The Sewol, a South Korean ferry carrying mostly high school students, sank on its way to an island in the south, where the students were to undergo a traditional right-of-passage-style extended field trip. The story is both quite tragic due to the death-to-survival ratio, and rage-inducing due to the negligence and selfishness of the crew and the South Korean government - and, since the victims were mostly minors, I feel it one hundred percent deserves a spot in a video like this. Also look up the sinkings of the Arctic, the Atlantic, and The HMAS Sydney. The Britannic, one of Titanic's two sister ships (which had been recolored and re-outfitted as a hospital ship), also sank after a torpedo hit her. Though the death toll was quite low, a nurse was on board who had survived the Titanic sinking, and she apparently said that the Britannic was an even worse experience for her due to the particularly horrific nature of Britannic's deaths - mostly caused - quite directly - by her rear propellers.
Your comment triggered me. Whenever I think of the SK government after the ferry sank, I feel enraged. Every time. Those poor, poor kids deserved so much better.
@@neilholmes8200 you are 100% correct about that. My error. Thanks for correcting my mistake. I guess I have learned so much about so many shipwrecks in the last couple years or so that I was getting them mixed up just a tad
Interesting trivia; The actor who portrayed John Jacob Astor in Titanic (1997) was a survivor of the Wilhelm Gustloff. The fear in the scenes were he's inside the Grand Staircase as it flooded was genuine. The actors name is Eric Braeden
I think what makes the Titanic so historically significant is the status of the first class passengers, the nature of the sinking, the dichotomy of the rich and poor on board, the language barriers found in the signs, the confusing internal layout and the atrocious safety and mangement protocols. Still, the other tragedies are no less significant.
I’m seeing a consistency with overcrowded ships in the video Edit: The captain of the Costa Concordia is a coward for escaping the ship before anyone else
You can find on UA-cam the call from the coast guard officer who orders Schettino to return to the ship. Four terribly long minutes in which he does everything not to go back up..
Want to know something ludicrous? Sometimes later that cowardly buffoon was invited on a university to host a seminar on the management of emergency situations.
Gordon Lightfoot’s song _The Wreck of the_ Edmund Fitzgerald, is a heartbreaking telling od the real-life story of the sinking of the SA Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975 in Lake Superior. All 29 of her crew, including her captain, Captain Ernest M. McSorely, were killed in the wreck somewhere near Whitefish Bay or Whitefish Point. The Mariners’ Church in Detroit used to annually ring a bell 29 times friom November 1975-November 2005, and last year, after Lightfoot’s death, they rang it 29 times yet again, and added 1 more for Lightfoot. Truly a heartbreaking story especially for all of us Michiganders.
I was onboard a boat that went over the wreck. It was announced over the public address when the boat was passing over the wreck. Not a single word was spoken and everyone was very still as the boat passed over the wreck. The sinking of the Fitz is still painfully felt in Canada and United States of America.
Lesson is: don't start wars with the three biggest economies on the planet so that your military is ground down and your country gets invaded and you are forced to evacuate thousands of people aboard ships designed to safely carry a fraction of that, all in submarine-infested waters.
The reason why the ship is overshadowed is mainly because the Nazi tried to hide the real reason why it was sunk and were also hiding the fact that they were losing the war. So the ship went unknown for some time before more and more people discovered it. The reason the Titanic and Lustitania are well known is because they happened during a time of peace.
A survivor of Willhelm Gustloff was in the Titanic movie. He played JJ Astor. Talk about trauma... Sruviving/watching the wilhelm gustoff as a small child then filming in a ship Cameron insisted on building from scratch so he could raise/sink it over and over again.
Titanic wasn’t a cruise liner she was an ocean liner. They are very different things. Cruise liners typically go to multiple destinations and end the voyage in the same port they are also meant for leisure. Ocean liners go from one point and end the voyage in another. They are not designed for leisure they are more like a city bus whereas a cruise liner is like a party bus. Also they did acknowledge the ice warnings because they changed course days before to avoid the ice field it was also normal procedure to continue at full speed until ice is spotted. Also a huge important note. The titanic was not going her full speed. A entire boiler room wasn’t even lit. The ice didn’t rip the hull open it buckled the hull plates opening gaps between the plates. The Titanic was never called unsinkable Olympic was called unsinkable and that was after Titanic sank. The reason passengers weren’t concerned was because the ship was sinking so slowly that they thought everything was fine. In this time it took ships under 20 minutes to sink. It took Titanic nearly 3 hours to sink. They also didn’t want to go out into the cold if it ended up being a false alarm. Nobody wants to be cold in a small boat in pitch black darkness when you have a warm lit up ship right there that you aren’t even confident is going to sink. Having enough lifeboats for half was standard procedure on every ship of the era. The boats were never intended to carry everyone they were meant to ferry passengers. The rescue ship also uses its boats to aid in an evacuation so two ships worth of boats was considered enough. The ship sailed with its original intended amount of boats the design with more was only for when laws changed. In fact they were only required to carry 16 boats but they put 20 on. Also more boats wouldn’t have even helped because they barely got the 20 they did have launched. Two didn’t even get launched they just floated off the deck. The owners didn’t say it would clutter the deck again it was always intended to carry 20 boats until the laws changed to require more. The boats weren’t full because passengers were not getting on deck due to the cold. The boats launched later on were full because people began to realize the severity of the situation. The chairman of White Star Line J. Bruce. Ismay actually ran around the ship urging passengers to get on deck and take it seriously. He also tried to help launch boats but the crew told him to step back and let them do it. The officers did know the boat capacity again they filled them with whoever was there. If nobody was left they launched.
With all that being typed mfers were too cocky or nonchalant somewhere in the process because far too many lives were lost when they didn't need to be. Overcrowding and underestimating seems to be the common occurrence. A lot of cocky and careless mfers costed people their lives instead of doing what the hell was righteous in maritime affairs
I started to thing about the M/S Estonia, which sadly sank in between Sweden and the country of Estonia, which did claim a lot of lives. They did make a documentary about it, and a few UA-camrs have talked about it. I don't remember how many died that day, but i know the ship could handle up to around 4000 passengers, but i don't remember how many lost their lives
I’m surprised The General Slocum didn’t make this list. Another Shipwreck that maybe should have been included is White Stars first major disaster, The Atlantic.
The USS Indianapolis will be forever remembered because of one of the greatest monologues ever delivered in a classic movie. Robert Shaw’s drunken telling of the story in Jaws is a chilling telling of the the event. The monologue was all the more believable because Shaw was actually dunking on at the time. Of course, he spent the entire movie intoxicated because he was an alcoholic, but a brilliant actor. He wasn’t even the first choice for the role of Captain Quint, but I can’t imagine any other actor in that role. Lee Marvin was Spielberg’s first choice, but he turned down the role. It seemed as if Shaw was born to play Captain Quint, probably his most noticeable role from every movie he was in. The fact that he wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar that year is a testament to how corrupt and political the Oscars had become many years earlier. It always seemed that any movie that was a blockbuster was always snubbed by the Oscars, where they usually select the more artsy fartsy films that few people watched or remember if they did.
I was in the USN and on a ship that sank. It's not a whole lot of fun. Some people think they have been void of hope, no, you don't know or understand the true meaning of that feeling until you are sitting in the middle of the largest pitch black ocean with nothing more than a small rubber raft and one single oar.
The Empress of Ireland. Sunk on May 29th 1914 after a collision with the Storstad in the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Took 14 minutes to go down. 1012 people died. The tragedy is forgotten because World War 1 happen on July 28th the same year. People at Pointe-au-Père near Rimouski did not forget. They build a museum for the tragedy so people can learn about it.
@@ninaforss4450 Likewise, my experience on that ferry was when it was called Viking Sally. Do you remember how claustrophobic that lowest deck, and the small cabins there, were?
The ferry MV Sewol sank on the morning of April 16, 2014, en route from Incheon towards Jeju in South Korea. Investigators found that on the day of the sinking, the ferry was dangerously overloaded with cargo, some of which was not properly secured in storage areas. When the Sewol undertook a sharp turn, some of that cargo shifted and threw the vessel off balance, an investigation found. Additionally, Sewol was carrying only 580 tons of ballast water, much less than the recommended 2,030 tons; this would make the vessel more prone to list and capsize. The crew had reportedly pumped out hundreds of tons of ballast water from the bottom of the ship in order to accommodate the additional cargo. Out of 476 passengers and crew, 304 died in the disaster, including around 250 students from Danwon High School in Ansan City. Of the 172 survivors, more than half were rescued by fishing boats and other commercial vessels that arrived at the scene approximately 40 minutes before the Korea Coast Guard (KCG). On May 15, 2014, the captain and three crew members were charged with murder, while the other eleven members of the crew were indicted for abandoning the ship.
The 2nd incident in this video, the MV Doña Paz, I was 6 years old during that time About 2 to 3 days after the incident, my family went to the beach (yes, we do go to the beach even in December) this was according to my mom as I don’t remember that day. Being in another major island, Negros Occidental, relatively nearer to the site of tragedy, my Mom suddenly yanked me out of the water as bloated corpses were being washed ashore the beach we were in. It was the talk of the town for weeks. All the camera film rolls have been consumed by that time so no picture were taken, but why would they. Some people’s lunches went out their entrance holes in a projectile manner due to the appearance of the corpses. Good thing I didn’t witness any of it as my mom told me and my brother to climb on the rear portion of our Jeep to play with our toys far from the shore.
The Halifax explosion definitely caused more damage than all of these. A ship carrying explosives collided with another in Halifax port. The explosives ignited, creating one of the largest non nuclear explosions in recorded history. This vapourised the ship, wiped out the town, and temporarily drained the harbour
For the last one in shipwrecks, the USS Indianapolis wasn't sunk before, but instead AFTER its trip to Leyte Gulf; accurately discussed by Robert Shaw in the movie "Jaws", the Indianapolis finished transporting components for the Hiroshima bomb. The mission was so secret at the time that upon the surprise attack from the Japanese sub, no distress signal was given out. The only things that were accurate though were the amount of crewmen, the fact the waters were shark-infested, the number of days it took for the US Navy to realize the incident, and the amount of survivors being rescued from the ship itself.
I have to agree with you 100%. The Indianapolis was under radio silence so there was never and distress call sent out. That slight oversight in this video makes you wonder how accurate the other stories are.
The reason why no one talks about the Wilhelm gustloff is because it sank in WW2, and a lot of people died in that war, and that ship was just a small percent of all deaths in that war
I think it's more because history is written by the victors and Wilhelm Gustloff was not an ally ship. If it was because of death toll during WWII then we wouldn't really talk about Lusitania sinking during WWI
There were more than one nation that intentionally targeted civilians in World War II. Soviets, Germans, Americans just accomplished the most civilian deaths.
@@largol33t1 No, it's because it's considered normal for high casualty shipwrecks to occur during war time. That's why when people talk about the most tragic shipwrecks it's always the ones during peacetime as it's expected overloaded troop carriers or refugee haulers to sink with high casualty counts during times of war.
@@largol33t1World War II was a war where civilians were not safe, no matter which side the civilians happened to live. That is not to say that civilians are not intentionally targeted in very recent wars. But, World War II had disgusting numbers of civilian deaths on both sides.
The Lusitania (which a lesser known fact for this ship is that she and her sister ship were the inspiration to build the Titanic and the Titanic's two sister ships to compete with the Cunard line) is another really bad wreck. She sank in just 18 minutes after getting torpedoed in WWI (which is one of the reasons why America joined the war, though not the final straw). 1,197 people died out of 1,959 people (including about 123 Americans). There was just not a lot of time for them to get to the lifeboats, especially with many people on lower decks.
Empress of Ireland, Andrea Doria, Lusitania, Mary Rose, Black Thorne, Summit Venture, Estonia, Herald of Free Enterprise, and last but not least El Faro.
@@leeblack6139 El Faro was just DUMB. He wasn't stupid enough to INTENTIONALY sail into a hurricane, but didn't properly check for weather updates. He was running on info 24h out of date.
Thanks for the video. You included some real gut punchers in this one. There were some you left out that were brought up in other comments down below. You could make a Part 2 and even a Part 3 video for those sinkings.
@@ChrisSprenger. I’m a rivet counter when it comes to Titanic. I only lasted a few minutes of this one. I’m not even going to list all the inaccuracies 😂
No it didn’t make a 300 foot long hole! It popped rivets and loosed hull plates! No the first compartments flooded then as bow went down! Water from the flooded compartments flowed over the top of the water compartments. The water tight compartments didn’t go all the way up!
Is this Bright Side in disguise? _RMS Titanic_ was not a cruise ship (there is no such thing as a cruise liner, since cruise ships do not follow established shipping lines on established, tight schedules. They instead wander up and down coasts), she was an ocean liner. The collision with the iceberg made multiple breaches along the hull, not a single long one, and buckled the hull plating, causing many rivets to pop free, resulting in a number of secondary breaches. _Titanic_ was not steaming at full speed, and this was less relevant anyway compared to the lack of visibility due to the moonless night and dead-calm water making it almost impossible to spot icebergs, most particularly growlers like the one they hit. _Titanic_ faced not just one berg, but was completely surrounded by an ice field, as the survivors would discover in the morning. _Titanic_ had been making excellent time, beating _Olympic_ 's initial crossing time, and neither Smith nor Ismay saw any reason to go full-speed. Philips and Bride, who heroically repaired their Marconi wireless the day before the sinking, were on contract to White Star from the Marconi Wireless Company. They were not officially part of the ship's crew, and therefore had different priorities, such as catching up to a backlog of messages between passengers and their families. They even told other wireless operators, including the one aboard _SS Californian_ , which was nearby, to shut up (he would later go to bed because _Californian_ was stopped for the night, and the ship only had one operator, himself). Philips and Bride did not pass all of the warnings regarding icebergs to Captain Smith or the others of the bridge crew, therefore they were not fully aware of steaming into an ice field, or they might have reduced speed or diverted further south. While the crew was able to launch many of the lifeboats, some remained unused. Passenger attitude toward lifeboats at the time was not favourable: due to how many people lost their lives to the seas after getting into these open-topped lifeboats in rough waters, people felt it was safer aboard even a sinking ship. Lifeboats were seen as a way to ferry passengers from sinking vessels to rescue ships already on-station, yet there were none the night _Titanic_ sank. The major flaw that sank _Titanic_ was that her watertight bulkheads did not go high enough, therefore the water spilled over the top into the next compartment instead of being sealed. The reason the height was reduced from its original design, similar to the reduction of lifeboats, was to prevent the inner halls from becoming more of a maze to passengers. Harland and Wolff also decided not to put in double-sided hulls because they could not think of a scenario where that protection would be needed, especially after _Olympic_ and _Hawke_ collided, and both survived. Many lessons were learned because of _Titanic_ sinking and the tragic loss of life, yet due to companies cutting corners, greed, and neglect on the part of both the crew and the company, maritime disasters such as that of _MV Sewol_ and _MV Dona Paz_ still happen.
I know I’m a month late. But I’m so into ship wrecks that I have to mention a few that they didn’t cover that you should definitely look up. I hope they make a part II to this video! - PS General Slocum - SS Arctic - AHS Centaur - MS Estonia - Halifax Explosion (involved ships) - HMS Hood - Yamato - Empress of Ireland - Carpathia (ship that rescued Titanic survivors) - Andrea Doria
here's some misinformation here about the Titanic: 1: While it's true the Titanic didn't have enough Life Boats for all passengers board, the reason wasn't due to negligence, in fact the Titanic actually had MORE life boats than was legally required at that time. The common wisdom at the time was that Life Boats weren't safe enough to be a "living situation" like people think, but instead that they were meant to ferry people from a sinking ship to a rescue ship, as it was accepted that there would always be a ship close by enough to rescue people with ample time (Which there was, the S.S. California was only 15 miles from Titanic, but the wireless had been turned off for the night and the Captain, stupidly, refused to investigate that Titanic's rocket flairs). All if this had been demonstrated to work in the past. 2: The "300 foot gash" in the hull was also misleading. The actual damage was reportedly only about 11 feet, but it was several small gashes spread across 300 feet. This particular situation was one that was genuinely never considered in construction as it hadn't really been observed before to this degree. 3: The Titanic was never, officially, reported as "unsinkable", but only as "the most unsinkable" - The latter fact was actually true. The Titanic was ironically, the safest ship in the world for her time, just ended up sustaining just BARELY enough damage to founder. The decision to continue moving at full speed was also one that likely seemed to be a good idea at the time - The frigid water and the moonless night created a sort of mirage that made visibility that night look incredible - it was actually very poor.
It’s hard to believe that they didn’t even turn the wireless back on, that’s incredibly stupid. A lot more people could have survived if they had just asked if they were okay.
@@Scott_Buchanan Yeah, if I recall properly, the reason is because the California only had one wireless operator, and he was asleep. The Titanic had two so someone could always be on duty. That said, if I saw rockets going off like that as a Captain, sorry man, you need sleep but I'm gonna need you to push a little longer just to see if something is wrong.
I remember meeting an old swedish lady years ago at a nursing home and did an interview with her for a class assignment.. she said that when she was a little girl, she was in a ship that hit the same iceberg as the Titanic. I don't remember the name of the ship, unfortunately, but she did say that they had to be rescued.
I find the story of the Titanic special because of the corruption of classes The Rich and Nobel treating the poor horribly at the day the ship sank wealth and states didn't mater Like a reminder of the day of judgement Only your deeds mater then
@@demonzone2571except Captain Smith never said that. In fact, The White Star Line never claimed Titanic to be unsinkable. It was a magazine called The Ship Builders Magazine that called the Titanic “practically unsinkable” in an article about all the new safety features the Titanic had and that’s where the myth of the Unsinkable Titanic comes from.
Ironic how the crew of the Essex chose to avoid the nearby land out of fear of cannibals and yet they themselves became cannibals to survive after a few months at sea.
What happened to the captain of the Indianapolis , Captain Charles McVay III, was a travesty. The US Navy scapegoated him and accused him of incompetence for the sinking, despite the surviving crew testifying that he'd done all he could; he'd even refused to leave his ship until all other crewmen had. This resulted the captain getting misdirected hate from some of the families of the dead and later caused him to take his own life in 1968. He was only exonerated posthumously in 1996, after a decades-long effort by both surviving crewmen and the captain of the Japanese submarine, who contended that his foe had done everything that could have been expected of a captain and was disturbed at having unearned dishonor foisted upon him.
i also wanted to mention another extremely tragic shipwrech that happened in south korea in 2014. a ship called the sewol was set off for jeju island with high school students on it for a residential. the boat started capsising i believe the following morning and all onboard were told to stay inside. many people including students aged around probably 15-16 years old died. it happened 10 years ago and it was truly upsetting for the families of all of the passengers
Great video as always, but I am surprised that MV Sewol or MS Estonia didn't get on the list. Perhaps they weren't worse than Titanic, but they were worse than some others on this list.
Why wasn't M/S Estonia on this list? It was way more casualties than costa Concordia and the controversial investigation after the accident almost deserves it's own video. Great video though!
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There were 3 big ships that sank in the Baltic Sea at the end of WW2: Wilhelm Gustloff, Goya and Steuben. In total, more than 20'000 lives were lost. RIP 😞🙏🕯️
The sad thing about Le Joola is that since the people on the boat were sleeping inside of it and when the boat flipped only the people sleeping on the deck of the boat could make it to safety. You could see that when what I think was a rescue diver go through a hallway of the ship pointing there camera down but you still can see the feet of the dead and at a certain point in the video which they turn the camera up for a couple seconds and in that time you can see a man’s face pressed up against what I think is a glass door with his mouth a bit open. I don’t think the video is up anymore but if it is don’t watch it
Sultana remains the worst shipwreck in American waters, but few other than Civil War buffs know about it. Because of the shifting river channel, the final resting place of Sultana is now under a cornfield.
Went to grade school in the early 60’s. The big craze was collecting Civil War bubble gum trading cards. They were extremely gory, showing body parts being torn off by cannonballs and lots and lots of explosions. Had to hide them from our moms. My most treasured ones were about the Battle of the Crater, Andersonville Prison and the explosion of the Sultana. What horrible luck for the Union soldiers who had survived battle and imprisonment so vile the prison commander was the first person to be executed for crimes against humanity only to die horribly due to the greed and incompetence of a couple of men.
I hate to say this but the Titanic was not 882 ft long it was 883.3 ft long.I just figured I should let you know. Also, the amount of light bulbs that was on board the Titanic at the time was actually more than a British border trade wanted on there so the White Star line actually did really good by doing that.
It never "stopped in its tracks" as you say. It continued for another 1/2 mile or more from the iceberg at 8 knots pushing water into the holes with pressure. The chambers were open to the next because the tops were not sealed as you would expect. The Olympic was its sister ship, completed a year previously. Unfortunately, the Olympic was side swiped by an English War Ship and suffered damage to the cast iron stern. After a hasty repair and lost lawsuit against The Queen, Olympic was injured again when her keel collided with a sunken wreck outside NY. I have looked for records of the repairs over the next 25 years but there were none related to these accidents. Leads one to believe Olympic was SWITCHED for Titanic and JP Morgan even kept the same captain at the core of these "mishaps". Doubling the insurance makes it suspect as well. The press dubbed The White Star Line "Too Big To Fail". On Christmas Eve in 1913 Congress accepted and chartered The Federal Reserve to control all US currency. It is run by a cabal of the wealthiest men of the time with names recognizable by all. We celebrate these shenanigans every April since. Have A Nice Day!
It is recorded that there was a fire in the coal storage, this happened on the opposite side to the dock, the side even turned red, but they put it out and kept quiet. This meant that the steel and rivets within this area had softened. This has become a possibility why the iceburg was able to only tear that section
It wasn't tiger sharks that killed those sailors it was white tip sharks that are closely related to the great white sharks. I just thought I would put you straight 😅
Having more lifeboats on the Titanic probably would not have made any difference because there would not have been enough time to get all of the life boats off anyway.
I think the worst part about the Indianapolis was that the captain (Charles B. McVay, specifically) got all the blame pinned on him. All because he couldn’t make a bloody ZIG-ZAG with the ship. Even the guy that torpedoed the ship basically said it was near impossible to evade it.
1:03 true but even if they did have more life boats it wouldn't have matter... not all the ones they had even launched it would've just been more empty boats that didn't have enough time to launch
the wilhelm gustloff is quite literally the worst maritime disaster and no one in america knows of it because we never learn of anything bad russia did.
I was still missing a few huge catastrophies from this video: Goya (about 7.000 casualties, sunk in the Baltic by the russians in 1945), Armenia (about 7.000 casualties, sunk in the Black Sea by the germans in 1941), Cap Ancona (about 4.500 casualties, sunk in the Baltic by the british in 1945). All of these were carrying civilians and wounded soldiers.
In addition to delivering troops, the USS Indianapolis was returning AFTER delivering components of the atomic bombs. It was a horrible incident, but had the enemy sub caught them BEFORE they concluded that mission, the end of the war would have taken MUCH longer and those troops would have also been lost. Many good men paid with their lives. R.I.P. My Grandfather was a Seabee and they were all training for the invasion of the enemy mainland where it was estimated we would have lost hundreds of thousands. Back in 2001 I was able to meet Retired General Paul Tibbets and thanked him on behalf of a grateful nation and in particular, my Grandfather.
The ship wreck on the Thames, is spookily like the collision also on the Thames between The Marchioness & Bow Belle. The Bow Belle was a large dredger, it collided with the much smaller Marchioness. The Marchioness was poorly lit, & if I remember correctly, she was on the wrong side of the river. The Marchioness was a party boat, & full of people. It happened in the late 80s, it was awful.
You asked if there are any other shipwrecks that can be added to the list. I don't know if this counts because most of the victims were on land, but how about the Halifax Harbour explosion? On December 6, 1917, The Imo, a ship traveling to Belgium with relief supplies, was steaming out of Halifax Harbour at full speed and on the wrong side of the harbour. It collided with the Mont Blanc, a French steamer heavily loaded with explosives and benzine oil for munitions bound for the battlefields of France. Mont Blanc's benzine was set ablaze by the collision and her crew abandoned ship. A few minutes later, the fire detonated the explosives onboard, resulting in the largest man-made explosion in history prior to the invention of the nuclear bomb. Most of the city of Halifax was destroyed, resulting in over 2000 deaths. Many thousands more were injured.
Survivors of the Essex: Refuse to sail to safety because of racist misconceptions about Pacific Islanders being “cannibals” Also the survivors of the Essex: cannibalize each other after becoming stranded at sea due to aforementioned decision. I feel like this is a good candidate for a Darwin Award.
When I was a small kid my mom came up to me with a newspaper article about a big ship, asking me if I want to go on a mother and child trip. I was annoyed and couldn't even swim very good back then so I was not really keen on going on a ship trip or swimming and all that stuff. So we didn't go. The ship's name was Costa Concordia
The Indianapolis is used as a teaching method in the us navy. We use the tragedy of it to instill an understanding of sea survival as well as respect for the loss of life
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The Sewol, a South Korean ferry carrying mostly high school students, sank on its way to an island in the south, where the students were to undergo a traditional right-of-passage-style extended field trip. The story is both quite tragic due to the death-to-survival ratio, and rage-inducing due to the negligence and selfishness of the crew and the South Korean government - and, since the victims were mostly minors, I feel it one hundred percent deserves a spot in a video like this. Also look up the sinkings of the Arctic, the Atlantic, and The HMAS Sydney.
The Britannic, one of Titanic's two sister ships (which had been recolored and re-outfitted as a hospital ship), also sank after a torpedo hit her. Though the death toll was quite low, a nurse was on board who had survived the Titanic sinking, and she apparently said that the Britannic was an even worse experience for her due to the particularly horrific nature of Britannic's deaths - mostly caused - quite directly - by her rear propellers.
Your comment triggered me. Whenever I think of the SK government after the ferry sank, I feel enraged. Every time. Those poor, poor kids deserved so much better.
@@AceMoonshot Yes; it is unbelievably terrible.
I was also once hit by a torpedo, it hurts.
Slight correction, Brittanic struck a mine, she wasn't hit by a torpedo
@@neilholmes8200 you are 100% correct about that. My error. Thanks for correcting my mistake. I guess I have learned so much about so many shipwrecks in the last couple years or so that I was getting them mixed up just a tad
Interesting trivia;
The actor who portrayed John Jacob Astor in Titanic (1997) was a survivor of the Wilhelm Gustloff.
The fear in the scenes were he's inside the Grand Staircase as it flooded was genuine.
The actors name is Eric Braeden
Never read that in any of his bios.
He was Victor in one of the soap operas grandma used to watch 😊
His son wrote the movie Black Sea
@@TammieR-B Victor Newman on Young and the Restless lol
@@duzted yeah 👍
I think what makes the Titanic so historically significant is the status of the first class passengers, the nature of the sinking, the dichotomy of the rich and poor on board, the language barriers found in the signs, the confusing internal layout and the atrocious safety and mangement protocols. Still, the other tragedies are no less significant.
Tbf the Titanic only sank because of the iron rivets used on the stern/bow instead of the steel ones used on the center hull
And because the tragedy could’ve been so easily avoided.
I think it's so well-known because it was said to be unsinkable and was the biggest ship in the world at the time
@@CashWallace-i4p Interesting - the changes made to her sister Olympic after the sinking made Olympic slightly heavier, thus "bigger" than Titanic.
There werent many safety and management errors really, its honestly mostly just bad luck
I’m seeing a consistency with overcrowded ships in the video
Edit: The captain of the Costa Concordia is a coward for escaping the ship before anyone else
You can find on UA-cam the call from the coast guard officer who orders Schettino to return to the ship. Four terribly long minutes in which he does everything not to go back up..
Want to know something ludicrous? Sometimes later that cowardly buffoon was invited on a university to host a seminar on the management of emergency situations.
@@drako7603 Ah yes, the famous "Vada a bordo, cazzo" :)
Gordon Lightfoot’s song _The Wreck of the_ Edmund Fitzgerald, is a heartbreaking telling od the real-life story of the sinking of the SA Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975 in Lake Superior. All 29 of her crew, including her captain, Captain Ernest M. McSorely, were killed in the wreck somewhere near Whitefish Bay or Whitefish Point. The Mariners’ Church in Detroit used to annually ring a bell 29 times friom November 1975-November 2005, and last year, after Lightfoot’s death, they rang it 29 times yet again, and added 1 more for Lightfoot.
Truly a heartbreaking story especially for all of us Michiganders.
Hey. It’s great to know the backstory on this amazing song! Always so melancholy sounding to me. Thanks
@@karenroot450 Yes, it is indeed very sad. Always makes me cry to listen to it.
That song absolutely SLAPS though, good song
I AM A MICHAGANDER
I was onboard a boat that went over the wreck. It was announced over the public address when the boat was passing over the wreck. Not a single word was spoken and everyone was very still as the boat passed over the wreck. The sinking of the Fitz is still painfully felt in Canada and United States of America.
The lesson is: don't bring passengers more than the capacity
The lesson is don't bring passengers more than lifeboat capacity
Lesson is: don't start wars with the three biggest economies on the planet so that your military is ground down and your country gets invaded and you are forced to evacuate thousands of people aboard ships designed to safely carry a fraction of that, all in submarine-infested waters.
The lesson is stay out of water…
@@Joshua.duciel Well that would do it LOL although there are plenty of idiots who can drown on land in 2 inches of water.
The Wilhelm Gustloff was so unfairly overshadowed by the Titanic and Lusitania wrecks. The amount of deaths was unbelievable.
The reason why the ship is overshadowed is mainly because the Nazi tried to hide the real reason why it was sunk and were also hiding the fact that they were losing the war. So the ship went unknown for some time before more and more people discovered it. The reason the Titanic and Lustitania are well known is because they happened during a time of peace.
True
The Wilhelmina Gustloff had its Navigation lights on.
Even though it had civilians on board, it also had a lot of German troops, so was seen as a legitimate war target.
A survivor of Willhelm Gustloff was in the Titanic movie. He played JJ Astor. Talk about trauma... Sruviving/watching the wilhelm gustoff as a small child then filming in a ship Cameron insisted on building from scratch so he could raise/sink it over and over again.
Titanic wasn’t a cruise liner she was an ocean liner. They are very different things. Cruise liners typically go to multiple destinations and end the voyage in the same port they are also meant for leisure. Ocean liners go from one point and end the voyage in another. They are not designed for leisure they are more like a city bus whereas a cruise liner is like a party bus. Also they did acknowledge the ice warnings because they changed course days before to avoid the ice field it was also normal procedure to continue at full speed until ice is spotted. Also a huge important note. The titanic was not going her full speed. A entire boiler room wasn’t even lit. The ice didn’t rip the hull open it buckled the hull plates opening gaps between the plates. The Titanic was never called unsinkable Olympic was called unsinkable and that was after Titanic sank. The reason passengers weren’t concerned was because the ship was sinking so slowly that they thought everything was fine. In this time it took ships under 20 minutes to sink. It took Titanic nearly 3 hours to sink. They also didn’t want to go out into the cold if it ended up being a false alarm. Nobody wants to be cold in a small boat in pitch black darkness when you have a warm lit up ship right there that you aren’t even confident is going to sink. Having enough lifeboats for half was standard procedure on every ship of the era. The boats were never intended to carry everyone they were meant to ferry passengers. The rescue ship also uses its boats to aid in an evacuation so two ships worth of boats was considered enough. The ship sailed with its original intended amount of boats the design with more was only for when laws changed. In fact they were only required to carry 16 boats but they put 20 on. Also more boats wouldn’t have even helped because they barely got the 20 they did have launched. Two didn’t even get launched they just floated off the deck. The owners didn’t say it would clutter the deck again it was always intended to carry 20 boats until the laws changed to require more. The boats weren’t full because passengers were not getting on deck due to the cold. The boats launched later on were full because people began to realize the severity of the situation. The chairman of White Star Line J. Bruce. Ismay actually ran around the ship urging passengers to get on deck and take it seriously. He also tried to help launch boats but the crew told him to step back and let them do it. The officers did know the boat capacity again they filled them with whoever was there. If nobody was left they launched.
I am amazed (eh!?, eh!?) how they got so many facts wrong about the Titanic in such a short time of the vid :)
... Wow thanks for the information
With all that being typed mfers were too cocky or nonchalant somewhere in the process because far too many lives were lost when they didn't need to be. Overcrowding and underestimating seems to be the common occurrence.
A lot of cocky and careless mfers costed people their lives instead of doing what the hell was righteous in maritime affairs
this entire vid had sooo much misinformation about Titanic, thank you for pointing it out, it was going to drive me insane :D
@@shittelofc bcuz this channel + bright side are both just money farms. tons of false info but they dont care as long as they get the views and money
I started to thing about the M/S Estonia, which sadly sank in between Sweden and the country of Estonia, which did claim a lot of lives. They did make a documentary about it, and a few UA-camrs have talked about it. I don't remember how many died that day, but i know the ship could handle up to around 4000 passengers, but i don't remember how many lost their lives
Some 800 victims
They weren't Americans nor was an American on board so they don't give a f***
Around 800 people
989 were on the ship that night, of which 852 perished.
Once again, most of the few who escaped the sinking succumbed to hypothermia...
I’m surprised The General Slocum didn’t make this list. Another Shipwreck that maybe should have been included is White Stars first major disaster, The Atlantic.
I was thinking about this as well.
The USS Indianapolis will be forever remembered because of one of the greatest monologues ever delivered in a classic movie. Robert Shaw’s drunken telling of the story in Jaws is a chilling telling of the the event. The monologue was all the more believable because Shaw was actually dunking on at the time. Of course, he spent the entire movie intoxicated because he was an alcoholic, but a brilliant actor.
He wasn’t even the first choice for the role of Captain Quint, but I can’t imagine any other actor in that role. Lee Marvin was Spielberg’s first choice, but he turned down the role. It seemed as if Shaw was born to play Captain Quint, probably his most noticeable role from every movie he was in.
The fact that he wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar that year is a testament to how corrupt and political the Oscars had become many years earlier. It always seemed that any movie that was a blockbuster was always snubbed by the Oscars, where they usually select the more artsy fartsy films that few people watched or remember if they did.
last one was a bit to chew on so to say
The one that literally went upside down and sank remained me of the Poseidon movie
I was in the USN and on a ship that sank. It's not a whole lot of fun. Some people think they have been void of hope, no, you don't know or understand the true meaning of that feeling until you are sitting in the middle of the largest pitch black ocean with nothing more than a small rubber raft and one single oar.
The Empress of Ireland. Sunk on May 29th 1914 after a collision with the Storstad in the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Took 14 minutes to go down. 1012 people died. The tragedy is forgotten because World War 1 happen on July 28th the same year. People at Pointe-au-Père near Rimouski did not forget. They build a museum for the tragedy so people can learn about it.
MS Estonia: The worst peacetime shipwreck on European waters
RMS Empress of Ireland: The Canadas Titanic
I remember Estonia. I had actually saled on Estonia when it was called Wasa King saling between Finland and Sweden.
@@ninaforss4450 Likewise, my experience on that ferry was when it was called Viking Sally. Do you remember how claustrophobic that lowest deck, and the small cabins there, were?
And still today it is forbidden to find out what exactly happened. The official reason is BS. and everyone knows it.
Was the Titanic not technically also Canada's Titanic since it happened off the coast of Newfoundland?
The ferry MV Sewol sank on the morning of April 16, 2014, en route from Incheon towards Jeju in South Korea. Investigators found that on the day of the sinking, the ferry was dangerously overloaded with cargo, some of which was not properly secured in storage areas. When the Sewol undertook a sharp turn, some of that cargo shifted and threw the vessel off balance, an investigation found. Additionally, Sewol was carrying only 580 tons of ballast water, much less than the recommended 2,030 tons; this would make the vessel more prone to list and capsize. The crew had reportedly pumped out hundreds of tons of ballast water from the bottom of the ship in order to accommodate the additional cargo. Out of 476 passengers and crew, 304 died in the disaster, including around 250 students from Danwon High School in Ansan City. Of the 172 survivors, more than half were rescued by fishing boats and other commercial vessels that arrived at the scene approximately 40 minutes before the Korea Coast Guard (KCG). On May 15, 2014, the captain and three crew members were charged with murder, while the other eleven members of the crew were indicted for abandoning the ship.
Accountability wow what a concept enacted justice, meanwhile …
The 2nd incident in this video, the MV Doña Paz, I was 6 years old during that time
About 2 to 3 days after the incident, my family went to the beach (yes, we do go to the beach even in December) this was according to my mom as I don’t remember that day. Being in another major island, Negros Occidental, relatively nearer to the site of tragedy, my Mom suddenly yanked me out of the water as bloated corpses were being washed ashore the beach we were in. It was the talk of the town for weeks. All the camera film rolls have been consumed by that time so no picture were taken, but why would they. Some people’s lunches went out their entrance holes in a projectile manner due to the appearance of the corpses. Good thing I didn’t witness any of it as my mom told me and my brother to climb on the rear portion of our Jeep to play with our toys far from the shore.
you thought the titanic disaster was the worst to ever happen you thought wrong silly🤪🤪
@@raven4k998 I think you might've replied to the wrong comment. Otherwise, you are insensitive and probably should not talk on the internet.
The irony of them thinking the island would be full of cannibals then they end up resorting to cannibalism a few weeks alter … karma is weird lol
My step-father's grandmother was the last body recovered from the sunken Eastland. Barbara Lukens, 32.
Did she live?
@@海王星クショックスthe OP states 'body' which unfortunately means deceased. What a horrible tragedy to have as part of the family history 😔
@@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars hey at least Barbara Lukens is being spoken about like this. RIP Barbara Lukens!
Thank you for remembering, & sharing other horrid maritime tragedies. This is very informative & so heartbreaking.
The Halifax explosion definitely caused more damage than all of these. A ship carrying explosives collided with another in Halifax port. The explosives ignited, creating one of the largest non nuclear explosions in recorded history. This vapourised the ship, wiped out the town, and temporarily drained the harbour
For the last one in shipwrecks, the USS Indianapolis wasn't sunk before, but instead AFTER its trip to Leyte Gulf; accurately discussed by Robert Shaw in the movie "Jaws", the Indianapolis finished transporting components for the Hiroshima bomb. The mission was so secret at the time that upon the surprise attack from the Japanese sub, no distress signal was given out. The only things that were accurate though were the amount of crewmen, the fact the waters were shark-infested, the number of days it took for the US Navy to realize the incident, and the amount of survivors being rescued from the ship itself.
I have to agree with you 100%. The Indianapolis was under radio silence so there was never and distress call sent out. That slight oversight in this video makes you wonder how accurate the other stories are.
I live in Indianapolis lol
The reason why no one talks about the Wilhelm gustloff is because it sank in WW2, and a lot of people died in that war, and that ship was just a small percent of all deaths in that war
I think it's more because history is written by the victors and Wilhelm Gustloff was not an ally ship. If it was because of death toll during WWII then we wouldn't really talk about Lusitania sinking during WWI
@@Quickfire412 I agree. It was a German ship so the allies never say anything about it.
There were more than one nation that intentionally targeted civilians in World War II. Soviets, Germans, Americans just accomplished the most civilian deaths.
@@largol33t1 No, it's because it's considered normal for high casualty shipwrecks to occur during war time. That's why when people talk about the most tragic shipwrecks it's always the ones during peacetime as it's expected overloaded troop carriers or refugee haulers to sink with high casualty counts during times of war.
@@largol33t1World War II was a war where civilians were not safe, no matter which side the civilians happened to live. That is not to say that civilians are not intentionally targeted in very recent wars. But, World War II had disgusting numbers of civilian deaths on both sides.
There's also Estonia (852 dead out of 989).
The Lusitania (which a lesser known fact for this ship is that she and her sister ship were the inspiration to build the Titanic and the Titanic's two sister ships to compete with the Cunard line) is another really bad wreck. She sank in just 18 minutes after getting torpedoed in WWI (which is one of the reasons why America joined the war, though not the final straw). 1,197 people died out of 1,959 people (including about 123 Americans). There was just not a lot of time for them to get to the lifeboats, especially with many people on lower decks.
Empress of Ireland, Andrea Doria, Lusitania, Mary Rose, Black Thorne, Summit Venture, Estonia, Herald of Free Enterprise, and last but not least El Faro.
That's enough stories for a Part 2 and Part 3 video.👍👍
@jenniferlapos9542 thank you. Maritime history is a hobby of mine.
@@leeblack6139 El Faro was just DUMB. He wasn't stupid enough to INTENTIONALY sail into a hurricane, but didn't properly check for weather updates. He was running on info 24h out of date.
The lusitania should've been mentioned. 1,197 people died and it sank in the middle of a war zone where there was u-boats
There were so many left off this list that it would’ve had to be an hour long. Perhaps we should request a Part Two video.
The SS Waratah is a interesting shipwreck because it was never seen again and even to this day the location of it is unknown
Yes, and it was the last passenger ship to be sunk by ice without a trace of the passengers or crew (except for one life ring).
0:31 that’s actually false. it teared only a 30 ft gash into the side of the hull
It’s didn’t cut a gash. It actually bump and pushed the rivet pieces out. That’s a fact.
It wasn’t false that was true
Thanks for the video. You included some real gut punchers in this one. There were some you left out that were brought up in other comments down below. You could make a Part 2 and even a Part 3 video for those sinkings.
The Essex event was the inspiration for “Moby Dick”.
@BeAmazed; Thanks for the chilling historical tales.
Why does the narrator sound like if Donald Trump had become a history teacher instead of POTUS 😂
I know right😂😂😂
Lmao 😂
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0:31 really? 🙄
Lolololol
Thought the same thing, thanks for the laugh
@@ChrisSprenger. I’m a rivet counter when it comes to Titanic. I only lasted a few minutes of this one. I’m not even going to list all the inaccuracies 😂
The moment I heard him say "300 foot gash" I thought no way this guy didn't even last 30 seconds without being wrong
0:31 really?🙄
I love your videos i've been watching them since 2022
these arent accurate
Ur hairline is not accurate either
@@DomFerro-ok4rm me or him
No it didn’t make a 300 foot long hole! It popped rivets and loosed hull plates! No the first compartments flooded then as bow went down! Water from the flooded compartments flowed over the top of the water compartments. The water tight compartments didn’t go all the way up!
Is this Bright Side in disguise?
_RMS Titanic_ was not a cruise ship (there is no such thing as a cruise liner, since cruise ships do not follow established shipping lines on established, tight schedules. They instead wander up and down coasts), she was an ocean liner.
The collision with the iceberg made multiple breaches along the hull, not a single long one, and buckled the hull plating, causing many rivets to pop free, resulting in a number of secondary breaches.
_Titanic_ was not steaming at full speed, and this was less relevant anyway compared to the lack of visibility due to the moonless night and dead-calm water making it almost impossible to spot icebergs, most particularly growlers like the one they hit. _Titanic_ faced not just one berg, but was completely surrounded by an ice field, as the survivors would discover in the morning. _Titanic_ had been making excellent time, beating _Olympic_ 's initial crossing time, and neither Smith nor Ismay saw any reason to go full-speed.
Philips and Bride, who heroically repaired their Marconi wireless the day before the sinking, were on contract to White Star from the Marconi Wireless Company. They were not officially part of the ship's crew, and therefore had different priorities, such as catching up to a backlog of messages between passengers and their families. They even told other wireless operators, including the one aboard _SS Californian_ , which was nearby, to shut up (he would later go to bed because _Californian_ was stopped for the night, and the ship only had one operator, himself). Philips and Bride did not pass all of the warnings regarding icebergs to Captain Smith or the others of the bridge crew, therefore they were not fully aware of steaming into an ice field, or they might have reduced speed or diverted further south.
While the crew was able to launch many of the lifeboats, some remained unused. Passenger attitude toward lifeboats at the time was not favourable: due to how many people lost their lives to the seas after getting into these open-topped lifeboats in rough waters, people felt it was safer aboard even a sinking ship. Lifeboats were seen as a way to ferry passengers from sinking vessels to rescue ships already on-station, yet there were none the night _Titanic_ sank.
The major flaw that sank _Titanic_ was that her watertight bulkheads did not go high enough, therefore the water spilled over the top into the next compartment instead of being sealed. The reason the height was reduced from its original design, similar to the reduction of lifeboats, was to prevent the inner halls from becoming more of a maze to passengers. Harland and Wolff also decided not to put in double-sided hulls because they could not think of a scenario where that protection would be needed, especially after _Olympic_ and _Hawke_ collided, and both survived.
Many lessons were learned because of _Titanic_ sinking and the tragic loss of life, yet due to companies cutting corners, greed, and neglect on the part of both the crew and the company, maritime disasters such as that of _MV Sewol_ and _MV Dona Paz_ still happen.
Your comment is 100% legit
@@marcusbaker830accurate comment
I know I’m a month late. But I’m so into ship wrecks that I have to mention a few that they didn’t cover that you should definitely look up. I hope they make a part II to this video!
- PS General Slocum
- SS Arctic
- AHS Centaur
- MS Estonia
- Halifax Explosion (involved ships)
- HMS Hood
- Yamato
- Empress of Ireland
- Carpathia (ship that rescued Titanic survivors)
- Andrea Doria
here's some misinformation here about the Titanic:
1: While it's true the Titanic didn't have enough Life Boats for all passengers board, the reason wasn't due to negligence, in fact the Titanic actually had MORE life boats than was legally required at that time. The common wisdom at the time was that Life Boats weren't safe enough to be a "living situation" like people think, but instead that they were meant to ferry people from a sinking ship to a rescue ship, as it was accepted that there would always be a ship close by enough to rescue people with ample time (Which there was, the S.S. California was only 15 miles from Titanic, but the wireless had been turned off for the night and the Captain, stupidly, refused to investigate that Titanic's rocket flairs). All if this had been demonstrated to work in the past.
2: The "300 foot gash" in the hull was also misleading. The actual damage was reportedly only about 11 feet, but it was several small gashes spread across 300 feet. This particular situation was one that was genuinely never considered in construction as it hadn't really been observed before to this degree.
3: The Titanic was never, officially, reported as "unsinkable", but only as "the most unsinkable" - The latter fact was actually true. The Titanic was ironically, the safest ship in the world for her time, just ended up sustaining just BARELY enough damage to founder. The decision to continue moving at full speed was also one that likely seemed to be a good idea at the time - The frigid water and the moonless night created a sort of mirage that made visibility that night look incredible - it was actually very poor.
It’s hard to believe that they didn’t even turn the wireless back on, that’s incredibly stupid. A lot more people could have survived if they had just asked if they were okay.
@@Scott_Buchanan Yeah, if I recall properly, the reason is because the California only had one wireless operator, and he was asleep. The Titanic had two so someone could always be on duty.
That said, if I saw rockets going off like that as a Captain, sorry man, you need sleep but I'm gonna need you to push a little longer just to see if something is wrong.
I remember meeting an old swedish lady years ago at a nursing home and did an interview with her for a class assignment.. she said that when she was a little girl, she was in a ship that hit the same iceberg as the Titanic. I don't remember the name of the ship, unfortunately, but she did say that they had to be rescued.
The Titanic is a tale of when man's hubris challenges the All Mighty.
No, They challenged an iceberg and lost.
The all mighty couldn't build a ship as he/it doesn't exist 😂
@@eddybowe2953 yeah... When the captain said "not even God himself can sink this ship" believing the Titanic was unsinkable
I find the story of the Titanic special because of the corruption of classes
The Rich and Nobel treating the poor horribly
at the day the ship sank wealth and states didn't mater
Like a reminder of the day of judgement
Only your deeds mater then
@@demonzone2571except Captain Smith never said that. In fact, The White Star Line never claimed Titanic to be unsinkable. It was a magazine called The Ship Builders Magazine that called the Titanic “practically unsinkable” in an article about all the new safety features the Titanic had and that’s where the myth of the Unsinkable Titanic comes from.
Ironic how the crew of the Essex chose to avoid the nearby land out of fear of cannibals and yet they themselves became cannibals to survive after a few months at sea.
What happened to the captain of the Indianapolis , Captain Charles McVay III, was a travesty. The US Navy scapegoated him and accused him of incompetence for the sinking, despite the surviving crew testifying that he'd done all he could; he'd even refused to leave his ship until all other crewmen had. This resulted the captain getting misdirected hate from some of the families of the dead and later caused him to take his own life in 1968.
He was only exonerated posthumously in 1996, after a decades-long effort by both surviving crewmen and the captain of the Japanese submarine, who contended that his foe had done everything that could have been expected of a captain and was disturbed at having unearned dishonor foisted upon him.
i also wanted to mention another extremely tragic shipwrech that happened in south korea in 2014. a ship called the sewol was set off for jeju island with high school students on it for a residential. the boat started capsising i believe the following morning and all onboard were told to stay inside. many people including students aged around probably 15-16 years old died. it happened 10 years ago and it was truly upsetting for the families of all of the passengers
Great video as always, but I am surprised that MV Sewol or MS Estonia didn't get on the list. Perhaps they weren't worse than Titanic, but they were worse than some others on this list.
Why wasn't M/S Estonia on this list? It was way more casualties than costa Concordia and the controversial investigation after the accident almost deserves it's own video. Great video though!
I love this video, it’s very informative 😊
Thank you, Be Amazed! I love this channel because of the narrator!
Be amazed fans where are you?
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1917 the French cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc collided with the Norwegian causing a huge explosion in Halifax
I am from Australia,,, I love your channel and find the stories very interesting and fascinating 💟.
This is gonna be interesting
The Estonia. Very suspicious sinking. Questions unanswered.
Yeah. This year is the 30th anniversary of the sinking.😢
this is going to be interesting
It sure is
There were 3 big ships that sank in the Baltic Sea at the end of WW2: Wilhelm Gustloff, Goya and Steuben. In total, more than 20'000 lives were lost. RIP 😞🙏🕯️
im never going on a ship
The consistency is crazy tho🔥
If you're going to include the Titanic you have to go with the Lusitania.
The sad thing about Le Joola is that since the people on the boat were sleeping inside of it and when the boat flipped only the people sleeping on the deck of the boat could make it to safety. You could see that when what I think was a rescue diver go through a hallway of the ship pointing there camera down but you still can see the feet of the dead and at a certain point in the video which they turn the camera up for a couple seconds and in that time you can see a man’s face pressed up against what I think is a glass door with his mouth a bit open. I don’t think the video is up anymore but if it is don’t watch it
😂You left out the Minnow, of which seven people on a 3 hour tour got stranded on an island!!
Sultana remains the worst shipwreck in American waters, but few other than Civil War buffs know about it.
Because of the shifting river channel, the final resting place of Sultana is now under a cornfield.
Went to grade school in the early 60’s. The big craze was collecting Civil War bubble gum trading cards. They were extremely gory, showing body parts being torn off by cannonballs and lots and lots of explosions. Had to hide them from our moms. My most treasured ones were about the Battle of the Crater, Andersonville Prison and the explosion of the Sultana. What horrible luck for the Union soldiers who had survived battle and imprisonment so vile the prison commander was the first person to be executed for crimes against humanity only to die horribly due to the greed and incompetence of a couple of men.
OMG I've still got some of those! Wonder if anyone still collects them?
At one point, everybody talked about it because it’s literally out of the water now
I hate to say this but the Titanic was not 882 ft long it was 883.3 ft long.I just figured I should let you know. Also, the amount of light bulbs that was on board the Titanic at the time was actually more than a British border trade wanted on there so the White Star line actually did really good by doing that.
Hold on, are you measuring from the shaft or the balls?
It never "stopped in its tracks" as you say. It continued for another 1/2 mile or more from the iceberg at 8 knots pushing water into the holes with pressure.
The chambers were open to the next because the tops were not sealed as you would expect.
The Olympic was its sister ship, completed a year previously. Unfortunately, the Olympic was side swiped by an English War Ship and suffered damage to the cast iron stern.
After a hasty repair and lost lawsuit against The Queen, Olympic was injured again when her keel collided with a sunken wreck outside NY.
I have looked for records of the repairs over the next 25 years but there were none related to these accidents. Leads one to believe Olympic was SWITCHED for Titanic and
JP Morgan even kept the same captain at the core of these "mishaps". Doubling the insurance makes it suspect as well. The press dubbed The White Star Line "Too Big To Fail".
On Christmas Eve in 1913 Congress accepted and chartered The Federal Reserve to control all US currency. It is run by a cabal of the wealthiest men of the time with names recognizable by all.
We celebrate these shenanigans every April since. Have A Nice Day!
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It is recorded that there was a fire in the coal storage, this happened on the opposite side to the dock, the side even turned red, but they put it out and kept quiet. This meant that the steel and rivets within this area had softened. This has become a possibility why the iceburg was able to only tear that section
It wasn't tiger sharks that killed those sailors it was white tip sharks that are closely related to the great white sharks. I just thought I would put you straight 😅
Time stamp pleas
they said both of them though not only tiger shark
Happy birthday to our esteemed narrator - Daddio & Mommio. Great job, as usual.
Having more lifeboats on the Titanic probably would not have made any difference because there would not have been enough time to get all of the life boats off anyway.
Fun fact: One of the survivors of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff played in the 1997 movie Titanic.
He was only 4 years old at the time of the sinking.
wilhelm gustloff
The SS Minnow was tragic and should have made your list!
LOL yeah - who knows? Maybe the common denominator is that Gilligan was a passenger on all of them
Well someone said that not even God Himself could sink the titanic. Well let the titanic be a lesson that you should NEVER test God’s patience.
ScIeNtIfFiCaLly sPeAkInG, the movie said that
Absolutely no one said that before the accident
These ship disasters are heartbreaking
I am so sad the one who didn't survive 😢😢
I 'm flilipino and I'm sad that the flilipino ship sank
Hard to feel bad for the Essex knowing it was hunting whales can't blame one whale for finally having enough
The whale's last thoughts were :
NOT TODAY , SUMBITCH ...
.. NOT ... TODAY ...
( BLUubbbb ... )
From the whale revenge to the cannibalism, this whole disaster is quite ironic
I think the worst part about the Indianapolis was that the captain (Charles B. McVay, specifically) got all the blame pinned on him. All because he couldn’t make a bloody ZIG-ZAG with the ship.
Even the guy that torpedoed the ship basically said it was near impossible to evade it.
didnt bright side already made this video?
who?
DO NOT TRUST BRIGHTESIDE!!! Especially with regards to the Titanic
I HATE Brightside and I feel bad for anyone who likes their BAAAAAD videos
1:03 true but even if they did have more life boats it wouldn't have matter... not all the ones they had even launched it would've just been more empty boats that didn't have enough time to launch
the wilhelm gustloff is quite literally the worst maritime disaster and no one in america knows of it because we never learn of anything bad russia did.
You'd be surprised how much the U.S. knows about the travesties of the Soviet Union. 😅
That voice just bring back nostalgia for some reason
Guys don't worry Caseoh just went for a swim, no big deal
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@@EisMann61 😂😂😂 nice to see fellow caseoh fans here, glad I'm not alone 😊😊😂🤗
He's gonna eat me after I said that 💀💀
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No, it's just taking a backstroke
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The fact that there could be even worse shipwrecks we don’t even know about yet is insane
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I was still missing a few huge catastrophies from this video: Goya (about 7.000 casualties, sunk in the Baltic by the russians in 1945), Armenia (about 7.000 casualties, sunk in the Black Sea by the germans in 1941), Cap Ancona (about 4.500 casualties, sunk in the Baltic by the british in 1945). All of these were carrying civilians and wounded soldiers.
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In addition to delivering troops, the USS Indianapolis was returning AFTER delivering components of the atomic bombs. It was a horrible incident, but had the enemy sub caught them BEFORE they concluded that mission, the end of the war would have taken MUCH longer and those troops would have also been lost. Many good men paid with their lives. R.I.P. My Grandfather was a Seabee and they were all training for the invasion of the enemy mainland where it was estimated we would have lost hundreds of thousands. Back in 2001 I was able to meet Retired General Paul Tibbets and thanked him on behalf of a grateful nation and in particular, my Grandfather.
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The ship wreck on the Thames, is spookily like the collision also on the Thames between The Marchioness & Bow Belle. The Bow Belle was a large dredger, it collided with the much smaller Marchioness. The Marchioness was poorly lit, & if I remember correctly, she was on the wrong side of the river. The Marchioness was a party boat, & full of people. It happened in the late 80s, it was awful.
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You asked if there are any other shipwrecks that can be added to the list. I don't know if this counts because most of the victims were on land, but how about the Halifax Harbour explosion? On December 6, 1917, The Imo, a ship traveling to Belgium with relief supplies, was steaming out of Halifax Harbour at full speed and on the wrong side of the harbour. It collided with the Mont Blanc, a French steamer heavily loaded with explosives and benzine oil for munitions bound for the battlefields of France. Mont Blanc's benzine was set ablaze by the collision and her crew abandoned ship. A few minutes later, the fire detonated the explosives onboard, resulting in the largest man-made explosion in history prior to the invention of the nuclear bomb. Most of the city of Halifax was destroyed, resulting in over 2000 deaths. Many thousands more were injured.
Survivors of the Essex: Refuse to sail to safety because of racist misconceptions about Pacific Islanders being “cannibals”
Also the survivors of the Essex: cannibalize each other after becoming stranded at sea due to aforementioned decision.
I feel like this is a good candidate for a Darwin Award.
Did you really put smoke on Titanic's 4th funnel ?!
Why is Donald Trump narrating this video?
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When I was a small kid my mom came up to me with a newspaper article about a big ship, asking me if I want to go on a mother and child trip. I was annoyed and couldn't even swim very good back then so I was not really keen on going on a ship trip or swimming and all that stuff. So we didn't go.
The ship's name was Costa Concordia
Great job on the video!
Keep up the good work and make them longer. 🥰
The Indianapolis is used as a teaching method in the us navy. We use the tragedy of it to instill an understanding of sea survival as well as respect for the loss of life
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