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The Perfectly Preserved 4,600-Year-Old Boat: The Marvels Of Ancient Egyptian Ships
The ancient Egyptians were major seafarers, conducting expeditions and trade across Africa and their ships were marvels of engineering. From reed rafts to sophisticated wooden vessels, the ancient Egyptians organised life around the Nile, connecting all people through the great river.
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The Hunt For The Sunken Treasure Ships Adorning Australia's Coastlines
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Australia's coast has over 8,000 shipwrecks from storms and navigation errors, including early Dutch and English treasure ships, many lost to reefs and harsh waters. Will the treasure hunting team be able to find treasure ships like the Fatima and the Madagascar which each carried thousands of ounces of gold? Welcome aboard Big Ships! We are your port of call for a captivating voyage through th...
The Real Life Wayfinders: The Untold Story Of Polynesian Voyagers
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The Polynesian Triangle, stretching between Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island, was explored long before Western explorers like James Cook. Polynesians had already settled across the vast ocean, leaving behind clues of their mastery of seafaring. Modern reconstructions of Polynesian canoes, like the Hōkūleʻa, were used to understand how early Polynesians navigated vast distances. Sailing "a...
Inside A Top Secret Nazi U-Boat Fortress
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From 1939 to 1945, German U-boats engaged in a deadly naval conflict against the Allies, particularly Britain. To gain an advantage, the Nazis built fortified U-boat bases on the French Atlantic coast, which nearly turned the tide in Germany's favor. Welcome aboard Big Ships! We are your port of call for a captivating voyage through the giants of naval history. From the legendary ships of antiq...
What Led To The End Of The Shipbuilding Golden Era?
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Despite layoffs and massive debts during the Great Depression, Harland & Wolff experienced a revival during WWII, producing crucial warships, including HMS Belfast and HMS Penelope. Despite devastation from air raids in Belfast, the shipyard contributed significantly to the British war effort by building and repairing vessels. Unfortunately it wasn't long after the war that shipbuilding began t...
The Most Iconic Ships Of All Time
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Explore the fascinating history of Harland and Wolff, the legendary Belfast ship company behind some of the world’s most iconic ships, including the Titanic, HMS Belfast and RMS Pendennis Castle. From its rise during the Industrial Revolution to its groundbreaking ship designs, this story highlights the shipyard's pivotal role in shaping global trade and empires. Discover how its partnership wi...
Operation Dervish: The Arctic Convoys That Saved The Soviet Union In WW2
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The Arctic convoys were crucial for delivering supplies from the UK to the Soviet Union through treacherous waters while bypassing Nazi-occupied Europe. The convoys helped sustain Soviet resistance against Nazi Germany, providing essential supplies and military aid. They faced extreme weather conditions, including temperatures as low as minus 30°C, towering seas, and constant darkness. The rout...
HMS Northumberland's Clash With Russian Destroyer In UK Waters
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HMS Northumberland is tasked with intercepting a Russian destroyer dangerously close to the UK's most secure military base, home to Trident nuclear submarines. The crew takes decisive action to block the Russian ship, capturing intelligence on its activities. Also in this episode, Dr. Jen Robinson, the ship's new doctor, undergoes training to handle emergencies at sea and she's arrived just in ...
The Evolution Of Warships: 400 Years Of Naval Warfare In 60 Minutes
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The evolution of warships involved continuous improvements in firepower, armor, and ship design, driven by the need for greater speed, maneuverability, and combat effectiveness. This documentary explores 400 years of warship history, highlighting the evolution of naval technology from the 17th century galleys to modern aircraft carriers like France's Charles de Gaulle. Significant technological...
What Are These Suspicious Russian Warships Doing So Close To The UK?
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HMS Northumberland, a Royal Navy frigate, is on a critical mission to monitor increased Russian military activity in the North Atlantic, particularly around the coast of Northern Ireland, during one of its busiest deployments. The ship and its crew of 200 sailors face numerous challenges, including harsh weather conditions and technical issues. The crew must remain on high alert as they investi...
What Really Sank The Titanic?
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What really doomed the unsinkable ship? The sinking of the Titanic was a perfect storm of human error and unusual coincidences. Did you know the iceberg drifted unusually south for that time of year? Or that the Titanic's voyage was delayed by a month due to repairs needed on its sister ship, the Olympic? In this documentary, find out more about this series of calamities which culminated in one...
What Ship Engineers Have Learned From Maritime Disasters
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What Ship Engineers Have Learned From Maritime Disasters
How A Naval Warship Navigates One Of The Most Dangerous Routes In The World
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How A Naval Warship Navigates One Of The Most Dangerous Routes In The World
How The Allies Finally Sank The Nazi Mega-Ship Tirpitz
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How The Allies Finally Sank The Nazi Mega-Ship Tirpitz
Warship Saves Distressed Fishing Boat From Pirates
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Warship Saves Distressed Fishing Boat From Pirates
Dreadnought Destruction: The Controversial Scuttling Of Germany's Mighty Battle Fleet
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Dreadnought Destruction: The Controversial Scuttling Of Germany's Mighty Battle Fleet
Inside The Advanced Warship Fighting Terrorists On The High Seas
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Inside The Advanced Warship Fighting Terrorists On The High Seas
The Biggest Sunken Shipwreck Ever Discovered In Spain
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The Biggest Sunken Shipwreck Ever Discovered In Spain
The Elite Naval Warships Fighting Pirates In The Persian Gulf
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The Elite Naval Warships Fighting Pirates In The Persian Gulf
The Underwater Wreck Of A Pearl Harbor Tragedy
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The Underwater Wreck Of A Pearl Harbor Tragedy
The Complex Amphibious War Boats Of WW2
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The Complex Amphibious War Boats Of WW2
Thunder Boat: The French Navy's 'Sea Monster'
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Thunder Boat: The French Navy's 'Sea Monster'
US Battleships vs Kamikaze Pilots: The Naval Battles Of WW2
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US Battleships vs Kamikaze Pilots: The Naval Battles Of WW2
How Do You Build One Of The Biggest Cruise Liners In History?
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How Do You Build One Of The Biggest Cruise Liners In History?
Battleships: The Rise & Fall Of The Sea Giants
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Battleships: The Rise & Fall Of The Sea Giants

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @K1DFR3SH77
    @K1DFR3SH77 8 годин тому

    Based on pottery?! 😂 we have more connections in the Americas. Crops, artifacts, mounds etc match. Colonizers still trying to narrate our story. These are the people that think humans came from monkeys 😂

  • @Mr_Beaubles
    @Mr_Beaubles 14 годин тому

    Excelent choice of music for the intro! ROLL TIDE!!

  • @farmrrick
    @farmrrick 18 годин тому

    Thanks Wikipedia for NOTHING !

  • @doskraut
    @doskraut 19 годин тому

    Ruling The Pacific where there's no conflicts.

  • @clivestainlesssteelwomble7665
    @clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 21 годину тому

    We know they made contact along the S America continents coast.. the cultures there whilst possibly sophisticated may not have been compatible with their goals and explorer traders spirit. Consider what we know about some of those Cultures and the conflicts between them it may have been a case for turning away and leaving them to their own conflicts and not leading them back to their home islands..

  • @kakisamasogi5578
    @kakisamasogi5578 День тому

    One of the verses from Easter island song goes "o le alii, o le atua" in Samoan language it means "lord is God" sounds like they were referring to Rapanui as god.

  • @pauldaystar
    @pauldaystar День тому

    Soon, GPS Will Not Work Because The Magnetic Poles Have Moved More Than 1,500 - 2,000 Miles

  • @pauldaystar
    @pauldaystar День тому

    The Real Evidence is The Cedar Wood is Verified from Chile

  • @pauldaystar
    @pauldaystar День тому

    THE ARK OF NOAH IS 13,000 Years Old in Mount Aarat

  • @sstarklite2181
    @sstarklite2181 День тому

    They were so smart and brave. Such beautiful islands and cultures and climate!

  • @sandramorey2529
    @sandramorey2529 День тому

    I remember hearing that when Hokule'a and Hawaiiloa canoes came to British Columbia to receive the gift of a tree to build Hiki Ana Lia canoe, the Hawaiians and the Natives of the island they visited did "protocol" and part of protocol is that you recite your geneology until you get to a common ancestor. This they did. They don't make a big deal out of it-they just do it. That I think was in 1995. I will never forget the sight of Hokule'a sailing underneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Hikianali'a sailed from O'ahu to Half Moon Bay and Sausalito and we got to board her, meet the crew & see how they lived under sail.

  • @Randolph73
    @Randolph73 День тому

    How much has DEI hampered the USM? How may Admirals have been selected based on factors other then competence?

  • @IfPushComesToShove
    @IfPushComesToShove 2 дні тому

    5 minutes on the old ship the rest is BS about other related people and countries this thing is boring with never really talking about the boat

  • @Peter-er3cd
    @Peter-er3cd 2 дні тому

    Ruined by muzak.

  • @wailinburnin
    @wailinburnin 2 дні тому

    It might be helpful in the longer run to not phrase things in terms of “the First People” and simply refer to them as “People”. In other words, the history of Rapa Nui, Easter Island, is a human history. It represents a lesson, a universal one for humanity. On a fundamental level, the Polynesians kept finding the same basic resources where they went such that no dependency on trade developed, in the meantime, the industry of building large voyaging canoes was an all encompassing communal activity, lots of labor in making the cordage as well as the wood components.

  • @WildeRachel-d6t
    @WildeRachel-d6t 2 дні тому

    Medhurst Parkways

  • @jocktigernuts680
    @jocktigernuts680 2 дні тому

    Why would you show the Germans and Japanese what you’ve got after the atrocities both countries inflicted on mankind during the wars😱

  • @Billy-p9s
    @Billy-p9s 2 дні тому

    Where is the boat, fools!

  • @orjeetghrajshingbade-d3d
    @orjeetghrajshingbade-d3d 3 дні тому

    Jones Jose Clark Jose Lewis Frank

  • @larrygrimaldi1400
    @larrygrimaldi1400 3 дні тому

    Greatly informative on a subject rarely heard!

  • @leslielavertu5954
    @leslielavertu5954 3 дні тому

    We have to save the USA by NOT letting Trump near our military. He thinks the military are useless and stupid for serving. He CANNOT be Commander in Chief again!!!!

  • @4fuzzybear
    @4fuzzybear 3 дні тому

    This must be an old film. The biden/ harris navy can’t stop a warlord in Yemen. And he dosnt even have a trained navy. It’s sad, today’s US military isn’t scaring anyone, except the taxpayer, and the few Americans that still serve in it. Girls on warships, what could go rong?

  • @EquipteHarry
    @EquipteHarry 3 дні тому

    Lee Jennifer Moore Christopher Jones Susan

  • @bondniko
    @bondniko 3 дні тому

    Where's the fckn boat?

  • @Sean-u8e
    @Sean-u8e 3 дні тому

    I got those in the simulator app game like hovering cannons that can go into strike fighter maneuver s

  • @Sean-u8e
    @Sean-u8e 3 дні тому

    And regurgated on the other side of the island declassified 80s

  • @PopCultureCat
    @PopCultureCat 4 дні тому

    Why is the thumbnail flipped? There are no modern aircraft carriers with the island on the port side, certainly no Nimitz class.

  • @CurtisWebb-en5kh
    @CurtisWebb-en5kh 4 дні тому

    Thank you for all your hard work.

  • @joshmorris5356
    @joshmorris5356 4 дні тому

    Why bother looking for the gold if you can’t bring it up ?

  • @getit9066
    @getit9066 4 дні тому

    Gosh it's almost like they were set up to be destroyed somehow! Huh!!

  • @johndough1218
    @johndough1218 4 дні тому

    USS Kitty Hawk, and UASS Constellation

  • @michaelsamuel9917
    @michaelsamuel9917 5 днів тому

    I'd hope one day the Polynesians would change the European names of their Islands back to the Original Native names!!

  • @7555mac
    @7555mac 5 днів тому

    excellent, thankyou for posting this.

  • @7071t6
    @7071t6 5 днів тому

    If it was not for the polish code breakers ,dernitz would have won for sure, without the codes for the enigma navy machines broken ,then the british would have lost a lot more ,they say it was the u571, but in reality it was the polish codebreakers who broke the navy's codes way before the us got involved, sure the broke the codes but that was later on ,when the germans made a totally different enigma machines and thats what the u571 movie was about? cheers 😎😎⚓⚓⚓⚓ Like they say intel is the most important aspect of any war ,without it your just fighting a losing battle plain and simple with good intel ,you can win any war, no matter what kind of war, except a nuclear war as nobody wins that type of war? 👍👌✌🦘😎⚓

  • @HappyDog6
    @HappyDog6 5 днів тому

    Interesting material. The music track is too loud in spots, swamping the narration.

  • @jeffhiggins808
    @jeffhiggins808 6 днів тому

    Aloha from the Big Island. Unfortunately there are only a few people left who know how to navigate by the ancient methods. Since the death of Mau Pialug years ago there one less person who can teach the amazing old ways. Nainoa Thomson is still with us and I hope this knowledge is not lost. Most people think like “why spend decades learning the super complex and intricate ancient ways when I can just use GPS?” So sad.

  • @ioanbota9397
    @ioanbota9397 6 днів тому

    They are powerful

  • @LeonardojavierMellaretamal
    @LeonardojavierMellaretamal 7 днів тому

    ❤❤❤❤.❤ Leonardo Javier mella Retamal Chile curico 08 / 10. /. 2024

  • @semiramis47
    @semiramis47 7 днів тому

    Amazing feats of navigation....and courage.... given that we see more and more evidence of man's seafaring ability in the far distant past it would appear that for eons the world's waters were highways rather than barriers - certainly true for the Pacific islanders.

  • @atrayser
    @atrayser 8 днів тому

    Absolutely amazing - I don’t know why other than ignorance, that it is not recognized that these people actually were the first people from the old world to find the new world by sea - way before Columbus and way before the Vikings - and at far far greater distances than any of them by far. Truly greater feats of navigation. this was proven recently by genetic studies showing that one person was taken back from the new world - so cool that genetics could prove something that archaeology would be extremely unlikely to - and even the very region of the Americas - which was not expected, if I remember right it was way far north from Easter Island - proving that these people for certain were skilled at navigation as they traveled there and back - waht is strange that once knowing this - they stayed away after that encounter - wisdom perhaps to know it would not probably end well -but will perhaps ne’er know. These people had made the longer trip a couple thousand miles - across far more challenging waters than the trans Atlantic voyages much later. Not sure I got this correct, but from memory it seems accurate. It is just mind boggling they could develop such skills so very long ago but as people in other parts of the earth thousands of years developed entire;y new foods - staple crops they actually created wiht nothing modern even comping close to such feats of ingenuity. thanks for posting this - it seems strange there are not more depiciotns of these voyages - tehy are breathtakingly fascinating.

  • @JoyceBess
    @JoyceBess 9 днів тому

    346 Davon Run

  • @mrdoodiehead1642
    @mrdoodiehead1642 9 днів тому

    presidents are temporary WU TANG FOREVER ✊🎊

  • @libramoon9968
    @libramoon9968 9 днів тому

    Thank you for this video. Aloha from Oahu

  • @АлександрРусаков-в4с

    Wilson Anthony Martin Larry Rodriguez Timothy

  • @johnbamba3052
    @johnbamba3052 9 днів тому

    They are still using hard copies for photos huh? How about video call and stuff like that?

  • @johnbamba3052
    @johnbamba3052 9 днів тому

    You know if they're just using bidets instead of toilet papers. They would save more space for food or munition storage. Just saying dude.

  • @katherinecooper6159
    @katherinecooper6159 9 днів тому

    Hickam Air Force Base - evidence of the attack is obvious

  • @chrisw.5138
    @chrisw.5138 10 днів тому

    Boring istopped watching at 2:30

  • @KolJak-oe4pb
    @KolJak-oe4pb 10 днів тому

    Trump. is. Last republican. President. icon in. Us. History

    • @TimeisReel
      @TimeisReel 2 дні тому

      😂...he tried to take out his own VP !!!

  • @KolJak-oe4pb
    @KolJak-oe4pb 10 днів тому

    Republican presudent. Legend. Ronald regan