The Amakasu Maru 1. A water tanker from port Yokohama. Depth: 1000 m. Report: oer.hpc.msstate.edu/okeanos/e... www.combinedfleet.com/Amakasu_... Music: IH_Meditation
The water is so clear because the Pacific is dead, due to atom-bomb testing and the amount of radioactive water (billions of gallons) still being flushed into the ocean by the power plant meltdown in Fukushima. Although not tested in years, radioactivity reached 200 miles from the American coast-line.
I well remember them! Age 98 now. Kodak actually GAVE the cameras away, so they could make money selling the film, and processing fees. As a native of Rochester,NY, home of Kodak, I worked for them on 2 occasions until going to GM, where I prospered well. even w/o a degree.
Its incredible this was picked up from one anomaly on the miltibeam point display. Makes you wonder how many others are missed, wrecks and their ghosts, hoping to one day see light again.
slighter I am with you right up to subject of Japan’s involvement in this war. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_history_textbook_controversies This a summary view - with potentially some minor errors associated with the wiki process. However, Japan’s shrine to Tojo and his boys still stands and their memory defended. It took decades to acknowledge Nanking 1937.
It seem like a single projectile and an internal explosion took her down as she where sailing. Some deck personnel must be killed, but most likely the main part of the crew have managed to survive the sinking. The open doors on the ship prove that engine men had time to get out.
She was torpedoed... that's known, but yeah I agree, doesnt look like a normal torpedo hit, they usually leave quite a large hole. It was sunk in '42, so they were probably still using magnetic detonators. I'm wondering if the warhead went off slightly early. I would have originally said that, that was concussive damage from a near miss from a bomb, the side plating had clearly been pushed in from a conclusive blast. But having since read she was definitely sunk by a sub, not an aircraft, maybe the torps warhead detonated early, and the concussion wave from the blast ruptured the side, sinking her anyway through flooding.
She was part of a convoy in the Formosa Strait which was attacked by 2 U.S. submarines. The 'Bang' (SS-385) sunk her and the Sakea Maru. The Redfish(SS-395) sank the Hozan Maru. November 23 1944
Well, according to Alden (page 25) she was sunk on December 24, at 9AM in the morning by the USS Triton SS 201. It was a daylight attack using the periscope and 3 torpedoes were fired. The Bang sank the Amakasa (note spelling) on November 23, 1944 at 2AM in a night surface attack. (3 torpedoes fired). Bang made 5 attacks that night and Redfish sank the Cargo ship Hozan of about 2500 tons 2 hours before..
it wasn't known at the time but, when the war was coming to a close, many Japanese ship were transporting pow's in the pacific. hatches were sealed tight and the conditions were terrible for those being transported. but many of these ships were seen as easy targets for roaming aircraft and were attacked accordingly. little did they know that many of those ships that went down took their cargo into the depths with them. such is war.
101327 I read recently that some American airmen shot down during the Battle of Midway were fished out of the sea by the Japanese, tortured and interrogated then shot and dropped overboard. I don't know if that really happened though.
My cousin was one of 80 survivors of the Shinyo Maru (not sure of spelling) He said the Japanese were picking up their survivors and shooting ours. he dove under when the came towards him. he was captured at Bataan.
@101327 - Since the advent of powered ships sailors are chiefly machine operators. Very rarely do they ram and board another warship. In the sail days battles at sea got downright bloody. The marines did the initial boarding, then one of the crews of sailors of each warship would get in on the hacking, slicing and stabbing. The other crew had to operate the ship.
It's a shame that the technology doesn't yet exist to be able to scuba-dive to these insane depths and look around without needing an ROV.It would be mind-blowing.I'm sure the day will come
@@2011ACVVV I doubt that that even if it ever were possible,the kind of vermin that would do that kind of thing would ever be skilled enough or able to afford it
@@Dunstire Many ships that are in shallow water have been removed by scrapers! Mostly in the Java sea. Grave robbers only see the money even when they find bones with the steel.
@@2011ACVVV There used to one of those that docked and filled at the old dry dock at Roosevelt Rhodes, along with a water barge, for the dry Virgin Islands. I was wondering what kind of a ship it was. Thanks a lot! The poem was about any ship, really, just an allusion to purpose and life and death at sea.
They never talk about depth or coordinates when they explore an unknown wreck. But it took a long time before they reached bottom. It was sunk during the Battle of Wake.
Imagine what goes thru ones mind as water begins pouring in thru the ventilation ducts as you feel the room your inside of begining to roll over. Knowing the door in and out is latched and dogged down from the other side. How horrible of a scenario such as this played out in many sailors last moments of life....i get a sick feeling at simply imagining being in such a situation...then I realize that someone played the price and took on all that panic and fear of that horrible death so that I wouldn't have to. Someone paid the ultimate price for us to sit here and play around on RU-vid, and chase our dreams and fall in love like its something we are entitled to.....oh how selfish we are...how absurd and arrogant a human I must be to live out my life without realizing my every breath is a gift granted or paid for by someone else. God gave me my life, Jesus gave me my salvation and my grandparents generation gave me the freedom to be what ever I want to be in this life...which is why its important we live to be greater than just a common selfish asshole. The world has on overwhelming surplus of selfish assholes....be greater than that. Its how we pay our debt to those we owe.
M. S. L. His entire rambling was just to put the whole religion aspect into the video....I am only curious to know if all the fuel is still in her tanks...
davy1458...don't listen to these clueless assholes commenting against you. I feel your empathy for the dead. To be in touch with History and remembering the loss...that is something these degenerates cannot feel. Peace.
A water carrier. AMAKASU MARU NO. 1. , launched in August 1939, was a 1,913- ton, 271-foot long, 40-foot beam, Type D merchant vessel, the first of her class.
I am going to take a wild guess. I believe what we are seeing is a fleet oiler. I am basing this on the shortage of large caliber guns and the lack of deck armour. Narration would have been nice. Does anyone know the ship's name yet?
Impact damage not explosive. Plus torpedoes were designed to go off under the hull not poke a ship in the side. If it did the target area is under silt.
@@christophermckeon9030 The first part of the war the torpedoes were made to do that. But too many did not work. So we stopped using them and used contact. but even those had a problem. There is many books written about our poor quality torpedoes. Sad but true.
@@ritzvillelumber5122 Aye, that's true, but in Dec 1942 magnetic exploders were still being used on the majority of torpedoes as Bu-Ord was refusing investigation for CYA purposes...even tho some skippers removed the magnetic exploders against regulations. If you read the Triton's log they report in Dec 1942 one torpedo that exploded halfway to a target (a magnetic exploder issue), and four that hit or appeared to hit but failed to detonate (that's a contact exploder problem) (issuu.com/hnsa/docs/ss-201_triton, pp 142-43). These were different ships. One could surmise the Triton was firing a mix of torps that were magnetic and non-magnetic. Wikipedia notes this ship was sunk when one torp hit "under the stack" and another "under the foremast" but it isn't clear if the detonations were beneath the keel in those spots or contact hits along the hull, not to mention wikipedia contradicts the Triton's log.
There was an expedition August 2019. The deck house collapsed and the captain's bathtub is no longer visible. I saw it on TV not long ago, but I can't find that docu. Here a short clip: www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49420935
Sunk off Salamaua Papua New Guinea in 1942. The first ship sunk by US Arial Torpedoes. I have dived this area but not so deep. I guess this wreck lies in 500m of water or more
This wreck was clearly heavily damaged during the sinking, but I'm amazed that it's not covered in rusticles and the fact the name is still legible on the stern of the ship. It appears to me the ship is beginning to collapse because of the ravages of corrosion.
Probably due to the metals used (Steel vs Iron) and the layers of lead-based paint is why you aren't seeing "Rusticles". Another reason might be very different microorganisms in the different locations, colder Atlantic waters Vs. warmer Pacific waters.
@@stephenhoward6829 the explanation I heard was that depth makes the difference. Upper layers of the ocean have more bacteria in competition with each other and rusticle bacteria have an open field at the lower depths.
Torpedo in za vater...most of the battle ship was snaked by those dreaded submarine....i have watched a lot of history show....an blah blah they always say she took a torpedo....almost 100 percent of the time
I was charmed by a first impression of the benign nature of freshwater tanker delivering the precious and vital, life-giving fluid to desert islands everywhere in the seawater world of the Pacific ONLY, no guns; absolutely orientally even, poetically wonderful to see here. Without its purpose to aid, abet and fuel fascist indiscriminate murdering savage barbarians in their historically unprecedented national mistake of all time, the charm is possible, and nice to see and think about here - what it could have been without the crazy ethnocentric fascism part of it all.
richard cranium In fact the one filming the ROV is an ROV but it's also a weight. It's hanging on the main cable and the vessel drags it. The ROV on the sea floor is connected with the ROV above him but can operate on it's own without the influence from the surface waves. oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/subs/seirios/seirios.html
