WWII Battleship USS Nevada Wreck Found
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2020
- USS Nevada (BB-36) - dubbed the "unsinkable battleship" that served in two world wars - was found nearly three miles below the water's surface about 65 nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor, a team of researchers announced Monday.
One stop on our Around the World Shakedown Cruise in 1986, we hosted a number of WWII veterans aboard Missouri. I met the coxswain who was ordered to beach Nevada at Hospital Point. He retired a Lieutenant Commander and joked that he was the only man who got a medal for running a ship aground. I miss these great sailors.
Why there is a tank track there?
@@taskfailedsuccessfully4791 there were several tanks placed on board the nevada to also be used in nuclear testing, I believe they were Pershing’s.
Edit: read up on it, they are Pershing’s.
A coxswain? Retired an officer? Got a medal ?
The ship carried irradiated military vehicles from the Bikini Atoll Atomic test. they sink them with the ship.
Survived Pearl Harbor, fought WW2, two atomic bombs and it too five days to sink her.
One hell of a ship!
If it couldn’t be preserved afloat, at least it was too radioactive for it to be scrapped so there’s that.
In 1948 I was a midshipman on the battleship Iowa on a training cruse in the Pacific that included Pearl Harbor The battleship Nevada, the Bikini Atoll target ship of the surface atomic bomb test Able, was anchored well away from everything else in the harbor. One side was blackened and very damaged. The other side was still covered with its original target red paint. Even though the bomb missed it by 2,000 feet or more it was still dangerously radioactive in spite of extensive decontamination effort thus preventing any effort to cut it up for metal salvage or for anyone to get on board to scuttle it. As part of our training It was towed out to sea for target practice by the Iowa, the cruiser New York, a small aircraft carrier the Princeton and one or two submarines. After the Iowa fired several non- armor piercing salvos at it we were able to watch the other ships and aircraft inflict extensive damage until it was finally sunk by several torpedoes. As is the navy custom we cruised over the spot where it had sank while the complete battle record of the ship was announced over the PA system.
Wait so they nuked Nevada?...well how ironic.
Her battle record could be redacted to three words...
She kicked ass.
Thanks for the detailed and interesting info, and thanks for your service.
@@geratinav, she was one of many obsolete ships anchored offshore of Bikini Atoll during a nuclear bomb test. They were used to test what effect a nuclear detonation would have on naval vessels. Some sunk and others survived the blast.
Thanks for a accurate "l was there this is what happened" description. Need more of that these days and less self proclaimed experts without a clue ranting on a soapbox that is the internet. I am glad to hear the respect given to her but expected nothing less in any navy. I feel they should be laid to rest on the sea floor over the breakers yard.
I'm glad they found her. My Dad served aboard her from 1940 through the end of WWII.
Found who
LisboKate Fan are you dumb? People call ships her or he
Michael , a R.E. agent in my family business in So. Cal. ( P.V.E. ) in the late 70’ s , served aboard Her : Dean Rudesill . He told me a Kamikaze hit his Gun bucket, killing 11 crewmen ! I think the Nevada was off shore of a Japanese held Island in the Pacific. If you have a roster of the crew , let me know if he’s on the roster ! John
I admire all those men who served on those ships. The kind of duty they had to see was tough and brutal at times. People should be thanking these heroes as much as possible alive or dead. Thank you for your father service to our country. It’s not lost on me
According to togetherweserved.com, the actor Leif Erickson was blown overboard from the Nevada when she was struck by a kamikaze in 1945.
My grandfather served on USS Arizona and then USS Nevada during his Navy service (1926-1929). He transfered ships when Arizona went to Norfolk for modernization in May of '29.
hmm, yes, the battleship that survived 2 nukes without immediate repairs, Pearl Harbor previously, and was one of the highest performing shore bombardment warships. Very badass.
I never thought this would happen. My Uncle George Maiella served on the Nevada from right after it was repaired until the very end of WW2. As a kid, I remember how emotional he would get when ever the Nevada came into conversation. I also remember, he and my aunt getting on a train in Paterson, NJ, like 1948 or so, to go cross country to California for some kind of Nevada memorial. USS Nevada, must have been 'one tough old ship' !
So you're over 90 years old?
@@erichvonmanstein6876 No sir. Just short of 80. I was a kid of 6 or 7 when my mother's brother, my uncle George Maiella mustered out of the US Navy. And, as I posted, I remember him well. And how he would react to the mention of the Nevada. BB36.
@@bruceraykiewicz6274 oh, when did he get out of the Navy?
@@erichvonmanstein6876 I want to say 1947/1948. I remember him in uniform.
Sir, I have to ask, what is your interest in my uncle being on the USS Nevada??
Don't forget that this Lady was the first US standard battleship (along with her sister Oklahoma) laid 1913 and served both WWI AND WWII. Respect! Salute!
And the first with the "all or nothing" armor scheme.
For the curious, Nevada’s sister ship was the USS Oklahoma, the battleship which capsized at Pearl Harbor
Godspeed to all of those shipmates on eternal watch.
- ET1 USN (Ret)
The other forgotten ship is the USS Utah which is on the other side of Ford Island, and still there capsized on her port side.
@@Hjerte_Verke thanks for telling us never heard of her but know I have and I’m sure to research about her
@@harleythomas701 it was a target ship
The Oklahoma was 1 of 7 ships refloated,repaired after being sunk during Pearl Harbor in time to see action in ww2.
I know those tests were important and glad it was found, but still, sad end to a proud ship.
At least she retired the way of sinking instead being made into a skyscraper. Can't say the same for HMS Warspite though.
Well, to be fair she was a fairly "used up" ship which is why they finally decided to scuttle her...
@@JerzeyBoy I suppose you could say Warspite chose to go on her own terms off Marazion.
@@bahoonies Damn right. USS Nevada was tough to sink too, she took hits from Iowa and cruisers but she didn't sink. A single Torpedo plane finished her off. It's kinda poetic and ironic in a sense. Big guns in her time were the status of power. But the changing of the guard happened after pearl harbor. She was the sign of a era gone. Now replaced by the Aircraft Carrier's as the symbol of power.
@@JerzeyBoyNevada was a fine ship and a tough old girl as she proved right to the end.
Since so many people keep asking "why is a tank there?", I'll clarify.
The earliest nuke tests were only done far away in the Pacific; there was originally no plan to keep testing nukes on land (after the first one), especially within our own borders. The first Soviet nuke test quickly changed that line of thought.
They needed to know what effects a nuke would have on other things besides ships, so aircraft, tanks, trucks, and other assorted stuff were stuck on the decks of the target ships. These could be examined afterwards if the ship was still afloat, or if it sank in the shallow water of Bikini Atoll.
After the Nevada was towed away to be sunk in deep water, there was no reason to expend the effort to remove the tank on deck.
I love the way that the lat/long is greyed out, should any of us be tempted to go and have a peek for ourselves.
spiccybaby Yeah....13,000 feet down. I'll bring my pontoon boat and a few extra scuba tanks. Oh and a pocket dosimeter.
Isn't she still hot? Radioactive?
@@theodoreolson8529 an iPhone in a sturdy case... & 13,000ft. of rope?
It's to Prevent Democrats an exact address, so they cannot send Tax-Payer $$ money, to later launder and Receive it back in private accounts!! Aka Pelosi Schumer SCHIFF Fienstine------> I think she originally Christened that Ship!!
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@@jjmurff Dear God....really? You have GOT to be a bot.
A grand lady who did so much in here life. Sad she had to end like that but she sure didn't give up without a fight!
One of my Uncles is one of the 60 men who lost their lives on Nevada at Pearl Harbor
Very sorry for your loss. As Americans we can never thank the service personnel who were lost in this war.
Let’s make sure these servicemen are never forgotten. Winning that war changed world civilization. Your Uncle’s sacrifice must be remembered.
Two more men died during the salvage of the Nevada. Eleven crewmen died when the Nevada was struck by a kamikaze in 1945, and two more when the Nevada was hit by a Japanese shore battery.
and............,
My dad was on the Nevada and thankfully survived.
Those are indeed tank treads. Tanks had been placed upon Nevada’s deck during the Nuclear tests....
An M26 Pershing to be exact.
@@yostupidmama1 a waterlogged M26 Pershing... lol
Nevada returned to combat during the Attu landings in May 1943.
Transferred to the Atlantic in mid-1943, her 14" and 5" guns were
actively employed during the Normandy Invasion in June 1944 and the
Southern France operation in August and September. The battleship then
returned to the Pacific, where she assisted with the invasions of Iwo
Jima and Okinawa in 1945. Though damaged by a suicide plane on 27 March
and by an artillery shell on 5 April, Nevada remained in action off
Okinawa until June 1945. She spent the remaining months of World War II
in the Western Pacific, preparing for the invasion of Japan.
tubbers20 , read my comment to Michael McCloud on this video , thanks , John
@@johnharrington6122 Done. :-) The old ships to me were so beautiful. I'm from San Francisco and they have the memorial there for the USS SAN FRANCISCO that was damaged at Guadalcanal.
Survived Pearl, the Atlantic and Pacific theatre. D-day Normandy landings AND a nuclear explosion, then took a five day sinkex to sink her. That ship just didn't want to die!!!
My father in law spent most of the war aboard BB36. Normandy, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo Harbor ceremony.
A pity the USS Nevada wasn't preserved as both a museum and memorial ship at Pearl Harbor, San Diego or Seattle.
She was radioactive and unable to be decontaminated.
@@KB4QAA I know that, but she was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on Dec. 7, 1941. That is why she would have been a fitting memorial.
Seems to me to be a damnable waste of a fine vessel. In a day and age when Battleships are being forgotten, I wish we had treated these grand ships with a more respectful hand, at least for the sake of those who served aboard her and the other ships as well.
A fine but very radioactive ship at that time
We can't maintain the museum ship we have now and we by far have more relic ships than any other nation.
The government treats nobody with respect.
@@ineffable1129 Sadly they are mainly at the coasts, where they should have tried to move them as far high water levels would allow up the water ways into landlocked states.
Well, to be fair she was a fairly "used up" ship which is why they finally decided to scuttle her...
"found" ... right where they sunk it! amazing!
Nevada was the only battleship to get underway during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Sadly not one movie ever tells the story.of the Nevada on that fateful day
Tora, Tora, Tora.
Tells all about it.
The story of my father is a video by lions Lionsgate films you can find it by Googling Donald Kirby Ross. He got the Congressional Medal of Honor for Action at Pearl Harbor
The story of my father is a video by lions Lionsgate films you can find it by Googling Donald Kirby Ross. He got the Congressional Medal of Honor for Action at Pearl Harbor
What a sad way to end the life of such a glorious battle ship.
Going down in a literal ball of fire is more respectful than being turned into sky scraper beams, spoons and Dinner trays
🇺🇸RIP USS Nevada, "The ship that wouldn't sink" BB-36🇺🇸⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 7 well deserved battle stars.
All this needed was a Jacques Cousteau-style narration...
Or any narration at all really...
Wow, thanks for documenting this.
Our Dad served on the Nevada from 41-43, both in the Pacific and the Atlantic. He would have loved to have seen these pictures!
So would my dad.
May he RIP, we will all thank him for his service someday on the other side.
They should have NEVER sent the Nevada to the Tests!! I am bias, had a relative die from Turret #2 on Dec. 7th. She should have been the one over watching the Arizona and the Missouri Be what she is! The END of the war with Japan. The Nevada and Enterprise BOTH were wronged in my opinion.
aye mate. :(
I'd rather see her go this way than be left to rust to pieces in disrepair by an uncaring state government like the Texas
Enterprise and Nevada should have been memorials to the USN in the Pacific ..... Enterprise fought in almost EVERY engagement at sea and was rarely out of action .....and she was the surviving Yorktown class ship
I Agree With The Premise Of What You Are Saying, However, The USS Pennsylvania Would've Been A Better Fit In As Much As She Was The Sister Ship Of The USS Arizona.
@@uranusimploding9830 Yes, "Enterprise" was always there ready for action. She never faltered did she? What tragic and tremendous days for the United States. We were at our pinnacle.
Boys Nevada has been found *cries in joy* now I hope y'all search 500 nm NE of Oahu for a very special ship in my heart.
What ship?
@@moonshade6864 Oklahoma
He knows.
Can someone explain why it was lost? Did the Navy not keep any records of where they sank the ship?
@@stunter2875 The Nevada or the Oklahoma?
We had a small bell from the USS Arkansas. Main ships bell in State Capital. Maybe it was from a launch. Inscribed USS Arkansas 1912. Was used to ring in last call at a bar when Dad found it in the 70's. I used it to ring in New Years Eve in NJ. One day it just vanished...
Was that a glowing three headed fish I saw swimming around?
Amazing to find that vessel after so many years..
Since the US Navy sank her, they should have known almost exactly where she was!
Quite so, but I think the issue in finding her was the extreme depth. 4600m of water is not a trivial dive, even for a robotic submersible.
You assume ships sink straight down. At those depths the ship can “glide” for kilometers from its original position. Also, the only reason to mark its location on chart would be if it were a hazard to navigation. At 15k feet, there was no need. Sunk and forgotten.
@@detritus23 at the time, INS was prevalent on ships, the exact coordinates would be in the ships logs. Modern ocean searches is way improved. A ROV is lowered into the water and it will sink to any depth desired and will run an exact grid pattern of sonar using INS. Then return to the mother ship and download the info. Any interesting objects can then be inspected using a ROV with high definition cameras. All it takes is money to buy very expensive equipment. If you know where it's located in a hundred square miles it's fairly simple and in larger searches just time times money.
@@terrydouglas5008 I think you don't understand the issue of the depth. Ships don't rest under the spot where they submerged. The Nevada is at 15,400 feet, nearly 3 miles down. She translated under water due to hydrodynamic forces, including implosions, as she sank. Also, at that depth who cares where she went? She wasn't a hazard to navigation, so no one was going to look for her. Even with modern technology only a historical research team would and did bother to look. The Navy wrote her off after Crossroads with 1946 Sinkex. They would not have logged or cared about her resting place.
She was probably towed to sea as a hulk and fired upon by whomever was getting gunnery practice. Maybe, she was set up for remote navigation as a moving target, either way she did not have INS (which was not that accurate) or logs aboard. The ships that sank her probably recorded their positions, but thise would be largely useless for the Nevada's position, especially post-sinking.
@@detritus23 she didn't have INS but the shooting ships did and they would have logged their exact position anytime they fired live weapons. At the Time INS systems were very accurate! And the logs are archived by the navy. Modern submersibles can be set to scan exact areas of the ocean floor and as long as you have time and money you can hire a ship that can keep an exact position to have the submersibles do an extremely accurate search of the ocean floor. IE Paul Allen was not an ocean expect but had the money to buy the best equipment and hire experts.
Thank you for pixel the coordinates
The Pennsylvania was used in a nuclear test and placed close to the device. It can be seen standing on its fantail vertical in the mushroom cloud on the right side of the column as a dark shadow. I don't know which photo it was but when I see it, I know it is her. She was essentially at ground zero. She was so badly damaged by a torpedo strike during the war and given her age it wasn't worth towing to the West Coast as the damage was quite severe and too dangerous to tow that far so...off to the test site.
Pennsylvania survived 2 Atomic Bomb test, Was kept around until 1948 for radiation test , Then towed out and scuttled. My father in law served on Pennsylvania throughout most of WW2. Their was also a guy by the name of Johnny Carson(Thee Johnny Carson) on her also.
She did have dry dock repairs and then returned to West Coast. She was evaluated and repaired just enough to sail to the nuclear test site.
The ship depicted in the photo is not USS Pennsylvania. It is USS Arkansas (BB-33), which was anchored near the blast epicenter of Test Baker. It was capsized, possibly blown vertical by the blast wave, and then hammered straight down to the seabed by the descending water column. It remains there at Bikini Lagoon.
Thanks for this 👍
So, she wasn't really lost. The Navy knew where they sank her.
This is amazing it looks like the ship is just sailing at night in some of the rov footage
Rest in peace old girl.
The ballsist crew and toughest ship in the USN! The only BB to light its boilers and cut its mooring lines to get underway while under aerial attack with the Sunday band still on the fantail. The USS Nevada was in the process of reducing Mt. Suribaci, on Iwo Jima, to the waterline. when the marines got in the way by climbing up on top while she was blowing huge chunks out it. Had to check fire. The U.S. military should always keep warships like the Nevada around, just in case. Too bad they don't, but one encounter with the General Millies of the disjointed Chiefs and their Afghanistan leave behind mentality explains a lot.
Her attempted escape was quite coincidental.
All of the battleships had a single boiler operating to generate electricity aboard ship. One boiler would not produce enough steam to get the ship moving.
The Nevada's Officer-of-the-deck on duty that morning noted that regular maintenance was due to be performed on the boiler that was in operation, and prior to the start of the attack he had ordered a second boiler to be lit so that the first could be shut down.
The attack started just as the second boiler was reaching operational capacity, and with two generating steam she was able to get moving, though she still needed assistance from a tug to maneuver.
She endured a tough life!
It's an inanimate object.
Hey guys- some AUDIO would have been nice- Some info on the tests surrounding her sinking would also be great- I know details details.
The US military term Sink Exercise (SINKEX) is used for the test of a weapons system usually involving a torpedo or missile attack of an unmanned target ship. The US Navy uses SINKEX to train its sailors on the usage of modern-day weapons.[7]
Nevada sunk after 5 days of SINKEX.
After surviving 2 blasts at Operation Crossroads.
How is it so well preserved after so many years in seawater? There are very few barnacles or any sealife attached. Very strange!
Radiation. Other the occasional sharktopus or 100-eye sea bass, not many marine species are diggin that pad.
@@mikearmstrong8483 Its also really deep water I learned from further search
depth of water with no sun light and a lucky bottom with no gas deposits like where the Titanic sank. Thermals and chemical sea bed deposits are eating it up.
@@Thornbush434 lol..... no.
Its sickening knowing what our military does to our old military supploes, ships, etc. It's not that fair that the USE Nevada had to go down like that, especially with its battle history. They should've put it in a museum...
She was radioactive. Civilians don't relish being able to read in the dark.
Good luck changing that. Re; Afghanistan.
I understand the value in the testing and all, but you'd think they'd have wanted to keep these things to break down for the scrap metal. So much of it!
1. How much of that damage was caused by the nuke, USS Iowa and time?
2. What's with the tank?
I'm thinking something to do with the nuke tests - effects of the blast or whatever. It does seem strange to see it down there.
Steve Bessant They put it on the ships to see how they were affected by the nuclear blast.
They also put live goats on the ships as well
I'm actually a big fan of the ship.it's one of my favorite ships. J
It's our favorite ship here in Nevada.
I remember reading years ago, that when they were refitting the Nevada after Pearl Harbor, copper was in such short supply that many of her main electrical bus bars were made from Sterling.
The windings for the electromagnets used to separate uranium isotopes were also silver, for the same reason. About 14,000 tons were used.
Landing craft were being built at a boat factory near the town I live in. The factory was rapidly expanded and power lines to it were silver plated steel cables. The cables were taken down after the war.
@@menotworking At today's prices, that's roughly $11.2 trillion dollars. funny thing is that silver stays around $25 per ounce daily and you can't find any at the coin dealers right now. The reason the market riggs the price is so the US Government can get it at a low price for electronics. One Patriot missile uses around 150 oz' of non-recoverable silver, now times that by how many we have in storage and you can understand why they don't want the true value to be known to the public.
What was a tank doing on board?
I've never seen a ship with that many gun turrets. Maybe I need to brush up on my history because that's amazing to see.And if the military sank the ship on purpose then why was it lost? Do they not keep coordinates or any other information where it was sunk?
Greetings 3 days from the future, I can inform you that the Nevada only has 14 inch main guns. Search up the Iowa class U.S Battleships which used 16 inch guns. Or the Japanese Yamato which used 18 inch guns. And those are the ships actually BUILT. Check out the German H class super battleships or the next gen Japanese Yamato Designs or the Montana designs the U.S planned.
She's almost unrecognizable from her Pearl Harbor set up compared to after her repair and refit. Most ships were woefully underarmed in terms of anti-aircraft guns at the early stage of the war. By the end of the war, attacking a USN battlegroup was among the most dangerous jobs in the war. Our ships had so many AA guns stacked on them they were borderline unstable from the weight. Add to that the proximity fuse which increased anti-aircraft fire greatly.
@@rgm-96xjesta31 He said turrets not size
@@Thornbush434 That reply was from 1 year ago...
Ah yes and no. You have to remember that that decades before GPS. Also ships dont usually just sink straight down. Many wrecks have been found waaay off from their reported sinking coordinates.
So much of history just gets destroyed 💔
She should have been a museum
better to just sink and not shoot it all to Hell. I was on one of the destroyers and was glad to see it on the bottom, standing up and now used for sonar practice off San Diego. Have some respect for a ship that worked along with its crew.
Nice clear video
Where did the tank come from?
The Nevada, along with several other ships, was used as a target for an atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll. The ships were placed at different distances away from the blast. As an added test, pieces of equipment were placed on the ships to test the effects on them as well. The ships that did not sink instantly were either scrapped, if not too radioactive, or used as targets by aircraft, submarines, and other vessels.
What's with the tracked vehicle of wonder?
IT A CRYING SHAME THE USS NEVADA WAS NOT SAVED A FLOATING MUSEUM SHIP JUST FOR THE FACT SHE SURVIVED PEARL HARBOR DEC 7 1941
What’s with the tank? Why is it there?
How did the tank get there?
Very cool thank you for sharing this. But I got to ask the question? Why was there a tank next to it. At the end of this video there was obviously a turned over tank.
In the earliest nuke tests, before they ever thought of doing that on land, they needed a way to test the effects of nuke blasts on other things besides ships. So, they would put aircraft, tanks, trucks, and other assorted stuff on the decks of the target ships. These could be examined afterwards, either if the ship remained afloat or if it sank in the shallow water of Bikini Atoll.
When Nevada was towed away to be sunk in deep water, there was no reason to expend the effort to remove a tank from the deck .
@@mikearmstrong8483 Thank you.
Two things. One, how irradiated was the camera sub, and two, why was there a Pershing on the sea floor with it?
Probably none. Water is a pretty good insulator, and the tank was probably on the deck during the testing.
The radiation has long, LONG since gone away.
Is that a tank at the end?
This ship has to be the best ship in history, 1st it survived Pearl Harbor. 2nd it got nuked 2 times, it somehow survived the 1st one and lasted for a little while after being nuked the 2nd time. Probably the strongest
Survived all that just to get scuttled.
How did they find it? Radation traces?
By looking where they sank it. They kept logs of long and lat.
So if we sunk it , was it lost or just to deep to see it
too deep ,, 15,ooo ft. deep ... and radioactive
Sooo, what your saying, is that items from the wreck can be salvaged cause she did not go down in time of war ?
The ship is radioactive from the Nuclear test .............
@@PhilipKerry Not anymore.
Why was there a tank on the battleship?
1:57 What’s with the tank?
Sound?
How radioactive is it still
Looking at the underwater wreck of a battleship I "naturally" expect to see a tank. Not!
HaHa
I don't understand, didn't they find it right where they sank it? How was it "lost"?
Ships dont sink straight like stones. Their shape is such that they 'glide'. This one's three miles down, more or less and it could glide a long way. The Navy would have had an approximate position of course.
And it's not a trivial matter to dive that deep to look for her.
@@ariochiv quite. No disrespect to the questioner but people who've never worked offshore really don't get how difficult it can be. And dangerous
Lost all my guns in a boating accident.
Sort of strange to tie down 4 tanks on the decks for the nuclear tests.
They easily could have done the same tests with the tanks on the ground.
That M26 was needed 3 later in Korea, only about 2,000 were produced.
Before Korea "conventional" warfare had been declared obsolete; nuclear warfare was King, with all the services sought a nuclear weapons edge, in 1950 the Army Infantry was still using weapons from WW2. Blowing up an entire fleet with a nuke was more than symbolic, it was the wave of the future in 1946 with a new wonder weapon. When the fission weapon didn't outright vaporize the battleships they went for more powerful weapons like the H-bombs. We went soft under a nuclear "umbrella" super weapon for a few years before the UN war in Korea destroyed that illusion.
ES: no they could not put the tanks on the ground. Able and Baker tests were over water.
The nuclear tests had nothing to do with science, unless you count kids playing with explosives; they were all about spending surplus DOD funds that were to last another year if the war hadn't ended. Number one rule in government "spend your budget or you will lose it next budget year." It was nothing to do with science and in fact nuclear tests did a wonderful world of damage to the pacific archipelago and native peoples that lost their home islands to this man playing with new toys methodology. The predicted radioactive half-life of the Bimini atoll nuclear test has another 25,000 years to go until they are mostly habitable. In addition to the radioactive contamination it spread across the entire planet where now all metal is radioactive. All of it except metal from shipwrecks. This is why WW1 and WW2 war graves are being pillaged by grave robbing industries that want non-radioactive metal to sell on the market. The sailors' bones are tossed like trash.
SUPER!!!
I hope they'll find the USS OKLAHOMA (BB-37) Nevada's sister-ship, soon. She should NOT be forgotten.
I find it hard to see that ship as "lost," as the Navy has to have had a record of exactly where they scuttled the remains of the ship after nuking it twice. I must say, I'm rather surprised that they dragged it all that way from Bikini Atoll instead of sinking it at Bikini.
Yes, it does seem like such a senseless waste of precious planetary resources of iron. But, it is what it is: Easier to just dump than recycle. 😒
It was very, very radioactive.
It is being recycled, over a very long time.
If i am correct they use nevads, prinz eugen, nagato, and many other at testing of atomic bombs
I thought all the 40mm mounts on her were Quads !!
Maybe added for her Okinawa battle ?
RF: It appears to me the right hand barrels have been broken off.
Whenever that tank was separated, it didn’t waste any time getting to the bottom.
Your thumbnail is an upside down tank.
Why was a tracked vehicle on a batleship?
So they sunk it but forgot where they sunk it?
Why was a tank on board?
The navy put different equipment on the ships at different distances from the blast site to test the effects of an atomic blast
Lost? Nevada was sunk as a gunnery target post-WWII. Hell she survived two atom bomb tests. Only thing lost here is the plot.
Well, did they know *exactly* where it was and could send a submersible right down on top of it, or was it known only *generally* where it was? Quite a big thing to pinpoint something that sank in the 40s and is miles underwater.
Wish it had sound
Why has she got a battle tank near her hull? Last time I checked no battleships carried tanks.
I wonder the same thing.
The Nevada, along with several other ships, was used as a target for an atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll. The ships were placed at different distances away from the blast. As an added test, pieces of equipment were placed on the ships to test the effects on them as well. The ships that did not sink instantly were either scrapped, if not too radioactive, or used as targets by aircraft, submarines, and other vessels.
What is a tank doing on a battleship?
I have 2 questions that question reasoning and competence:
1. Why use a 32 year old, highly awarded, battleship as a target for weapons testing? It should have been recommissioned as a museum.
2. They surely knew where it sank since they shot it at. Why did it take over 70 years to find it's wreck???
There wasn’t enough money to preserve all the battleships the US had, And all the battleships still above water today are American, so we saved what we could. Nevada provided extremely important information to shipbuilders and the navy about the effects nukes have on ships.
She went out with honor, and wasn’t scraped like many of the other battleships.
They knew the general area the ship sank in, but not exactly where. She went down in the late 40’s/ early 50’s GPS was not a thing yet.
Where the tank come from, didn't know battle ships had tanks for cargo
The tank was placed on the deck to observe the effects of an A-bomb blast upon it.
If it was sank, didn’t someone already know where it was? Just saying.
They wouldn't know the precise location of where she was back in the day when they sank her because instruments weren't that accurate, plus she probably wouldn't have hit bottom at the same position as as she was when she left the surface.
Good point. It's not like finding the Titanic. Three miles deep seems to me the real story. But thanks for stating the obvious.
was sunk
dunruden scuttled
it was SUNK
For being hit with 2 nukes and bombarded for 5 days it's in really great shape
Why was there a tank onboard?
Probably for the test
Seriously. Ships routinely have lots of tanks, but never _that_ kind of tank.
I was thinking it was something the crew brought aboard to keep the Marine det occupied at sea.
(the specimen for Bikini testing is a more likely answer, as the 1st lieutenant never would've tolerated caterpillar tracks on the weather decks.)
The Nevada, along with several other ships, was used as a target for an atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll. The ships were placed at different distances away from the blast. As an added test, pieces of equipment were placed on the ships to test the effects on them as well. The ships that did not sink instantly were either scrapped, if not too radioactive, or used as targets by aircraft, submarines, and other vessels.
Can you really “find” a ship when you sank it in an exercise and the location you anchored it last would have been recorded for said exercise? 🤔
Nice
If Nevada was used in two atomic bomb tests the Navy obviously knew where it was sunk. So why was she said to be missing?
Well, she's pretty deep down and ships don't exactly sink straight down
JM: Clickbait by the poster.
@@KB4QAA Nope. Educate yourself.
SHOUNEN
About one minute of footage and wow, it's a mangled mess :(
But what's with the turned-turtle tracked vehicle among the debris?
I think the next search mission is to locate the Oklahoma - nothing against Nevada, but to me the OK had a similar tragic fate: Raised and righted, then pushed out of the way until the war was over or nearly so, sold for scrap; while en route to Puget Sound (I think?) to be broken up the towline snapped, she rolled over and sank.
We still don't treat our veterans with the respect they most definitely deserve.
You should read up on the nuclear tests conducted in Bikini Atoll and other places. All kinds of objects and live animals were placed on the decks of these ships to test the bomb's effects on them. Same goes for the M26/T26 Pershing tank you see here.
@@Hjerte_Verke I have read extensively on the subject, but there was little information found about the condition of Nevada when she met her end as a target for the Iowa, et al.
However, I did read commenter Richard Cook, just below, and like you I realized that if the Nevada was still extremely "hot" since it was practically Ground Zero for Test Abel it was definitely a good idea to look-but-not-touch as much as possible.
So they towed and sank her "As Is," but I'll always think of her "As Was."
What's a tank doing on a battleship?
The Nevada, along with several other ships, was used as a target for an atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll. The ships were placed at different distances away from the blast. As an added test, pieces of equipment were placed on the ships to test the effects on them as well. The ships that did not sink instantly were either scrapped, if not too radioactive, or used as targets by aircraft, submarines, and other vessels.
Jesus Christ??