Well here it is finally released! This was honestly an insane amount of work, I must've studied hundreds of photographs and loads of videos of the ship to try and get many of the details right. Crazy how four weeks of work comes down to just a 12 minute video! Oh well, really enjoyed working on it. I had wanted to make the ocean around the wreck more turbulent and rough but my poor computer was having real trouble rendering it (and looked overly fake) so I made the waters calmer for most of the video. For the same reason I had to scale down some of the detail on the land, which is why it looks a little basic in places (although to be fair that part of Fuerteventura is already pretty barren in real life). I'd like to thank my friend Matthew Cox for his efforts over the years to find rare photographs of the wreck and without much of that info I wouldnt have been able to make this as detailed as I have! Also Stamos C. Ioannou for his articles on the towing operation. And the late Bill Lee for his amazing 'autopsy' of the wreck posted on Explorer Magazine. Couple of things I didnt mention in the video: By 1995, a sand spit had formed out to the wreck on the leeward (starboard) side of the wreck and allowed people to pretty much walk out to it for many years. At 7:13, if you look closely as the superstructure beneath the bridge, you'll see painted on ants, apparently some sort of art project a local had decided to do, spray paint ants on many areas of the wreck. Also I forgot to add a ladder going up the forward end of the funnel. I also forgot to animate the rotating radar antennae on Neftegaz 67. Oh well! Hope you all enjoy and thanks again for watching! :)
Cannot put into words how good this is ....the animation and editing is truly superb .... Always wanted to visit this wreck ....but by the time I could afford to sadly she had gone forever 😢😢
When that documentary team lit her up one final time, it's was so poignant and haunting. She was a beautiful ship, and it's heartbreaking that her running mate is soon to be lost forever, because no one with the means cared enough to save her.
It's kind of sad the amount of people gleefully cheering on her fate with Florida. That would be like people cheering to set the Statute of Liberty ablaze. Just sad. But it is a reminder that America doesn't always look after her own.
Well yeah, have you seen the state of this country? Nobody has money, certainly not for anything like this. Sure, lots of people would have loved to see her restored but that requires an amount of money not possible in this day in age. It's only going to get worse at the beginning of next year.
@RoseFBN It's not that no one had the money. It's more that those who have the money and resources don't care. The government certainly has the money but is more interested in spending it on the military and wars.
Amazing how the bow stays almost the same but the stern completely rusts away in 3 years just from a slightly more broadside position. Makes you appreciate the Titanic's survival for so long but also shows you how fast the collapse of a wreck can be. I think a single major failure of one deck could cause a chain reaction in the underlying decks and have a large section simply collapse on itself suddenly one day.
I wonder why she went soo fast tho....is it because the strong waves? cause I have seen some shipwrecks like this who have accidentally gotten stuck like this in my country but they never go that fast....they always need to be removed by people so it doesnt ruin our seawater, oh okay I now realized I live by the baltic sea and it has to do probably with the fact that it isnt an open ocean and baltic seawater isnt that salty either and most shipwrecks are well preserved in here, not sure ofc but it seems that way
Titanic survived as long as she has because of the depth she's at, bacteria struggles to grow down there so it stays preserved, at least until human interference started with diving to her, now it's starting to go quicker and should really have a limit for diving in it.
It's incredibly sad what happened to the SS America, but this depiction of how the sea reclaimed her is beautiful. Thank you for honoring and keeping her alive through this brief documentary. Over the years I've had pictures of the wreck as my desktop background, and now I have an excellent video to point people towards to explain it! I appreciate the mention of the SS United States at the end. I wish she could continue to have a life above water but it seems so unlikely at this point.
This is simply astonishing. The level of realism and detail blows me away. I honestly thought the thumbnail was of photos taken of the ship but I was baffled at how precise the framing was between all 3. Thanks for telling the final story of this great, stubborn lady. While I'd have loved to see her preserved properly, as we've seen with the SS United States, that rarely happens, and I found a surreal beauty to seeing photos of her on Fuerteventura as half an ocean liner/a frozen in place ghost ship. In the end, a burial at sea is preferable to being scrapped.
Upon seeing her being lit up for the last time, there was this unmistakable feeling of fervent melancholic sadness. After years of being grounded she bore only the memory of her younger days, but was gifted peace and solace one last time. After seeing that sight, I realised her disappearance wasn’t the wasteful shame I thought it was, but a poetic passing - after being granted those lights, all notions of sadness and regret were dissipated, and she allowed herself to be reclaimed by the sea
Henry, I'm picking myself up off the floor after watching this work of painstaking skill art! Thank you for all the love and care you put into this video! I never had the heart to see the wreck but she was one of my favorite ships and I feel very fortunate to have spent a morning on board while she was laid up in Greece.
Thank you so much Peter, your images and report of her time in Elefsina was also a great help when I made this! Only wish I could have seen her in person! 🙂
I had the privilege to see her live. It was fascinating, scary, sad but beautiful at the same time…During a family vacation on Fuerteventura in 2002 my father pushed us to search for this ship. We drove hours around without finding her, the mood wasn’t good anymore. But as we got her finally it was a fascinating experience I’ll never forget. Thanks to my dad, it’s one of the best family memories I have ❤
Man, I was a saturation diver in the North sea and lived on ships and worked with tugs for ten years. This is an amazing video. I was totally mesmerised watching it. The graphics are incredible. Nice job.
I sailed on this ship as a 10 year old when she was under Chandris ownership. She was magnificent, very sad loss and perhaps more so for her later, larger, sister ship which could have been preserved.
Fantastic work Henry! Thank you so much for creating this. I still can't believe that small bit I saw was part of a huge liner. I'll never forget the times I went to see what was left. This ship was really historic.
Wow I'm almost in tears watching this. It feels like she had a very lonely end, for a ship that was once full of life and vibrance. Beautiful documentary, very well done 😍
Crazy how it only took 20 years for this ship to get completely destroyed vs the Titanic that is still recognizable (and intact considering) after over 110 years. Shows how destructive the ocean surface can be.
What is the most destructive to the ship is the constant cycles of water and no water. Thats why the decks right above the waterline erroded away much faster. Each wave submerges the hull around the waterline and the exposed it back to the air. The shore also gets much more turbulent waters than the deep sea. The deep sea is a pretty constant environment. While there are underwater currents, that deep they are fairly slow and also dont really change direction. This is also why the keel of this ship remains: it barely ever gets exposed to the air, so it remains constantly submerged, and it is a much less turbulent environment already just a few feets below the waterline. The waves dont slam down on it as much
Mother Nature’s elements are a relentless and brutal instrument, and this incredible documentary has truly demonstrated how her ability to use time and tide as a way of consuming everything and anything that falls into her trap. Great work from HFB Marine for this sombre and moving story, and bringing it to life in such a dramatic way.
7:30 this part is interesting. I wonder if the stern went down all at once during a single storm, because real pictures show it either there or completely destroyed with no gradual collapse visible in between 1996 and 1997.
Yes certainly a great and informative video, I have a special interest in the ship because I live on Fuerteventura and first visited her in 2001 and did indeed take many pictures of her, by this time the stern was already submerged, but the site of the bow rising out of the water was truly awesome. The waters on the west coast are treacherous and swimming is not advised, but local youths in the 1990’s couldn’t resist the temptation of getting to the ship and sadly people did lose their life’s. In the capital of Fuerteventura, Puerte del Rosario there is a bar which the walls are clad with timber paneling of the ship, sadly the bar didn’t survive COVID times and I never did visit the bar before its closure.The last time I visited the site was almost 5 years ago, it was low tide but still she was completely submerged.
The tugboat Neftegaz-67, which was towing the American Star ship, sank near Hong Kong after a collision with a cargo ship on March 22, 2008, killing 18 people.
Many thanks for all your efforts in making this video. Brought back memories for me as my family sailed on her from Southampton to Auckland, New Zealand in early 1974. I was 11 at the time and it was a big adventure. Interestingly our first port of call after leaving England was the Canary Islands, funny to think that it would become her final resting place only 20 years later. A sad end to a great ship.
What a remarkably well researched and produced video. Great job. The America was a fascinating ship with a long career and a tragic and captivating demise. I've seen photographs from inside the hulk after she beached and split taken by adventurous explorers who ventured out to her wreck and captured images of themselves lounging in her shattered public rooms with the desolate beach just yards away. The whole idea is like a thrilling post-apocalyptic fantasy...
You have got to do SS America’s sister ship the SS United States next after all it still holds the blue ribbon to this day and you should make the timeline of it rusting and sitting there unattended as I believe you could do it considering how amazing this video was.
Fantastic video, compelling to watch. The strength of the sea is incredible but what a sad loss the United States is, such a stunning and amazing ship. I would have thought the Americans would have never let that happen to such a historic and iconic liner. I remember often seeing her leaving Southampton from the garden of my nans in West Cowes on the Isle of Wight when I was a child.
I’m watching this amazing video via Starlink on the beach of the grounding in Fuerteventura, only a tiny part of the ship was visible at low tide as you specified, thanks! ❤
Nice to see this, i lived on Fuerteventura an visited the ship many times, I knew a little bit about the history but this was quite interesting, thank you. Btw, in Puerto Rosario you would find bar's decorated with interior pieces of the ship that locals took from it.
As a 3D artist, nice work! Such an effort, and I love that you do this with passion an such indepth research! I remember seeing pictures of this wreck in the midd 2000's, but she was already gone by then. Crazy how fast it went!
Ps i don't know if you take suggestions, but I would LOVE to see something like this about the wreck of the Murmansk battlecruiser off the coast of Sørvær in Norway. It was a similar, very photogenic wreck that's now gone. Especially the removal operation of it was very interesting.
Nice video 👍. The deterioration reminds me of a shipwreck I played on and fished from 50+ yrs ago. USS Corry. Not much left of her today. Thanks for the video. Well done.
I remember seeing the wreck when i was a child on Fuerteventura in 1997/98. We made a bus tour on the island and the guide noted we should have a look to the coast where the ship was
I was driving with some friends along a mountain road in Fuerteventura sometime in 1997, and I noticed something in the distance, where the land meets the sea. I remember remarking to the others in the car "I'm bloody sure I've just seen half a ship over there!' As the road was very bendy it kept going in and out of view, until we stopped at a good vantage point and managed to look down and behold exactly HALF A SHIP - the image you see in the video at 7:34. I have a photo buried somewhere in the archives. Truly a breath-taking sight it was, but I have been back since and it's all gone, eaten by the fishes and crabs.
It’s stories like these that makes me really want to preserve my classic car I have, it’a under a cover for the winter but it’s still protecting a very rusty piece of junk, so seeing stuff rust like this ship really makes me think of that and remember to take care of it
In Romania there is a shipwreck of MV E Evangelia, which ran aground near the town of Costinesti. This happened in 1968 and the wreck is still standing.
This is incredibly well done, thank you for sharing. And sadly, it appears another example-perhaps the last remaining-of Mr. Gibbs' beautifully designed ships is about to suffer a similar fate, albeit intentional this time.
I remember visiting the beach when the bow and stern hadn’t long split apart. I hired a Nissan micra and drove up a sand track. I only found out later that it was a military training area. Apparently a few people had died swimming into the the hull and getting stuck in the wreck. I’ve seen footage on YT of the ship in its hay day with passengers enjoying themselves in all its original splendour.
My Family would visit relatives in the Orkneys, where there are ships that were used to block the channels between the islands to stop U-boats in WW1. In WW2 they built concrete causeways, but the ships were left there. Over the last 50 years, the area to the east of the causeways began fill in with sand, and then grass started to grow. Today the ships that were out to sea are now land-locked, with sheep grazing around them.
I live on the canary Islands , At the moment I’m on La Palma. And I’ve seen this ship and various moments in time. We swam out to it in 2001. , but we turned back when we got close to it. The way were too crazy and it looked so dangerous from up close. Lots of houses in shops nearby have sinks and doors and everything else from ship.
My great great grandad said he was on SS America and it truly breaks his heart when he found out it was turned once turned into a thriving ship but now it is just a ghost ship.
Well here it is finally released! This was honestly an insane amount of work, I must've studied hundreds of photographs and loads of videos of the ship to try and get many of the details right. Crazy how four weeks of work comes down to just a 12 minute video! Oh well, really enjoyed working on it.
I had wanted to make the ocean around the wreck more turbulent and rough but my poor computer was having real trouble rendering it (and looked overly fake) so I made the waters calmer for most of the video. For the same reason I had to scale down some of the detail on the land, which is why it looks a little basic in places (although to be fair that part of Fuerteventura is already pretty barren in real life).
I'd like to thank my friend Matthew Cox for his efforts over the years to find rare photographs of the wreck and without much of that info I wouldnt have been able to make this as detailed as I have!
Also Stamos C. Ioannou for his articles on the towing operation.
And the late Bill Lee for his amazing 'autopsy' of the wreck posted on Explorer Magazine.
Couple of things I didnt mention in the video:
By 1995, a sand spit had formed out to the wreck on the leeward (starboard) side of the wreck and allowed people to pretty much walk out to it for many years.
At 7:13, if you look closely as the superstructure beneath the bridge, you'll see painted on ants, apparently some sort of art project a local had decided to do, spray paint ants on many areas of the wreck.
Also I forgot to add a ladder going up the forward end of the funnel. I also forgot to animate the rotating radar antennae on Neftegaz 67. Oh well!
Hope you all enjoy and thanks again for watching! :)
wow this is so cool
You did great!
This is an outstanding feat of production and editing. First Class. Well done and thank you.
Thanks for such an awesome job with so much attention to detail. I followed that ship for years after I first ran across it. Great work!
Cannot put into words how good this is ....the animation and editing is truly superb ....
Always wanted to visit this wreck ....but by the time I could afford to sadly she had gone forever 😢😢
When that documentary team lit her up one final time, it's was so poignant and haunting. She was a beautiful ship, and it's heartbreaking that her running mate is soon to be lost forever, because no one with the means cared enough to save her.
It's kind of sad the amount of people gleefully cheering on her fate with Florida. That would be like people cheering to set the Statute of Liberty ablaze. Just sad. But it is a reminder that America doesn't always look after her own.
well SS united states will join her at the bottom of the sea
Well yeah, have you seen the state of this country? Nobody has money, certainly not for anything like this. Sure, lots of people would have loved to see her restored but that requires an amount of money not possible in this day in age.
It's only going to get worse at the beginning of next year.
@RoseFBN It's not that no one had the money. It's more that those who have the money and resources don't care. The government certainly has the money but is more interested in spending it on the military and wars.
Of course America doesn't care about their own anymore, look who America just put back in office. But rest assured, the world mourns with you.
Amazing how the bow stays almost the same but the stern completely rusts away in 3 years just from a slightly more broadside position. Makes you appreciate the Titanic's survival for so long but also shows you how fast the collapse of a wreck can be. I think a single major failure of one deck could cause a chain reaction in the underlying decks and have a large section simply collapse on itself suddenly one day.
I wonder why she went soo fast tho....is it because the strong waves? cause I have seen some shipwrecks like this who have accidentally gotten stuck like this in my country but they never go that fast....they always need to be removed by people so it doesnt ruin our seawater, oh okay I now realized I live by the baltic sea and it has to do probably with the fact that it isnt an open ocean and baltic seawater isnt that salty either and most shipwrecks are well preserved in here, not sure ofc but it seems that way
Titanic survived as long as she has because of the depth she's at, bacteria struggles to grow down there so it stays preserved, at least until human interference started with diving to her, now it's starting to go quicker and should really have a limit for diving in it.
You should get an Emmy or whatever award for UA-cam documentary! The amount of work and dedication is incredible!
It's incredibly sad what happened to the SS America, but this depiction of how the sea reclaimed her is beautiful. Thank you for honoring and keeping her alive through this brief documentary. Over the years I've had pictures of the wreck as my desktop background, and now I have an excellent video to point people towards to explain it!
I appreciate the mention of the SS United States at the end. I wish she could continue to have a life above water but it seems so unlikely at this point.
This is simply astonishing. The level of realism and detail blows me away. I honestly thought the thumbnail was of photos taken of the ship but I was baffled at how precise the framing was between all 3. Thanks for telling the final story of this great, stubborn lady.
While I'd have loved to see her preserved properly, as we've seen with the SS United States, that rarely happens, and I found a surreal beauty to seeing photos of her on Fuerteventura as half an ocean liner/a frozen in place ghost ship. In the end, a burial at sea is preferable to being scrapped.
Every now and then along comes a video that reminds you that UA-cam can truly be a place of incredible interest and amazing viewing...Thank you...
Upon seeing her being lit up for the last time, there was this unmistakable feeling of fervent melancholic sadness. After years of being grounded she bore only the memory of her younger days, but was gifted peace and solace one last time.
After seeing that sight, I realised her disappearance wasn’t the wasteful shame I thought it was, but a poetic passing - after being granted those lights, all notions of sadness and regret were dissipated, and she allowed herself to be reclaimed by the sea
Very sad story, but this was an excellent visualization! Fantastic job! It was clearly worth the amount of time you put into it.
Henry, I'm picking myself up off the floor after watching this work of painstaking skill art! Thank you for all the love and care you put into this video! I never had the heart to see the wreck but she was one of my favorite ships and I feel very fortunate to have spent a morning on board while she was laid up in Greece.
Thank you so much Peter, your images and report of her time in Elefsina was also a great help when I made this!
Only wish I could have seen her in person! 🙂
I had the privilege to see her live. It was fascinating, scary, sad but beautiful at the same time…During a family vacation on Fuerteventura in 2002 my father pushed us to search for this ship. We drove hours around without finding her, the mood wasn’t good anymore. But as we got her finally it was a fascinating experience I’ll never forget. Thanks to my dad, it’s one of the best family memories I have ❤
Was there in 2004. Agree.
Man, I was a saturation diver in the North sea and lived on ships and worked with tugs for ten years. This is an amazing video. I was totally mesmerised watching it. The graphics are incredible. Nice job.
the power of water! Nice job! It's interesting to see how these graphics were made
Salt water. Fresh water is less destructive but bad in its own way.
We appreciate your hard work on this and attention to detail. I still have the 20 page travel agent’s brochure of her when she was RHMS AUSTRALIS.
amazing work man! i really love your models and textures, soo realistic, thank you for this video, and also waiting SSUS video also! love it!
Omg hi!!
Thank you so much, love your work too! 🙂
I sailed on this ship as a 10 year old when she was under Chandris ownership. She was magnificent, very sad loss and perhaps more so for her later, larger, sister ship which could have been preserved.
Genuinely one of the best videos I've seen on YT this year. Greetings from the UK. Amazing work, subbed!
Fantastic work Henry! Thank you so much for creating this. I still can't believe that small bit I saw was part of a huge liner. I'll never forget the times I went to see what was left. This ship was really historic.
The attention to detail is insane! Great work!
Quite remarkable that she lasted so long. Great video.
Wow I'm almost in tears watching this. It feels like she had a very lonely end, for a ship that was once full of life and vibrance. Beautiful documentary, very well done 😍
Very cool animation!!! SS American star had a hard way ,but finally the liner has found a piece.
As sad as it is i could watch these videos all day .well done they are very good.
Crazy how it only took 20 years for this ship to get completely destroyed vs the Titanic that is still recognizable (and intact considering) after over 110 years. Shows how destructive the ocean surface can be.
And then there’s the Vasa. Anaerobic sea floor mud is a hell of a preservative.
if the batleship new jersey youtube channel taught me anything it's that the wind/water line is the most corrosive place on the sea
What is the most destructive to the ship is the constant cycles of water and no water. Thats why the decks right above the waterline erroded away much faster. Each wave submerges the hull around the waterline and the exposed it back to the air.
The shore also gets much more turbulent waters than the deep sea. The deep sea is a pretty constant environment. While there are underwater currents, that deep they are fairly slow and also dont really change direction.
This is also why the keel of this ship remains: it barely ever gets exposed to the air, so it remains constantly submerged, and it is a much less turbulent environment already just a few feets below the waterline. The waves dont slam down on it as much
Its so sad to see a beautiful ship named as SS American star get abandoned and let there to rot...
So much care and research gone into this. Awesome work. Really sad. But better than the breakers torch.
Mother Nature’s elements are a relentless and brutal instrument, and this incredible documentary has truly demonstrated how her ability to use time and tide as a way of consuming everything and anything that falls into her trap. Great work from HFB Marine for this sombre and moving story, and bringing it to life in such a dramatic way.
Amazing rendering, detail, and information! Thank you!
I’ve been waiting for this, did not disappoint.
7:30 this part is interesting. I wonder if the stern went down all at once during a single storm, because real pictures show it either there or completely destroyed with no gradual collapse visible in between 1996 and 1997.
I think it was a few but nobody cared enough to photograph it which is a bummer.
Yeah I'd love to find a photo from that period, it's like you one minute the stern is there next its just gone. The collapse must've been very sudden.
@@HFBmarine Can you do a video about the SS Atlantus at Cape May?
@Ashtondaboi918 I doubt nobody cared more than likely no one wanted to risk damaging there camera during a storm
@@starkillerdude1914 Probably.
Beautiful animation. It shows that eventually, nature takes everything back.
Super well put together video, made me sad seeing this beauty of a ship slowly be brutally lost to the sea :(
Yes certainly a great and informative video, I have a special interest in the ship because I live on Fuerteventura and first visited her in 2001 and did indeed take many pictures of her, by this time the stern was already submerged, but the site of the bow rising out of the water was truly awesome. The waters on the west coast are treacherous and swimming is not advised, but local youths in the 1990’s couldn’t resist the temptation of getting to the ship and sadly people did lose their life’s. In the capital of Fuerteventura, Puerte del Rosario there is a bar which the walls are clad with timber paneling of the ship, sadly the bar didn’t survive COVID times and I never did visit the bar before its closure.The last time I visited the site was almost 5 years ago, it was low tide but still she was completely submerged.
The tugboat Neftegaz-67, which was towing the American Star ship, sank near Hong Kong after a collision with a cargo ship on March 22, 2008, killing 18 people.
Many thanks for all your efforts in making this video. Brought back memories for me as my family sailed on her from Southampton to Auckland, New Zealand in early 1974. I was 11 at the time and it was a big adventure. Interestingly our first port of call after leaving England was the Canary Islands, funny to think that it would become her final resting place only 20 years later. A sad end to a great ship.
From 2D to 3D. Amazing video yet again!
This was incredible! Keep up the great work!!
This is a beautifuly made video, brilliant!
I love your editing style and it’s really amazing
What a remarkably well researched and produced video. Great job. The America was a fascinating ship with a long career and a tragic and captivating demise. I've seen photographs from inside the hulk after she beached and split taken by adventurous explorers who ventured out to her wreck and captured images of themselves lounging in her shattered public rooms with the desolate beach just yards away. The whole idea is like a thrilling post-apocalyptic fantasy...
What a splendid piece of work to create this sad record of the end of a lovely ship! Thank you!
You have got to do SS America’s sister ship the SS United States next after all it still holds the blue ribbon to this day and you should make the timeline of it rusting and sitting there unattended as I believe you could do it considering how amazing this video was.
Fantastic work here. Very impressive.
The simulated pictures are do good, never seen anything realistic like that on documentaries
Fantastic video, compelling to watch. The strength of the sea is incredible but what a sad loss the United States is, such a stunning and amazing ship. I would have thought the Americans would have never let that happen to such a historic and iconic liner. I remember often seeing her leaving Southampton from the garden of my nans in West Cowes on the Isle of Wight when I was a child.
VERY WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your effort truly shows!
I’m watching this amazing video via Starlink on the beach of the grounding in Fuerteventura, only a tiny part of the ship was visible at low tide as you specified, thanks! ❤
Amazing video man, love this! The s s american star has always held a place in my heart.
Nice to see this, i lived on Fuerteventura an visited the ship many times, I knew a little bit about the history but this was quite interesting, thank you. Btw, in Puerto Rosario you would find bar's decorated with interior pieces of the ship that locals took from it.
As a 3D artist, nice work! Such an effort, and I love that you do this with passion an such indepth research! I remember seeing pictures of this wreck in the midd 2000's, but she was already gone by then. Crazy how fast it went!
Ps i don't know if you take suggestions, but I would LOVE to see something like this about the wreck of the Murmansk battlecruiser off the coast of Sørvær in Norway. It was a similar, very photogenic wreck that's now gone. Especially the removal operation of it was very interesting.
An incredible video
A bittersweet viewing experience 😢
Wow, great job! Excellent animations and walk through the timeline of her breaking up.
Thank you for putting in the work and it was sad to see such a nice ship like that go to waste what a shame 😔👍🍻
Nice video 👍. The deterioration reminds me of a shipwreck I played on and fished from 50+ yrs ago. USS Corry. Not much left of her today. Thanks for the video. Well done.
I remember seeing the wreck when i was a child on Fuerteventura in 1997/98. We made a bus tour on the island and the guide noted we should have a look to the coast where the ship was
Excellent work.
Very compelling.
What an amazing video, Henry! I didn't know a lot of information that you gave us here! As always great job!
Hola. Soy aficionado a los barcos. Sobre todo barcos hundidos o abandonados. Me encanta tu canal. Sigue así. Enhorabuena. Un abrazo
Excellent animation of this great shipwreck, I really like the details it has and the information you gave it, keep up the good work! 💪🏻
I really enjoyed this! Well done
Beautifully done. Thank you.
Excellent graphics
Incredible detail, exemplary research. This is so well done.
Beautiful video, I've always been curious as to how quickly the ship began to deteriorate, I never realised how quick it was! Incredible video.
Great work,you should be proud of yourself. Thanks for posting.
Incredible, outstanding piece of work! Impressive and a joy to watch & learn.
I was driving with some friends along a mountain road in Fuerteventura sometime in 1997, and I noticed something in the distance, where the land meets the sea. I remember remarking to the others in the car "I'm bloody sure I've just seen half a ship over there!' As the road was very bendy it kept going in and out of view, until we stopped at a good vantage point and managed to look down and behold exactly HALF A SHIP - the image you see in the video at 7:34.
I have a photo buried somewhere in the archives.
Truly a breath-taking sight it was, but I have been back since and it's all gone, eaten by the fishes and crabs.
It’s stories like these that makes me really want to preserve my classic car I have, it’a under a cover for the winter but it’s still protecting a very rusty piece of junk, so seeing stuff rust like this ship really makes me think of that and remember to take care of it
This is testament to the brutality of that coastline. Amazing!
If only she arrived at her intended destination...
Probably would have either been destroyed by the 2004 tsunami or scrapped at a later date, unfortunately.
Fate can be so unfair at times but of well.
She'd be a floating hulk of a prison or hotel
Congratulations! That is a stunning piece of work. 5*
Magnificent work!
In Romania there is a shipwreck of MV E Evangelia, which ran aground near the town of Costinesti. This happened in 1968 and the wreck is still standing.
Excellent and very informative. Realistic too.
this is my favorte ocean liner due to her story, amazing work
beautiful made
Awesome work. Really sad end to a lovely ship, though there was something humbling about the way she went.
This is incredibly well done, thank you for sharing. And sadly, it appears another example-perhaps the last remaining-of Mr. Gibbs' beautifully designed ships is about to suffer a similar fate, albeit intentional this time.
Amazing video!
I was not expecting this to make me feel so sad!
07:53 she looked beautiful
Wow! Great video, and great animation!
11:19 was what I saw when I first went in 2016 and last went earlier this year.
I remember visiting the beach when the bow and stern hadn’t long split apart. I hired a Nissan micra and drove up a sand track. I only found out later that it was a military training area. Apparently a few people had died swimming into the the hull and getting stuck in the wreck. I’ve seen footage on YT of the ship in its hay day with passengers enjoying themselves in all its original splendour.
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The last few minutes of this video highlight how nature reclaims what was once her resources.
Very well done. Thank you.
My Family would visit relatives in the Orkneys, where there are ships that were used to block the channels between the islands to stop U-boats in WW1. In WW2 they built concrete causeways, but the ships were left there. Over the last 50 years, the area to the east of the causeways began fill in with sand, and then grass started to grow. Today the ships that were out to sea are now land-locked, with sheep grazing around them.
thanks for this!
real nice Work
Finally a ss America timeline!
Ah yes, finally.
I live on the canary Islands , At the moment I’m on La Palma. And I’ve seen this ship and various moments in time. We swam out to it in 2001. , but we turned back when we got close to it. The way were too crazy and it looked so dangerous from up close. Lots of houses in shops nearby have sinks and doors and everything else from ship.
What a great video!
Great video. Very well made :)
Fascinating!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the power of the sea is immense, she always wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very well done , great video
Nice. Enjoyed that.
My great great grandad said he was on SS America and it truly breaks his heart when he found out it was turned once turned into a thriving ship but now it is just a ghost ship.
my favorite liner, but this was the best fate she had, otherwise she would have been destroyed in the tsunami's that hit Phucket
Great video
Simply amazing.
Very impressive graphics. Can't understand taking the ship into the Atlantic in December.