Climbing through a Battleship’s 16in Gun Barrel 

LOL

Big, massively big, balls of steel.

Nice!

Take my wife please! Henny Youngman

too clever

I can think of a way to speed up the process.. 😂💥

the 1st in captivity!

I think you should started a new tradition for right of passage.

This comment reminds me of the rhino birth scene in Ace Ventura.

Really wanted to hear him grunting and swearing

There's no audio , due to the " sailor language" he's using at the moment.

@@johnbockelie3899 I read his lips and he's coming up with all the right technical terms!

was there ever a ship cat

Bahahahaha....Ill be impressed with the 20mm

I'm sure he'll fit right in the .50 brownings 😂

@@scottmcdivitt2187he might have to fast for a bit to pull that one off...

@@jtough7499 😂😂😂

@@scottmcdivitt2187 time to crawl thru and ak47s muzzle

Was that some challenge on the BB's??

Were you the XO?

I'm guessing it was to remove barrel obstructions

@@clubtepes2046 Yes. Kind of like the Shellback ceremony. You got a card stating you were a member of the "Cannoncockers" and a notation went into your service record.

@@KutWrite Ha! no...

Oh boy that were some great ones :D

I think that warrants a very slow clap 😂🤣

What have you done?

*sigh*

Very punny. I approve!

Lol

🤣

It would be hard to cut someone out, the heat from the cutting would be bad.

@@ThePinkPanth3r one small charge in the breech , one spectacular human cannonball .

@@mineown1861 one big splat on the wall that the cannon is facing :D

Well if he's Polish, I could probably hazard a guess or two...

I'm sure there's a few razzle frazzle mish mash consarnit bedazzles in there. :-P

Unfortunately I believe they couldn’t fit the microphone pack in his back pocket as it made his diameter too large. Shame they didn’t use any audio from the camera itself though.

A shotgun mike at the muzzle suggests itself. A radio connection w/headset probably needs the transceiver antenna in close line of sight with the bore, lined up with it.

Yeah, got me too. Not sure I could do that myself.....

I couldn't watch. OMG Next video is checking the keel.

@@missyd0g2 yeah for some reason I think the dark totally enclosed keel would get to me faaar far worse than the gun that is clearly wide open on either side **shrug** gotta say I don't think I'd miss out on the chance to climb through and around either of those parts, plus any and all they'd allow me to =)

I bet Ryan felt like a gun swab after that. Lol

"if you want that promotion, you gotta beat 6 minutes!"

@@Paladin327 There's definitely a way to beat 6 minutes... 😂💥

also special forces (Navy Seals?) have to learn to go through a torpedo tube on a sub ´coz that is one way to deploy them

​@@truecerium4924Yep. Navy SEALs and an inflatable boat. They load in an inflatable rubber boat, crawl in, flood the tube and then get shot out with pressurized air like a torpedo

@@shockwave6213 with the sub completely submerged, what would be the exit depth? Like 40 meters?

​@@truecerium4924For reason of OPSEC, they _won't_ give details; they want the bad guys to stay puzzled. When you have an escape trunk already available, no need to get so colorful as to launch anybody out the weapons system. And I think they would have these warriors of derring-do just do a swim-out anyway. Think the main escape trunk is quieter in use.

Yes, but it's supposed to be a handgun barrel. The spiraling grooves are called rifling. Their job is to make the projectile spin when it's fired, which improves stability.

After??? Aft….

Autocorrect strikes again...

@@bernielomaxsmustache7204 Either is correct--after turret or aft turret.

he also did this in the middle of a july heat wave as well

@@Paladin327 it was probably pretty chill in there.

@@captiannemo1587 i doubt it. It’s a steel tube in the summer heat, and i’m pretty sure it’s not very well ventilated

When you hire the next curator just before you retire. He or she has to do the same thing

he barely made it out of there lol xD

Would need a speedo and a bucket of axle grease for that.

@@dmacarthur5356 that paints a picture I won't soon get out of my head.

I’ve seen a pic of a sailor poking his head out a 14 inch on Texas

Up for a bigger callange, dive to Yamato's wreck and climb through the 18.1 inch gun. I heard that it could fit 2 skinny people.

A select cadre and probably the last too! They don’t make em like they used to...

Initiation time for you, go ahead, climb through that gun barrel, son. It's easy.

" Watch dis, Olive, as I makes me way true dis gun barrel, ug, ug, ug, ug!!!". Popeye, showing off.

Halfway through, he thought it over.

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Many years before RU-vid there were probably countless thousands of interesting things being done...but the people doing it were thinking "nobody would be interested in how we do that. It would be like watching paint dry". Just one of hundreds of reasons that I keep asking for a time machine for Christmas.

His excuse was that the sweat would lube him up!

@@BattleshipNewJersey he did come out dripping!!

Fish oil would have been best

We built large propane tanks (30,000+) and had a welder inside one grinding his welds prier to moving it into the heat treat ovens where it soaked for 3 hours at 1,000+ degrees. The welder worked up a sweat and that caused his body to swell so he could no longer fit through a 16" manhole. He had to strip to his skivvies, pour oil over himself and then we pulled him out of the manhole. He was a bit bigger than Ryan to start with. We could have let him cool off naturally in the tank but it had to go into the furnace pretty quickly to stay on schedule. He was very glad to get out of there !

Well you definitely don’t want an over-ram.

It's also been in storage since the 50's or 60's. I recall him saying in 1 video that the barrels were replaced either after the Korean war or after Vietnam, with the barrels originally made for the Illinois and Kentucky, which were never completed. The original barrels were relined and put in storage, which is where this extra barrel came from.

They did keep 20 or so in storage at the Long Beach shipyard.

1 in 25

@@BattleshipNewJersey is that 25 feet or inches? Or yards? 🙃 🙃

@@thawk1435 "The barrel had 96 rifling grooves (shades of Marlin's micro-groove type rifling, which is typical of cannons). The twist rate was one turn in 25 calibers, or 1:400". The maximum service pressure was 18.5 tons psi, or 370,000 pounds psi." U.S. Navy 16" Battleship Gun Facts website By Chuck Hawks

@@thawk1435 It's technically a ratio so units don't matter.

one too many zeros it's 37,000 Psi

Time to build a turret!

Do you need a permit for that?? How about concealed carry?? 😂😂😂😂😂

@@wheels-n-tires1846 As long as you don't live in Washington state. There, it is unlawful to carry a concealed weapon longer than 6 feet.

@@wheels-n-tires1846 If you can conceal and or carry you don't need a permit.

Then it is time to buy some powder bags and some 16inch shells and go ballistic.

in the middle of a july heat wave no less

Well, he at least didn't have to worry about having it collapse on top of him... :) I would think a better recovery mechanism would be straps to both feet instead of ropes and instead of just one foot...

Imagine if he got stuck towards the end

They used to do so by killing mammoths to feed their families Alas, ever since divorce came a thing, there was no more need to keep mammoths around

@@Nightdare So - divorce caused mammoths to go extinct? Who knew?

Ewwwwww booooooo hisssssas

Maybe just a....... swab

This ended far better than most Super Dave events!

thats a blast from the past!

In 'nam officers were pulled through with a rope to inspect for cracks in ths liner.

Sailors crawled through the gun to help with maintenance work on them. It is slightly more than 16in in the barrel, but not a lot. I couldn't tell you how many people have done it, quite a few. However, most that did it before did it when the barrels were depressed which made the crawl through slightly easier. We do have pictures though of someone doing a promotion ceremony from inside of the barrel (one person in each barrel) though I doubt they crawled through it at that moment, they look very clean. But there was a fair amount of horsing around like what Ryan did. We do not believe anyone has done it since these ships were decommissioned in the 90's but we are waiting for someone to tell us otherwise.

@@BattleshipNewJersey Thanks! Still curius though. What inspired Ryan to do this? After all, how do you get that much man through that little space?

He knew that other people had done it and it was another thing to try.

@@BattleshipNewJersey cool. Thanks!

nope! nope! nope! 50 calibers of nope!

Yeah, just like changing a railroad tyre.

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Damn I was about to start kink shaming him