The most horrifying political disaster within the last 6 years = Don the Con Trump! Twice impeached Trump was the worst US president in history for many reasons. #1) Trump committed an act of treason against the US by inciting a violent insurrection on January 6, 2021. #2) Trump’s incompetence regarding his management of the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic between January 2020 and July of 2020. Thousands of US citizens died as a result Trump’s failure. If Trump had a proper immediate response to the pandemic the way that the South Korean government did, then thousands of US citizens who died would still be alive today. #3) In April of 2019 Trump vetoed the resolution to end US military support of Saudi Arabia's GENOCIDE of thousands of innocent civilians in Yemen! Trump was using the US military to support GENOCIDE in Yemen! #4) Trump violated the Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution for his entire 4 years in office, then in 2019 Trump verbally mocked the US Constitution. The foundation of the USA is the US Constitution, that is why the presidential inaugural oath includes to swear to protect and defend the US Constitution. In January 2017 Trump publicly swore an oath on a bible at his inauguration ceremony to protect and defend the US Constitution. In 2019 Trump mocked the US Constitution by publicly saying the words "phony emoluments clause". #5) Trump misogynistically and adulterously said of women: "Grab them by the pussy."! Trump committed adultery with Stormy Daniels and then tried to cover it up. Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in prison for crimes related to Trump's cover-up of his adulterous scandal with Stormy Daniels. Most Republicans claim to be the moral party and/or the majority Christian party, but hypocritically enthusiastically want to give an adulterous Donald Trump, another 4 years in office. If a US president who was a member of the Democratic Party did the terrible things Trump has, of course, the Republican Party leaders would be screaming for his removal from office. #6) Trump committed the crime of obstruction of justice. #7) Trump committed crimes of trying to tamper with elections, especially in Georgia. #8) Trump's attempted abuse of power regarding Ukraine. #9) Trump committed tax fraud in New York State, which is partly why Trump hides his tax returns. #10) Trump practiced corrupt nepotism as he appointed unqualified members of his family into positions of power in the executive branch of government. #11) Trump illegally destroyed documents and illegally took documents with him after he left the office of president. There are many other horrible things about Trump. Here are some of them: Donald Trump is a dumb corrupt businessman which is why he hides his tax returns. Donald Trump is not a self-made man, he benefited from nepotism. His daddy Fred Trump gave him millions of dollars to start businesses many of which have failed! Donald Trump's failed businesses are many but include: Trump Airlines, a Trump Casino, and Trump University. With his failed Trump University, he defrauded hundreds of students. In Trump's many construction projects he failed to pay some of his contractors. Trump committed fraud with his non-profit in New York State which is why Trump recently transferred his residence to Florida. Donald Trump is too stupid to write his own book which why he hired a ghost writer to write "The Art of the Deal". When Trump was in high school, he hired another boy to take his SAT college entrance exam. Trump claims that he is smart, but he refuses to show us his college transcripts. Donald Trump's daddy bribed a physician to write that Donald Trump had bone spurs and therefore could dodge the Vietnam War draft. Donald Trump and his dad also practiced racism in who they would rent properties to in the 1960s and 1970s. That is just scratching the surface of the long list of horrible things about Donald Trump.
You speak so fast, I had to slow down the replay. You are obviously reading off of a script, but worse of all, you run on your words like one continuous sentence. You are the worse speaker I have ever encountered.
Yay, you did a video about the fishing grounds off my hometown Geraldton 😂 The stories from fellow fishermen from items they've brought up, seeing the replica boat they used to get to safety, and having a museum full of Batavia relics I feel like you missed out on images and graphics used 😭 If you do another video, pm me and I'll get you some better footage to use
The people who drowned were actually the lucky ones. This is honestly one of the most horrific shipwrecks of all time. I read a book about it written by a historian; I almost couldn’t finish it. It gave me nightmares, this was Lord of the Flies, the Rape of Nanking, and the Siege of Saint Petersburg all wrapped up in one, taking place on a tiny deserted island in one of the remote places on earth.
@@mayoite160 island of angry ghosts , the same author also wrote wreck on the half moon reef which is a remarkable story of survival where after giving up hope of rescue, the survivors chopped up the wreck and built a smaller boat to sail to Batavia.
I promise you Nanjing and St Petersberg were worse in both scale and detail. Feel free to not belittle them by claiming that this was broader in scope of horror than either of those. Nothing happened here that didn't happen in some form in St.P or Nanjing.
I would have missed it if it wasn't for the fact I read your comment before the video. 😂 Has Simon never watched Finding nemo? (P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney!)🤣
I've begun listening to Simon's narration at 3/4 speed. He speaks so quickly I fear he's in danger of 'winking out' like the Scalosians on Star Trek TOS.
This reminds me so much of some of the more terrible epidodes of "The Walking Dead", namely, those in which the greatest dangers were not the zombies but madmen in positions of authority with deranged followers. Civilization has its problems, but when it collapses it's hell on earth.
I’ve not heard of this chilling and desperately-shocking story. Another story of terrible depravity is that of the Méduse in 1810. After its loss, 400 passengers were evacuated to boats while 147 had to take refuge on an improvised raft, which proved impossible to tow. After 13 days at sea the 147 was reduced to 15.
I remember seeing the painting of that in the Louvre many years ago and being somewhat blown away by it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa
I read a book about this wreck. After x days at sea the survivors of boats or raft had to endure a sunblistering hot desert as well. For some it took longer than 13 days! It was a xtr interesting read, written with some seamen jargon to make it extra pungent. the author knew alot about what happened. the painting is only a mild reflection of what happened. i saw some footage of a 1950's or sthg movie, which was far from the reality pictured in the book "wreck of the medusa" It is also remarkable that such horrific but avoidable disasters were "forgotten in history", and still
The West Australian Maritime museum contains artifacts from the Batavia,including part of the Batavia itself,a skeleton of one of the victims(with sword cuts to the head),a stone gateway that was being transported to Batavia as well as coins and personal items. A fascinating part of Australian history.
Even at 0.75% speed he speaks too fast. Listen dude. Lay off the caffeine. Try breathing in occasionally. Don’t edit out any natural pauses in your speech. You are not impressing anyone, just making them avoid your videos. Think David Attenborough and you won’t go far wrong. Anyway, I’m switching you off for now. If you want a selling point make it effective communication. If I want a drink of water I don’t want a fire hose in my face.
@@nicholasmartin297 I thought I was the only one, although I'm proficient in English I find that he speaks incredibly fast and it's actually a distraction from what he's saying.
What you're really saying is we should bring antibiotics on our naval voyages to treat anyone with a raging case of syphilis. Or set them against the sharks?
If you mentioned that the young lady who was sexually assaulted as a pretext for the mutiny was later put on trial and accused of helping the mutineers, I missed it: sorry if you did, but this was one of the more shocking aspects of the aftermath.
English is my mother tongue and I live in the Netherlands. These pronunciations were painful. Cor-NAY-le-zon (Cornelisz) becomes Corn-a-LEEZ? And don’t get me started on how he said Gijsbert Bastiaensz. Yikes. 😂
I have actually walked on West Wallaby Island and seen the forts the 2 factions created. To think that almost 500 years ago this was the site of a pitched battle while I stood they in total silent was 'eerie'.
Peter Fitzsimons wrote a book on the Batavia mutiny and massacre! It goes into great detail about the people and actions of the survivors of the wreck and the summary justice handed out to the perpetrators of this horrendous crime! Well worth reading!
Peter "two syllables" Fitzsimmons. Have read a couple of his books and a writer he is absolute rubbish. Haven't read this one however so I won't comment upon it.
...and for those of you who caught those closing remarks about the 1770 Australian landing in Botany Bay, that was Captain James COOK and not Kirk! The fact that the fictional ship S.S. Botany Bay was a Star Trek vessel found in The Wrath of Khan movie only makes things more confusing!
I had actually randomly stumbled upon this story when i was having a random wiki rabbithole evening. Not sure what set the rabbithole off, as is usually the case, but i do remember being very surprised at the shocking way it all transpired. Crazy stuff
Oh man, I completely feel for you, as I too have had those days where you are just clicking on a seemingly innocent video only to go down a seriously messed up rabbit hole, finish watching and then click on another messed up rabbit hole of information. It is good to be finally enlightened about this though. I am from Western Australian and took my kids to the maritime museum and we read about the Batavia and the museum seriously cuts out everything, all it says is: the ship accidentally made landfall among the Abrolhos and women and children perished from starvation. Then years later I stumble on this clip and my jaw hit the floor! So much of history is kept hidden when it comes to disasters such as this!
@@platinumare Haha, yeah exactly. I think i was reading up on the VOC and our history in other continents, and when reading one wiki page, you'll come across names and events that have links, and before you know it, you have 10+ tabs to read, which on themselves also create new tabs. So i then choose to follow a specific one instead for that evening and just close them all when i either have to go to bed because it's the middle of the night, or need to eat something, an obsessive hunt for basically trivia knowledge. I mean, this has little relevance to us today, but i do agree that a lot of history is simply not being told. Here in Holland, the Batavia is a famous name though, so i assume i have learned something about it at elementary school, but i do not remember anything about mutiny and massacres. Maybe the museum was trying to keep it light, because i can imagine some parents complaining about reading a story of atricious acts when passing by a wooden ship. People could be asking why they're glorifying horrible people. I'm not saying that i agree with them, but i could understand if the museum chose for that route. Then again, you could complain to them for not telling enough, but you would probably be a smaller minority than the other complainers.
Island of Angry Ghosts (the Batavia ) and Wreck on the Half Moon Reef (Zeewyk) are two great books by Hugh Edwards who was one of the discoverers of The Batavi. Both true stories which are diametrically opposite and show both sides of the human spirit.
One of those stories that makes you feel ashamed of humanity while ensuring that you do all you can to prevent such lunatics from wielding power ever again.
In the Star Trek episode The Conscience of the King, there is a Governor Kodos who seized power after the colony's food supplies are destroyed. He kills half the colonists to 'save the other half'... arbitrarily picking who lives or who dies. Could that episode have been inspired by this story?
If you turn your screen upside down, Simon has a magnificent head of hair. I'm so glad you covered the tragic story of the Batavia. Excellent work crew. A suggestion for this channel is how the world powers came up with the Geneva Convention governing the rules of war.
You've mentioned this shipwreck before, but didn't go into the sad details of what transpired. I wonder if it was the syphilis, or a person being in power can, and sometimes will, do horrific things; or perhaps, it's a combination of the two.
I mean Hitler allegedly had syphilis too, so there might be something to the disease driving people mad. Or at the very least contributing to their madness.
If you’re interested in seeing a full-scale replica with artifacts from the ship, including the table from the Commander’s quarters, go visit Lelystad in the Netherlands. It’s really quite remarkable to see how these people must have lived throughout such a long journey. The museum doesn’t focus on the horror, just the ship itself, but it’s very interesting.
Excellent example of the sapien animal. Given a little stress, completely able to launch the most horrific endeavors imaginable. Syphilis not to blame.
Oooh, you mentioned LordOfTheFlies - so now you get to hear my rant about Piggy's glasses - he was short sighted so his glasses would have diverging lenses and be no good for making fire. The plot hangs heavily both on him being unable to see distance without his glasses and them being stolen for making fire. I'm not being picky - it's like saying he was both very short and also the only person able to reach the top shelf. Pass this on to everyone you know (and enjoy the look of glazed boredom in their eyes).
I learned about this in primary school aged 9 when at school in Perth, Western Australia. There was an amazing diorama at the Fremantle Museum that I remember seeing many times during school tours.
Ahh, one of your videoes is much closer to home than usual! I'm from Geraldton the city on the mainland pretty much directly east of the Abrolhos islands. We sure do love our Batavia memorabilia despite the horrors that occurred, lots of place names come from Batavia and its crew and the whole stretch of coast is called the Batavia Coast. On a brighter note than Batavia's story to do with the Abrolhos though, on the weekend just gone, Jeremy McClure, became the first person to swim from the Abrolhos to the mainland (no such luck for the Batavia's crew). If the 70km swim wasn't enough though, Jeremy is also blind! Awesome story of human endeavour and determination to be added to the Abrolhos Islands' history.
You really ought to feature the French frigate Medusa which ran aground of the coast of Africa. The "raft" built to transport the majority of the survivors was a hell that only left 15 alive when rescued.
I'm so glad to have episodes like this as part of my history. I heard about the Batavia as a kid on a trip to West Australia. I suspect my parents kept a few things from me.
If you come down and visit us here in Perth WA, you can take a short flight or long drive up to Geraldton where there are extensive informative guided tours of the Abrolhos islands where this all took place, including to the make-shift fort which as this video points out, still stands today. You’ll also be treated to great snorkelling/diving, as well as wine and local seafood along the way.
"...These beliefs which included the conviction that there was no Heaven or Hell and that _the organized Church was a sham_ " I mean...he's not wrong 🙃
Whether past or present, humanity's seemingly endless need for brutality against his fellows , even in the face of life threatening danger to all, still never fails to appall and disappoint. !!! 😞 ( exasperated sigh)
We now know our cousin the Chimp the same waging war and eating each other. Our other cousin though the Bobono have everyone has sex with everyone else all the time at all ages and are very peacefull making Make Love not War an effective way to control our primate instincts.
Just a little correction Simon . Wouter Loos and Jan Pelgrom de By van Bemel, where dropped off at Broken Anchor Bay, at the mouth of the Hutt River, 450 kilometres north of present day Perth, W.A They also had been given a Chapman (a Nautical seaman book still in publication today The 56th version)
I’ve spent the night on Beacon Island, Wallaby Island and dove on the wreck site of the Batavia. My home town of Geraldton is directly inland from the Abrolhos islands. And yes, sorry Simon, you butchered a lot of the names and pronunciations 😂 But it’s great to see a short documentary about the history of the wreck and the brutal followings.
@@hyphenpearce3224 It has been explored, but never found the 2 missing silver chest, as reported special english divers working for the VOC recovered most- of the treasure, The replica Batavia can been seen in Lelystad, its worth while to visit , excellent work
I live in Geraldton, the costal town near the Abrolos Islands, I think what the dutch called a 'winter storm' can be more aptly described as a Tuesday for the area
Make sure you are sober and in a quiet room with no distractions before smashing the play button! I managed to understand about 2/3 of Simon’s lightning fast recitation before listening a second time!
"Simon’s lightning fast recitation before listening a second time!" You're quite right! In my opinion he ruins what otherwise would be very interesting videos with his dizzying speech cadence!
@@FrLawRE Too bad he didn't spend some time with a Dutch language recording. He butchered every single name rarely pronouncing them the same the second time.
I was like- so this is a story of cannibalism then- oh no wait, Simon has somehow drastically botched the prounciation of a medium sized Australian marsupial and no tribes people were harmed in the making of this mutany.
I love all these associated channels but Simon's speed has gotten ridiculous. It's almost impossible to follow when you want to immerse yourself in the story. I know he's being spread thin with all these channels but the quality has suffered no doubt. A real shame.
If you want to learn more read Batavia by Peter Fitzsimons.... amazing read, he writes historically accurate novel on Australian history. He has many brilliant books!!
Great summarization of this horrific story. I worked for 4 years in the Western Australian Maritime Museum in Fremantle and loved being in the Shipwrecks Museum which houses the remaining timbers of the Batavia, skeleton (of a murdered male) and loads of coins and other artifacts. I've never understood how the Batavia story hasn't been made into a Hollywood movie. Too gruesome, maybe? I won't comment on the gruesome pronunciation of our furry friends. 😆
While this is brutal, I would argue the “most brutal” award goes to the Romans who lost some 100,000 men in a storm off Camarina during the First Punic war.
And then they rebuilt the fleet, recrewed the ships and sent them out to destroy the Carthaginians...only to lose the entire fleet and personnel in another storm. Which led to the building of _another_ fleet. Thanks to _Oversimplified_ for doing 2 vids on the Punic War.
I'm in the Netherlands and I've been in the replica of the Batavia that was created in Lelystad. They obviously also have a bunch to say about the ship...
Lord of the Flies for adults. Never fails to sadden, seeing what we are willing to perpetrate on others. Then there's the stuff that just sickens anyone not caught up in the madness. WTF!!! What a sorry, tawdry cluster of unintended consequences...forgive us Father, we're all just cretins.
78 Dutch Gilders = $7.9T ? Was that an error? A Dutch gilder is only a little over 2 euros now. I know inflation is a thing but that seems …. ridiculous.
@@MeriaDuck Thank you I kept going wait a minute that means no human alive could actually have owned one Dutch guilder which makes absolutely no sense.
Is it just me or is Simon speaking a little faster than normal? I could barely keep up. Simon, I know you do a lot of these but, I had a hard time understanding due to the fast cadence of your speech in this video. I love your work otherwise. So… thanks.
I knew about the wreck of the Batavia having seen the documentary on the BBC many years ago. A truly terrifying story, even more so because it was true. Imagine the warnings they'd have to announce before showing it if it was repeated today.
I suspect you're off several factors of ten of the worth of a guilder. I don't dispute the worth of the Dutch monopoly on spices, but a guilder was a unit of Dutch currency and people don't generally trade coins worth tens of billions of dollars.
I was just thinking, "Simon's pronunciation is pretty good today." But alas.... wallaby/wallabies. I'm putting it down to the nautical theme, including mutiny and potential piracy, that he pronounced it Wal-Arr-Bee.
He does speak too fast. In addition, his pronunciation is really odd, thus difficult to understand at the pace he spews it out. Ultimately poor communication.
Soon as I saw the thumbnail as a West Australian I just thought "Batavia". Also with the rest of the criminals banished to the mainland, it was the first contact with Australian Aboriginals by Europeans, not the 'First Fleet' in Sydney, though what happened with that contact we'll never know.
There's a collection of diaries of the first fleet called "buried alive" because the original settlers considered themselves as such thinking Britannia had abandoned them.
Captain James Cook was pretty much the last "explorer" to "discover" Australia the coast of which having been mapped in entirety by previous expeditions.
@@petegarnett7731 There is a map in Europe that shows the current coastline of Australia, it pre-dates Caption James Cooks map. I'd hardly call his a better map as a result Oh and the one in Europe is far more detailed!!
I love this dudes content but I can’t help but wonder that there is a person behind the scenes that is holding our host captive by the way he rushes through the content each and every time like he wants to get done with it and out of the room as soon as possible.
Yeppers, it was hard at some points with how he mumbled mashed a good chunk of his dialogue where I couldn't work out what he was saying. and I deal with family that speak cockney just to mess with us.
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The most horrifying political disaster within the last 6 years = Don the Con Trump! Twice impeached Trump was the worst US president in history for many reasons.
#1) Trump committed an act of treason against the US by inciting a violent insurrection on January 6, 2021.
#2) Trump’s incompetence regarding his management of the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic between January 2020 and July of 2020. Thousands of US citizens died as a result Trump’s failure. If Trump had a proper immediate response to the pandemic the way that the South Korean government did, then thousands of US citizens who died would still be alive today.
#3) In April of 2019 Trump vetoed the resolution to end US military support of Saudi Arabia's GENOCIDE of thousands of innocent civilians in Yemen! Trump was using the US military to support GENOCIDE in Yemen!
#4) Trump violated the Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution for his entire 4 years in office, then in 2019 Trump verbally mocked the US Constitution. The foundation of the USA is the US Constitution, that is why the presidential inaugural oath includes to swear to protect and defend the US Constitution. In January 2017 Trump publicly swore an oath on a bible at his inauguration ceremony to protect and defend the US Constitution. In 2019 Trump mocked the US Constitution by publicly saying the words "phony emoluments clause".
#5) Trump misogynistically and adulterously said of women: "Grab them by the pussy."! Trump committed adultery with Stormy Daniels and then tried to cover it up. Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in prison for crimes related to Trump's cover-up of his adulterous scandal with Stormy Daniels. Most Republicans claim to be the moral party and/or the majority Christian party, but hypocritically enthusiastically want to give an adulterous Donald Trump, another 4 years in office. If a US president who was a member of the Democratic Party did the terrible things Trump has, of course, the Republican Party leaders would be screaming for his removal from office.
#6) Trump committed the crime of obstruction of justice.
#7) Trump committed crimes of trying to tamper with elections, especially in Georgia.
#8) Trump's attempted abuse of power regarding Ukraine.
#9) Trump committed tax fraud in New York State, which is partly why Trump hides his tax returns.
#10) Trump practiced corrupt nepotism as he appointed unqualified members of his family into positions of power in the executive branch of government.
#11) Trump illegally destroyed documents and illegally took documents with him after he left the office of president.
There are many other horrible things about Trump. Here are some of them: Donald Trump is a dumb corrupt businessman which is why he hides his tax returns. Donald Trump is not a self-made man, he benefited from nepotism. His daddy Fred Trump gave him millions of dollars to start businesses many of which have failed! Donald Trump's failed businesses are many but include: Trump Airlines, a Trump Casino, and Trump University. With his failed Trump University, he defrauded hundreds of students. In Trump's many construction projects he failed to pay some of his contractors. Trump committed fraud with his non-profit in New York State which is why Trump recently transferred his residence to Florida. Donald Trump is too stupid to write his own book which why he hired a ghost writer to write "The Art of the Deal". When Trump was in high school, he hired another boy to take his SAT college entrance exam. Trump claims that he is smart, but he refuses to show us his college transcripts. Donald Trump's daddy bribed a physician to write that Donald Trump had bone spurs and therefore could dodge the Vietnam War draft. Donald Trump and his dad also practiced racism in who they would rent properties to in the 1960s and 1970s. That is just scratching the surface of the long list of horrible things about Donald Trump.
Simon the Vulture. No One Needed To See This.
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You speak so fast, I had to slow down the replay.
You are obviously reading off of a script, but worse of all, you run on your words like one continuous sentence. You are the worse speaker I have ever encountered.
Yay, you did a video about the fishing grounds off my hometown Geraldton 😂
The stories from fellow fishermen from items they've brought up, seeing the replica boat they used to get to safety, and having a museum full of Batavia relics I feel like you missed out on images and graphics used 😭
If you do another video, pm me and I'll get you some better footage to use
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The people who drowned were actually the lucky ones. This is honestly one of the most horrific shipwrecks of all time. I read a book about it written by a historian; I almost couldn’t finish it. It gave me nightmares, this was Lord of the Flies, the Rape of Nanking, and the Siege of Saint Petersburg all wrapped up in one, taking place on a tiny deserted island in one of the remote places on earth.
Those who drowned drunk being the luckiest, going down in a happy/oblivious state...
what's the name of that book?
@@mayoite160 My guess is: Batavia's Graveyard aka 'De ondergang van de Batavia' by Mike Dash.
@@mayoite160 island of angry ghosts , the same author also wrote wreck on the half moon reef which is a remarkable story of survival where after giving up hope of rescue, the survivors chopped up the wreck and built a smaller boat to sail to Batavia.
I promise you Nanjing and St Petersberg were worse in both scale and detail. Feel free to not belittle them by claiming that this was broader in scope of horror than either of those. Nothing happened here that didn't happen in some form in St.P or Nanjing.
Me, an Australian, rolling on the floor laughing at Simon's pronunciation of Wallaby.
Wal ARE bee
Me, a Dutchie, having the same reaction to the pronunciation of Cornelisz.
I would have missed it if it wasn't for the fact I read your comment before the video. 😂 Has Simon never watched Finding nemo? (P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney!)🤣
As a Rugby fan that's how I'm going to pronounce Wallabies from now on.
I, an American, had a similar reaction. I would never have thought "wallaby" rhymed with "wasabi" but there we are.
I've begun listening to Simon's narration at 3/4 speed. He speaks so quickly I fear he's in danger of 'winking out' like the Scalosians on Star Trek TOS.
That's exactly what I had to do. It sounded like he was talking at a normal speed.
I can’t do that on Apple TV.
I thought I was the only one
half speed is better
I’m convinced he dives into a pool of 🗻before recording. 😂
This reminds me so much of some of the more terrible epidodes of "The Walking Dead", namely, those in which the greatest dangers were not the zombies but madmen in positions of authority with deranged followers. Civilization has its problems, but when it collapses it's hell on earth.
The crew that stayed behind and got drunk, turns out they were the smart ones.
I’ll drink to that!
Smart? Or lucky.
A little Mix of both.
@@headmondronary2127 It's not luck if they're drunk all the time. At a certain point being sober for it would have been bad luck.
preferably the latter
I’ve not heard of this chilling and desperately-shocking story. Another story of terrible depravity is that of the Méduse in 1810. After its loss, 400 passengers were evacuated to boats while 147 had to take refuge on an improvised raft, which proved impossible to tow. After 13 days at sea the 147 was reduced to 15.
I remember seeing the painting of that in the Louvre many years ago and being somewhat blown away by it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa
I actually tough this video was going to be about The Medusa
I read a book about this wreck. After x days at sea the survivors of boats or raft had to endure a sunblistering hot desert as well. For some it took longer than 13 days!
It was a xtr interesting read, written with some seamen jargon to make it extra pungent. the author knew alot about what happened.
the painting is only a mild reflection of what happened. i saw some footage of a 1950's or sthg movie, which was far from the reality pictured in the book "wreck of the medusa"
It is also remarkable that such horrific but avoidable disasters were "forgotten in history", and still
Taking too fast
The Méduse sank in 1816, not 1810.
I think any passenger who survived all that would be grateful to live a drama-free life for the rest of their days.
Or be able to handle the bullshit easier when they get back home.
The West Australian Maritime museum contains artifacts from the Batavia,including part of the Batavia itself,a skeleton of one of the victims(with sword cuts to the head),a stone gateway that was being transported to Batavia as well as coins and personal items. A fascinating part of Australian history.
It is a great museum, go there often. The tiny part of the Batavia that survived shows how massive it was.
@@Crossingt l always thought how small it looked,considering there was over 300 people on board plus provisions and cargo.
I remember seeing a museum display of the artefacts from the Batavia in Brisbane shortly after the wreck was found. Like something out of fiction.
Fascinating?!?
I read Maritime as Marmite and was wondering why in the world they would possess such items
dude talks faster than a life insurance salesman at a funeral home.
Even at 0.75% speed he speaks too fast.
Listen dude. Lay off the caffeine. Try breathing in occasionally. Don’t edit out any natural pauses in your speech. You are not impressing anyone, just making them avoid your videos.
Think David Attenborough and you won’t go far wrong.
Anyway, I’m switching you off for now.
If you want a selling point make it effective communication. If I want a drink of water I don’t want a fire hose in my face.
@@nicholasmartin297 - Well said. Painful at any speed.
You can speed it up in the settings if it's too slow.
@@nicholasmartin297 I thought I was the only one, although I'm proficient in English I find that he speaks incredibly fast and it's actually a distraction from what he's saying.
stop multitasking and listen
What you're really saying is we should bring antibiotics on our naval voyages to treat anyone with a raging case of syphilis. Or set them against the sharks?
Wait - what do have against sharks? 😉
By the time the brain damage shows it's too late. Best you can do with meds then is make them non-contagious.
And also be prepared to explain away a murdering rapist's evil doing on the equatorial sun.... seriously, a comment under a thread suggests we do that
We could make walking the plank a real thing then.
Might as well save space and get some entertainment in the process!
If you mentioned that the young lady who was sexually assaulted as a pretext for the mutiny was later put on trial and accused of helping the mutineers, I missed it: sorry if you did, but this was one of the more shocking aspects of the aftermath.
What was the e outcome of the trial?
@@haleytruslow7200 she was acquitted and returned to the Netherlands in 1635
@@haleytruslow7200 It was the past, so she probably never saw the sun again.
@@haleytruslow7200 a suspended 6 month sentence in the Lacrosse Wisconsin county jail
@@deeznutsifier69420 I think she was the first European to not spend time at the Lacrosse Wisconsin county jail. 😄
when your mother tongue is Dutch and are fluent in English and still don't understand 90% of the names...
the way he pronounced Pieterszoon like Pee-eh-ters-zoon had me laughing
Souties in Suid Afrika klink net so kak as hulle probeer Afrikaans praat.
English is my mother tongue and I live in the Netherlands. These pronunciations were painful. Cor-NAY-le-zon (Cornelisz) becomes Corn-a-LEEZ? And don’t get me started on how he said Gijsbert Bastiaensz. Yikes. 😂
You can't claim fluency in English then.
@@Kitiwake Yes you can, there is a difference between being a native speaker and a fluent speaker.
Holy Hell Simon is speed talking these days!!
SLOW DOWN a bit.
Bloody hell!
Uh ... you can reduce the playback speed. If that's what you want.
Beacon Island has three visitor reviews on Google Maps.
Two have five star ratings.
The third simply says "Don`t get stuck here!"
I get that. 🤣
I have actually walked on West Wallaby Island and seen the forts the 2 factions created. To think that almost 500 years ago this was the site of a pitched battle while I stood they in total silent was 'eerie'.
Can I man one of the forts and take on the Chinese navy there? 😫
Almost 400 year's ago not 500.
@@RhysapGrug That's fair.
@@Chris-hx3om hope I didn't come across as a dick 👍
@@RhysapGrug Not at all.
Is Simon trying to say Wallaby??? Wol-a-bee 😂
Woll ahh beeeees
@@JoshWookiee I keep thinking of the Simpsons episode 😅
Well, I'll be...
He's putting the emphahsis on the wrong syllahble...
It made me think of Benedict Cumberbatch talking about peng-wings (penguins) on the BBC South pacific series 😂
Peter Fitzsimons wrote a book on the Batavia mutiny and massacre! It goes into great detail about the people and actions of the survivors of the wreck and the summary justice handed out to the perpetrators of this horrendous crime! Well worth reading!
Excellent read!
Peter "two syllables" Fitzsimmons.
Have read a couple of his books and a writer he is absolute rubbish. Haven't read this one however so I won't comment upon it.
Peter Fitzsimons team.
@@billyshane3804 there are better books on this rather than by the woke pirate
You mean the book written by his researchers and then paraphrased after he dons his pirate look.
...and for those of you who caught those closing remarks about the 1770 Australian landing in Botany Bay, that was Captain James COOK and not Kirk! The fact that the fictional ship S.S. Botany Bay was a Star Trek vessel found in The Wrath of Khan movie only makes things more confusing!
At 3:09 you state that the Dutch East India Company was worth 78 Dutch Guilders; I'm assuming you meant to say 78 million Dutch Guilders.
That's Simon for you - can't even get it right whilst plagiarizing someone else script !!
Maybe he was talking about the value of shares in the company?
Yeah there's no way they were worth only 78 guilders 😂
In fact equivalent to 79 trillion dollars in today's money he said...
I had actually randomly stumbled upon this story when i was having a random wiki rabbithole evening.
Not sure what set the rabbithole off, as is usually the case, but i do remember being very surprised at the shocking way it all transpired.
Crazy stuff
Maybe the word Batavia or jawa or dutch Indonesian
Oh man, I completely feel for you, as I too have had those days where you are just clicking on a seemingly innocent video only to go down a seriously messed up rabbit hole, finish watching and then click on another messed up rabbit hole of information. It is good to be finally enlightened about this though. I am from Western Australian and took my kids to the maritime museum and we read about the Batavia and the museum seriously cuts out everything, all it says is: the ship accidentally made landfall among the Abrolhos and women and children perished from starvation. Then years later I stumble on this clip and my jaw hit the floor! So much of history is kept hidden when it comes to disasters such as this!
@@platinumare Haha, yeah exactly.
I think i was reading up on the VOC and our history in other continents, and when reading one wiki page, you'll come across names and events that have links, and before you know it, you have 10+ tabs to read, which on themselves also create new tabs.
So i then choose to follow a specific one instead for that evening and just close them all when i either have to go to bed because it's the middle of the night, or need to eat something, an obsessive hunt for basically trivia knowledge.
I mean, this has little relevance to us today, but i do agree that a lot of history is simply not being told.
Here in Holland, the Batavia is a famous name though, so i assume i have learned something about it at elementary school, but i do not remember anything about mutiny and massacres.
Maybe the museum was trying to keep it light, because i can imagine some parents complaining about reading a story of atricious acts when passing by a wooden ship.
People could be asking why they're glorifying horrible people.
I'm not saying that i agree with them, but i could understand if the museum chose for that route.
Then again, you could complain to them for not telling enough, but you would probably be a smaller minority than the other complainers.
*marooned in austrailia*
Them: hey at least we are alive right?
*Literally everything living in Aussieland* : hold that thought
Island of Angry Ghosts (the Batavia ) and Wreck on the Half Moon Reef (Zeewyk) are two great books by Hugh Edwards who was one of the discoverers of The Batavi.
Both true stories which are diametrically opposite and show both sides of the human spirit.
One of those stories that makes you feel ashamed of humanity while ensuring that you do all you can to prevent such lunatics from wielding power ever again.
Then you better watch out for trump and MAGA!
In the Star Trek episode The Conscience of the King, there is a Governor Kodos who seized power after the colony's food supplies are destroyed. He kills half the colonists to 'save the other half'... arbitrarily picking who lives or who dies. Could that episode have been inspired by this story?
If you turn your screen upside down, Simon has a magnificent head of hair.
I'm so glad you covered the tragic story of the Batavia. Excellent work crew.
A suggestion for this channel is how the world powers came up with the Geneva Convention governing the rules of war.
What has been seen cannot be unseen.
@@chadcuckproducer1037 szon tzo- fight your enemy with your friend
hey yeah! you"re RIGHT! A nice head of hair!😂
Get the paperback "Batavia's Graveyard" by Mike Dash for the full story.
You've mentioned this shipwreck before, but didn't go into the sad details of what transpired. I wonder if it was the syphilis, or a person being in power can, and sometimes will, do horrific things; or perhaps, it's a combination of the two.
I mean Hitler allegedly had syphilis too, so there might be something to the disease driving people mad. Or at the very least contributing to their madness.
This amounts to excuses for a murderous rapist.. . It's right up there with explaining that a mass shooter was "having a bad day"
@@richardcooley6061 utter B.S.
@@TheVirtualObserver As a slightly different theory: Maybe they just thought they wouldn't have anything left to loose. Like a Walter White thingy
So Bonespur actually has syphilis?
As I merchant seaman, I recommend carrying a case of Tiger Sauce in case you have to subsist on "long pig". Ha Ha
If you’re interested in seeing a full-scale replica with artifacts from the ship, including the table from the Commander’s quarters, go visit Lelystad in the Netherlands. It’s really quite remarkable to see how these people must have lived throughout such a long journey. The museum doesn’t focus on the horror, just the ship itself, but it’s very interesting.
I've been on it . It's awesome,I recommend it ✌️
I'm reminded of the "Merry Minuet" by the Kingston Trio: "...what Nature doesn't do to us will be done by our fellow man."
Excellent example of the sapien animal. Given a little stress, completely able to launch the most horrific endeavors imaginable. Syphilis not to blame.
Syphilis had good representation.
Didn’t help that the instigator of the whole thing was very likely a raging psychopath.
a fine specimen of that in moscow right now
Like Simon's horrific pronunciation of "wallaby"
Sounds like a source to compose a "Lord-of-the-Flies" novel.
Lord of the Flies was a pyschological horror. The Batavia mutiny is closer to Friday the 13th (or one of the sequels).
Oooh, you mentioned LordOfTheFlies - so now you get to hear my rant about Piggy's glasses - he was short sighted so his glasses would have diverging lenses and be no good for making fire. The plot hangs heavily both on him being unable to see distance without his glasses and them being stolen for making fire. I'm not being picky - it's like saying he was both very short and also the only person able to reach the top shelf. Pass this on to everyone you know (and enjoy the look of glazed boredom in their eyes).
@@transientaardvark6231ngl, you're kinda right
Even more incredible than the hideous affair is how you can possibly pronounce wallaby as "wullarbee" incredible.
I learned about this in primary school aged 9 when at school in Perth, Western Australia. There was an amazing diorama at the Fremantle Museum that I remember seeing many times during school tours.
Ahh, one of your videoes is much closer to home than usual! I'm from Geraldton the city on the mainland pretty much directly east of the Abrolhos islands. We sure do love our Batavia memorabilia despite the horrors that occurred, lots of place names come from Batavia and its crew and the whole stretch of coast is called the Batavia Coast.
On a brighter note than Batavia's story to do with the Abrolhos though, on the weekend just gone, Jeremy McClure, became the first person to swim from the Abrolhos to the mainland (no such luck for the Batavia's crew). If the 70km swim wasn't enough though, Jeremy is also blind! Awesome story of human endeavour and determination to be added to the Abrolhos Islands' history.
Do you know Nic Thomas?
70km is a far swim. Yikes
You really ought to feature the French frigate Medusa which ran aground of the coast of Africa. The "raft" built to transport the majority of the survivors was a hell that only left 15 alive when rescued.
78 Dutch guilders in 1628 would be worth less than USD6,000 today. I suspect some words are missing like "hundred thousand", or "million".
Yes, the VOC was worth 78 _million_ guilders
Watching Simon furiously gesticulate is so satisfying.
I clicked, expecting to watch a video. Instead, I get a commercial for Wondrium. I gave up waiting for the video
Sounds like an island based script for a series better than Lost 🤣
I was just thinking it would make one hell of a movie!
Simon as a lifelong learner, asking the same question every class the minute it gets weird... "What the f*** are you talking about?".
Dat pronunciation of "wallabies" though 😂😂
If you need a guide, look up our national rugby team. Rugby is pretty popular in the UK too
Some how my feed hasn’t popped this channel up for at least 9 months. Happy to be back
I'm so glad to have episodes like this as part of my history. I heard about the Batavia as a kid on a trip to West Australia. I suspect my parents kept a few things from me.
If you come down and visit us here in Perth WA, you can take a short flight or long drive up to Geraldton where there are extensive informative guided tours of the Abrolhos islands where this all took place, including to the make-shift fort which as this video points out, still stands today. You’ll also be treated to great snorkelling/diving, as well as wine and local seafood along the way.
hello from albany
No woll-ahr-bees then?
I'm not sure what I like more about this video. The historical storytelling, Simon's glorious British accent, or that godly beard he's rocking.
"...These beliefs which included the conviction that there was no Heaven or Hell and that _the organized Church was a sham_ "
I mean...he's not wrong 🙃
Insert the meme of "why are you booing? I'm right!"
Me, an American, thanking my ancestor for signing on to the Dutch West India Company, instead! Hello, North America!
Whether past or present, humanity's seemingly endless need for brutality against his fellows , even in the face of life threatening danger to all, still never fails to appall and disappoint. !!! 😞
( exasperated sigh)
We now know our cousin the Chimp the same waging war and eating each other. Our other cousin though the Bobono have everyone has sex with everyone else all the time at all ages and are very peacefull making Make Love not War an effective way to control our primate instincts.
Just a little correction Simon . Wouter Loos and Jan Pelgrom de By van Bemel, where dropped off at Broken Anchor Bay, at the mouth of the Hutt River, 450 kilometres north of present day Perth, W.A They also had been given a Chapman (a Nautical seaman book still in publication today The 56th version)
They missed Kalbarri by that much
@@TT-dx4ez And a hundred and fifty or so years too early, only the Murchison river mouth would have existed then .
@@johnnyrot1075 I know. ouch
Us Western Australians are well aware of the story of the Batavia. Knew it was about it from the thumbnail. Crazy story
Yeah me a dutch Person new it to instantly from the thumbnail and also about that were very brutal people back then
@@dgydgpy5861 Back then?
You sweet summer child.
I have heard of this and watched a really great documentary on it. It was horrific and insane…like the adult version of Lord of the Flies
Wow
Makes you wonder if the "Lord of the Flies" was based on this. Or at least inspired by this.
I’ve spent the night on Beacon Island, Wallaby Island and dove on the wreck site of the Batavia. My home town of Geraldton is directly inland from the Abrolhos islands. And yes, sorry Simon, you butchered a lot of the names and pronunciations 😂
But it’s great to see a short documentary about the history of the wreck and the brutal followings.
His pronunciations hurt me. I live in the Netherlands, married to a Dutchman, and I love this story. He butchered those poor people’s names. 😂😂
Never listened to a English men tell you anything about history. As an American,it herts me to hear them butcher the native pronunciation of names.
pls forgive, Dutch names are hard to prenounce, if you not from Dutch background. but overall correct historical
Did you find any treasure? I'd luv to dive that site. Cheers from 🇨🇦
@@hyphenpearce3224 It has been explored, but never found the 2 missing silver chest, as reported
special english divers working for the VOC recovered most- of the treasure, The replica Batavia can been seen in Lelystad, its worth while to visit , excellent work
I live in Geraldton, the costal town near the Abrolos Islands, I think what the dutch called a 'winter storm' can be more aptly described as a Tuesday for the area
I only got to 7 mins before i had to stop listening, as others have said, its borderline comprehensible with the speed of narration.
Make sure you are sober and in a quiet room with no distractions before smashing the play button!
I managed to understand about 2/3 of Simon’s lightning fast recitation before listening a second time!
"Simon’s lightning fast recitation before listening a second time!" You're quite right! In my opinion he ruins what otherwise would be very interesting videos with his dizzying speech cadence!
Hear hear
@@FrLawRE Too bad he didn't spend some time with a Dutch language recording. He butchered every single name rarely pronouncing them the same the second time.
78 Dutch guilders?? He’s forgotten something
This is a very well know story here in Australia…. Well for those who love history….
Soon to be cancelled!
I teach about this event every year and it never fails to horrify students...
There is a wonderful museum in Fremantle (Perth) with this story and artifacts. Recommend a visit if you are ever in town
Dude, take a breath. It's still free, these days.
This sounds like a factual adult version of “Lord of the Flies”!
I thought when he said "a population of wah-LAR-bees that could be hunted for food" I thought he meant a tribe of people.
Same 😂 thanks for clearing that up
Same omg 😂 I had to play that part over to makes sure I heard it right.
I was like- so this is a story of cannibalism then- oh no wait, Simon has somehow drastically botched the prounciation of a medium sized Australian marsupial and no tribes people were harmed in the making of this mutany.
The pronunciation was rough, but he definitely didn't stick an r in there, thankfully.
I heard that and said "a population of what??!" FFS Simon. I know your pronunciation of other languages is pretty bad, but this is a new low.
I love all these associated channels but Simon's speed has gotten ridiculous. It's almost impossible to follow when you want to immerse yourself in the story. I know he's being spread thin with all these channels but the quality has suffered no doubt. A real shame.
Yeah, I had to turn my playback speed to 75% to get anything out of this. Then he just sounds like a normal guy who's had a bit too much to drink.
Agreed talks way to fast , i stopped the Video after 10 minutes.
Never, ever go to an auction. You’ll be stupefied by the auctioneers speaking speed.
Horrible presentation! Incomprehensible, it simply irritates rather than illuminates.
I'm stupid as fuck and I have no issues keeping up. You must of had a rock smarter than you in school
If you want to learn more read Batavia by Peter Fitzsimons.... amazing read, he writes historically accurate novel on Australian history. He has many brilliant books!!
I read this. On a cruise! Great book.
There’s also “Lucretia’s Batavia Diary” by Howard Gray. A chilling read!
The best book in English is Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash. It’s nonfiction, so it’s dense, but it’s well worth reading. He doesn’t miss a detail.
Phrasology, pauses, take a breath every now and then
Great summarization of this horrific story. I worked for 4 years in the Western Australian Maritime Museum in Fremantle and loved being in the Shipwrecks Museum which houses the remaining timbers of the Batavia, skeleton (of a murdered male) and loads of coins and other artifacts. I've never understood how the Batavia story hasn't been made into a Hollywood movie. Too gruesome, maybe? I won't comment on the gruesome pronunciation of our furry friends. 😆
While this is brutal, I would argue the “most brutal” award goes to the Romans who lost some 100,000 men in a storm off Camarina during the First Punic war.
Being around that many people,
Dying..,
Thats a hell of a way to go
And then they rebuilt the fleet, recrewed the ships and sent them out to destroy the Carthaginians...only to lose the entire fleet and personnel in another storm.
Which led to the building of _another_ fleet.
Thanks to _Oversimplified_ for doing 2 vids on the Punic War.
@@danielseelye6005 they lost a second fleet? Bahaha, I must have missed that. Gotta love Oversimplifed! And Simon Whistler ;)
@@SkepticalSandwich They lost _three_ fleets. 2 in storms and one in battle. They won with the fourth fleet.
@@danielseelye6005 Nautical version of the castle in a swamp Monty Python skit. Except on a Roman scale.
As an Aussie it's hilarious hearing you say war-larh-bee
There are relics of the Batavia at the Maritime Museum in Fremantle, Perth. It includes a large section of the hull. It is well worth a visit.
I'm in the Netherlands and I've been in the replica of the Batavia that was created in Lelystad. They obviously also have a bunch to say about the ship...
that does it: from now on Simon, only de-caffeinated coffee.
The Captain's fate should've been a model for all CEOs. He was found guilty of negligence and was stripped of his assets.
Fascinating but very hard to follow - could you PLEASE talk a little bit more slowly? 😅
focus on the video. dont multitask
You can also alter the playback speed.
This video is much better if played on
.75 speed.
Lord of the Flies for adults.
Never fails to sadden, seeing what we are willing to perpetrate on others.
Then there's the stuff that just sickens anyone not caught up in the madness.
WTF!!!
What a sorry, tawdry cluster of unintended consequences...forgive us Father, we're all just cretins.
This harkens back to Genesis, in which God gives us powers, and endows us with the ability to make choices.
Remove civilisation and people no longer have a reason to be civil.
This guy again! How many channels does Simon have?
Playing this video on x75 playback speed is what I imagine it’s like to have a conversation with Simon at a bar after he’s had a few too many lmaooo
We all know that Elon's expedition to Mars is going to make this look like My Little Pony.
1:20 in and I finally get past your ad just to get hit with another You-Tube ad
78 Dutch Gilders = $7.9T ? Was that an error? A Dutch gilder is only a little over 2 euros now. I know inflation is a thing but that seems …. ridiculous.
Yes, that was an error. Wikipedia cites it being 78 million. Which makes a lot more sense.
@@MeriaDuck Thank you I kept going wait a minute that means no human alive could actually have owned one Dutch guilder which makes absolutely no sense.
Can Simon say “Their is a controversy in the garage with the octopus” in a video. The Americans and Australians will love it.
Dutchie here. We were raised with this story. The true pirates of the west indies
Indonesian decent Dutchie?
The Devil and the Deep Water by Stuart Turton is loosely based on this and is a good novel.
Is it just me or is Simon speaking a little faster than normal? I could barely keep up. Simon, I know you do a lot of these but, I had a hard time understanding due to the fast cadence of your speech in this video. I love your work otherwise. So… thanks.
If I didn't know any better I'd accuse Simon of being a speed addict. But I don't think that's why he's so fast at narrating.
I knew about the wreck of the Batavia having seen the documentary on the BBC many years ago. A truly terrifying story, even more so because it was true. Imagine the warnings they'd have to announce before showing it if it was repeated today.
"Wait Until You See It."
"See What?"
"What A Man Can Do To Another Man."
I suspect you're off several factors of ten of the worth of a guilder. I don't dispute the worth of the Dutch monopoly on spices, but a guilder was a unit of Dutch currency and people don't generally trade coins worth tens of billions of dollars.
I was just thinking, "Simon's pronunciation is pretty good today."
But alas.... wallaby/wallabies.
I'm putting it down to the nautical theme, including mutiny and potential piracy, that he pronounced it Wal-Arr-Bee.
Bless him. SuMAIrily
Ask a single Dutch speaker in this comment section. None of his pronunciations were even remotely good.
Mate, would love your content,, however you speak so fast, it's uncomfortable and difficult to process.
He definitely does seem fast, especially as of late
He does speak too fast. In addition, his pronunciation is really odd, thus difficult to understand at the pace he spews it out. Ultimately poor communication.
Change speed of video 😊
for you.
@@AidenRyanAllureyes that is what I do a lot of times. I'll slow it down or sometimes speed a video up.
Soon as I saw the thumbnail as a West Australian I just thought "Batavia". Also with the rest of the criminals banished to the mainland, it was the first contact with Australian Aboriginals by Europeans, not the 'First Fleet' in Sydney, though what happened with that contact we'll never know.
There's a collection of diaries of the first fleet called "buried alive" because the original settlers considered themselves as such thinking Britannia had abandoned them.
This is Simons machine gun style presentation. I for one love it. I think he is one of the best orratores I've heard in a long time
What is truely wild, is how this has not yet been turned into a hollywood film.
There is even a full size replica of the ship in the netherlands
They made a mass effect 2 mission out of this event
ME2 was a slow panic attack
I was wondering which then I remembered the most forgettable person's Loyalty Mission
Captain James Cook was pretty much the last "explorer" to "discover" Australia the coast of which having been mapped in entirety by previous expeditions.
Apparently, he was more accurate though.
@@petegarnett7731 There is a map in Europe that shows the current coastline of Australia, it pre-dates Caption James Cooks map. I'd hardly call his a better map as a result Oh and the one in Europe is far more detailed!!
@@stephenhunter70
Do you know the name of the map, who drew it and where it is in Europe?
I love this dudes content but I can’t help but wonder that there is a person behind the scenes that is holding our host captive by the way he rushes through the content each and every time like he wants to get done with it and out of the room as soon as possible.
I also wondered that maybe The commercial sectian at beginning took so much time, that he must rush with the actual content
He has a million other channels.
Very interesting but I do wish that man would take a damn breath!
Yeppers, it was hard at some points with how he mumbled mashed a good chunk of his dialogue where I couldn't work out what he was saying. and I deal with family that speak cockney just to mess with us.
I had to switch off after 3 minutes. Talks much too quick, made my head ache. I guess I am in the minority though.
Wasn’t expecting the Batavia when I opened this video.. learnt about it when I was in year 7 when we were at a school camp in Geraldton.
I have dived the wreck site many times even with Max Cramer (RIP) I was a tour guide for "live aboard" tour boats at the Abrolhos Islands....cool gig
How do you produce such a well-researched video and then mispronounce a word most children get right?
You'd think he would know how to pronounce wallaby as the
Australian Woll arbys play the
British Loins every few years...
I kind of like it. Will try it out, and see if takes root with fellow colonials.