead.
boats.
boats.
boats.
boats.
boats.
boats.
05: this SCP is taking over merchant ships at an alarming rate
Some researcher: (hits blunt) what if the classified fish as boats
It is my headcanon that the current containment procedures were first thought up by scientists high as a kite off of SCP 420-J
Finally, a newer SCP that isn’t a damned novel before you get to the SCP.
I too share this sentiment
Honestly, due to the glut of massive highly artistic and complex SCPs recently I’ve cut way back on my viewing of them
“Put the anchor down ya dingus we’re gonna sink”
-Steve Brule on Broats
Thank you.
deep cut
Props for even knowing about Steve Brule. A treasure lost in time
The scary thing is that the fish are only a bandaid problem. The anomaly is still getting stronger
Mathematically, at one point, the fish won't be enough regardless of how many the Foundation breeds.
@@MelloWatermelloyou can just pump out more fish. This is just like 2 hatcheries and one registration office. Now imagine if you double it, triple it.
@@morse4989 there will come a day where for instance the ecosystem dies or they need to dedicate so many fisheries they go broken masquerade / run out of ability to make fisheries, it could easily be staved off for a few cenuries at the current rate however, which given the SCP universe is really not a threat at all
Feed more fish to the Maw!
@@clankplusm maybe you can try doing the same with waste packages lol
I really really like the Foundation’s solution for this SCP. It’s definitely one of the more creative procedures I’ve seen in the lore and very funny and satisfying to learn about.
But admittedly I’m kind of annoyed at the lack of development around what the actual phenomenon itself is. Maybe I’m missing something here, but the article doesn’t seem to give you much in terms of what is actually happening to these ships and making them disappear.
There's three clues I'll see here to work with.
1. the "shrieking sound" picked up on the radio.
2. The lack of the phenomenon not effecting military ships
3. Operation Trojan horse failing in instant detonation of all weapons upwards. This implies the AI detected anomalous phenomenon directly above the ship
I don't mind myself. This SCP is less about the event itself and more about the solution to the event. There's a number of SCPs like this, and I tend to like them, I don't need every detail explained If it isn't the focus. Some things are better left mysteries
@@carto4028 Those were pretty cool tidbits, but at least for me I’d like a little more to explore what’s happening to the ships. I’m not saying it needs to be entirely explained, because the mystery is nice, just wanted more in terms of the Foundation trying to understand the phenomenon.
The Foundation has always been about "Contain first, research later."
Well if you knew everything about the scip that’s an explained scip. SCPs are supposed to be mysterious
In case anyone's curious, there's about 50-60k ships in the ocean at any given time. If that is less than 0.02% as the article suggests, that's 250-300 _million_ SCPF-class vessels, with millions more each year. That sounds like a lot, but the total amount of fish in the ocean is in the trillions, so a complete ecological catastrophe is _probably_ unlikely.
I guess it depends on what they eat, how they affect their environment, etc. I know that where I live, lionfish are becoming a big problem. Not just because they're predatory towards several species of native fish and have no natural predators here, but also due to them eating organisms which keep coral reefs healthy. So they actually cause destruction of the reefs themselves, which affect more species other than just the ones they eat or compete with for food.
Project Convenient Flag is actually a crazily good idea, very creative
I was expecting a horrifying oceanic SCP... instead I got fish with adorable lil flags on them. 10/10
Got my Beans and Beer lets do it Dr.Miller
Lotsa beans, lotsa beans, lotsa beans!
"Sea Nuke" may be the two funniest words ever spoken in relation to an SCP.
The martincitopants SCP
EVERYONE LOOK ITS THE FUNNY
boat (AHH GOD MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP)
Okay good. Someone needed to make this comment.
Abdul would be proud
Its even better that its a mart ass solution for it too
Sea Nuke [DENIED] is hilarious
I thought he said Xenu...
Whichever researcher thought up that solution should get a promotion!
I'm going on a cruise next month and learning about this scp has been very beneficial to my mental health. Thanks Volgun!
You're good- cruise ships aren't merchant vessels. Just remember to wash your hands often!
How dare TH-cam take 40 seconds to notify me of this
Making fish into registered sea vessels? Genius
I really like this SCP for a couple of things but first and foremost is the fact that it was short and sweet. It was a stand alone story that needed to say what it needed to say in these few addendums and attempt logs. Left enough uncertainty in there to allow us to be intrigued as to what the true of the SCP is. Slap a little silly containment procedure on preventing this SCP from gaining more ground and done! There is also enough "space" for people to add their twist to this story for the future! Very cool! Seeing more of these ones would be pretty cool.
I like how this SCP also just turns off all forms of aircraft and satellite surveillance of some of the largest vehicles ever made that navigate vast tracts of open water with nowhere to hide.
The Foundation coming up with stupid yet effective ideas to potential world-ending scenarios is my favorite kind of SCP.
One of the funniest SCP stories I’ve heard in a while, and not even in the scary-funny way - just genuinely ridiculous that some of this stuff works
Deploy the fish....
Fish deployed
Fish deployment successful. Fish are now active.
I love this skip so much, because it shows the resourcefulness of the foundation to take an anomaly that cannot be understood or contained and find a loophole to make it work. I love when that stuff works like that. So well written and this is phenomenal
This is so funny bc the foundation has 0 idea how or why 7200 exists but they figured out they can just fake ships with fish and not have to deal with it
But SCP-7200 continues to rise in frequency, exponentially; doesn't that mean that mere millions of fish won't be enough, sooner rather than later?
K E T E R
Yes that had occurred to them too.
Kind of... If only the foundation can find out what it is they're dealing with.
Though it's somewhat implied that the entity itself seems to target stuff that's weaker than what they captured before or that around the target... Like when the foundation puts an escort, they only target the merchant ship and not the armed military escort ships until the escorts give chase.
The Entity is targeting "weaker ships" every time. The registered fishes are good enough "Thaumiel" object because to the entity, they are weaker than an average Merchant ship.
As long as there are thousands of fishes "registered" as "merchant ships", it can be safely assumed that they will target the fishes first
Easy, drain the ocean, can't jack ships anymore
@@scruffles87I wonder if that would affect other SCPs
I mean it would definitely reveal that one massive SCP that I forgot the number or name of
Wild theory but here i go.
Its a kracken...stay with me now.
Krackens dont attack ships for food. They dont eat them they just sink them because thats what krackens do.
The ships still move with broken propulsion because they are actually being dragged
The shrieking implys the presence of a creature, which a kracken is.
The loss of communication when out of sight is due to the kracken "removing" the ship as that is its purpose.
The explosions shooting upward was the only way the AI could hurt the creature by propelling the bottom of the boat into it.
Military ships are not targeted because they are a greater threat.
The fish make the perfect bait because a krackens only purpose is to hunt what we consider to be ships. If we call a fish a ship then the krackens nature is to attack that fish.
Thats the best theory i got.
Born 2 pirate, forced 2 fish
I swear the giggly mood the solution put into me is just something else. Love this so much 🫶
This is probably the funniest containment method for an SCP I've ever seen, and it's quite clever too! Props to the writer!
always interesting. (i always love the aquatic SCPs, no matter the rating.)
Where do I enlist with the SCP Navy?
@@ambiguousdrink4067 an excellent question, you may want to go to your local on-site director for more answers and possibly even directions, nevertheless i wish you luck.
Ok this is special. I like this because it's the first example I've personally seen of truly paranormal thinking. It would never have occurred to me to try and game the system like this because I was simply thinking too conventionally. Maybe I'd have tried something like this with tiny drone boats, but I doubt it. I am genuinely impressed. This feels like a real example of what such an agency would think like, you'd have to just dump previous conceptions when faced with novel situations and that's harder to do than you might expect. Solid stuff. (I'm still very much not a fan of the current wardens/mods/owners of the SCP lore however, it's a shame that true community distributed ownership is impossible on a planet infected by the church of intellectual property law virus.)
I am so glad to see you are still doing SCP content, absolutely love listening to it in the background, keep up the good work
Only one way to stop a phenomenon from getting worse. FISH 🐟 🐠 🎣
I was (pleasantly) surprised to see visuals being added as a part of the story. I also liked that you could still listen to the story just fine without the visual since it added something extra rather an be an integral part of the story. I'd love to keep seeing that in the future!
I think "this ones actually pretty well contained, and how they did it is with absolute bureaucratic bullshit" is one of my favorite SCP sub-subclasses. I wonder what the legality is if you catch and eat a legally registered merchant vessel?
Project Convenient Flag genuinely restored some of my faith in the SCP community.
I love how fucking slapdash this solution is.
They never figure out what is going on, what rhe SCP is, how it does what it does, we dont even find out what happens to the ships. Its got a deeply threatening ticking time bomb where its getting stronger and stronger each year, this is a true unknowable eldritch horror... And they fix it with the equivalent of duck tape. "Yeah just distract it with fish, this should hold for a few more years."
I absolutely love the creativity on this one. "It takes over ships, what if we just lied on the paperwork?"
i think this is a prime example of how keter should be handled: attempting to neutralise or control the entity/effects should be the first priority, not a biography
And this has to be the most clever and ridiculous Containment procedure ive heard of yet
SCP foundation: How do we stop ships from disappearing?
*F I S H*
Labeling fish as ships reminds me of when lawyers were able to get bees labeled as fish in California. It was done so bees can be protected because bees were dying off in California thanks to the almond farms. So in summary bees are labeled as fish to protect the environment.
The last time I was this early, there was a Mr. Montauk in both the SCP, and Magnus Archives databases...
I love that they tried a bunch of progressively more dangerous explosives and weapons on boats until they got to “Sea Nuke” - Denied. Lol
Reminds me of the "I am a Toaster" SCP.
Human: I am a Toaster
Boat: I am a Fish
This checks out!
Can I just say thank you Volgun for that "I'd like to turn your attention to the screen" bit there. I listen to these before bed and would probably have missed those images otherwise
I love this. Such a clever way of containing anomaly like that. Thanks for the reading Volgun
Well that was certainly a clever solution to the problem!
Now I see why the bees were labelled as fish, it truly is effective!
Don’t know why but maritime scps are my favorite. Love the reality bending ship and now this SCP too.
Glad you're back! Love the content man.
Im seriously loving these lower scale SCPs. Such a breath of fresh air from all the XK class stuff (those are cool too though)
The all lower case with a period is chef's kiss.
I'm sure some fishermen are becoming mightily confused, but at least this has a bonus effect of counteracting overfishing.
I personally love this SCP, the legal aspect and using the technicalities for management of containment, just works!
"Guys the boss wants a new plan by the end of the day and I'm out of ideas"
"Sea nuke"
"Johnson... That's brilliant!"
These a are SUCH good videos! I found them recently and am absolutely addicted! The quality and sound effects as well as the narration are top notch! Keep it up, you deserve 1 million subs.
Every Sunday is better with Dr.Miller
I guess this is the oceangoing equivalent to "birds are drones". Brilliant stuff.
This is the type of stuff that makes the SCP foundation live up to its name - not just securing and containing, but also protecting.
The thumbnail alone had me like "hmmm..."
This random SCP having just a bunch of random fish show up at their doorstep after a healthy diet of merchant vessels is probably pissing it off a lil
Creative problem solving. Love to see it, but if the rate of SCP 7200 events keeps increasing geometrically they are going to have to address it directly at some point.
"It's not dumb if it works" the foundation
Volgun please do scp 1555 next or consider reading it
My favorite part of every video is the "Good afternoon everyone..." and "Thanks for listening if you indeed still are..." It just sets the mood so well.
Thank you for drawing my attention to the screen for the diagrams, I primarily listen to your lectures.
Been a while since I watched this channel. Glad to see it's still just as good as I remember.
On an unrelated note, I've been watching Broadchurch recently so when I heard "Dr Miller" I instantly thought of David Tennant yelling "MILLAH!"
Sheesh. For an out-of-the-box thinking foundation, this solution is like an extra level. Like create the box in 4d, and think outside of it as well.
Does that mean the fish suddenly get controlled and taken somewhere now?
it may be an anomaly but its a LAW-ABIDING anomaly
I can appreciate you dropping content right now. I want any distraction I can get right now.
This is fantastic!! Big kudos to the author and, of course, to Volgun!
Whoever is the patreon who named themselves Hello is either intentionally or unintentionally hilarious.
Every time you say their name in the credits I immediately get a flashback to SCP-3935
It's weird that I find a random scp focused channel, and one of the patreon members has my very rare name, I salute you James Sabaa
So if I’m understanding this right. It’s an anomaly that “eats or disappears” merchant vessels but it’s definition of merchant vessel is directly related to what is officially defined as sea worthy and the flags that identify a ship as a merchant vessel. So they’ve tricked the anomaly into eating fish by way of technical classification.
This one made me laugh pretty hard once I realized what they were doing 😂 sticking little flags onto little fish is indeed a quite convenient solution
Using schools of fish as a distraction is pretty cool
SCP tricks humans into replenishing the oceans' fish population. Nice.
The fact that the SCP 7200 sees nothing fishy about these boats is an interesting lore to add to the collection.
When he said limited paranormal weaponry. I cant stop imagining the scp agents carrying around proton packs.
This is an extremely clever SCP, my favorite in a long while.