THE 'SEEHUND' RECOVERY
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- Опубліковано 18 бер 2014
- Towards the end of World War II, a German two-man submarine of the Seehund Seal Class with two live torpedoes grounded on the Dutch coast near Egmond aan Zee. The sea and the sand did their work and it dissapeared from sight, subsequently to be completely forgotten until a classic North Sea winter storm partly exposed the hull. The Dutch Navy ordered recovery of the sub so the torpedos could be safely disarmed.
April 2002, complying with strict regulations, SVITZER Salvage and partner Woud Wormer sank a cofferdam around the still partly sunken sub. Carefully sand was removed and even more careful handling exposed the torpedoes which were disarmed by specialists.
Despite the submarine had broken, it is hoped nonetheless that it will find a place in a local museum to serve as a reminder of past time.
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.
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!👍
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.!!!
Nice video and explanation on why it was done this way. Glad everyone was safe.
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
History continues seventy years later!!! Great video!!!
@Bill Williams You say that like the "world'" had nothing do do with it.
Great video, thanks for recording such event. History is important
The contractors having plenty of experience in moving sand, is an understatement for the Dutch.
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??
Man! Those torpedos still had alot of kick left in them! Good thing they had pros handle them.
Awesome video. I enjoyed it. Thank you.
These men are amazing with their most danger work environment wow what courage these men have.
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
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..
excellent , interesting video. Thank you.
Interesting, I did not even know about this type of German U boat.
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.
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.
That was one heck of a bang at around 17 minutes in.
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.
Funny what beautiful things are possible with stop motion filming. This Lego movie looks so real it's amazing.
Amazing that those live torpedoes sat there for so long ready to blow. Lucky nothing triggered them with a beach full of people....
I know it's part of history, but there is nothing left!
awesome video
Eine wirklich gute und informative Dokumentation. Sowas bekommt man im deutschen Fernsehen leider nicht zu sehen.
guck mal richtig ...;)
no minisubs where hurt in the recording of this documentary.
Imagine when Truk lagoon finally goes off.....
Oh my dear lord thank god no one was hurt ! A great job ! A privilege to see this excavation! How dangerous,
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
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?
if you see the welding at 4.50 you know why it collapsed
Wow ! Still deadly after all these years....
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?
....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.
Fancy leaving it there all those years!
No
Why are These SVITZER vides always so jerky? The audio is smooth, but not the video?
Hard to imagine that 2 men were in this mini sub.. They have to be nuts to do want to sail in that..
So. how much of that explosion was actual torpedo and how much of it was the charge used to set it off ?
They where still live ! That explosion 💥 was huge!
Yeah but that was only a tiny section of the explosive force those torpedoes can unleash.
So drlling offshore creates greater shock waves than the surf zone during a storm?
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.
Framerate? Which framerate?
It's been over four years how's the restoration of the sub coming along or cleaning
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.
Increible rescate.
Mensch, da habe ich immer Urlaub gemacht!
Great great job with getting rid of the torpedos
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.
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 !!
Was the Seehund preserved and restored to static display condition?
Its a pretty deteriorated and rusty bit of mangled metal.
Dutch engineering is just amazing.
Did das boat end up being displayed/preserved?
facebook.com/bunkermuseumijm/photos/a.1542860612593987/2045394409007269/?type=3&theater
Good job guys
I miss my VHS PLAYER
Pretty good charge for an old bomb.
nice job
Who encoded this? My eyes hurt.
Six years ago, any updates?
The remains are on display at the Bunker Museum Ijmuiden (NL) bunkermuseum.nl/expo-atlantic-wall-2/
Very cool explosion of the warheads,
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.
Okay, but the videos is giving me a nervous tick.
my eyes are burning from the corrupt framerate of the video
why risk it by taking on board ship/ why not blow it up in the dingey.
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?
Never underestimate the power of Mother Nature.
Should of restored it for history
this will make for some nice work for archeology students
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.
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.
Seehund is the nickname of type of sub it was, the XXVII midget sub. the one they are digging up is the u-5095.
how many fish were killed?
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.
It won't start?
Good lesson on how government wastes money...
I will leave this stuff to those that know.
I wanted to see how they took the screws off the detonator.
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.
Sure the marine life was well happy about the 20m depth
Finally, our brothers in Europa have realized there is life after wearing banana hammock for swim wear! 😂
I would like to see this on a non Big Tech platform.
Please.
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.
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......
WIJSMULLER? Is that the same tug/salvage company which produced TOM WYSMULLER, the late former NASA meteorologist?
Damn i was gonna open a t shirt shop on the boardwalk!
How much $$$$ did this project cost
I do love the fact the reason they did this was because they "were afraid off shore drilling causing tremors" (unproven by the way) but all that heavy equipment and supplies moving around the beach and then driving all those sheet piles were not going to set them off?
And the sub could only be reached during a low tide with a easterly wind in a unpopulated area. so even if they did go off it most likely would have been under feet of water and them more feet of sand. Should have just left them
Last, they transfer the ready to go off warheads from the zodiac to the ship while they both were underway at a good speed. Did they need the extra challenge or were they not worried about it going off if it banged into the ship?
nope, they where inpact detonators, still really stable afte all that time under water/sand.
drilling for oil doesn't cause the tremors it's the removal of oil or gas that does. therefor working around it with heavy machines is not the issue. Tremors like the province of Groningen has from time to time due to gas extraction with tremors in excess of 3.0 on the Richter scale could in a worst-case scenario.
Thats really a wreck
Weismoller job?
I would have expected RDX to expire after seven decades particularly under water but I guess they didn't want to risk the contrary to be true.
That's a pretty nice explosion.
Great job no one hurt
Just my eyes.
in 1950 no one lost any sleep over this stuff. when i was 7 yrs old we entered old mines that had dynamite and blasting caps far in the furthest reaches of the mine. In those days we 2n
a shame, so long was waited...
Almost like the coffee dam built at pearl Harbor after Dec 7th
Coffer
No mention of the souls on board?
how many fish were stunned?
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.
Did it find a place in a museum where it´s possible to see it when wisiting?
I want to see it, if so.
I saw it ending up for scrap some years ago. It was just to far gone..
I have pictures of it, dumped in a container to go to the smelter....
In Germany there are several in excellent conditions.
It is in the "Bunkermuseum" in IJmuiden.