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  • Hidden deep underwater is the untold story of how the Nazis waged a secret war across the world’s oceans.
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  • @servicedenied
    @servicedenied Рік тому +363

    Drain the oceans will forever be one of my favorite nat geo shows

    • @NatGeo
      @NatGeo  Рік тому +58

      We love our Drain the Oceans fans! Thank you for watching!❤

    • @Tswift63
      @Tswift63 Рік тому +9

      I can't wrap my head around it ..I'm missing the bandwidth clearly

    • @smoovysmoo
      @smoovysmoo Рік тому +2

      agreed

    • @viscache1
      @viscache1 Рік тому +2

      At least of the post woke era

    • @sander6167
      @sander6167 Рік тому +2

      Yes but not when i see every episode 1000 times

  • @TheStuntman81
    @TheStuntman81 Рік тому +549

    One of the best WW II naval documentaries I've see in recent time. Thank you NatGeo for enabling us to watch this free.

    • @davidsuzukiispolpot
      @davidsuzukiispolpot Рік тому

      These reviews sound like the BS reviews of crappy Chinese products on Amazon. FAKE

    • @buffaloriversideranch242
      @buffaloriversideranch242 Рік тому +16

      It’s not free you have to watch ads. We’re paying with precious time we’ll never get back

    • @TheStuntman81
      @TheStuntman81 Рік тому +26

      @@davidsuzukiispolpot dude it's not a review it's just my opinion. You dont have to like it.

    • @TheStuntman81
      @TheStuntman81 Рік тому +9

      @@buffaloriversideranch242 i can't say i disagree. I use adblock tho.

    • @davidsuzukiispolpot
      @davidsuzukiispolpot Рік тому +9

      @@TheStuntman81 Wow, thanks. Seeing all of these reviews that looked similar made me think it was fake or bots. Glad to see there is an actual person behind it.

  • @c.j.cleveland7475
    @c.j.cleveland7475 Рік тому +154

    I've always loved the Nat Geo documentaries over the years. But I really love the "Drain the Ocean" series. Technology today that helps find these underwater wrecks and then helps to scan them in 3-D like a model is just fantastic. I'm waiting for the tech that allows you to walk through these ships as if they were on the surface through some kind of hologram-ish type of thing projected down to the wreck, eliminating the danger of actually having to dive to it. Just a thought. 🤔 Anyways, loved the video and can't wait for more!! 😁👍

    • @skyblaizepleiadianhighcoun9993
      @skyblaizepleiadianhighcoun9993 Рік тому +1

      Haha great forecast. Im doing we're doing your holographic projection down to the wreck search idea. Thanks for confirming

    • @edwardzata1462
      @edwardzata1462 Рік тому

      I’m 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅o😅ooooo😅o😅😅o😅😅o😅ooo😅o😅o😅o

    • @warsandmilitaria
      @warsandmilitaria Рік тому +2

      Exactly! I have often thought, what if you could walk through a film? Like a clip of the Berghof or a battle or something? Imagine if you could virtually move around in spectator mode during the Battle of Stalingrad or something like that? Wouldn't that be incredible? What you described about walking through the ships will someday certainly exist.

    • @evgenskald9456
      @evgenskald9456 Рік тому

      good day or evening to you. Probably, as you say, technology is no longer tanning. Watching such films is interesting, you can't take your eyes off

    • @DPwatkykjy
      @DPwatkykjy Рік тому +1

      Alot of these sunken vessels are also sites of memorial, mass sea graves and in some cases house a spectacular ecosystem of flora and fauna, if the hologram would ever be able to scan the internal of these vessels you'd have to have permission and a lot of nerve to wander around them, even if it's only digitally, my grandfather was sunk on an allied merchant ship and if a James Cameron would want to document the internals of that ship and they came for me for permission I would have to let alot of historians down, sometimes it is better to simply not know these kind of things...

  • @dickstryker
    @dickstryker Рік тому +20

    Those drums of heavy water are worth a rediculous amount of money.
    "We just gotta go back and check and count them and maybe bring a few more up for good luck..."
    I suspect this endeavor is not purely academic.

    • @warriorgaming1604
      @warriorgaming1604 Місяць тому

      The wreck that has heavy water is a registered war grave most barrels have been breached those that haven’t been damaged were retrieved in the 90’s the rest is inaccessible without disturbing the wreck and some of the barrels were not entirely full

  • @MiniMC546
    @MiniMC546 Рік тому +16

    Best Christmas gift ever. I've been trying to watch Drain The Ocean but we don't have it.

    • @NatGeo
      @NatGeo  Рік тому +6

      We will be posting more full episodes of Drain the Oceans in the upcoming weeks! Stay tuned!

  • @ZERO-CHEATS-GAMING
    @ZERO-CHEATS-GAMING Рік тому +45

    Knowledge is power 💪💪💪
    Brilliant to watch, I'm looking forward to the next 1 👍

    • @yeahman147
      @yeahman147 Рік тому +4

      Whats saying this knowledge is the truth?

  • @nanographics21
    @nanographics21 Рік тому +17

    Really really very excellent JOB done by the whole team, Thanks for this.

  • @MrMatt905
    @MrMatt905 Рік тому +78

    The “The heavy water war” is a really good dramatized series that includes a lot of the heavy water factory , and even covers the tragedy of this ferry!

    • @m1t2a1
      @m1t2a1 Рік тому +8

      The Heroes of Telemark is an action packed movie, not from Hollywood.

    • @elgato9534
      @elgato9534 Рік тому +8

      Germany never came close to a nuke. Bad physics. Good thing Einstein escaped

    • @newdaltonmacesamsungs4010
      @newdaltonmacesamsungs4010 Рік тому +3

      😂😢

    • @metronorthwtrain1452
      @metronorthwtrain1452 Рік тому +4

      I think there was more than a half ton of heavy water. 18 barrels.

    • @hrdley911
      @hrdley911 Рік тому +5

      @@elgato9534 Agreed. They were years away from a working reactor, much less weapons-grade uranium. That said, the raids on the plant and ferry were truly heroic.

  • @mre9593
    @mre9593 Рік тому +17

    The "Heavy Water" story was made into a movie "The Heroes of Telemark" (1965)

    • @williamgibb5557
      @williamgibb5557 Рік тому +2

      I am glad I'm not the only one who remembers the movie. Whether accurate or not, it told the story.

  • @MegaSickcat
    @MegaSickcat Рік тому +78

    THANK YOU NAT GEO Channel for always presenting well made documentaries and not giving into those moronic so-called 'reality' shows. Every other channel that I used to watch like A&E, TLC, Discovery, etc have all gone straight down the into the garbage pile of bad programming. Thankfully I have your channel to enjoy the most interesting and well done programs.

    • @ryanreedgibson
      @ryanreedgibson Рік тому +10

      What, you don't like Ancient Astronaut Theorists? LMAO! I know, I don't either. The History channel failed by trying to entertain everyone instead of providing history.

    • @gandalflotr2898
      @gandalflotr2898 Рік тому +2

      Only conspiracy theories think this is real

  • @robh467
    @robh467 Рік тому +21

    I love it when they're like, "this nuclear power station that energizes over a million homes....well it's all in jeopardy if the diesel generators go out".

  • @babylov3r
    @babylov3r Рік тому +27

    National geography thank you for a wonderful documentary.

  • @dvmo5553
    @dvmo5553 Рік тому +58

    This is an awesome documentary, I enjoyed watching it so much.

    • @NatGeo
      @NatGeo  Рік тому +11

      Thanks for watching!

  • @russellstraw
    @russellstraw Рік тому +42

    This is a brilliant series very enjoyable and informative

    • @Pauly421
      @Pauly421 Рік тому +1

      Shame about the narrator though. I've never before in my life heard anyone pronounce the first "r" in february. So weird lol

  • @mat4410
    @mat4410 Рік тому +63

    One research video I found was they were able to close on U-480 because they had scraped the rubber coating when they went to rest on a sand bed giving an accurate location of “the dragons lair” to mine it.
    I didn’t know about the Sidney and found the whole story amazing. There were model kits available as a kid which had freighters with hidden guns on deck, but the Germans definitely took it to the next level.

    • @krzykris
      @krzykris Рік тому

      The Allies had cracked German encryption years before this sinking. They may have known the exact route of the U-boat.

  • @expat3779
    @expat3779 Рік тому +6

    Such a wonderful documentary. Thanks Nat Geo 😘😘😘.

  • @itsblooper3193
    @itsblooper3193 10 місяців тому +4

    Amazing video, very interesting and they did a great job! Will say though I don’t think ive ever heard the words “drain the ocean” more

  • @OdeeOz
    @OdeeOz Рік тому +13

    I loved this series when it was on TV. Now I get to re-watch at will on YT and DVD. 👍👍& 10⭐+ 💯😀

  • @honorladone8682
    @honorladone8682 Рік тому +10

    This is the best free entertainment. I used to watch you guys all the time on TV channel 12.

  • @davereay123
    @davereay123 Рік тому +28

    A brilliant and educational video, thanks for uploading it

    • @NatGeo
      @NatGeo  Рік тому +3

      Thanks for watching! We will be posting full episodes every week, so stay tuned!

  • @duncanbaynton7138
    @duncanbaynton7138 Рік тому +510

    My mother was the last person to speak to the hmas Sydney they reported they were steaming into Geraldton and were 100 nautical miles north west of that port for fifty years we as a family heard the story then one of the maritime experts heard of her hearing the last message so that’s where they searched and it was found after all those years there is a plaque in her honour for finding the Sydney at the west Australian maritime museum fact!

    • @SuperZytoon
      @SuperZytoon Рік тому +33

      Certainly a proud moment for your family! Awesome!

    • @danielkenney3266
      @danielkenney3266 Рік тому +19

      That is something special and AMAZING!!

    • @juancarrero6652
      @juancarrero6652 Рік тому +12

      Was she in contact with the ship on a personal level or a military one? Either way sorry for your loss🙏🏼

    • @diGritz1
      @diGritz1 Рік тому +11

      That's an incredible connection to those times......
      It speaks volumes to what happened. It was so quick and such a surprise that, most likely most,
      if not all of the crew and officers were probably looking at it as just another monotonous inspection.
      It might sound careless but this was just prior to Pearl attack. So little reason to be suspicious.

    • @kennethbellotte8678
      @kennethbellotte8678 Рік тому +10

      That's awesome

  • @Chilly_Billy
    @Chilly_Billy Рік тому +3

    Thanks for posting this. I missed it when it aired on TV.

  • @CoffeeMug2828
    @CoffeeMug2828 Рік тому +180

    The story of HMAS Sydney is a good example on why one should be careful even when faces something seemingly innocent. Concealed weapons are the scariest of all. You don't know what your enemy will pull out. If HMAS Sydney was on guard, she could have responded fast enough.

    • @honorladone8682
      @honorladone8682 Рік тому +12

      Never underestimate your opponent or those around you.

    • @edtrine8692
      @edtrine8692 Рік тому +12

      It's highly doubtful if the Sydney could have avoided the torpedoes? Fired from just over 1,000 yards away and traveling at over 30kts were talking around 30 seconds warning before the torpedoes hit?

    • @pilsplease7561
      @pilsplease7561 Рік тому +17

      @@edtrine8692 The Sydneys captain was not very competent despite what his son wants people to believe, disregarded orders and made a poor decision and lost his ship for it. He is solely at fault for the disaster.

    • @twddersharkmarine7774
      @twddersharkmarine7774 Рік тому +13

      @@pilsplease7561 i feel like blaming a single person for a fault isn't the best of ideas

    • @craigme2583
      @craigme2583 Рік тому +5

      @@pilsplease7561 killing all the survivors in the water wasn't a good look...

  • @Snipeyou1
    @Snipeyou1 Рік тому +17

    Hey Nat Geo, thanks for always doing it big for us. I appreciate
    It all since I was a little boy.

  • @TMS26164
    @TMS26164 Рік тому +16

    In fact the technology used then are still not cheap to be acquired by many countries today, it shows how relentless the old classical scientists were

  • @casual1n
    @casual1n Рік тому +42

    Every so often we get an exquisite documentary like this, keep it up with the WW2 genre it's what people like imo.

    • @BruceMyersLBZ
      @BruceMyersLBZ Рік тому +2

      Not your opinion, you are most definitely speaking for the vast majority

    • @mohdfahmi8841
      @mohdfahmi8841 Рік тому +1

      .. lawa nya.tanah.luas.besar.tempt.nya.lama.bru.best.nya.saya..jnji.halal.ok.lama.bru.sah.i..i..

  • @LuukvdHoogen
    @LuukvdHoogen Рік тому +5

    This channel is really good at repeating questions...

    • @jacoblecoy3700
      @jacoblecoy3700 Рік тому

      Great channel. Of course, you could skip it, and play Jacks'.

  • @martyollier7536
    @martyollier7536 Рік тому +11

    My Father's uncle was a seaman on the Sydney, he died just hours before they were due to take that fateful voyage from a fall out of a 2nd story window of the building they were housed in.
    He got up in the wee small hours to go to the toilet, and as was the custom before a mission all the crew had been having their fill of liquid refreshments the night before, and in his befuddled state he turned right instead of left and walked straight off the balcony. Broke his neck...
    If he had not have died in the fall and just been injured he would've stayed ashore and been the only surviving crew member of the ship...

    • @dennisraymond542
      @dennisraymond542 Рік тому +2

      You're absolutely right.... Good evening Marty how are you doing over there hope you, it's such a lovely day that the lord has made 😊

  • @Grumpycat95
    @Grumpycat95 Рік тому +15

    So I was curious about the lake they were talking about at the beginning of the video and for comparison I searched " how tall is the empire state building ? " , crazy how this lake is deeper than the 381m building .

  • @parkerlynne
    @parkerlynne Рік тому +7

    This is my favorite Nat Geo show!

  • @vicluna4373
    @vicluna4373 Рік тому +8

    Best documentaries .. keep it up Nat geo

  • @darkseid7891
    @darkseid7891 Рік тому +29

    Good experience and great documentary ❤️‍🔥

  • @kenneybis1097
    @kenneybis1097 Рік тому +335

    The lack of fish as they drain the ocean is surprising as well as alarming. 🤔

  • @jamesmcduff2552
    @jamesmcduff2552 Рік тому +23

    They took a barrel of the heavy water found just off the wreck site back in 2005ish, and it was found to be heavy water after testing. They made a PBS documentary about it.

    • @honorladone8682
      @honorladone8682 Рік тому +8

      That's what they're saying in this video exactly what you said plus more.

    • @robertsimington911
      @robertsimington911 2 місяці тому

      Water is heavy

    • @jamesmcduff2552
      @jamesmcduff2552 2 місяці тому +1

      @@robertsimington911" Heavy water is a form of water with a unique atomic structure and properties coveted for the production of nuclear power and weapons."-Per PBS

  • @pilpil8180
    @pilpil8180 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for dropping this *NG!*

  • @ashwaniyadav677
    @ashwaniyadav677 Рік тому +211

    I like this kinda free documentation it really gives lots of knowledge 🙂❤️

    • @mrlaw711
      @mrlaw711 Рік тому

      This is a good one.
      Even Hitler decided that using and developing an atomic bomb was too harsh. There is a doc about that, too.

    • @yeahman147
      @yeahman147 Рік тому +7

      Nothing in life is ever free

    • @moryakantha5782
      @moryakantha5782 Рік тому +5

      @@yeahman147 yep we are paying for the internet in this case

    • @Solvingnow
      @Solvingnow Рік тому +1

      @@moryakantha5782 vha itna deep Gyan....

    • @Trey4x4
      @Trey4x4 Рік тому +3

      NatGeo is silently giving you the finger for that comment

  • @therealest953
    @therealest953 Рік тому +6

    So Interesting ! Just that repeated phrase "but the Drained waters reveals an amusing devastating secret" scratches my mind

  • @duggla781
    @duggla781 Рік тому +8

    Absolutely an 1amazing place to go for free educational TV that's anything but ordinary graphics, it's national geographic, it's where you're going☆

  • @dano4572
    @dano4572 Рік тому +6

    WONDERFUL VIDEO! THANK YOU!

  • @arbaz79
    @arbaz79 Рік тому +2

    Amazing documentary that I enjoyed watching.Keep it up 👍

  • @grom7826
    @grom7826 Рік тому +5

    Drain the ocean off the Carolinas coast ! The U. S. Navy filled several old ships with toxic chemicals, asbestos, even PCBs then sunk them off the coast. I saw this in one of your magazines in the 1970s. I have tried searching for it but I can't find it. Has this been scrubbed from your database National Geographic ?

  • @soppingclam
    @soppingclam 9 місяців тому

    Knowing this story in detail from a different documentary. I tell ya what this one sure drags on and repeats itself over and over and over with minimal details. Holy God

  • @vansetproductions1948
    @vansetproductions1948 Рік тому +1

    This was really entertaining, thank you.

  • @Cod3nameHurricane
    @Cod3nameHurricane Рік тому +3

    Thank you Natgeo for all the amazing vids you let us watch for free

  • @Solvingnow
    @Solvingnow Рік тому +7

    Fantastic job guys

  • @sandcastle1417
    @sandcastle1417 Рік тому +4

    "Ancient astronaut theorists say yes"....
    Oh wait, wrong show.

  • @armandoramirez5054
    @armandoramirez5054 Рік тому

    Great song, Matt! My best friend introduced me to Blink-182 in high school and I’ve loved them ever since. I too had an Acura Integra in high school, mine was red!

  • @warsandmilitaria
    @warsandmilitaria Рік тому +22

    I can't imagine being trapped in a submarine that is taking on water. It is incredibly terrifying

    • @Caus86
      @Caus86 10 місяців тому

      How about now?

    • @TheWhoda
      @TheWhoda 10 місяців тому +4

      @@Caus86I rather implode in a submarine than drown to death. The titan crew died before they knew what happened.

    • @lucasrem
      @lucasrem 3 місяці тому

      @@TheWhoda When Putin shot down Malaysian Airlines over the Ukraine, most people were alive till it hit the ground.

  • @roberthuffer6591
    @roberthuffer6591 Рік тому +5

    Any one of these could be at the beginning of a Clive Cussler novel.

  • @nocturnalsimulacrum6385
    @nocturnalsimulacrum6385 Рік тому +14

    Probably the best Nat Geo has had in programming

  • @Bill-nd2qd
    @Bill-nd2qd 10 місяців тому +3

    The Heroes of Telemark is a great movie about this event in history with Kirk Douglas.

  • @taddurrenberger3672
    @taddurrenberger3672 Рік тому +14

    Can we have a Nat Geo show called "Drain the Swamps?" ;-)

    • @chiefracosky5372
      @chiefracosky5372 Рік тому +4

      Lmfao

    • @jacoblecoy3700
      @jacoblecoy3700 Рік тому +4

      Tad, not a bad idea. The Corps of Engineers did exactly that: Okefanokee Swamps in Georgia, USA.

    • @krzykris
      @krzykris Рік тому +4

      What happened to the United States? How did this promising form of government fail? Let's drain the Swamp to find the answers!

  • @carlchilds3741
    @carlchilds3741 Рік тому +2

    Awesome series!

  • @tfaop171
    @tfaop171 11 місяців тому +1

    No one ever beats national geographic at all.

  • @24tanksalot
    @24tanksalot Рік тому +3

    Great video really liked it

  • @jbcaptain11
    @jbcaptain11 Рік тому +13

    There must be many sunken cargo ships in the Atlantic still

  • @Knapweed
    @Knapweed Рік тому +22

    This is the most riveting war documentary I've seen in some time. The ingenuity that went behind the crafting of the armed merchant vessel is extraordinary, desperately tragic though the sinking of HMSA Sydney proved to be.

    • @EthanHaluzaDelay
      @EthanHaluzaDelay 6 місяців тому +1

      Actually they were mostly welded by this time

    • @RohanGillett
      @RohanGillett 5 місяців тому +1

      Wasn't extraordinary really. The British often disguised armed merchants in WW1 to combat the U-boat menace. They were called Q-ships.

    • @Knapweed
      @Knapweed 5 місяців тому +1

      @@RohanGillett How many sank a warship?

  • @parwezabdulmajidhodekar4672
    @parwezabdulmajidhodekar4672 Рік тому +2

    Informative video👍

  • @seancrowley1065
    @seancrowley1065 Рік тому +7

    Heroes of Telemark tells exactly what happened to the ferry. Kirk Douglas was great in it !

    • @dennisraymond542
      @dennisraymond542 Рік тому

      You're absolutely right.... Good evening Sean how are you doing over there hope you, it's such a lovely day that the lord has made 😊

  • @mdoering
    @mdoering Рік тому +20

    wait, so has it been under water for more than 70 years? I'm not sure I heard it right the first 10 times... 😂 Seriously though, this was a great production

    • @ecleveland1
      @ecleveland1 Рік тому +1

      This series would be much better without all the repetition, repetition, repetition, oh I said that already.

  • @lildurk35
    @lildurk35 Рік тому +4

    Hope y’all know they never really drained the lake 😂

  • @Hotlineelec
    @Hotlineelec 3 місяці тому +2

    Quick question; when you drained the lake did you happen to find a watch?!?! I lost mine on a fishing holiday. 🤦🏼‍♂️

  • @denniswhite166
    @denniswhite166 Рік тому +1

    Watch the whole video - IMO the last segment is the most astounding.

  • @annamarieventer5111
    @annamarieventer5111 Рік тому +6

    Amazing absolutely outstanding 👌

  • @madhatterstudios966
    @madhatterstudios966 Рік тому +5

    At least I now know where Clive Cussler got his inspiration for the "Oregon" series from with the tale of the Sydney.

  • @mustangmike4078
    @mustangmike4078 Рік тому

    Love the the drowning death gargle sounds when the sub sinks, really adds some authenticity.

  • @benjaminrush4443
    @benjaminrush4443 Рік тому

    Great Video. Thanks.

  • @allspark4717
    @allspark4717 Рік тому +3

    This is the Natgeo i miss 👍👍

  • @softbytesunlimited
    @softbytesunlimited Рік тому +7

    This is why I love GEO..❤

  • @Mcthindi
    @Mcthindi Рік тому +6

    Amount tech developed in between ww1 to ww1 is unbelievable .
    They were way ahead of time !

  • @lyamschuss8786
    @lyamschuss8786 Рік тому +2

    "1500 feet is too deep for divers"
    That's not entirely true, it's too deep for scuba diving but atmospheric diving suits enable diving at depths of up to 2300 feet. The reason for not using them here is probably cost-effectiveness.

  • @atinderdd33
    @atinderdd33 Рік тому +154

    If Hitler never invaded USSR then we probably see a different kind of map with many missing countries

    • @daveo2992
      @daveo2992 Рік тому +8

      Yupp :/ we really do live in the dark universe

    • @Abhorrent1
      @Abhorrent1 Рік тому +14

      No, you wouldn't...Germany had absolutely no chance to win the war. Once the US got involved there was no way a relatively resource poor country with no good access to the sea had any shot of competing with the industrial strength and production power of America. Germany should have been defeated by France had the French leadership been competent. They were hoping the majority of the world would be reluctant to enter the war due to WW1, and a lot of the things you've likely learned about the German military from the time period is propaganda. You were much more likely to find German soldiers moving field guns with horses than a battalion of Stugs etc.

    • @AlexFromnic
      @AlexFromnic Рік тому +5

      One of those missing countries would of been Germany. The reason why Hitler attacked was because they had intelligence which was very correct that the Russians bad fully mobilized its population to build an unprecedented tank producing machine. They attacked because so many tanks were being built had they waited the situation would of gotten impossible. The USSR basically the equivalent of a tank nuclear arms race. There is no doubt. Stalin was loading up and poised to attack Germany when the moment was right.

    • @AlexFromnic
      @AlexFromnic Рік тому

      The narrative that the USSR would of just sat there quiet and stayed out of it is totally wrong. They were mobilizing to attack Germany and building up. Upon seeing this Germany tried to attack before USSR fully built up.

    • @AlexFromnic
      @AlexFromnic Рік тому +11

      @@Abhorrent1 yeah that's just wrong. Germany was an economic power house and their allies in Japan had all the sea access the Axis needed. As they gobbled up countries they also gobbled up armies and means of production. The United States wasn't the power house army you think it was. It was successful given the fact the Axis was busy battling the Soviets at the same time. History shows Germany and their chances were very strong. It was the Soviets not the US that tipped the balance

  • @dredmankind7824
    @dredmankind7824 Рік тому +2

    What an incredible Documentary 😊👌❤️ Big thank you to NG

  • @shamseshomali110
    @shamseshomali110 Рік тому +6

    Danke schön ,Das war sehr interessante Doku .👍 💐 !

  • @NoondaniGoatanddairyFarm
    @NoondaniGoatanddairyFarm Рік тому +6

    Great documentary

  • @mistermonologue2442
    @mistermonologue2442 Рік тому +24

    You have to tip your hat to them.
    Taken by surprise and ripped apart with quick fire losing their main guns and comman center within a few seconds and STILL managing to take their killer with them....very respectable.

    • @geoffreybennett8912
      @geoffreybennett8912 Рік тому +6

      The one thing you can count on in a crazy fire fight is that if there are Australians in the fight, you might just come back to tell the tale to your loved ones and then try your damndest to forget everything except the men and women who didn't make it. R.I.P. Sydney crew.

    • @romelrecinto1460
      @romelrecinto1460 Рік тому +3

      maybe because the sydney was designed to be a warship, thus it was able to withstand all the the fires thrown against her enough to damage her adversary

    • @AndominateU
      @AndominateU Рік тому

      not really that was the strongest thing Australia had at this point...

  • @badgerdad777
    @badgerdad777 Рік тому +3

    I didn't know about the German warships camouflaged as merchant ships, I didn't know the Russians sank the Graf Zeppelin and I didn't know about the rubber coated U-Boat. Pretty amazing documentary.

    • @615855
      @615855 11 місяців тому +1

      The German raiders were not warships camouflaged as merchant ships. It was the other way around, merchant ships carrying concealed armament. It was the job of these raiders to sink enemy merchant ships. They were not meant to engage enemy warships such as the Sydney. That is why the captain of the Kormoran, Detmers, had no choice but to try and lure the Sydney into point blank gunfire range and surprise the Sydney and Detmers succeeded in doing that.. Six officers and 70 odd crew of the Kormoran lost their lives. The Captain, Theodore Detmers, and the rest of the crew spent the remainder of the war as pow's in Australia.

  • @itoemy1048
    @itoemy1048 Рік тому

    I learned a lot to this video , thank you very much for making this video , students must have the knowledge on how and where the internet runs and going to database. I just learned it now .thank you so much .

  • @user-bf1ne6iv6o
    @user-bf1ne6iv6o 4 місяці тому +1

    Very good video.Thanlks.

  • @if5566
    @if5566 Рік тому +18

    My impression of this show:
    This is a ship at the bottom of the ocean. But WHY is the ship at the bottom of the ocean? There's a torpedo hole in the ships side. But HOW DID the ship sink? Water flooded in. But WHERE did the water COME from?

    • @ritchierichh
      @ritchierichh Рік тому +11

      Thanks for saving me 46min. These documentaries are full of "but WheRe DiD iT CoMe FrOm?" only to cut to commercial or drag on for another 10min talking about a similar issue or speaking slowly. This could easily be watched at 1.25x speed.

    • @Mikkeyboyy
      @Mikkeyboyy Рік тому

      from putin

    • @Dinco422
      @Dinco422 Рік тому +2

      @@ritchierichh do you have adhd or HDTV ?

    • @continental_drift
      @continental_drift Рік тому +1

      @@ritchierichh 1.5X speed.

    • @Pauly421
      @Pauly421 Рік тому +1

      This feels like a "BUT WAS IT ALIENS ALL ALONG???" type of production. I'm out.

  • @edtrine8692
    @edtrine8692 Рік тому +5

    I read the reason the Graf Zeplin was never completed was Hermann Wilhelm Göring! He didn't want the German Navy to have an Airforce! He wanted to be in control of all the German aircraft!

  • @Travelbyjc
    @Travelbyjc Рік тому

    Very nice video. Thanks

  • @gracepark-pf1ks
    @gracepark-pf1ks 5 місяців тому +1

    This is spectacular documentary series national geographic have the most outstanding fascinating documentaries!!!

  • @DonGH97
    @DonGH97 Рік тому +21

    Very interesting! I never knew about this battle. Imagine being there on one of those ships, respect to all the fallen ones🙏🏻

  • @chickenprime4546
    @chickenprime4546 Рік тому +2

    22:31 Everyone gangsta until the merchant ship can sink you

  • @tanimdattachowdhury733
    @tanimdattachowdhury733 Рік тому

    Excellent Video.

  • @Caillou5120
    @Caillou5120 2 місяці тому

    Ive been studying ww2 for my own personal knowledge and I got a lot from this, thank you!

  • @ryanlawrence9010
    @ryanlawrence9010 Рік тому +3

    There's good Kirk Douglas movie on heavy water mission.

  • @human_isomer
    @human_isomer Рік тому +13

    This could have been a good documentary if the presented scientific data wouldn't have been messed up right from the start.
    3:03: Heavy water is not "chemically hydrogen". It's water. You've cut out the essential part that it's made from Deuterium ("heavy hydrogen") and oxygen, and that Deuterium is chemically hydrogen, but has twice the weight of normal hydrogen.
    3:50 Heavy water was mainly required as a moderator, so natural Uranium could be used. Of course it also worked for cooling, but that was not the main purpose.
    4:00 They produced (almost) 1000 kilos of heavy water _in_ _total_. Without that last part, the information is useless.
    I'm not going to mention the rest, if already after 4 minutes the mistakes pile up. Sad to see that the level of exactness has decreased so much at national geographic.

    • @jacoblecoy3700
      @jacoblecoy3700 Рік тому +5

      Get a job there and set them straight.

    • @human_isomer
      @human_isomer Рік тому +2

      @@jacoblecoy3700 I already have a job where I do exactly this. But for areas that have more impact to the real world than youtube channels.

  • @waleedabdel-aal
    @waleedabdel-aal Рік тому

    Informative!

  • @Maulfurion
    @Maulfurion Рік тому +2

    Banger doc. 😮!

  • @Bigbro28
    @Bigbro28 Рік тому +21

    In a word … utterly fascinating. A brilliant doco. 🐨🇦🇺

  • @felipeball7778
    @felipeball7778 Рік тому +5

    When i found out about the experiments on graf zeppelin i get the same feeling i have when i learn about the operation cross roads these old warships just looks beautiful for me but in our time aesthetics and looks needs to be sacrifice for better stats and performance of warships

  • @mrbarth
    @mrbarth Рік тому +1

    The first Allied ship to be sunk by U480 was the Canadian Corvette HMCS ALBERNI on 21 August 1944. The official memorial for the crews of both vessels is in Courtenay, British Columbia at the HMCS ALBERNI Museum and Memorial (HAMM). Besides artifacts from the Alberni the museum also has records of U480 prior to her last voyage out of Norway. With the assistance of Library and Archives Canada and Germany, all of the names of crewmen have been authenticated as well as correct spellings. HAMM has been in operation since 1999.

  • @ninderninder2689
    @ninderninder2689 Рік тому

    good job really .liked

  • @lucaskiai2159
    @lucaskiai2159 Рік тому +4

    It is truly a blessed gift.

  • @krishdeliciousful
    @krishdeliciousful Рік тому +3

    You gotta be careful transporting heavy water. It obviously sank that ship due to it's immense weight.

    • @NONANTI
      @NONANTI 10 місяців тому +1

      All it would take is one leaky barrel.

    • @c.j.cleveland7475
      @c.j.cleveland7475 4 місяці тому

      Helped along, of course, by that big hole in the hull from the explosion! 🤣😂😁

  • @isanarditama
    @isanarditama Рік тому +1

    amazing doc

  • @josephvanucchi5249
    @josephvanucchi5249 Рік тому +2

    A bit ashamed to admit it, but I clicked on this thinking hitler wanted to Drain the Ocean lol

    • @LaurieAnnCurry
      @LaurieAnnCurry Рік тому

      You just made me feel SO much better. Thought I was the only one! I clicked thinking “dang, that’s whack even for Hitler”.

  • @fredflintstone8048
    @fredflintstone8048 Рік тому +33

    The heavy water was only one of several needed components for nuclear fission. Experts who worked on the Manhattan project who were involved in making the successful atom bomb which were used to bomb Japan later inspected Heisenberg's lab in Germany and their report was that he wasn't close to building an atomic bomb, he was missing knowledge critical for being able to do it. He was off on the wrong track.

    • @glennquagmire1747
      @glennquagmire1747 Рік тому +6

      Opinions vary, there's a lot more to this story and yes they were very close to producing one, too bad the truth is sealed from the public!!!!

    • @fredflintstone8048
      @fredflintstone8048 Рік тому +12

      @@glennquagmire1747 Not being an expert on this myself I tend to defer to the scientists that were called to inspect Heisenberg's lab after the war. They stated that given the evidence that Germany wasn't as close as the rest of the world feared.
      In the end it doesn't matter. History played out the way that it did, and any suggestions regarding 'what might have happened' are mere counterfactuals.

    • @ct1762
      @ct1762 Рік тому +12

      @@fredflintstone8048 you do have to wonder how truthful that report was, or if the original one was destroyed. think about it: if the Germans where found to have been very close to their own bomb but with only a fraction of the bloated American los Alamos effort, it would be embarrassing and make them look less like heroes. everything after the war was designed to make the Germans look like fools. Obviously in reality that was complete nonsense as we stole turbo fan engines, countless pharmaceutical breakthroughs and highly sophisticated rockets for our own use.

    • @fredflintstone8048
      @fredflintstone8048 Рік тому

      @@ct1762 The very same scientific community that was heavily funded due to the threat of the German Nuclear weapon were the ones that conducted the inspection. It was in their financial interest which is number one for anyone for their opponents to be very dangerous. Even today warriors are judged by how great their foes are, so NO, I don't believe the report was a conspiracy, and this history of the German development of the bomb by Heisenberg was shown to have floundered. The fact is that they got a head start on the US, but never actually came close to completing their bomb.
      I do agree that the victor in wars always drags the vanquished through the mud further justifying the war and the defeat, demonizing them, but that doesn't have anything to do with this. On top of that the American scientific community continued to get funding for going on to develop the H-Bomb with the new nuclear boogeyman threat, Russia.
      I do agree that Germany was ahead with other technology like rockets and turbojet engines, but that doesn't prove they were ahead with a nuclear weapon.

    • @ct1762
      @ct1762 Рік тому +1

      @@fredflintstone8048 no i agree with you what i said is all conjecture at best. i was just saying you have to wonder how accurate all of his was after the war. the Russians must have stolen our research... as i highly doubt if the Germans couldnt do it and they could? maybe im wrong there.