I lived in Holland in 1996/7 and how these people could do with water,what they needed to accomplish/to complete whatever they needed, never ceased to astound me....and they live below sea level, thanks to their own ingenuity!👍
This mini sub now rests at it’s final place in a museum. Bunkermuseum in IJmuiden. They rescued the mini sub from the because it was going to scraped etc. They even had contact with the former captain and have quite a lot of info about this mini sub.
Ive learned much from my bro-in-law a retired EOD Specialist...who has trained with all EOD people of other countries years ago involved with NATO. These guys in this clip are "guttsy" . Im told they train, train, train and learn...to avoid getting hurt. Hats off to such a gifted bunch who help protect us all.!!!
These mini subs sinking 100,000 tons of shipping in the latter years of the war is astounding. That’s a lot of tonnage given the times and the small size of the mini submarines. A very interesting video, thank you.
thank you very much for uploading the video with so many detailes of the recvovery!. i am very sure, that i had been smimming and walking there several times in the 80ies and early nienties at holiday with my parents. memories to eastern vaccation now.
To those who ask "Why didn't they just blow the torpedo’s in place and save all the money ?" The answer is it would have spread all the other recoverable pollutants all over the place and cleaned up nothing. That is the lead from the internal batteries, the copper and brass from the wardhead casing which after 70 odd years 'still shined'. The wiring, other brass fittings, oil from the engine, alloys and so the list goes on, all would have been spread far and wide, and not cleaned away.
@@philiphorner31 pissant question. Oil also comes from the ground. You want me to spread a 55 gal drum of used oil all over your living space???? Same with lead, especially lead oxide that is found in acid filled batteries. Now do you get the message??
yeah, must be made for jobs like these. but the human psyche has normally a protective "device". the more time you spend at a danergerous situation(explosives, fire, speed, on a roof or at clibing, parachuting ...) the more you loose the fear in it. only respect and carefulnes remains (if the people were clever and not addicted in adrenalin)...but a little tiny risk still remains, as seen in göttingen in 2013 as 3 very experienced war material removers were killed while prepreparings for a dismantling of a 500kg bomb with an acidic detonator..
17:00 That's a masive plume of water! I lived in Saint-Nazaire, and we regularily got EOD teams at work in town and at the beach because of all the german activities and allied bombing during ww2.
This type of work, which I thought was called “cofferdam” (an enclosure built within a body of water to allow the enclosed area to be pumped out) seems so complicated. Yet, it has been used for centuries. Good work. Music background? … well, it ain’t that bad.
WOW what a Nice recovery and very Professionally Removed!! Top of the Line Recovery by WEISMULLER SALVAGE and everybody was SAFE !! WEISMULLER SALVAGE UR THE BEST !!
It's like watching American NTSC footage in NZ (converted to PAL).. that appears to drop a frame every 15 or so (a couple a second) just enough to make action look oh so frustrating. Luckily Movies at the time were obviously better quality but I still see it sometimes even on SKY digital... (I found an excellent app for android and made an NZ Sky remote that I put in my channel but I don't know if anyone has (or can) try it..
+Glen Collins -- The Dutch salvage firm Mammoet recovered the sunken Russian submarine Kursk, so perhaps they don't recover submarines every day, but surprisingly often.
Speaking of blowing things up, I can't imagine why they don't attempt to safely detonate the torpedoes, and if that fails, they can perhaps work more quickly and at much less risk and expense to salvage or just get rid of the danger. It's only sand, why so much care taken?
If I were Danish, I would have to ask why? I think drill holes around the sub, put in a few tons of TNT, get everyone out of there, and just blow up the sub and the torpedoes into smaller pieces. Cost? A lot less than what was spent.
Excellent video, thank you very much. Too bad the sub was in such bad shape, hopefully something can be done to it to make it look like a sub again. JT
Build a coffer dam and dredge out the sand and remove the heavily corroded mini submarine and the torpedoes which were heavily corroded. It would have been more fun to implace some explosives and blown it and the torpedoes up insitu and then allow the sea to fill in the hole with sand. A rusty bit of metal in a museum which has limited appeal considering most of the German minisubmarines were scrapped or sunk in deep water at wars end.
The sailors who were inside did a clever job beaching it and so saving numerous lives and theirs!!!!!We all can be proud of them nomatter what nationality we are.
I wonder who is the legal owner of the sub. I doubt it was donated by the Germans except perhaps the torpedoes were meant as gifts. Why was it not removed ages ago? It would have made a nifty and unusual family cruiser, with some mods, of course.
Can you tell me what the final cost of this operation was ? Oh BTW, the propellors from the torpedoes -They were no where to be found, correct me if I am wrong. Bedankt
it seem like a long approach to a short problem. . it's out in the open, nothing around. why not set charges and blow the tubes right there. thats the way they do world wide to get rid of explosives found. oh well it's done.
there is a village right behind the dunes you see in the video, it woul have broken a lot off windows! 500 kgm off high explosives going off is no joke...
What a weird little submarine. I think they did a great job. I know nothing of torpedos or submarines so I bow to their knowledge on the subject. Does Seehund translate out to SeaDog? Per comments below yes it's true that Americans don't have the same experiences with the many munitions that were placed around Europe during many wars. We get cannonballs that are still active or every now and then an unexploded torpedo or bomb. Worse over there. Great job! From Phoenix.
Yes, Seehund literaly translates to sea dog and it's the German name for seal. And we really have tons of explosives still waiting to be discovered. Almost every year they find a dud or two at construction sights and there are even more mines, torpedoes, bombs but also artillery shells and grenades that simply didn't blow up during the war or were cheaply disposed.
I'm sure glad for the zodiac Caption that there was no unusual shocks or vibrations as he was delivering the torpedo warheads out out to the ship that was taking the warhead out to sea for detonation.
The submarine is just one of the tens of thousands of tons of unexploded munitions in the Netherlands. There has been a clean-up effort ongoing since the end of WW2 and they are STILL busy. The submarine was stable and away from a populated area. The chance of anyone getting hurt was extremely low and the cost of removal was fairly high.
I'm not so sure it's that easy to cause a torpedo to detonate, especially after being UNDER a beach for decades. But then, it's German ordinance, I don't know what type of detonator it used and the only expert I know on the subject died in a stupid auto accident 50 years after the war was over. Unbelievable that he survived so much in WW2 and died because some young, drunken fool wanted his side of the road too.
Arthur Bradley - They were worried about the heavy metals in the batteries and toxicity of other components. They said so in the video. There are usually reasons......
I lived in Holland in 1996/7 and how these people could do with water,what they needed to accomplish/to complete whatever they needed, never ceased to astound me....and they live below sea level, thanks to their own ingenuity!👍
This mini sub now rests at it’s final place in a museum. Bunkermuseum in IJmuiden. They rescued the mini sub from the because it was going to scraped etc. They even had contact with the former captain and have quite a lot of info about this mini sub.
Ive learned much from my bro-in-law a retired EOD Specialist...who has trained with all EOD people of other countries years ago involved with NATO. These guys in this clip are "guttsy" . Im told they train, train, train and learn...to avoid getting hurt. Hats off to such a gifted bunch who help protect us all.!!!
These mini subs sinking 100,000 tons of shipping in the latter years of the war is astounding. That’s a lot of tonnage given the times and the small size of the mini submarines. A very interesting video, thank you.
thank you very much for uploading the video with so many detailes of the recvovery!. i am very sure, that i had been smimming and walking there several times in the 80ies and early nienties at holiday with my parents. memories to eastern vaccation now.
The Seehund was a 2 man mini submarine. The crew sat behind each other in canvas chairs. It carried two torpedoes externally
Nice video and explanation on why it was done this way. Glad everyone was safe.
To those who ask "Why didn't they just blow the torpedo’s in place and save all the money ?" The answer is it would have spread all the other recoverable pollutants all over the place and cleaned up nothing. That is the lead from the internal batteries, the copper and brass from the wardhead casing which after 70 odd years 'still shined'. The wiring, other brass fittings, oil from the engine, alloys and so the list goes on, all would have been spread far and wide, and not cleaned away.
Not if covered with blast pads.
The true reason is they have unlimited budget paid from Germany
Yes lead does not come from the earth.
Greta said not to
@@philiphorner31 pissant question. Oil also comes from the ground. You want me to spread a 55 gal drum of used oil all over your living space???? Same with lead, especially lead oxide that is found in acid filled batteries. Now do you get the message??
History continues seventy years later!!! Great video!!!
@Bill Williams You say that like the "world'" had nothing do do with it.
The contractors having plenty of experience in moving sand, is an understatement for the Dutch.
These men are amazing with their most danger work environment wow what courage these men have.
Nerves of steel working so close to those torpedoes , you would find me one mile down from those things!
yeah, must be made for jobs like these.
but the human psyche has normally a protective "device". the more time you spend at a danergerous situation(explosives, fire, speed, on a roof or at clibing, parachuting ...) the more you loose the fear in it. only respect and carefulnes remains (if the people were clever and not addicted in adrenalin)...but a little tiny risk still remains, as seen in göttingen in 2013 as 3 very experienced war material removers were killed while prepreparings for a dismantling of a 500kg bomb with an acidic detonator..
Man! Those torpedos still had alot of kick left in them! Good thing they had pros handle them.
I really like these salvage videos from Svitzer - are there any plans to make some newer ones of more recent work done? Thanks!
The British Royal Navy museum has a nice working example of a German Bieber mini submarine .
Look up the episode of Salvage Squad on here.
Was this one a Bieber? Does not seem to be a Seehund.
17:00 That's a masive plume of water! I lived in Saint-Nazaire, and we regularily got EOD teams at work in town and at the beach because of all the german activities and allied bombing during ww2.
Really, And what was the size of the triggering charge?
And people are complaining about fishes dying....Where do they think they can explode these on land safely?
My grandfather Commander Tom Boyd took part in the St Nazaire raid and won the DSO.
This type of work, which I thought was called “cofferdam” (an enclosure built within a body of water to allow the enclosed area to be pumped out) seems so complicated. Yet, it has been used for centuries. Good work. Music background? … well, it ain’t that bad.
Interesting, I did not even know about this type of German U boat.
....and the CSS Hunley which sank in 1864, is in far better shape, while it's being restored in a museum in Charleston, South Carolina.
Six years ago, any updates?
The remains are on display at the Bunker Museum Ijmuiden (NL) bunkermuseum.nl/expo-atlantic-wall-2/
I was there in that pit next to the Seehund to do a inviromental survey of the seefloor,very nice to find this video after al these years
Eine wirklich gute und informative Dokumentation. Sowas bekommt man im deutschen Fernsehen leider nicht zu sehen.
guck mal richtig ...;)
Should of restored it for history
WOW what a Nice recovery and very Professionally Removed!! Top of the Line Recovery by WEISMULLER SALVAGE and everybody was SAFE !! WEISMULLER SALVAGE UR THE BEST !!
Amazing that those live torpedoes sat there for so long ready to blow. Lucky nothing triggered them with a beach full of people....
Oh my dear lord thank god no one was hurt ! A great job ! A privilege to see this excavation! How dangerous,
I know it's part of history, but there is nothing left!
One guy with a fucking excavator and a 3 man blasting crew would have got that done for so many millions of dollars less..
Dutch engineering is just amazing.
The lag in the camera footage is so choppy, they need a faster speed SD card :P
It's like watching American NTSC footage in NZ (converted to PAL).. that appears to drop a frame every 15 or so (a couple a second) just enough to make action look oh so frustrating.
Luckily Movies at the time were obviously better quality but I still see it sometimes even on SKY digital... (I found an excellent app for android and made an NZ Sky remote that I put in my channel but I don't know if anyone has (or can) try it..
A lot of their videos are like that. May be a conversion issue as mentioned.
Why are These SVITZER vides always so jerky? The audio is smooth, but not the video?
i like when the one guy says "everytime we do this there's something special" like they recover submarines everyday.
+Glen Collins -- The Dutch salvage firm Mammoet recovered the sunken Russian submarine Kursk, so perhaps they don't recover submarines every day, but surprisingly often.
+Kevin Byrne ok
They kinda do. They are professional salvers.
Speaking of blowing things up, I can't imagine why they don't attempt to safely detonate the torpedoes, and if that fails, they can perhaps work more quickly and at much less risk and expense to salvage or just get rid of the danger. It's only sand, why so much care taken?
does seem like a major project for what is being done
True, but worth it if it cleans of the explosives from your swimming/living area by time :)
Absolutely, Sam. One has to admire the skills and efficiency of the Dutch salvors. Real pros
@Dragomir Ronilac What's your solution? Let kids find it after a storm and blow up?
So drlling offshore creates greater shock waves than the surf zone during a storm?
if you see the welding at 4.50 you know why it collapsed
So. how much of that explosion was actual torpedo and how much of it was the charge used to set it off ?
No mention of what the cost of the operation was with men, materials and equipment - what ever it was - it wasn't cheap!
About €1.000.000 at that time.
If I were Danish, I would have to ask why? I think drill holes around the sub, put in a few tons of TNT, get everyone out of there, and just blow up the sub and the torpedoes into smaller pieces. Cost? A lot less than what was spent.
Why Danish?
Deaf too?
That was one heck of a bang at around 17 minutes in.
Who encoded this? My eyes hurt.
Okay, but the videos is giving me a nervous tick.
Imagine when Truk lagoon finally goes off.....
I miss my VHS PLAYER
Did they send the disposal bill to Germany?
Quit smoking grass, dude...
Pretty good charge for an old bomb.
Wow ! Still deadly after all these years....
Fancy leaving it there all those years!
No
Funny what beautiful things are possible with stop motion filming. This Lego movie looks so real it's amazing.
Excellent video, thank you very much. Too bad the sub was in such bad shape, hopefully something can be done to it to make it look like a sub again. JT
excellent , interesting video. Thank you.
They where still live ! That explosion 💥 was huge!
Yeah but that was only a tiny section of the explosive force those torpedoes can unleash.
WIJSMULLER? Is that the same tug/salvage company which produced TOM WYSMULLER, the late former NASA meteorologist?
Hard to imagine that 2 men were in this mini sub.. They have to be nuts to do want to sail in that..
Build a coffer dam and dredge out the sand and remove the heavily corroded mini submarine and the torpedoes which were heavily corroded. It would have been more fun to implace some explosives and blown it and the torpedoes up insitu and then allow the sea to fill in the hole with sand. A rusty bit of metal in a museum which has limited appeal considering most of the German minisubmarines were scrapped or sunk in deep water at wars end.
Great video, thanks for recording such event. History is important
Awesome video. I enjoyed it. Thank you.
no minisubs where hurt in the recording of this documentary.
my eyes are burning from the corrupt framerate of the video
Was the Seehund preserved and restored to static display condition?
Its a pretty deteriorated and rusty bit of mangled metal.
The sailors who were inside did a clever job beaching it and so saving numerous lives and theirs!!!!!We all can be proud of them nomatter what nationality we are.
why risk it by taking on board ship/ why not blow it up in the dingey.
how many fish were stunned?
Sure the marine life was well happy about the 20m depth
Framerate? Which framerate?
Absolutely incredible job. I wonder how much it cost.
Around €1.000.000 at that time
@@Gremriel - And where did that money come from...?
@@pedrolistacarey4880 The recovery was ordered by the navy (because of the torpedos).
@@Gremriel - So, according to your answer, I grab it that the money came from the Navy's budget.
Never underestimate the power of Mother Nature.
Seehund is the nickname of type of sub it was, the XXVII midget sub. the one they are digging up is the u-5095.
I wonder who is the legal owner of the sub. I doubt it was donated by the Germans except perhaps the torpedoes were meant as gifts. Why was it not removed ages ago? It would have made a nifty and unusual family cruiser, with some mods, of course.
It wasn't removed ages ago, because nobody knew it was there. A fierce storm resulted in the remains becoming visible.
Great video. It's a shame it was in such bad shape. It looked worse off than the Hunley when it was recovered.
Actually the Hunley was in great shape considering the time buried.
Good lesson on how government wastes money...
Can you tell me what the final cost of this operation was ? Oh BTW, the propellors from the torpedoes -They were no where to be found, correct me if I am wrong. Bedankt
Of course not, someone sold it to a foundry right after the craft was beached.
they where stil on the remains after the "salvage". (in fact y have seen them just 2 days after the recovery.)
@Dragomir Ronilac Great answer. You should be a politician.
it seem like a long approach to a short problem. . it's out in the open, nothing around. why not set charges and blow the tubes right there. thats the way they do world wide to get rid of explosives found. oh well it's done.
there is a village right behind the dunes you see in the video, it woul have broken a lot off windows! 500 kgm off high explosives going off is no joke...
Thank goodness for the experts commenting, where would we be without them?
How much $$$$ did this project cost
Very cool explosion of the warheads,
Good job guys
What a weird little submarine. I think they did a great job. I know nothing of torpedos or submarines so I bow to their knowledge on the subject. Does Seehund translate out to SeaDog? Per comments below yes it's true that Americans don't have the same experiences with the many munitions that were placed around Europe during many wars. We get cannonballs that are still active or every now and then an unexploded torpedo or bomb. Worse over there. Great job! From Phoenix.
Yes, Seehund literaly translates to sea dog and it's the German name for seal.
And we really have tons of explosives still waiting to be discovered.
Almost every year they find a dud or two at construction sights and there are even more mines, torpedoes, bombs but also artillery shells and grenades that simply didn't blow up during the war or were cheaply disposed.
No mention of the souls on board?
Great great job with getting rid of the torpedos
I would like to see this on a non Big Tech platform.
Please.
I thought the documentary was interesting. The video quality far as the lag or choppiness really hindered watching the video. Made me a bit nauseous.
Mensch, da habe ich immer Urlaub gemacht!
I'm sure glad for the zodiac Caption that there was no unusual shocks or vibrations as he was delivering the torpedo warheads out out to the ship that was taking the warhead out to sea for detonation.
Holland just let it sit on the beach for 50 years with live torpedoes under it????
The submarine is just one of the tens of thousands of tons of unexploded munitions in the Netherlands. There has been a clean-up effort ongoing since the end of WW2 and they are STILL busy. The submarine was stable and away from a populated area. The chance of anyone getting hurt was extremely low and the cost of removal was fairly high.
and they could have spent the money on making new weapons?
roderick fysh
Why would they do that?
I'm not so sure it's that easy to cause a torpedo to detonate, especially after being UNDER a beach for decades. But then, it's German ordinance, I don't know what type of detonator it used and the only expert I know on the subject died in a stupid auto accident 50 years after the war was over. Unbelievable that he survived so much in WW2 and died because some young, drunken fool wanted his side of the road too.
just in case.
I would have tried to detonate those torpedos!! They did the job right. I am in too much of a rush.
They DID detonate the torpedoes.......
awesome video
Did das boat end up being displayed/preserved?
facebook.com/bunkermuseumijm/photos/a.1542860612593987/2045394409007269/?type=3&theater
Interesting but hard to watch because of the wind up potato it was filmed with. Not a very good stop motion film in my opinion.
"The notorious west coast of Holland". As opposed to the east coast you mean?
Increible rescate.
Why would a land mine or shell cases be around the sub?
Because vast areas of beaches in Western Europe were mined in preperation for the Allied invasion.
Wow! The fish paid the final price for the egos of men.
'The elements take no prisoners' - unlike the Germans
How much sea life was lost due to the detonations?
fewer than the Batteries and Tropedos would kill if there left it there
What about the MILLIONS of explosions of torpedoes and depth charges thrown all over the oceans during the 6 years of WW2...?
It's been over four years how's the restoration of the sub coming along or cleaning
i wonder if the germans want it back
how many fish were killed?
We really dont need the 'music'
You cover with blasting mats. Safe. Very unstable to move. Plus the salvage costs. Not much left for a museum.
Arthur Bradley - They were worried about the heavy metals in the batteries and toxicity of other components. They said so in the video. There are usually reasons......
That's a pretty nice explosion.