Ironically enough, the sub is currently sinking, and filled with water to a point of no return. We went there the other day and the employees seemed to be getting a kick out of the irony. Interesting how they remained positive even though it's sad that you can no longer go in.
While this video was made over 4 years ago, and I Thank You for it. It does make worry about the condition of the boat itself. Sailors, no matter what countries Navy you may be in, always took extreme care of their boats. The inside has corrosion, missing paint and bare metal all over the place. The outer hull is extremely corroded I wonder if it has been compromised at any part. While I full understand that this boat is a museum, and is run on donations (I assume). We still need to take care of it. Thank you for the video.
One thing that could be done to preserve the submarine's exterior is to display it somewhere where there's no salt water. Columbia river on the west coast? There are a number of U.S. submarines on display in the Great Lakes such as Manitowoc, WI, Cleveland, OH and Muskegon, MI.
Thank you for recording this submarine while it was still around. The British still have one, along with Russia, Libya, and India. I don’t know about the condition of the Indian and Libyan ones. The British Foxtrot also isn’t great condition, but from what little I’ve read the plan is to restore it (supposedly).
Quote the tour audio recording "its time for the nuclear device " sadly not much has changed in the world ! Still very much under nuclear threat .......crazy !
Why do former Soviet subs need to have a huge red star painted on the conning tower ? .... Yes, we know it's a Russian submarine, and I'm sure this wasn't the case while they were in active service !!
well, "top comment" actually good IMO, thanks for, um, caring? Even (ex)warship is made with big effort, blood,sweet and milk (those mostly male (?) factory workers does not just clone themselves ...) ... so while I hope narrowly defined war machines one day all become museum pieces - there was at least one popular in its day conversion of military sub into oceanographical one ... too bad this one was scrapped. it sort of sad in general to see abandoned/empty places, knowing that we burned millions of years of material/fuel accumulation to construct them in the first place, and this state of extractivism will not last long ..... is ex-war machine better to be recast as spoons and forks and bicycles - or some of ot still better to do some non-war duty at their element if possible? future may know ...
@@InternalCombustion I don't know if it was this boat, or the Foxtrot class in general. Maybe a combination of both. I've been on boats before and I kinda got a 6th sense for lack of seaworthiness, and a submarine just makes that feeling come on extra strong. But also the whole USSR vibe. Too bad they didn't put this boat on land like they have done with some of the Uboat and U.S. Submarine Museums. Pitty...
I'd rather serve on a WWII US boat than this piece of crap. The museum is doing a great job, understand; it Soviet Russia, which never cared about its people, even those defending it, that I am criticizing Thanks to the museum for showing this.
Then you must not have been on a ww2 boat. Later Russian subs have auto loaders and plumbed fire suppression. US subs dont have auto loaders now. Auto loaders, smaller crew. better for each crewman.
I agree with you. I toured this 'thing' about 7 years ago. Conduit that didn't fit the contour of the walls, bad welding, electrical cable that is just strewn about. Old Ivan didn't care about quality, only quantity.
while I tend to agree "russians" tended to handwave away as unimportant less obvious aspects of psychology and ergonomics ... well, material conditions, materials and instruments matters in those industrial arts. You can't weld steel with your mind alone. And as aside USA is hardly worth copying as hyper-capitalist country!
The boat was fine for its time. Louder than the Kobbens Orions and various GUPPY boats because of the triple screw, but had similar performance and dove deeper. Sure its cramped, but all submarines of this era are. You dont really see any crew comforts until the Charlie II, and later Alpha class, which cut its crew compliment down to like 30 men from the previous 70-90 by incorporating a lot of automated systems. It was actually the soviets who stuck to that idea of minimizing crew comement via automated systems, and as a result late cold war Soviet submarines were the first witbany level of consideration for crew comfort. Hell, the Typhoons had a sauna and diving pool, and I think so did the later Deltas.
Смотрю на свою лодку изнутри. Комментарии только штатовские. А русские бывали на этой лодке? Особенно те, кто служил на ней! Да и внутри многое убрали, чтобы было удобнее ходить.
I'm so grieved by how bad her current condition is. Within a few years she'll never see the light of day again
yeah the hull is pretty rusty. Im mad I didnt get to see the other sub that's in Long Beach. I was there in Jan 2017 and it was closed already.
Sold for scrap. No longer there. It was a money pit requiring commercial Divers to constantly patch the hull
It’s sad how well this comment aged.
I went on B-39 with my daughters last year, actually we did it twice. They loved it. The recorded audio drama was kinda annoying tho.
Ironically enough, the sub is currently sinking, and filled with water to a point of no return. We went there the other day and the employees seemed to be getting a kick out of the irony. Interesting how they remained positive even though it's sad that you can no longer go in.
Really? I saw in a report from the museums director that the pressure hull is still fully sealed. I guess that changed!
Thank you I C for allowing me to see this, as I never would have been able to make the trip.
While this video was made over 4 years ago, and I Thank You for it. It does make worry about the condition of the boat itself. Sailors, no matter what countries Navy you may be in, always took extreme care of their boats. The inside has corrosion, missing paint and bare metal all over the place. The outer hull is extremely corroded I wonder if it has been compromised at any part. While I full understand that this boat is a museum, and is run on donations (I assume). We still need to take care of it. Thank you for the video.
This thing was scrapped about a year ago.
Hard to believe 77 men served aboard that sub...very primitive. Compare it to the USS Dolphin which is about the same age and located nearby this sub.
Ya it was like “a little better” than most the WWII subs I’ve been on, and this thing served a long time after those
Soviet subs up until the Kilo were basically type XXIs with a new paintjob, but, well, so were all other diesel electrics.
One thing that could be done to preserve the submarine's exterior is to display it somewhere where there's no salt water. Columbia river on the west coast? There are a number of U.S. submarines on display in the Great Lakes such as Manitowoc, WI, Cleveland, OH and Muskegon, MI.
The museum probably was the only one to afford it and or there's no other museums that could take it
They towed it out this weekend for scrapping in mexico
@@jdhiner1 THAT FIGURES!
I went on B-39 as well since 2017 with my family and I think the submarine is more like wonderland in here to me~
It’s sad that the sub is now going to be scrapped but it was rusting anyway
Great video! I sincerely appreciate you sharing.
Best tour yet!
Glad you enjoyed
Thank you for recording this submarine while it was still around. The British still have one, along with Russia, Libya, and India. I don’t know about the condition of the Indian and Libyan ones. The British Foxtrot also isn’t great condition, but from what little I’ve read the plan is to restore it (supposedly).
I know this is old but from the looks of the condition of the hull it will not be around much longer....
I think it’s actually already been scrapped
Saw her for sale online before she got scrapped. Painful to see her have to be scrapped but I understand given the times and the circumstances
In the Webster dictionary next to rust bucket is a picture of this wreck.
Lol I joked around that this museum should be called the museum of floating junk. Just about everything there is falling apart.
@@InternalCombustion Soviet-era Russian subs started out as junk and got worse.
I have been on that submarine when it was at Seattle Washington in Washington State
I went on this exact b-39 in San diego
Oh come on, give the poor lass a proper cleaning up :(
Lol it’s in pretty rough shape as is the rest of the museum. See it while you can!
The sub is due to be scrapped this week :(
I would love to hear the story of this sub and how it ended up on the west coast.
I think they should put the sub on land
That was cool.
Thx!
Hi, is it still possible to visit it ? as can not find anywhere to buy ticket on line ? thank you
San Diego maritime museum. They have several vessels there you can board with General admission. Make sure to check out the USS Midway as well!
@@InternalCombustion yes I know but you did not answer the question, is it possible to visit it like the scorpio in LA ! ??
@@TraveltimeAroundTheWorld as far as I know you can still visit this one. The one you are referring to in Long Beach has been closed for several years
Quote the tour audio recording "its time for the nuclear device " sadly not much has changed in the world ! Still very much under nuclear threat .......crazy
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With hindsight it may have been better off left in Sydney Australia where it was back in the 90s ,it was all downhill since then😢
What are we doing with Soviet submarines?
Reverse engineering them! Duh!
Those pidgins make great crew
Looking at the rust it has limited time
The Russian scorpion mk 2
Why do former Soviet subs need to have a huge red star painted on the conning tower ? .... Yes, we know it's a Russian submarine, and I'm sure this wasn't the case while they were in active service !!
No they were painted with a red star in service
Most of them don’t have it though
A lot of them had a red star when in service...
U-475 B-413 & B-427
U can buy 1 for 3mil
Where?
They towed it out on feb 5th for scrapping in mexico
😩
i think they’re selling her for scrap next year
Really?
@@InternalCombustion yeah i just heard about on the uss new jersey’s youtube channel that’s why i looked it up
Oh shit so sad. Glad I got to go on her twice and capture this footage. Surprised the one in Long Beach is still there
@@InternalCombustion do you know if there is any other foxtrot class soviet submarine museums?
I don’t but check out Wikipedia
creepy looking submarine!
sigh.. this one is going for metal scraps :( so sad
Really??
2:54 coffs *EVACUATE*
Making doors breaking the submarine hull makes me pisses off
Yea I feel the same way. At least they didn’t cut the hull into 5 sections like the one in England
@@InternalCombustion cutting an hull in 5 pieces excuse British wtf
Yes in England there is a totally mutilated U-boat museum. They cut the sun into 5 segments.
www.visitliverpool.com/things-to-do/u-boat-story-p229341
Can you show us the Nazi ship and crew that was in America before the war started
well, "top comment" actually good IMO, thanks for, um, caring? Even (ex)warship is made with big effort, blood,sweet and milk (those mostly male (?) factory workers does not just clone themselves ...) ... so while I hope narrowly defined war machines one day all become museum pieces - there was at least one popular in its day conversion of military sub into oceanographical one ... too bad this one was scrapped.
it sort of sad in general to see abandoned/empty places, knowing that we burned millions of years of material/fuel accumulation to construct them in the first place, and this state of extractivism will not last long .....
is ex-war machine better to be recast as spoons and forks and bicycles - or some of ot still better to do some non-war duty at their element if possible?
future may know ...
Something about the the atmosphere of this sub, it's so depressing I literally got nausea watching this video.
Well it's since been cut up and scrapped!
@@InternalCombustion I don't know if it was this boat, or the Foxtrot class in general. Maybe a combination of both. I've been on boats before and I kinda got a 6th sense for lack of seaworthiness, and a submarine just makes that feeling come on extra strong. But also the whole USSR vibe. Too bad they didn't put this boat on land like they have done with some of the Uboat and U.S. Submarine Museums. Pitty...
I'd rather serve on a WWII US boat than this piece of crap. The museum is doing a great job, understand; it Soviet Russia, which never cared about its people, even those defending it, that I am criticizing Thanks to the museum for showing this.
Then you must not have been on a ww2 boat. Later Russian subs have auto loaders and plumbed fire suppression. US subs dont have auto loaders now. Auto loaders, smaller crew. better for each crewman.
@@Toro_Da_Corsa Automation does not equal quality
I agree with you. I toured this 'thing' about 7 years ago. Conduit that didn't fit the contour of the walls, bad welding, electrical cable that is just strewn about. Old Ivan didn't care about quality, only quantity.
while I tend to agree "russians" tended to handwave away as unimportant less obvious aspects of psychology and ergonomics ...
well, material conditions, materials and instruments matters in those industrial arts. You can't weld steel with your mind alone.
And as aside USA is hardly worth copying as hyper-capitalist country!
The boat was fine for its time. Louder than the Kobbens Orions and various GUPPY boats because of the triple screw, but had similar performance and dove deeper. Sure its cramped, but all submarines of this era are. You dont really see any crew comforts until the Charlie II, and later Alpha class, which cut its crew compliment down to like 30 men from the previous 70-90 by incorporating a lot of automated systems. It was actually the soviets who stuck to that idea of minimizing crew comement via automated systems, and as a result late cold war Soviet submarines were the first witbany level of consideration for crew comfort. Hell, the Typhoons had a sauna and diving pool, and I think so did the later Deltas.
Смотрю на свою лодку изнутри. Комментарии только штатовские. А русские бывали на этой лодке? Особенно те, кто служил на ней! Да и внутри многое убрали, чтобы было удобнее ходить.
English?
@@InternalCombustion ... use the translator...!
Very sad.