The Irradiating of the Daigo Fukuryū Maru (Lucky Dragon #5)
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- On the 1st of March 1954, the United States of America would detonate their largest bomb in history, the Castle Bravo Hydrogen Bomb. Not far away, the F/V Daigo Fukuryū Maru or Lucky Dragon #5 was fishing for Tuna, completely unaware that they would be the very first victims of the Hydrogen bomb. The event, would inspire the Godzilla movies, which often carried an anti-nuclear weapon message. It sparked a debate about the usage of Nuclear Weapons that lasts to this day.
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Where is our Kamchatka shirt pride of the Japanese navy?
What happened to the ship:
- captain in hospital last minute
- replacement crew
- forgot a part for the engine
- ran aground
- 2 storms
- more engine trouble
- fishing was terrible
- lost half their lines
*- rained on with nuclear fallout*
The 'Lucky' Dragon.
the sea gods must've been piiiiiiiiiiissed about that name change
"Could this day get any worse?"
"Hey, what's this weird snow?"
@@spartanforce7 honestly... I was thinking that... maybe if the regulars hadn't decided to NOPE out of the trip... this wouldn't have happened. wait what? Yeah, major delay just finding replacements, and further delays that might not have happened if the regular crew was on board.
You’d think they’d just throw in the towel after the second storm
This event, not to mention the 2 nuclear attacks on actual cities, was a major inspiration behind the creation of Godzilla. The original film from 1954 was never a silly monster movie and was written as an allegory for the horrors or nuclear weapons. In fact Raymond Burr, who portrays "Reporter Steve Martin" in the original American cut of Gojira refused to be part of the American version of Godzilla 1984 unless the studio actually took it seriously because the American studio wanted to make it a silly monster movie like the ones from the 60's and 70's
I’ve seen several videos, half on TH-cam, saying as much as well, though I’m surprised he didn’t mention the US denying the test or the radiation effects.
Ocassionally I imagine, what if the atomic bombs the US dropped in '45 had been as powerful as castle bravo? It would have been a completely different story.
and to this day, Godzilla is the GREATEST movie monster ever. Raymond is a man of culture and a great actor
@@Willy2000ization heh, try the subtitled release of the original cut. It's better. No slight on Raymond Burr, but the discussions that got cut out to shoehorn him in were a massive chunk of story. And a very.... "gritty realism" story.
@@marhawkman303 Already seen it bro but thanks. When I got all the Godzilla films, I did my best to try and get the bi lingual versions because half the time the Japanese Releases have more than the English. That stopped once we hit the Heisei and onward (With the exception of Godzilla 1985 and Godzilla 2000)
So let me get this straight.. They had to divert to get a part... Ran around ona sandbar.. ran into a low.. engine broke down... Fishing was shit... Lost half her fishing lines... THEN HAD A NUCLEAR BOMB DROPPED ON THEIR HEAD?? That nonetheless was double as big as it was supposed to be.. WHAT A TRIP
Someone definitely brought bananas on board...
Wait'll you hear what happened to the UNLUCKY Dragon.
The universe was trying to tell them something.
+ US Navy had No Radar. Amateurs!
@@Cautionary_Tale_Harris the Unlucky Dragon, ironically, went on to have a king and successful service life
I remember watching an interview with one of the US Navy personnel who was on board one of the ships that was there to witness the test. Three things stuck out to me.
1. When bravo went off, he was wearing thick welders googles and had been facing the opposite direction as instructed by his CO. He could see the bones in his hand when the bomb went off.
2. When he turned around to look at the mushroom cloud he remembered thinking that the cloud was a lot bigger than he had expected and remarked that even some of the scientists who had been on deck seemed uneasy.
3. Was the ship ended up covered in radioactive fallout as well and the ship closed up all port holes and ventilation shafts to reduce exposure to radiation. He was handed a 1911 and told if anyone tried to open the port hole, he was to shoot them……………
Whether it was the Japanese fishermen, the American sailors, or the poor bastards at the other end of bikini atol who were in a concrete bunker studying the blast from what they thought was a safe distance……. No one who was present remembers castle bravo fondly.
Also the thousands of natives in the marshall islands who got rained with radiation.
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This incident was one of the inspirations for the original Godzilla movie.
Anyone who says "a bad day fishing is better than a good day at work" needs to be made aware of this
As someone who regularly says that, this is a separate category all on its own. This isnt "bad", this is nearly the worst possible
Those poor fishermen, absolutely awful. RIP and condolences to their loved ones. Nice coverage MH.
One; holy shit everything wanted these people to stay away.
Two; HOLY SHIT DONT RENAME BOATS FUCK
The American nuclear testing around the Marshall Islands not only iradiated the local ecosystems, but alsp absolutely ruined the health of people living on the atolls. 25,000 people are more than twice as likely to die from cancer due to the nuclear fallout, deformities and miscarriages have skyrocketed, and some populations were almost completely destroyed because no pregnancy could come to full term. The Indigenous populations of these islands faced a genocide as a byproduct of nuclear testing, and this face is not only largely unknown but suppressed in our history
And now Japan dumps radioactive water in the ocean
@@tomhenry897ok? We aren't talking about japan.
Absolutely. Also the fact that hundreds of natives were forcefully moved from bikini atoll, and then moved back before radiation could dissapate is horrible. At first, they were relocated to a nearby uninhabited atoll with barely any food or clean water with a different ecology the natives didn't know about. It was also believed to be cursed by two demon ladies. Later they were moved to another inhabited atoll, where there was not enough food to support them. Eventually they were moved to an island where many natives live today. The island does not hold fish like Atolls do, forcing them to rely on imported food. All of this practically obliterated their culture. American influence decimated much of the culture of the marshall islands.
Yes, our government suppresses and censors information about a LOT of evil shit that they've done and are still doing today. It's shameful.
What they thought was inert in the kicker that made up the secondary of the bomb was lithium deuteride. They thought this was in no way propagate when the weapon went off and instead of being inert it acted to almost triple the power of the bomb. It almost killed some scientists in a bunker several miles away. It blew a 200 deep foot hole in the surrounding coral and part of the island. The men that were there on the ships 50 mi away said they can see their bones through their hands from the x-rays release. It was not unusual to see men fall to their knees on the back of the Navy ships and cry out to God for salvation. These would have been second World war veterans men who knew combat and Hell!
You're both right and wrong; yes, it was the lithium deuteride that boosted the yield to three times what the physicists and scientists thought it would be.
Wrong, because it was the fact that they thought that lithium-7 - which is an isotope of lithium and made up something like 60% of the secondary fuel- would be inert as compared to lithium-6 which they had used before to boost the yield of previous bombs, and it turns out that actually, when you hit Lithium 7 with the amount of neutrons that Castle Bravo output, that Lithium 7 ALSO underwent nuclear fission into tritium along with the Lithium 6 in the secondary, fusing with the Deuterium and dumping far more neutrons into the nuclear fuel than calculated
There was very few WW2 veterans at Castle Bravo - the average age of naval servicemen was around 20 - and Castle Bravo was 1954 - ten years post war.
The diagram at 4:58 is utterly terrifying. Like, I knew the Tsar Bomb was big, but not THAT big! I mean, it utterly dwarves Everest and makes Olympus Mons, the largest mountain in the solar system, look like a pancake.
I've read of the Tsar Bomb. Apparently, we already had that capability and didn't know it. Our ignorance of what we've unleashed combined with our arrogance of understanding those forces, along with our failure to comprehend macho hubris manifested by feeling threatened is a terrifying conclusion to reach. A perfect storm.
@@cneterer Tsar Bomba was so big they had to customize the bomb bay of the airplane that dropped it!.... Yeah.. a turboprop bomber that can fly from Moscow to CUBA and back without refueling... yes, the Tu-95V. One-of special model that was reworked to carry the Tsar Bomba. Well.. the Russians claim they only made one... hmm....
If I'm not mistaken the tzar was also buffered in order to make it weaker, imagine if it had the full caffeine content
@@Tsuruchi_420 yeah, Tsar was a test detonation, not the biggest and baddest they could possibly make.
@@marhawkman303 kinda chilling to even think about
This is why I laugh when the govornment lectures us on killing the environment
What a haunting, but important, piece of history! Great vid!
It's always important to know our history, especially the dark parts of it.
When you think your first journey as captain cant possibly go any worse...
In gojira, dr yumani said that traces of strontium 90 was found in Godzilla’s footprints, a product of the h bomb. When I had an astronomy class in college, we were doing a lab activity involving learning about radioactivity. The assignment involved working with strontium 90. I immediately thought of that quote from the movie. Long story short, I never wanted to do anything like that again. Thankfully, we didn’t.
Really nasty stuff, Strontium-90. I'd never want to mess with it.
@@MaritimeHorrors Strontium is mostly a problem from ingestion because the human body mistakes it as calcium and incorporates it into bone and thyroid.
I grew up in the 70s and they only showed the Raymond Burr version. It was slickly done by Terry Morse to hide most of the talk about America being responsible. It wasn't until decades later that I finely saw the Japanese version which dove deeper into what caused the monster to begin with. One of my favorite films to this day. Japan then released a remake in 2016 which was based off the Fukushima meltdowns.
This incident was the primary inspiration for the original Gojira
@@marcribaudo1965 When America was localizing the 1984 Godzilla they wanted Raymond Burr back as Mr. Martin, but he wouldn't do it unless they took it seriously, because he always did.
Another good source is a book titled "Burning the Sky", a good telling of the history of atmospheric atomic weapons testing.
I remember reading about this in Gojiras Lil collectors pamphlet. This whole vessels situation was just insane.
I was completely unaware of this story. Thanks for all your effort in bringing it to us.
I am surprised that there isn't more subscribers. Keep creating content at a frequent pace and the subscribers will come.
Never heard it was mostly a replacement crew. That makes it even sadder.
Nooo! they changed her name
Are they daft?
Lucky Dragon #5 sounds like a sushi lunch order
Man, I was about to suggest this topic, I'm so glad you covered this!
Any suggestions will be considered and greatly appreciated!
1954, the year the king of the monsters arose from the Pacific Ocean…
The original movie stated Godzilla exists because of the Castle Bravo bomb, and the movie was heavily inspired by the Lucky Dragon story. Godzilla has always been an allegory for nuclear horror.
#Maritime Horrors, You made fabulous mini documentaries. Thank you for all your efforts!
Nuclear 101:
It’s “nu-clee-er”
Not “nu-que-ler”
it's actually "new coca cola"
More like ( unlucky dragon)
For more info, Kyle Hill has a fantastic video on the Castle Bravo device and Johnny Harris has a video on the cultural effects of the atomic bomb tests on the bikini atoll. Godzilla is a prime example.
Great stories, and the narration is top notch. Good use of background sound/music.
you should do a maritime disaster about Godzilla like you did with Halo
Thats basically what this is... This incident inspired the franchise.
Basically the bomb was made of partially enriched lithium with 30% of the Li-6 isotope which under Bomb conditions would break up into Tritium - aka Hydrogen 3 a very potent bomb fuel - the remainder was lithium 7 which was expected to be inert, unfortunately under the intense conditions inside the detonating bomb lithium 7 can absorb a neutron briefly becoming lithium 8 before fragmenting into helium 4 and tritium, which meant that effectively the bomb had far more tritium inside it .
Fun fact: You know the sound we associate with the explosion of nukes? Weeeeell that’s not what they sound like at all. There’s archival footage from the detonations that has their sound and it’s very.. well disappointing. It’s not as impactful as you think it is it’s just a thud.
Finding the footage that doesn’t have a dub over from the decades of movies and documentaries is very difficult (thanks Hollywood for making my life hard) because a majority of the explosions are just the same one plastered over footage regardless if it matches the explosion or not.
Mmm...that's really a 'fun fact'.
Yeah, it just sounds like an M80.
Losing your captain right from the get go because of a hemorrhoid surgery sounds like a real pain in the ass.
If people talked about the horrors of what the Japanese did during WW2 and the devastating power of nuclear weapons.
I believe more people would understand war far better.
it's bitterly funny that this episode begins with the (for this channel) normal series of signs of impending failure, and then the actual disaster ends up being *getting rained on by radioactive coral dust*
Lol telling of the dangers of nuclear weapons in Japan
Then why are they dumping radioactive water into the ocean
Thank you MH for more unknown( to me) information than I had ever known about a horrible event that I thought I knew inside out, KUDOS my friend, indeed!!!🙏👏👍😎
Why would it take 6 hours for a specialized fishing vessel to pull in its lines? Am I missing something or is that amount of time just really sad?
Russian spy boat.
Deadliest Catch gives an idea of how long it can take to throw line/pots and gather line/pots. It can take hours, depending.
This event inspired the scene of the fishing boat implied to be destroyed by Godzilla in both the original Japanese and American versions. Director Ishiro Honda knew Japanese audiences would resonate with that scene after Lucky Dragon 5's fate. He wasn't making 1950s schlock; he was making a warning for the world.
What kinda Kobayashi Maru no win situation is this?! Like.... Geez, just stay home after the part wasn't there, tap out! They were the most unsuperstitous sailors ever....
Crap, I watched all your videos, they're too bingeable
John McCain bombed the uss Forrestal do that one
"Also known as Lucky Dragon 5"
Well, that was a fucking lie.
That's soild commitment to catching the stragglers 🤣 never forget.
There were thousands of natives in the marshall island who were also showered with cancer. The US tortured the marshall islands not just with nuclear weaponry, but also by forcing the locals from their island and destroying their culture.
awesome video! i give it ten out of score
Thanks, shipmate!
I discovered you and Kyle Hill separately, but you both captivate my attention, thanks so much
Nu-Clear
Not Nuculer.
Please, I love your channel but that mispronunciation annoys the hell out of me.
My guy, your videos are awesome. Keep up the good work buddy.
I happened to have watched the Kyle Hill video before seeing this, what an amazing add-on to that video. That being said, what a tragic conclusion to the castle bravo incident, this video fills in the gaps and small details of the resultant tragedy. Good video regardless
Britain tested hydrogen bombs on the coast of Australia and radiated a lot of Australian Navy Seamen
Godzilla has entered the chat.
Nothing was lucky about the Lucky Dragon 5.
The Lucky Dragon was anyhing but.
Let me taste this mysterious explosion ash ....who does that? ! ? !?
ahhh the lucky dragon no.5 who inspired godzilla.
It's nuclear, not "nucular"..
Doesn’t sound very lucky, that’s for sure
4:09, “breaking it down Barney style”… are you a fan of The Expeditionary Force series or is that a saying that predates the books? Either way, bravo.
Military types, arent you or weren['t you Coast Guard? love, -Paratrooper ;)
Why do Americans pronounce "nuclear" as "nucular"?
"But something went wrong..." You mean something went horrifically RIGHT....
Don't forget this pollution ended up on everyone.
Japan nearly cut itself off from America over this incident. Imagine how history would have changed
Now dumps radioactive water into the ocean
@@tomhenry897water is the single best blocker for radioactive rays…
47000 feet isn't the altitude at which most airliners fly. 33000 to 42000 feet is the altitude at which most airliners fly. The only airliners that could reach 47000 feet were the Concorde and the TU-144 since those two supersonic jets cruised at 53000-60000 feet. The Castle Bravo was THAT powerful, which is a scary prospect indeed
NUCLEAR! IT IS NOT SPELLED NUCULAR! STOP!
Heart out to the Chad who decided to eat the strange snow
Giga chad*
One would think all those signs before March 1 would've been an omen.
What freaks me out the most is that, whilst fishing near the Bikini Atoll islands on one random night, you suddenly see a bright flash of light suddenly appear out of nowhere in the distant western horizon, and then to hear a loud thunderous shock wave just minutes later, only to then minutes later encounter a snowy ash fall down upon them, which would eventually result in them suffering from radiation poisoning caused by what they did not then realize was caused by a 15-megaton thermonuclear bomb. And then this one incident would go on to inspire [my favorite giant monster] Godzilla.
the inspiration for the original Godzilla since then that franchise has come a long way
more like Lucky Mambo #5
Despite being named Lucky Dragon Number 5, wasn't very lucky, sounds like they were cursed to be more precise.
Something REAAALLY tried to prevent this it seems. Since the boat kept having issues delaying its departure.
:/ to bad it failed.
At a certain point you just have to assume Ebisu has a reason to keep breaking your boat and spend the week doing something else.
probably the unluckiest ship in history
I remember hearing that the original inspiration for Godzilla wasn’t actually Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but instead this incident
Well considering it was number 5 I’m assuming the other dragons weren’t so lucky so….
Addicted to your videos at moment very interesting
I am triggered by your mispronunciation of nuclear as nukeelar. Alas, even President Jimmy Carter, who studied nuclear engineering was given to mispronouncing it :(
Newculer
And the Daigo Fukuryū Maru Incident inspired Godzilla.
Fun fact bomb was changed to godzilla and became the first scene in original 1954 movie
Oops.
Castle Bravo was a such a moronic mistake, and so negligent. People knew better.
Apparently global warming is a thing now , wouldn't have anything to do with these shenanigans would it .!
NuclEAR... not NucUlar, it doesn't sound right
I am fully against the idea of nuclear weapons but, like any weapons of war, I'm personally very fascinated by the engineering, physics and design doctrines behind them. I also find a bit of humor in the minor incidents when it came to testing like the Pascal B. borehole cover that was ejected into the air at several times Earth's escape velocity (but probably disintegrated before getting into space) or the Black Comedy joke that Trinity would've caught fire to the whole atmosphere.
That and it would be interesting to see an episode dedicated to the mock battlegroup in Operation Crossroads (1946, testing the effects of airburst and subsurface nuclear weapons against naval vessels).
One of the ships used in Operation Crossroads was the battleship USS Nevada, a Nevada-class dreadnought built in 1914. The ship was highly advanced for its time, but the venerable Idaho-class was so far ahead of it and numerous enough that they decided to paint it neon orange and nuke it (thank fuck the Texas avoided this fate). Somehow, it survived being nuked and was nuked again. It survived again and they towed it back to Pearl Harbor, where it was decommissioned and examined. After being examined, the USS Iowa and several other ships used it as target practice. You would think the USS Iowa, a ship whose class has so much firepower that one of its sisters was noted for literally deleting a fucking mountain in response to a north korean artillery strike that failed to damage it, would be able to sink a 40 year old dreadnought. Nope, they noticed it was still barely afloat and finished it off with a torpedo strike.
TL;DR USS Nevada BB-36 took two nukes and constant fire from a much more advanced ship with more and more sustainable firepower, and what took it out was being torpedoed after having already sustained immense damage from two nuclear bombs and heavy shelling. That's one fucking well-made ship.
@@lsswappedcessna I want to note that the Nevada probably survived Able because the bombardier had actually missed the ship, detonating above the U.S.S. Gilliam.
They were understandably irritated as Mk. III implosion devices were more like laboratory equipment wrapped in a bomb casing and were quite expensive so they conducted an extensive investigation and found the sights on the bomber were fine, practice bombs landed fine so it was chalked up to error by the crew.
I can't find where the Nevada was positioned during shot Baker but if she were set up above the device like the LSM-60, she would've been vaporized but she was heavily irradiated by the base surge.
Barney style 😂 is that an expeditionary force reference?
Now Japan dumps radioactive water into the ocean
Mrballen is covering this story tomorrow
Sir,
I'd like to express my RESPECT that you refereed to _ Daigo Fukuryū Maru_ in the feminine, not in the *_VULGAR_* neutral.
I mean, hearing you refer to yourself a a deckhand makes this SIGNIFICANTLY less starling, but deserving of respect nonetheless.
The Unlucky Dragon.
Godzilla: ah time to watch my origin
No one should have bombs.
Not like these.
Crazy that any country would thinks it’s alright to detonate a nuke in the ocean, and contaminate everything. I feel for those sailors, we live in a awful world.
And let's not forget it's twin sister ship: Fook-Me
3:23 largest bomb AT THIS POINT or ... in general?
Also: did they run aground because of the inexpieriencd captain or.... could anyone made this mistake since the area was tricky? Same for the rope and the weather etc.
Calling the sailors decission 'wise' is hard without context. I call it lucky. Things happened but I can't say for certain they WOULD/NOT have happened like this or similarly with someone else in charge. I think that's a stretch to blame a young captain for not starting as veteran- or do you want to blame him for the nuke next??
Have you done a video on fishing vessel in perfect storm yout thoughts would be good to hear
Finally figured out that your voice reminds me of Bradley Swaile - an English dub voice actor in a lot of stuff
I apologize for leaving out those sailer fisherman who were so horribly radiated by the same stupid generals! Shame on man!