I'm fairly certain the bomb disposal men realized there was very little risk once the thing washed up on shore. The first concern was that it was a magnetic mine broken loose from it's moorings; these are VERY hazardous as they are still fully functional, just wayward. Impact mines are a different matter; those "Hertz horns" are made of sheet lead, lined with glass and filled with acid, which drains into an internal battery (completing the firing circuit) once the horn gets any kind of serious force exterted on it. Since the horns were clearly all bent and battered beyond repair (and yet the mine was intact), they presumably knew the internal battery was totally fried (and thus no chance of the detonator going off, even if handled rather roughly).
Clearly its a decoy them being that confident lol, they are almost sure that nothing but the expected will happen, then they look right and a sharknado has been sent by the nazis
@@Zooumberg There are still 60 of them left, there used to be one at Conwy harbour but I've just had a look on Google maps and only the base is left now. I guess that after 80 years they are getting a bit too rusty.
@@24934637 I expect so. There used to be one at Whitley Bay near Newcastle. Gone. I tell you what I've not seen in years. The labrador dogs for collecting for the blind too. There used to be a bloke who sold various knickknacks in Newcastle, he was blind. He probably died years ago.
out beach metal detecting i found 3 striker buttons from landmines on Shingle Street beach . i didnt know what they were but when i realized i gave up metal detecting as a hobby
There was no TV then, this was shown at the movies which is all drama. It had to compete. You want to see drama, check out the fleet leaving for the Falkland war.
Allied war crimes or false flag operations don't count just ask America they have been getting away with them for over half a century @@mortdewerewolfe691
One of these one washed up on our local decades ago. My mum didnt know what it was and she used to hang off it and play on it all the time. Turns out it was still active.
"German Murder-mine"....so lets say "French Killer-Tank", "American Assasins-Rifle", "Italian execution-grenade" and " British homicide-knife" from now on
And how do you call these acid fuze delayed bombs, the British threw into German cities and which still keep detonating randomly - 75 years after the war is over?
@@norbertfleck812 The Germans were the first ever to bomb civilians in any war. First with Zepperlins in WW1. Then the Condor Legion in the Spanish civil war. Then the Blitz on the poles and london.. What you sow you reap. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Don't blame the British, blame the Germans, they started it all.
What would it take to detonate one of those mines??? The thing washed up on shore, probably got rolled all over the place by the waves. The team pushed it over, grabbed it by the horns... nothing. Do they have to be directly struck by a ship?
It looks badly banged up. They must have assumed the mine's horns were broken OR that guy took the most reckless risk of his life. Most likely the former. This was clearly not a fake.
At :46 it says the slightest pressure on any of those horns could cause "instant" destruction. Then at 1:07 two of the knot heads, one being the officer are using the detonating horns as handles to roll it over.....Argggg. BANG!!!!!!! Funny. I love these old training films.
Just find out what the men of HMS Vernon in Portsmouth did. They did incredibly brave sea and parachute land mine disposal work, and some of them paid with their lives.
First thing I saw were three horns already folded over. If the thing had not gone off by then, it likely never would. BTW, a more common 'deactivation cycle' would be to drill small holes into the casing and flood it with cold salt water. Shorts out any batteries/detonator circuits. The batteries used back then had a very short service life under the best of conditions; saline flooding drained them in hours. These sorts of mines had timers that made them insensitive while they were being deployed and sometimes the timers failed 'safe'.
This is one of the things that gets me with uxo. If rolling around in the surf on a beach didn't detonate it, then how will removing the detonation device be dangerous?
2:12 This is wrong, usually those where filled with High Explosives like Amatol. You Can burn it down like they did, but it has nothing to do with confined space. If youd place a detonator in that pile, it would still blow up. The thing with confined Space is true, if you have something like blackpowder
Do you have anything on zus-40, the german booby trap that was placed under the fuse mechanisms and was designed to kill anyone trying to disarm the mine? Thanks, this vid was interesting!
"Another German murder mine has been washed up. These are much different than our mines which rain candy and toys for children upon people when they explode."
Not removed, but unscrewed. Think of it like a lightbulb, you can partially screw it into it's holder but it will only turn on when it's fully screwed in.
0:42 the slightest pressure will detonate it... If your at a safe distance this is probably far safer method of removal than disarming it better than putting your squishy meat men within its aoe poking at it and what not
That mine would be lethal out to 50 meters and capable of serious injury out to about 100 meters. It is an 'EMC' German naval mine and the main charge is 300Kg (660 pounds) of high explosive.
Sorry had to say this when the narrative said he goes to check what type it is and the guy in the video is like" Well it an !!BOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!! Explosion!! It's a mine alright 👍 🤣🤣
This is a simulation duh. As you see at 1:10 one of the diggers grabs a horn to use a leverage to roll the mine. Also no sane cameraman is going to stand 20 feet away and film.
"Carefully, like a ferret rolling an egg..."
Oddly specific and whimsical.
That wasn't even careful that was just like someone pushing a snowball the size of that mine what do u mean by careful narrator
@@nicholasdiehl7368 pretty sure that action could be classified as careful in those days
"any pressure from one of those horn detonators spells certain death"
1:10 the men use it as handles to move the mine.
I'm fairly certain the bomb disposal men realized there was very little risk once the thing washed up on shore. The first concern was that it was a magnetic mine broken loose from it's moorings; these are VERY hazardous as they are still fully functional, just wayward. Impact mines are a different matter; those "Hertz horns" are made of sheet lead, lined with glass and filled with acid, which drains into an internal battery (completing the firing circuit) once the horn gets any kind of serious force exterted on it. Since the horns were clearly all bent and battered beyond repair (and yet the mine was intact), they presumably knew the internal battery was totally fried (and thus no chance of the detonator going off, even if handled rather roughly).
Clearly its a decoy them being that confident lol, they are almost sure that nothing but the expected will happen, then they look right and a sharknado has been sent by the nazis
+David Dire Yeah, but dude, that's Aki Ra. You can't compare him to simple mortals.
@@GameDevAraz "decoy"...with high explosives?..No that what real men look like, not a snowflake amongst them
I don't give a Fork
So they are immortal?
Incredibly brave men. My hat's off to them.
Sea mines are scary-looking bombs!
Pope-Eye ikr
Yeah... no shit they are made to take out giant naval vessels...
They used to be all over the UK converted to money boxes to collect for the services.
@@Zooumberg There are still 60 of them left, there used to be one at Conwy harbour but I've just had a look on Google maps and only the base is left now. I guess that after 80 years they are getting a bit too rusty.
@@24934637 I expect so. There used to be one at Whitley Bay near Newcastle. Gone. I tell you what I've not seen in years. The labrador dogs for collecting for the blind too. There used to be a bloke who sold various knickknacks in Newcastle, he was blind. He probably died years ago.
Nice part of history captured on film . Glad to see stuff preserved for future generations !
"And as it's darn cold you might as well bring that coat over with you" pretty much sums up British culture
2:21 r.i.p. headphone users!
Old footage with low dynamic range.
"The slightest pressure on those horns will detonate it" Proceeds to pull on them when tipping the mine over
Actually, a pressure of a few tens kilos is necessary to bend a horn and break the acid vial inside. The "slightest touch" thing is 100% urban legend.
out beach metal detecting i found 3 striker buttons from landmines on Shingle Street beach . i didnt know what they were but when i realized i gave up metal detecting as a hobby
Narrator was kind of a drama queen.
Never mind I stand corrected that was an explosion
That's properganda for you
😂
@@l.hbravo8828 Cringe.
There was no TV then, this was shown at the movies which is all drama. It had to compete. You want to see drama, check out the fleet leaving for the Falkland war.
“Murder mine” unlike the British’s love mines
@G E T R E K T Nice to see whose side you're on for the next set of war crimes tribunals.
Ok Naziappologist.
We called them sex bombs thank you very much
Allied war crimes or false flag operations don't count just ask America they have been getting away with them for over half a century @@mortdewerewolfe691
I come here beause of the story of Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient."
Just another day at the office. Brave people, and they continue to be to this day. More power to them.
One of these one washed up on our local decades ago. My mum didnt know what it was and she used to hang off it and play on it all the time. Turns out it was still active.
It wasn’t obvious?
These guys are so peaceful, that's wondeful.
Those Men Must have Nerves of Steel.
Brave men indeed! So well done!
"German Murder-mine"....so lets say "French Killer-Tank", "American Assasins-Rifle", "Italian execution-grenade" and " British homicide-knife" from now on
Exactly :D
And how do you call these acid fuze delayed bombs, the British threw into German cities and which still keep detonating randomly - 75 years after the war is over?
Japanese reaper-sword
or just say, Germans not Nazis or German Death Camps ;)
@@norbertfleck812 The Germans were the first ever to bomb civilians in any war. First with Zepperlins in WW1. Then the Condor Legion in the Spanish civil war. Then the Blitz on the poles and london.. What you sow you reap. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Don't blame the British, blame the Germans, they started it all.
Funny how there isn't even the tiniest of barnacles on that 'washed up' mine. Call me a skeptic if you like.
1:07
So much NOPE.
: )
What would it take to detonate one of those mines??? The thing washed up on shore, probably got rolled all over the place by the waves. The team pushed it over, grabbed it by the horns... nothing. Do they have to be directly struck by a ship?
It looks badly banged up. They must have assumed the mine's horns were broken OR that guy took the most reckless risk of his life. Most likely the former. This was clearly not a fake.
At :46 it says the slightest pressure on any of those horns could cause "instant" destruction. Then at 1:07 two of the knot heads, one being the officer are using the detonating horns as handles to roll it over.....Argggg. BANG!!!!!!! Funny. I love these old training films.
Just find out what the men of HMS Vernon in Portsmouth did. They did incredibly brave sea and parachute land mine disposal work, and some of them paid with their lives.
“Dont get near”
*proceeds to touch*
takes metal out of pockets- walks up wearing metal buttons...
First thing I saw were three horns already folded over.
If the thing had not gone off by then, it likely never would.
BTW, a more common 'deactivation cycle' would be to drill small holes into the casing and flood it with cold salt water.
Shorts out any batteries/detonator circuits.
The batteries used back then had a very short service life under the best of conditions; saline flooding drained them in hours.
These sorts of mines had timers that made them insensitive while they were being deployed and sometimes the timers failed 'safe'.
Those men have balls of steel.
We should demand all our media speak precisely like this fellow.
So he empties his pockets of metal objects. What about the metal buttons on his coat?
So...are they going to explain what kind of mine it was...and how to get detonation caps and mechanisms off...?
Man, you really gotta have some balls to do this.
Well done lads!
This is one of the things that gets me with uxo. If rolling around in the surf on a beach didn't detonate it, then how will removing the detonation device be dangerous?
2:12 This is wrong, usually those where filled with High Explosives like Amatol. You Can burn it down like they did, but it has nothing to do with confined space. If youd place a detonator in that pile, it would still blow up. The thing with confined Space is true, if you have something like blackpowder
2:12
"Just fizzles"
2:20
*DEMONIC BALL SCREECHING*
Brave Men. Nerves of steel.
These guys knew that if one went off while they were working on it they wouldn't feel a thing. Takes the pressure off.
They put the cameraman at danger by screwing with the mine.
I simply love this channel. For the next month's theme, I'd suggest chemical warfare in 20th century's wars.
Greg Ayres Thanks for the suggestion! We consider every single one so keep the ideas coming!
Do you have anything on zus-40, the german booby trap that was placed under the fuse mechanisms and was designed to kill anyone trying to disarm the mine? Thanks, this vid was interesting!
my grandfather did this, underwater though, during WW2.
brave , brave men indeed
"Another German murder mine has been washed up. These are much different than our mines which rain candy and toys for children upon people when they explode."
It just fizzles... spSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Thanks for teaching me that
"The slightest pressure on any of those horns would still mean instant destruction." Man proceeds to grab horn and yank on it.
Well, they unscrewed the detonator cap before rolling it which I'm guessing would deactivate the horns.
At 1:05, they roll it before the cap is removed.
Not removed, but unscrewed. Think of it like a lightbulb, you can partially screw it into it's holder but it will only turn on when it's fully screwed in.
@@JamesRPatrick They are perfectly safe as long as you do not crush them !
Absolutely crazy! No gloves, no protective face and eye shield.
what?
you're sarkastic, right?
fun fact kids those spikes on top of sea mines are triggers and when pushed in they do what they're supposed to
Please take extra care, that's a murder mine !
I'd mine my own business and get the hell outta there.
I think I would have just blown it up from a distance rather than taking the time to dismantle it. Especially since it appears to be on a empty beach.
Isn't it easier to shoot at it until it blows away???
whats a murder mine? it like a mine but murder!
Danger! (2017) - Mans not hot
"THE TING GO SKKKRAA QUACK QUACK QUACK"
*walk away and plays Snoop Dog - The Next Episode*
Saved the day.
the slightest pressure
they literally grab the mine by the horns to roll it xDDD
0:42 the slightest pressure will detonate it...
If your at a safe distance this is probably far safer method of removal than disarming it
better than putting your squishy meat men within its aoe poking at it and what not
notice the officer buggered off when the heavy work began lol
Well the RN isn't an institution based on equality, that's a given. Only the chosen few are waited on in the wardrooms.
@@philgray1023 none of the British armed forces are. All officers have so called batman which are really servants
British pathe do you have anymore footage of winthrith nuclear power station
2:24 it sounds like a kid drowning in cheese graters.
One simple fact, they would never know if they had failed to de-activate the mine.
The title should be : The ting goes skrra.
Jorgelin JR not hotttt
Did they recycle the casing into a crappy little car?
First tell me how a sea mine landed up on a mountaintop?
The thing goes skrrrra pa pa pa ka ka. Skibidy pap pap and the poom poom purum poom. SKIYA!
I would have thought that they would have saved the explosives for later use.
I salute the ordnance tech out there and all the bomb squads. You guys make sure we don't get blown up.
there was a landmine near me. I had a plan. grabbed a 10m long plank and smacked the landmine. KABOOM!
Best love story I ever heard.
That mine would be lethal out to 50 meters and capable of serious injury out to about 100 meters. It is an 'EMC' German naval mine and the main charge is 300Kg (660 pounds) of high explosive.
And you have a massive crater and a dead guy laying there.
..."killed the murder mine."
How ironic.
Next time, I see a mine on the beach...
Imagine being the unlucky ones who were instantly vaporized by trying this
why they blow up the empty shell.
Sorry had to say this when the narrative said he goes to check what type it is and the guy in the video is like" Well it an !!BOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!! Explosion!! It's a mine alright 👍 🤣🤣
Video: 0:43
Also video: 1:06
We fought the wrong enemy.
Ja, you did.
Next months theme should be disasters by fire.
Blaze0205 x Thanks for the suggestion! We consider every single one so keep the ideas coming!
British Pathé Hi British Pathe you guys have some Vietman clips ?
Alex Roberto We do! ua-cam.com/users/britishpathesearch?query=vietnam+war
British Pathé thanks British Pathe i love your work for me it's better than read a history book
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Зачем было рисковать разбирая мину????Все равно потом взорвали...
now what did they do with the casing?
A lot of them were mounted on seaside esplanades and were used to collect money for the RNLI and other charities.
murder mine? I thought they were at war
I learned something here... Ferrets roll eggs... 1:02
This is a simulation duh. As you see at 1:10 one of the diggers grabs a horn to use a leverage to roll the mine. Also no sane cameraman is going to stand 20 feet away and film.
Like a ferret rolling an egg
Rather them than me. Brave lads
Back on the days you cant rewind the video to see error now its easy with youtube
These guys must have had balls as big as that mine
Damn they're brave
If it is save to do so why not just blow it in place? It looked to me that there was noting around to be damaged so why not just blow the thing up?
aint the buttons on his uniform metal studs?
if your gonna destroy the detonator and the explosives why dont you just roll it over and shoot the blasting cap
Narrator is hilarious😂😂
the mine destruction men,..it's mine all mine!.
2:21 You startled a witch!
headphone warning at 2:20
The mine was on remote beach, why dont just attach a smal explosive charge on it and blow it up, instead of dismanteling it?
2:20 "you're already dead"
I hate my job... 0:24
I'm in aw and admiration
Lol they say even a pen can make it blow. How about that shovel?? Its a metal hah
"Just Fizzles"
I want to see the blast like last one...not a defusing process