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- These anchor drops get a little out of control to say the least! Today's video is on the top five anchor drop failures.
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Why do you have to add music when there's action going on? We want to hear how they break apart
Right on!
@Luxeau Svay lmao
Its so all the people that never got tomlive a exciting life can feel like the rest. I agree with you.
because it was 2 years ago recommendation.. 2021 are smart
It’s like adding music to porn...... I’ll never understand it.......
I'll give what enlightenment I can as a sailor. The first 4 videos are basically mechanical failure on the anchor apparatus, called a windlass. The brakes on an anchor windlass are pads, much like on a car or truck(though obviously made tougher).
What happens during an anchor drop is initially the brakes are holding back the weight of the anchor - but as more chain comes out the amount of weight the brakes need to hold back increases. On older equipment the weight can be too much for the brake system.
In the chain locker(the compartment where the chain sits when it's not in use) the end of the chain is bolted, welded, etc. to the inside of the compartment so that in normal operation the ship does not lose it's chain. IN the event of a runaway anchor chain, however, it's not uncommon for that bolting, welding, etc. to fail and result in the whole chain coming out. In the one video it mentioned a "warning show" and danger shot'. The Warning shot is all yellow and is literally the "run away" warning. The danger shot is all red and is just what it says, because at that point if you're close to the windlass you're in extreme danger - hence why you saw the people running away in the one video(the one where the flames were coming out of the windlass). Sometimes the plate it's bolted to will hit the end of the spill pipe, thus the thud we heard in one of the videos.
IN short, it's one of the potentially most dangerous operations that happen on a ship, fueling and docking being the other two big ones in my opinion. Very easy for something to go wrong. Hope this explaination gave a little insight to you folks.
...insight the poster should have given. Thank you.
cheers m8!
Ys fuelling dangerous?
Thank you for schooling us on what we just watched, had I read your comment before watching I would have understood what I watched instead of asking myself why did this or that happen...jmo
This post is why the TH-cam comments sections exist. Uploader should pin this at the top!
I used to enjoy spending time with my children now I just watch anchor drop fail videos 24 hours a day.
nobody:
TH-cam at 1am:
"Bruh, wanna see some failed anchor drops?"
Yes, yes I do.
Got me at 5:30 am
4:30 am
@@atf5487 ah fuck, the alphabet boiis are on to me again
hey dude, youre WRONG its 12:45 am here right now...........
GREAT! this is what my life is about,
watching Anchor drop failure videos at 1 am
Me watching this video: wow yeah they really messed that up
Also me: *never seen an anchor dropped properly in my life before*
Me too 🤣
I had no idea it was so dangerous. I completely underestimated this video when I clicked on it, having never seen an anchor drop.
I can't imagine anything more scary than standing next to a runaway anchor and chain. As a former squid, if I'm not mistaken, just one of my ship's chain links weighs approximately 310 lbs. You get caught in that moving mass, you are a red mist through the hawsepipe!
Heck yeah..
"Grease".
Steel braid under similar loads - if a CH-47 is sling-loading an anchor and the main cable snaps, the cable turns into a LOT of little end-bits, and a cat o' nine tails moving fast enough to cut through that Chinook like it was made of cheese. (I got to give up my off duty hours to FOD walk bits of helicopter for the next 9 hours)
They are long as heck too, granted I know the sea is deep but sheesh
Try to crap. In 20 foot seas
This is why I don't use anchors and choose just to drift around like an idiot when I'm out sailing the high seas with my giant ships!
Hi Barnacules! I enjoy your content. Have a good day!
Why is anchor dropping required?
@@zarishiftikhar5520 , I guess it's like pulling your car's handbrake lever up. 😅
@@nuclearwinter21 Really??
I just have a few tug boats to pull me around when I wanna park I just run aground
I once had this happening with a roll of toilet paper. Completely unwinded itself from the pull of gravity. Quite fascinating. :)
I hope you weren't hurt.
That's happened to me
Klaus Vogler it's a nightmare when you run out lol😱
Were you wearing a hard hat?
autonomy Hardhat, safety goggles, welding gloves and my toilet has a seatbelt :p
When your watching a video called "top 5 anchor drop failures" you quickly realize there is a top 5 video for every last thing.
Someone needs to make a top 5 top 5 video
@@whatman6199 pernah
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This is just incredible how much force and weight the anchor and chain weigh while flying uncontrollably
Anchor Management classes
David Curry Films bravo sir, bravo
*Screams* THAT WAS SO FUNNY OHMYGODD
Haha. A+ my friend.
Very Nice! 👍
ohhhh...das goot!
Navy officer on the phone to the supply office:
- Do you have an XXL anchor and chain, please?
- I need one for my carrier.
- Seems to have misplaced the one I had. Can't find it anywhere.
🤣🤣🤣
The physics here is just crazy. Massive metal things just flying
Love this narrators descriptive ability. " here are 5 armchair drops that go wrong. Number five, this anchor job goes wrong. Number four, this anchor drop doesn't go right. Number three, this anchor drop didn't go too well..." like, he just had a thesaurus out in front of him and glanced down at it once or twice.
seems like there isn't that much difference between "gets a little out of hand" and "goes terribly wrong"
Lol. Fine fine fine death.
Yustas There never is...🙈😂
With very large objects, no, there isn't much difference.
The difference is about two microns.
Except the huge flames coming out of the windlass / the chain getting dropped completely.
"Before this video ends, we wanted to include a few successful anchor drops as well to get the video to the 10 minute mark"
There you go, fixed that sentence for you ;)
But in all seriousness, why not just say it how it is? It's blatantly obvious that that is the reason for the successful drops, to stretch the video to the 10 minute mark.
Great
Why does it matter if they want to stretch it out to 10 minutes?
@@grtu4252 thats from where they get paid for the video
I mean, whats wrong in that ? Yk you can always leave when ever you want... Everybody here does something a bit extra for some more money
Who cares?
Q: What do sailors use to blow their noses?
A: Anchor-chiefs.
Thats great lol
Bless you.
Bless you. Nice one
Imagine how bored you must be to scroll down to read my comment.
bruh...
Even more so to read this reply
Videos From Elsewhere yup
Yours was mine the 3red from the top
@@videosfromelsewhere926 Then proceeded to give this reply a thumbs up and respond with this sentence.
_Drop the anchor _Completely done captain
I had problems with a few bike chains...
i had a problem with a bicycle chain when i tried to attach it to a chain saw...
You should drop them in lake.. 😂
When you're walking your dog and suddenly he spots a cat somewhere, that's almost exactly whats happening lol
I love this side of youtube. Before this i was watching high voltage arc flashes at electrical plants. Im having a great time
Great video man!
dang, I wonder how deep the ocean on the first clip was...
Bottomless! xD
Just all snakes up on top of each other don’t really matter how deep
@IfYourAnusHadAFace ummmm...each link weighs between 360-500 lbs
200 fathoms is 1200 ft.
some one broke the bedrock and the anchor fell into void
"We wanted to add a few successful anchor drops" I think you mean. "We didn't have enough to draw it out to 10 minutes so here's some more stuff to look at."
Lmao wow tru
You know shit's got real when steel starts to burst out flames :D
Those are some heavy ass chains. Amazing machinery. I learnt a lot here, thanks!
You need some better explanations of what we're seeing. Most viewers have never been on a ship and have no idea what is happening vs what is SUPPOSED to be happening.
Yes it does. Thank you.
OK... I kinda figured most of that out, so I'm glad I got that part right. Honestly, though, in this day, why are people still controlling the anchor brake with a manual wheel?
Al thank you for the explanation, all makes more sense now.
i too had guessed that they were trying to slow the anchor, but it does seem there be a better way.
Al Thanks. I was trying to apply my knowledge of winching and still couldn't figure out what was going wrong.
08:54 Golden Anchor... I'd forgotten about that. Ships with the highest crew retention received the Golden Anchor award :) I'm glad to see that runaway anchors have happened on other ships. In the late 80's we were doing a runaway anchor drill off the South Carolina coast.... yep, lost the anchor and chain, tore the padeye right out of the chain locker. U.S. Navy ships lose their anchors more than people know. We had a Dive Salvage ship come and recovered the anchor and chain... pretty darn embarrassing. I think the USS Sunbird did the anchor recovery...
I know nothing about ships, but I'm surprised these anchor systems don't come with some type of centrifugal brake which would limit the speed that the chain could achieve while dropping.
These videos show extremely rare failures. For the most part, in my entire career, I only knew of one anchor windlass failure. We were very interested in material failure and subsequent repairs, I was the Senior Instructor for the U.S. Navy's NDT Schools. Our inspectors performed in service inspections as well as in-process controls when repairs were warranted. Failures shown here are primarily mechanical fails over material defects partnered with operator error.
Frederick Dunn - I guess anchor and chains are worth a lot of money. Better to retrieve than make new all the time.
Number Eight, the cost of the anchor and chain is strongly considered when getting into the feasibility of a recovery/salvage operation and the decision makers almost just left it there. You can buy salvaged anchors surprisingly cheap, but then, you have to ship them and that often costs more than the anchor. :) I almost purchased a stockless anchor from Navy DRMO to put in my yard as a showpiece. Shipping was going to be three times the cost of the anchor. The aft anchor on one of the ships I served on weighed 35,000 lbs they are priced at basically what a pound of iron is worth. $1,000.00 per ton, so a 35k lb anchor is worth $17,500.00 and that doesn't pay for the resources necessary for recovery unless it's in shallow waters.
I think that golden anchor is the one on the Midway
I honestly don't know how many ships have golden anchors bur I do know that the USS Midway has them
The ex-Tarawa lost her chain due to a failure of the brake assembly on the anchor windlass not because they turned it too many times. During my time on board, we anchored 4 times (Guam, Phuket, Kuwait City and Eritrea); it's not like the system got a ton of use to begin with, so I'm not surprised it failed. My guess is that the PMS schedule had a replacement pad thickness that hadn't passed that so A-gang had no reason to fuss with it.
The stopping and starting of the chain is meant to allow propulsion to draw the chain out across the bottom; this prevents fouling when weighing anchor as well as preventing drift dragging.
And the rigging was later recovered by navy divers, if any wonder about that.
I did wonder if the rigging was ever recovered, so thanks for answering that question. Do ships carry spare anchors and rigging in case of a lost set?
@@CanadairCL44 No. But ships normally have two anchors, one per side.
It must have taken one Hell of a powerful crane to haul that pile of chain back to the surface.
@@taraswertelecki3786you could do it with the ship's equipment. The divers would have to attach a steel cable to the anchor and and ordinary (strong) rope to the cable. Rope pulls the cable up, windlass pulls the first few links of chain up, remove cable from the windlass, loop the anchor chain around the windlass and go. Of course, none of those phases is remotely easy except pulling up the ordinary rope.
Number one is one of the first fail videos to hit the internet.
Heat is the enemy when paying out anchor chain. When the brakes start smoking, it's time to lock them and let them cool.(before it's too late)
If not- this is what can happen.
Nope
@C S if you listen to advice from this guy above you will drop anchor for couple hours and if he wants to do it slowly then why not by windlass? Without letting go chain, meh.
Humans, we can build planes that can fly themselves but seemingly not a fully automated anchor system.
You don't think the brakes are power-assisted on a freighter? Hm, I'm no expert, but I can't imagine they're purely mechanical / gravity-based.
Yes we can fail as well so what !!
@ L. Galling
Power assisted does not = fully automated. Although I will say some of the above are probably down to maintenance issues in which case 100% automation still isn't worth jack.
Moving tons of metal very quickly is not something you can adjust with a firmware update. Automation can't prevent metal fatigue, for example.
I was thinking the same thing. Why let it free fall? Why not have oil bath fan (think torque converter on a car) that would slow its descent and not wear on the breaking system? They all seem to have a go/no go system right now.
Good you included some succesfull drops in the video, I had no idea how that must have looked.
Surly something you don't think about unless that's your job. Kinda makes you wander how many of those chains are on the bottom of the ocean floor. Hats off to the brave people who do this for a living.
They're expensive so if possible, they are retrieved.
Don’t call me Shirley!
No way for retrieve
The stud link chain shown in the first successful anchor drop runs at about $50 USD per foot, the anchor itself being about $15k, well worth the price to hire a salvage boat with a ROV if need be to retrieve it.
They can be retrieved.
1:41 I don't know why but it looks like a meme when it goes so fast.
THE POLAR EXPRESS
6:43 its a pinoy " Halaka! no more anchor" hahaha
I am pretty sure it's Greek and he says malaka a curse word, two times one because the captain and the company will literally shit on him and a second time he says "Malaka...! No more anchor" to the Philippino crew.
Hey! You scratched my anchor! - R. Dangerfield.
HEY YOU BROKE MY BROKEN ANCHOR WTF BRO
Kamrron your Reply = Bus Window Licker x 1000
MAGGOT VOMIT lol
I was gonna say that, but you beat me to it.
Moose! Rocco! Help the Judge find his checkbook...
Stop putting music on this stuff. Or at least get better at editing it so its really quiet. Nobody is watching this for the music anyways.
I QUIT watching BECAUSE of the annoying as hell background muzak.
I really hate when ppl. Post car videos racing and they put music, I don't care how catchy the beats might be, the only music I wanna hear is the ones coming from the tailpipes and engine
Digitrevx Trev פרודיה של פרתנית
ANYWAY
THANK you!
in the next episode! top five mouse pad fails
Hairy Ballbastic I’m getting more excited about the top five door stop fails video.
5 million people would still watch , couple thousand $
The girl at 2:53 is like wtf am I doing here??? 🤣😂
They need good airflow and ventilation to keep all of the rusty dust to a minimum. They also need a small mist of castor oil on the chain to reduce the friction.
the chain goes in the ocean so that would bring the oil in as well
I guess it's down to how good your brake linings are on the control drum. You can see the smoke from the hot linings that turn to flames when operators try to rescue situations by locking the brake as hard on as possible.
LuL, U said "hard on!"
Tugboat captain: look, there is the anchor, let's park right under it.
Only a sailor can appreciate these videos.....they're AWESOME! I was a brakeman/nozzleman during anchoring ops. Had smoke a few times, NEVER a fire.
Not even a sailor and I absolutely appreciate this. And especially the people being that close to thousands of pounds of metal flying around at breakneck speeds.
if the seas could be drained, what treasures would we find, or what collection of debris would be discovered
A lot of it probably deteriorates in the salt water over time
Why can't someone simply grab the chain with their hands when things get out of control? Doesn't training include that?
Yes smh its clearly lightweight
30 sec. in and the music sucks, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Are you people blind or what? Can't you see that after the chain drops all the way down there's its last part simply going like crazy (4:27; 6:38) at extremely high speed hitting anything on its path?
The fish are like 'OMG ALIEN TECHNOLOGIES' 👀😱
I enjoyed these videos thank you.
I love all the comments on here saying how they should be engineered differently. They need to be completely mechanical and not need any power to operate. This is about the best way to do it. If you are in a channel and loose power you have to be able to drop those anchors. These videos showing failure while they are slowly paying out chain is the reason for failure. They overheated the brake and caused the failure. When you drop anchor, you drop anchor. Let it free fall then go like hell on that brake so it stops it before it overheats.
How many anchor's will be on the ocean floor, today? I think thousands world wide....
Surely thousands. However, usually its more economic to have a ship "rescue" your lost anchor (usually with a robot-submarine and divers) than to buy a new one. Those things arent cheap.
Not A Real Ninja It has its upsides and downsides.
Life onboard of a ship is indeed very different from life ashore.
There are a lot of traditions and superstitions onboard to begin with. In general we sailors are old fashioned. "Politics" work very differently from "normal" workplaces too.
I think the majority of people couldnt do this job. To begin with you need to have a very thick skin and have a good sense of authority.
You cant be gullible either. In any port in the world, there will be people trying to rip you off, trying to slack on work (on things you take responsibility for, like lashing cargo), trying to get information that doesnt concern them for whatever reason, trying to steal, trying to blackmail you for a bribe etc.
Its to be expected that everything that isnt behind locked doors or welded down on deck will be stolen in many (usually 3rd world) ports and especially drydocks. Even lifebuoys get stolen.
In case of a loss a diver and workboat will recover the anchor
2018, you would think that they would have a better way of dropping anchors.
Dan Cujo now that you mention it - yeah your right 🤪👈
Agreed, the fact they are still using brake band technology is mind boggling. They could easily be using a hydraulic motor to obtain a controlled payout of the chain, much like they use to raise the anchor.
why not drop from the bottom of the ship?
Anthonyjh02 big hole in the bottom of a ship? What could go wrong?
Dan Cujo Do you think that you could design a system of anchoring that is more reliable than gravity....lol
US Navy. Lost our anchor chain in 2014 after we ran aground and were trying to hook our anchor chain up to the back of a ship to get towed, one of the most aggressive things I've ever witnessed. Pure uncontrolled destruction.
I can only imagine. The sheer mass and energy involved is staggering, and when all that lets go at once...
Greetings from the gulf of Finland. Suomesta päivää. Hyvää päivää.
Suggestion, show the good ones first. Lots of us don't know much about anchors much less how they are supposed to go.
3:42 why isn't there something like a vacuumcleaner with a 15 inch diameter hose that suck away the rust dust?
And why don't they store the chain in a tank filled with water mixed with oil, so the same stuff that is used on a laith or cnc machine.
then the chain is lubricated and no rust dust is filling the room, and the chain stays in better condition.
I wonder how much lost chain and anchor lay at the bottom of the seas ?
Do they retrieve any of it ?
no
After intense research I can personally guarantee you that these are the top 5 anchor fails.
2:27 They´ve got helmets on their hed, but i got a watermelone insted!
Seriously they have to make a mechanism that spray the crank with water as the anchor drops to prevent the heat and smoke . Also they should include something in the last link of the chain to prevent loosing the anchor into the ocean when there is a brake failure.
Now I'm watching a recap of the series of anchor videos TH-cam already had me watch
I don't live near the sea and the largest boat I've ever been on was 79ft long.
But still I enjoyed watching this and found it interesting :-).
I can only imagine how deafening that is. I can imagine just one link of chain, weighs as much as I do. Well I guess maybe 1 3/4.
At least 10-20 times or more as much.
#2: I like how the cameraman took a few steps back - the first indication it was about to go all wrong.
That tugboat is tough
Why am I obsessed with these nautical failure vids 🤣
Ill admit i know jack about ships or boats ......but seems like this could be done much more efficiently with a different design
When there's action going on and a ad shows up 😖
BeastModeJelly it’s called yt premium 😂
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Imagine how heavy the anchor is then how heavy it is with 1200’ of huge chain. It just keeps getting heavier the more you pay out.
*only built 4 cuban linx* dunno why but whenever i see an anchor chain video thats the thought that pops into my mind...
Anchor going down while moving ? strange ----great video thank you
The best way is to grab
Is the background music necessary?
Flash Back what's wrong with it? not to many videos without background music.. or do you just complain for the sake of complaining?
The music ruins the video
Can't hear the cussing 'cause of the bloody musac ffs...
So much momentum and friction, wow, thanks for showing successful deployment part, good video
how does the navy lose an anchor and hundreds of feet of chain? Isn't the internal end of that thing ATTACHED to the SHIP???
Nothing to see here... everything looks perfectly normal to me. The only fail here is this video's ability to deliver it's promise.
"its" promise
Me didnt promissed perpheck spilling or gramore.
Wow, lost anchors of these sizes must be quite costly to replace.
Over $1,000,000
things got a little out of hand
*OUT OF HAND* nice pun, or was it unintentional
That's violent ! I bet these guys could feel those loud sounds in their chests .
US MM CHRIS im not a sailor or had anything to do with boats or the navy but i found it a very interesting read indeed. Thanks .
music - why?
the old people who disliked this video should be dropped at sea lmao
Makes me wonder why these systems didn't use a much stabler method of controlling the drop and pull, something like a large worm drive would be far less prone to this sort of failure, and will additionally provide good mechanical advantage too
Yes or stron dynamic braking I can see a lot better ways to improve this multi rotor brake clutches etc but mostly due to cost ino
And this is cool as fuck to watch go wrong
Worm gears need power if you need to drop your ancor in an emergency and don't have a engine to supply power then a worm gear won't operate and now your adrift without a way to stop
to my understanding anchors aren't used often, so investing a lot of money doesn't seem appropriate.
Trying to control a Calculus equation with an Algebra brake...
oh sshheeetttt, im seeing this when i applying for a BST
I'm guessing that the anchor chain is supposed to feed out slowly, not freewheel.
It is amazing that this primitive tool is still being used
kameron steel what else would we use to stop a massive fucking ship from drifting???
Thrusters, just like a floating oil platform or a support vessel would use - though an anchor is cheaper if you don't require precise positioning as it doesn't require fuel.
ConcealCarry, I think Kameron means it's amazing how such a primitive tool is still relevant, still the best way, still necessary. Short of a rudder, nothing else from ancient sailing ships is still used today.
kameron steel you have a better idea?
knifes are primitive, and people still use them. same for wheels, because something is old, doesnt mean its useless.
This is one task that should be automatized. Weight deployed, torque sensors, amps and breaking system temperature are easier to integrate for a circuit board. I can't see how an operator can keep track of all these while keeping the animal on its leash.
And if the ship looses power you have a run away tanker with no backup...
The
Thanks for your sharing 👍
1:50 Just Like Standing Next To An ULTRA-NOISY EXHAUST MOTORCYCLE going FULL BLOW
I love how many people are saying this should be automated or a hydrodynamic brake would be better. In both cases you would need power to operate the system and if the ships generator should fail then you would be completely adrift with no way to hold position
Manual operation should be there as a backup in case of power failure. But yeah absolutely this stuff should be automated. Trivial for an electronic system to control exact rate of decent with pinpoint accuracy vs leaving it up to some guy loosening and tightening the brakes with a giant wheel. I get that's all most ships had decades ago, but no reason it still needs to be that way today.
from personal experience, the chain whizzing by can be truly frightening
I bet!
Anchors away 😁
@@therandomytchannel4318 Definitely lol !
When did I become so boring that this is how I decided to spend 10 minutes
Amazing choice of music
When you caught yourself watching anchor fails videos you should meditate about your priorities in life…
Such as?