Did the Shipwreck of the U-864 Submarine Reveal a Stunning Discovery?

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The shipwreck of the WW2 German submarine U-864 is more deadly today than when first launched during WWII.
This U-boat was on a secret mission to Japan carrying over 1,800 cylinders containing 67 tons of liquid mercury, a key ingredient in the manufacture of high explosives.
On February 9th, 1945, U-864 was detected and sunk in battle by the British submarine HMS Venturer, making the U-boat the only submarine in history to be sunk by an enemy sub while both were submerged.
The wreck of U-864 was discovered twenty years ago in 2003 lying precariously on a steep slope. In addition to the danger of live torpedoes onboard, her toxic mercury cargo is now leaking from badly corroded steel containers, contaminating sea life within the surrounding region.
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@BananaTruth Год назад

This is literally like 30 minutes away from me with a boat, alot of the fish is unsafe to eat because of all the toxic shit coming from the submarine.

@garyschultz883 Год назад

can't the site be cleaned up ?

@BananaTruth Год назад

@@garyschultz883 I remember there were talks about it years ago, i need to do some research but i belive it is not a simple task due to shells and torpedoes still in the sub, the other issue is also the mercury might even spill more into the ocean.

@garyschultz883 Год назад

@@BananaTruth one other poster claimed Mercury should sink bc it's heavier than water...but other posters say the sea life is not fit now for human consumption.... hope it can be cleaned up....

@achillebelanger9546 Год назад

@@BananaTruth No Missiles back then. Just Torpedoes and Shells( Unless She was carrying V-1 and V-2 Rockets)

@mdtransmissionspecialties Год назад

@@BananaTruth it’s definitely not carrying a v1 or v2 you dumb cuck.

@nelsonlanglois9104 Год назад

H.M.S. Venturer sinking this U864 is the First documented case of 1 Submarine sinking another , While Both were Submerged !!

@Adamu98 Год назад

So far the only case.

@jonathonhass4178 Год назад

@@Adamu98 Wrong. USS Batfish sank 3 IJN submarines. All confirmed sinkings

@nelsonlanglois9104 Год назад

@@jonathonhass4178 Ok...I should've qualified my statement... First documented case of 1 submarine sinking another " Submerged " submarine...

@jonathonhass4178 Год назад

@@nelsonlanglois9104 Yes…that indeed changes things lol.

@HistoryX Год назад

Great comment, Jonathon. Thanks

@when-do-we-get-a-block-button Год назад

"the wreck was found twenty years ago in 2003" "20 years ago" "2003" that threw me for a loop and ive never felt older

@matthewmosier8439 Год назад

Been watching a documentary made in something like 2010. I realized that some of the older people in it might be reaching old age/ death. That was mind boggling to me.. 2010 seems like yesterday

@moteroargentino7944 11 месяцев назад

The older we grow, the faster we see time pass.

@bittercad1137 11 месяцев назад

I’m fucking 20 I hate this. Why can’t I just be 10 again with no other worries than beating the elite four

@madeljacky 11 месяцев назад

2003 seems like a couple of weeks ago to me yet its 20 years gone somewhere

@jackduane5555 11 месяцев назад

Is that the first time you've ever done simple arithmetic?

@farooqahmed5575 11 месяцев назад

Submarine battles must be the most terrifying shit ever

@bluewizzard8843 8 месяцев назад

Yeah I hate u-boots. I nearly drowned as a todler and the depths of the ocean is really not a place a man should be in his last moments in life.

@nospoon4799 6 месяцев назад

And one toilet for 30 guys. And no shower in most of them.

@cameronansley7950 6 месяцев назад

agreed

@Drewtinski64 5 месяцев назад

You can't even imagine...

@shanejones578 5 месяцев назад

If you’re under water death is instant. Your bones even become liquidated at the pressure change if you’re deep enough. 150M probably not but the pressure change killed them all instantly regardless of wether they were liquidated internally. Now the mini sub shot down at the surface near Pearl Harbor… they died from drowning…

@wyleekan5407 Год назад

There was some talk about encapsulating the entire wreck. Like most issues that cost money it mostly becomes just talk.

@tombayless9759 Год назад

What about the money going to the Ukraine money laundering operations

@herrakaarme Год назад

Norway is so rich they could encapsulate a hundred shipwrecks and nobody would even notice some money was spent. But maybe they don't want to do it because it's German cargo that the British sunk. Too bad it's near Norway, so those two other nations wouldn't care.

@NhatHuyNg Год назад

@@tombayless9759 what about it? still mad that your dad corpse is rotting at the bottom of black sea inside the moskva battlecruiser?

@stonecode8491 Год назад

Think its decided to be encapsulated. But enviromentalists wants it to be lifted out of the water as the other solution isnt viable

@theEWDSDS Год назад

@Tom Bayless ok dude, sit there on your iphone in comfort while they are going through harsh winters with no heat and fighting for their lives.

@thegermansoftie.2260 Год назад

Seeing a sunken submarine while scuba diving is the scariest thing ngl. It's creepy as all hell.

@Doksamauru Месяц назад

Oh so youve been?

@briansidney3403 Месяц назад

It’s literally a huge coffin for 73 souls. I’d be creeped out too. It’s cool how small that vessel looks compared to the surrounding terrain. Like a toy Laing in the bottom of a mine shaft summered..

@MrGrumbles69 Год назад

In reality, no one wins in war, it's tragic for all sides. RIP servicemen.

@ThorSuzuki1 6 месяцев назад

Well, WW2 was kinda the most important war to "win".

@leight420 6 месяцев назад

@@ThorSuzuki1who knows what the world would look like if germany didnt invade russia

@Beuwen_The_Dragon 6 месяцев назад

Who knows if WWII would have even happened if the Allied Powers hadn’t saddled Germany with all the fault for The Great War, when (like all the other countries) they had only just joined in to Defend *their* Allies… WWI (and as a result, II) would likely have only been a small footnote conflict between two minor belligerent nations, but it was escalated into a global, multinational conflict because of ‘Mutual Defence Pacts” between numerous nations… And rather than simply admitting that all those tens of millions of innocent lives across the globe were thrown away so uselessly, the Allied powers dumped all the guilt and shame onto the shoulders of Germany… Which created a ripe environment for a new Socialist Upstart Party to emerge from the Ashes….

@ThorSuzuki1 6 месяцев назад

@@Beuwen_The_Dragon So you are all for the "asslicking"? I mean, Hitler could simply have stoppen with the Rhineland and the Sudetenland which was in "right" German territory. But no, he wanted to kill some jews aswell. So that's that.

@nonbigbrain9662 5 месяцев назад

@@leight420well there would’ve been less of a Berlin

@archbishopTL1 Год назад

Something about hearing "20 years ago in 2003" was more toxic and damaging than the materials on the submarine

@WilliamBruhhh 6 месяцев назад

I was at the eye doctor. I have a lazy eye that they couldn’t quite fix when I was little. Went in a few weeks ago and the doc said, “We could definitely do another surgery that would most likely be successful. We’ve learned a lot about lazy eyes in the last 20 years.” And I just sat there like “Damn”. 20 years.

@PhilipDavid-jn3zg 5 месяцев назад

I was 18 back then haha😂

@QueerOkie 5 месяцев назад

*insert 'emotional damage' meme here*

@shanejones578 5 месяцев назад

20 years ago I’d be an amputee from a car wreck. Today I just have an iron man body instead. Id have lost my entire left side of my body minus my torso.

@philippennington358 9 дней назад

Lol Ikr

@lickylick6483 Год назад

“From the grave achievement unlocked”

@mr.berimbolo827 Год назад

😂

@jordanwalters2818 11 месяцев назад

Underrated comment

@MrViki60 9 дней назад

Yup #anothaAryanClassic

@gandhithegreat328 Год назад

I love this just glosses over the fact this is the only submarine in history to be sunk by another submarine while submerged

@wertbe1718 Год назад

Is that right

@wrecker8236 Год назад

I don’t think ever in history. Im pretty sure it was the first time it happened. It’s happened several times afterwards.

@evangalinsky2499 Год назад

@Syntex366 while submerged as well, there were already sub vs sub kills where both were not submerged but breaching the surface.

@informationoverload2487 Год назад

Probably because it’s neither true nor important. Like other posters said other subs have done so after.

@JMorris297 Год назад

Some real Fallout side quest tier shit right there.

@fiskeflax4894 Год назад

The only sub in recorded history that was ever sunk by another submerged sub. But it's a scandal that super-rich country Norway doesnt do anything to prevent contamination.

@xXMapleVodkaXx Год назад

"In reality she is more deadly today than when she was first launched in WW2" damn you didn't need to kill the crew a second time man

@MrViki60 9 дней назад

Their female descendants are boucing on black and brown phalli.

@Rafficarian Год назад

Mercury fulminate was normally used in blasting caps and primers many years ago

@Urbicide Год назад

Mercuric primers are what made certain ammunition considered corrosive. That is partially the reason why many military rifles have chrome plated bores & chambers. These primers do have a very long shelf life, if stored under decent conditions.

@rorythurman7843 Год назад

still is. surprisingly, nobody will spend the money to get the merc. most notable is its depth

@NarasimhaDiyasena Год назад

Germans had a use for liquid Mercury as it powered the Do-Stra in the Huanebu Program. German SS investigated the Vimana’s in Hindu texts, acquired the Schematics, and re-engineered it under the Huanebu. Then Operation Paperclip happened and a part of the group transferred to the US while the other part relocated to Antartica. The ‘UFO’ are variants of the Huanebu build by a network of Black Project Defense contractors which included Lockheed Skukworks, Boeing Phantom Works, and Northrop Black Widow Group. These crafts are now mass produced at a manufacturing plant in the ‘Alaskan Triangle’.

@John-nz6jb Год назад

Admitted JFK assassin James Files says he used mercury in the bullet he fired from his Remington Fireball pistol, i.e., exploding on contact with Kennedy's skull.😢

@Logarius- 11 месяцев назад

This mercury was going to be used for rocket propellant on Nazi designed rocket planes that were being given to japan

@stinkyfinger420lol Год назад

The first three torpedoes were avoided,but U-864 unknowingly steered into the path of the fourth. U-864 exploded, split in two and sank with all hands, coming to rest on the sea floor at a depth of approximately 490 ft (150 m) below the surface *Source Google*

@mikeyengland6363 Год назад

Thanks for that mate, it’s fascinating how we as humans fight each other but have so much in common. May all those boys rest in peace, what a horrible way to go.

@NimbusDE Год назад

What are the chances - would have been better for the Norwegians if the U-Boot has not been hit in front of their coast

@matthewmosier8439 Год назад

@@mikeyengland6363 Other than the stress, it might have been one of the fastest ways to go. They were submerged, so a hull breach would likely kill most people instantly

@shanemills5017 11 месяцев назад

Ummm why not use TNT to blow up the wreck

@jstravelers4094 6 месяцев назад

@@shanemills5017Do you really need it explained to you what a horrible idea that is?

@Internetspaceships Год назад

Sinking another submarine that could have been at any depth under water with unguided torpedoes that follow a single depth setting is quite impressive. One in a million shot.

@hmshood319 Год назад

From what I've read, the Leuitenant in command of HMS Venturer was a bit of a genius and designed the fiering solution such that the first 3 torpedoes in the salvo would corral the German U Boat in such a way that the 4th and final torpedo would be in the exact point in three dimensional space to make contact. Truly an epic display of maritime genius

@Rasscasse 6 месяцев назад

Wow. That’s impressive!!

@okay8165 6 месяцев назад

Imagine a submarine battle that’s gotta be the most terrifying thing I’ve heard

@stevetomblin9007 Год назад

Where are all the environmentalists demanding a clean up effort??

@Adamu98 Год назад

They just buried it eventually if I recall.

@nelsonlanglois9104 Год назад

I'm sure it's considered a WWII grave site = exempt from such

@rci30 Год назад

Its not at their local Starbucks so they don't usually care about the environment unless it affects them personally

@Urbicide Год назад

Unlike "climate change", there is no money to be easily made here.

@marksallows113 Год назад

@@rci30 idiotic statement

@itmakesyouthink Год назад

Who knew you could tell the temperature with a fish...

@abeperera5618 Год назад

😂😂😂

@imhere653 Год назад

Those are called Freddie fish.

@admiralpavelnakhimov8755 Год назад

Two Danes on a boat: "Hey what's the water temp today?" *His friend grabs a fish from the water* "Hmmm, I say it's about 2°C"

@libenstein 9 месяцев назад

Interesting I thought fish were only used to tell time

@honorableundead2273 Год назад

And this is how Godzilla starts

@TheJMBon 5 месяцев назад

Godzilla was from radiation...not heavy metal poisoning. Ffs.

@honorableundead2273 5 месяцев назад

@@TheJMBonlet me dream of giant fire breathing lizards man 😂

@Doncorleone47 Год назад

Submarine or any boats lying at the bottom of the ocean are always creepy and mysterious wrecks like the titanic for example but also extremely interesting

@mrEC Год назад

Mercury is heavier than water or salt water and once the cylinders decompose, the mercury should sink to the bottom and eventually sink into the sand. There should be some program to retrieve those cylinders to prevent contamination.

@sirjaustin9140 Год назад

not how it works

@danielbriones2938 Год назад

One; how the heck is a metallic container gonna decompose. Two; biomagnification will ensure that the surrounding sea life will accumulate Mercury in their bodies and be unsafe for consumption.

@PeliSotilas Год назад

If Mercury spills into the ocean, some of it will be turned into organic mercury by anaerobic bacteria, which introduces it into the sea ecosystem and by extension the fish. Organic mercury is about as toxic to humans as regular mercury is.

@patricklenigan4309 Год назад

I would agree that something should be done to solve the problem at first opportunity (namely, technology becomes good enough that the cylinders could be recovered to limit contamination, and clean up the area) when that would become possible, however, would be difficult to say.

@Dumbrarere Год назад

Not going to happen. The submarine is considered a war grave, which makes recovery of the toxic cargo in violation of international and maritime laws. What they can and are doing is entombimg the wreck as an intermediate-term solution until a long term cleanup plan can be greenlit. It's not unlike what was done to Chernobyl Reactor 4 by the Soviets (and again by the IAEA and cleanup crews).

@charliecurfman8859 Год назад

The way you speak, conduct, and give me examples is why I subscribed. Finally a good well spoke channel.

@momoniji6439 6 месяцев назад

Legend says people are still waiting for the stunning discovery.

@Dudemon-1 Год назад

I've been at scientific conferences discussing how to handle it. Originally, Norway wanted to recover the mercury, but, after more study, it was decided to bury it in place, entombing it with a cap.

@Nidvard Год назад

...until one of the experts have uncovered a fault in the plan to bury it, so now they are just waiting for the experts to agree on the best course of action

@Dudemon-1 Год назад

@@Nidvard Nah. It's still the leadt-risky solution. But non-experts are complaining.

@Nidvard Год назад

@@Dudemon-1 are you saying Rambøll is a non-expert?

@Dudemon-1 Год назад

@@Nidvard No. I've worked with them on similar projects (sediment contamination), and I'm not sighting them. But they have an interest in the project. Some of their concerns are valid as improvements, but they also minimize the threat that disturbance could cause.

@richardseys8014 7 месяцев назад

and when the cap deteriorates after time same problem just bought some time with a cap

@Zolo._. Год назад

Imagine being in the crew just randomly see a enemy and get attacked and flood and drown to death with little to no hope of escape

@rocc6102 Год назад

Due to decompresion it was most likely a quick death. After it split apart the atmosphere inside of the submarine violent collapsed. As you can imagine humans dont handle that very well.

@ricardoarrieta5762 5 месяцев назад

That particular boat was made to sink ships from resupling the alliance from America France and Britain. So that boat had no chance.

@CL-vz6ch 2 месяца назад

That would have been a split second.

@scottdavidson526 Месяц назад

@@rocc6102They sure don't. That pressure will get you everytime.

@AWF1000 11 месяцев назад

Its crazy that we are still discovering historic things on earth

@waynemgtregear7228 Год назад

There are thousands of sunken war ships all leaking their diesel fuel into the sands below , Approx half a million litres of diesel.

@emilgil1490 Год назад

But diesel is carbon and hydrogen: elements building life. Mercury is toxic, cumulates in living organism and 60microgrammes per kilo is death.

@AtomicExtremophile Год назад

diesel floats, doesn't it?

@waynemgtregear7228 Год назад

@@AtomicExtremophile true 100% but it seeping through the sunken ships into the sandy ocean bottom. Sand absorb the diesel fuel. ... Eventually making it way through ecology.

@julianbaquera9511 Год назад

Wrong, diesel (which is oil based) is lighter than water even salt water which is denser than regular water…..

@CrusherBKC1 Год назад

They rarely used diesel

@aztex6981 Год назад

The wreck is outside of fedje Norway's west coast. Norwegian kystverket finished in 2016 filling up the wreck with support soil for further work as the wreck is on a slope. 30.000 Square meter is contaminated. Further work is in progres.

@hotdog9262 6 месяцев назад

should have been removed many decades ago

@joejoemyo Год назад

Knew exactly the cargo when I saw the thumbnail. Mercury used to be considered a highly valuable precious material - nowadays it's about as expensive to get rid of

@TsubasaOkoshi Год назад

In this boat two Japanese were on board: Tadao Yamato and Shigeo Nakai. Shigeo was my mother's cousin.

@davyw.2571 Год назад

Sorry for your loss.

@WarPigstheHun 9 месяцев назад

Wow. That's crazy. What were Japanese people doing on a German sub?

@mcpr5971 9 месяцев назад

Smells like bs

@bluewizzard8843 8 месяцев назад

@@WarPigstheHunWell they mentioned the u-boat was on a secret cargo mission to japan.

@FancyNaeser53 Месяц назад

@@mcpr5971rude

@johnthomas6174 Год назад

They used to carry Mercury to the gold fields in California. It's used to refine gold. Tons of it off the coast of Florida and S America due to storms.

@cgyygc5433 Год назад

they still do this in the amazon.

@eduardoalbornoz2718 Год назад

they still used this in illegal gold mining in brazil for the last 4 years, and still are using in other places as well, old government would just look away, even the vice president approved what they were doing, i dont simpatise with the new people in charge, but removing gold miners from amazon was a great thing

@nospoon4799 6 месяцев назад

Lol in Britain they put it in kids teeth..!!

@josephpeluchette191 Год назад

I realize it's a grave and will be difficult, but this is a fixable problem

@markfryer9880 Год назад

It comes down to a lot of $$$$ or €€€€, and who will foot the bill.

@josephpeluchette191 Год назад

@@markfryer9880 right

@pootthatbak2578 Год назад

The wtc was a grave too. Didnt stop the elite from rebuilding over the ashes of the dead

@Cr4igpeterson Год назад

Germany should it’s their wreck 😂😂

@HelloIamJonas Год назад

@@Cr4igpeterson Britain should they sunk it

@captain_commenter8796 Год назад

Germans really said: “We ain’t losing alone!” **contaminates the surrounding wildlife**

@honestreviewer3283 Месяц назад

This is the only submarine that's ever been sunk by another submarine. Ever.

@jeremygirtz3254 Год назад

That bad shit that comes with war

@simonhansen1942 Год назад

Tweakers already ripped the wires out and recycled all the metals.

@markfryer9880 Год назад

In 500 feet of cold North Sea water? Funny comment but factually way off!

@uzyvan2.0 Год назад

@@markfryer9880 actually you should see what they have done to other places like famous deep water battle areas where Loya of big ships sank a lot of them were looted

@OOO34540 Год назад

😂

@_just_another_filthy_redcoat Год назад

@@markfryer9880 bet you check the door after a knock knock joke and get angry there wasn’t any one really knocking…..

@kirkkirkland7244 Год назад

They have stolen entire battleships full of bombs and these ships were war graves!!! They know who did it also and their not doing anything against them even though they are grave robbers!!!

@Louzahsol 6 месяцев назад

For those wondering about the mercury, it was used in ammunition primers. Today a different material is used but back then they used it to make fulminated mercury.

@bluewizzard8843 8 месяцев назад

R.I.P to those souls that never left that u-boat.

@Tpecroe 6 месяцев назад

You mean the souls of the people that wanted to destroy America?

@AmedoAvogadro 6 месяцев назад

They were soldiers of the Nazi regime trying to enslave the world. Be careful when you blindly follow a piped piper, charlatan populist! The little guy with the weird mustache reminds me of Dumpster Fire Don.

@SconiHunter84 Год назад

It's incredible how a victory can result in catastrophic results

@luggy9256 Год назад

Most victories have catastrophic results for one side or the other.

@bluewizzard8843 8 месяцев назад

Well that's war for you. There is nothing good coming from it.

@sauceboss9443 Год назад

RIP to the men of 864.

@StatesideHeathen Год назад

They were Nazi's...

@sauceboss9443 Год назад

@@StatesideHeathen 🤓🤓🤓

@brocclee4476 Год назад

@@StatesideHeathen not all Germans where aware of the ss plans and exterminations . Not all German soldiers wanted to even be in that war to begin with just like the United States Britain and Russia Ethiopia etc etc granted the majority where fucked but there was even a point where the whermatch tried to assassinate hitler for what they did to the country Oscar Schindler was a Nazi and he helped free a massive population of Jewish people and not only that a whermatch detachment helped the us siege a castle from the ss

@visidron8563 Год назад

@Christopher Cole, they were still humans. They were just unfortunately brainwashed. Or they were just fighting for their country. Take, for example, the American Civil War. The majority of the Confederate soldiers did not own slaves or necessarily supported slavery. They were just fighting for their country.

@charlesrupp3976 Год назад

@@StatesideHeathen you, my friend, are embarrassingly stupid.

@Assassinsam353 6 месяцев назад

Fun fact this is the only recorded sub to sub skirmish in history

@derrickstorm6976 Год назад

"Stunning discovery" contains exactly what is known there should be

@Opno Год назад

People saying "just clean it up" don't realize how much water 500 ft is. And how difficult it is to work with these crumbling wrecks and not end up making things worse or getting people killed

@fraziercrawford Год назад

Nah, we launched humans out of orbit with binary computers woven by underpaid sweatshop seamstresses. Nothing is actually that difficult, the people with the ability to make it happen just don't give a fuck. Mythologizing the act of taking care of out planet is a psyop

@kikoredog Год назад

Robots my dude

@Opno Год назад

@@kikoredog the issue isn't the direct diver exposure. The issue is that if you modify or even touch the sub or the casings, you risk the metal completely failing and dumping the contents into the ocean. Manipulating even simple metal or canisters at that depth is extremely risky in terms of releasing them completely into the ocean and making a worse situation than before

@Amoogus Год назад

I really would say clean it up but that would require people to actually care about the environment.

@Opno Год назад

@@Amoogus I would say you're retarded but that would be giving you too much credit

@johnnyk.2911 Год назад

War is toxic.

@achillebelanger9546 Год назад

We have a Freighter full of Mercury bound for England for use in detonators sunk off the Coast of Maine, close to the Territorial Shelf.

@thatranger8095 11 месяцев назад

it's the only sub to be killed by another sub underneath the water

@Swimming.in.Lead543 Год назад

All I’m sayin is Revy Two-Hands added a few more than just 72 to that count

@Pursuit918 Год назад

Gotta love how they will spend billions to kill but not a few million to clean up their mess.

@falchions_n_foccacia Год назад

all the people who did this are long dead, and if they try to clean it up there's like an 85% chance it's going to leak and kill a ton of people and fish

@JM64 Год назад

War is great for the economy. Cleaning up environmental disasters? Not so much

@qwertykeyboard5901 Год назад

@@JM64 Yep. Can't exactly sack cities when your cleaning mercury up!

@johnleonard9102 Год назад

Nothing stokes human creativity like the desire to kill someone you don't like.

@yammmit Год назад

@@qwertykeyboard5901you’re

@NedwardFlanders Год назад

Wasn't this the only confirmed submarine to submarine kill while submerged?

@NedwardFlanders Год назад

@@wayne6777 I wasn't sure at first although I thought it would have been included if it was. As it's such an interesting fact.

@o_mag_pie_o666 Год назад

The horrors of war never ends😢

@JonnyFiveAlive144 Год назад

Props to the Venturer crew. I'm pretty sure submarines were designed for anti-ship combat, I wouldn't think destroying a sub with a sub is very easy.

@jamesfuria3939 Год назад

wont the heavy metals go right to the seabottom. it's heavier than water so it should go lower and not mix with seawater. I'm not positive though.

@mamavswild Год назад

That’s what I would have thought? Very different specific gravity but I’m no chemist.

@magapickle01 Год назад

So just to explain it to you . Mercury is a solid at temperatures that cold . Once Mercury become s room temperature it becomes the liquid . At a high temperature it becomes a vapor . Mercury vapor light work that way . I know Mercury very well

@sgriffiths1448 Год назад

@@magapickle01 mercury doesn't become solid until -38.83°C/-37.89°F. Much much colder then the ocen gets at 150m

@magapickle01 Год назад

@@sgriffiths1448 interesting that I pull solid Mercury chunks out of flowing rivers that are maybe 40 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit

@sgriffiths1448 Год назад

@@magapickle01 the temp I mentioned is the melting point for Mercury.

@richardzilz6852 Год назад

Soooo that's why the fish I eat has mercury in it!

@HistoryX Год назад

We never know what's down there, dow we?

@Shootttr Год назад

@@HistoryX damn for a history channel I thought you’d know how to spell do

@roadboat9216 Год назад

We humans sure can screw things up cant we.

@mateuszobszanski274 Год назад

Don't forget that there's tens of these in the Baltic Sea alone

@AinsleyHarriott1 2 месяца назад

Underwater submarine dogfights is just peak humanity

@williamfoote2888 Год назад

Metallic mercury isn’t a very dangerous material. Once it’s covered up, it can lay undisturbed for Centuries.

@jasonswanson9805 Год назад

Well what about the non - metallic variety ❓much scarier, right ❓😂😂😂😂

@williamfoote2888 Год назад

@@jasonswanson9805 organic mercury is very toxic, but metallic mercury, by itself is pretty inert. The mercury that was used to mine the rivers around SanFrancisco, for gold, is still there 160 years later. That’s why it’s illegal to disturb those river bottoms…

@jeanbaptistevallee4500 Год назад

@@williamfoote2888 Recreational dredgers used to remove the mercury they found.

@williamfoote2888 Год назад

@@jeanbaptistevallee4500 Probably still do. Whatever they don’t move isn’t going anywhere.

@danielbriones2938 Год назад

Uh... Ever heard of biomagnification?

@edwinhernandez6627 Год назад

U-864 is forever on patrol . 🚢

@teel6060 5 месяцев назад

134,000lbs of liquid mercury? Unreal!

@trout717oboeplayer9 7 месяцев назад

This is so far the only case of submarine sinking another submarine while both were submerged

@theonlyonestanding8079 Год назад

I hope someone clean this up

@YourDadsBoyfriend Год назад

Lmao. Accountability. That's rich.

@Cr4igpeterson Год назад

All eyes on Germany

@wolfiewolfdog9771 Год назад

Britain actually babygirl @craig

@Cr4igpeterson Год назад

@@wolfiewolfdog9771 yea cos I’m clearly a girl… 🤣🤣 try again ugly

@bluewizzard8843 8 месяцев назад

Better not. Let it be where it is. That ensures it contaminates the areas only slowly.

@pemithmithsara7632 Год назад

Crimes happen during wars. But do not end with them.

@Fang-sigma2mz Месяц назад

U-569 makes a contact to lead them U-94 scores a kill in the dark!

@kingpest13 Год назад

The insanity of war is hard to grasp in it's entirety.

@robert-zj7ef Год назад

That's why we have Generals.

@danno8852 Год назад

Wouldn’t the mercury just sit on the bottom because it’s 13 times more dense than water ? Just throw a tarp over it…done

@HistoryX Год назад

Interesting comment. I did some more research and apparently that's kind of what they intend to do. Because they cannot safely raise the sub, it appears they intend to cover it with a layer of gravel and concrete.

@SL4US 11 месяцев назад

Fish: "Why my home spicy"

@labouraredangerous 20 дней назад

Its also the only sub during ww2 to be sunk by underwater sub to sub action

@brucetully Год назад

They will have to bring it up

@kailanib185 Год назад

of course they do, they haven't figured out a way to do it safely

@HistoryX Год назад

As I understand it, because the sub is broken in two and lying on a steep slope, it's too difficult to bring it up safely without disturbing the wreck further. Therefore they intend to cover it with a layer of gravel and concrete.

@davidmc62 Год назад

I don't believe anyone will risk moving it. As explosives age, they become less stable. I think they should either destroy it or leave it alone.

@kailanib185 Год назад

@@davidmc62they can't destroy it. That would release all the mercury into the ocean.

@kailanib185 Год назад

@@HistoryX last I heard that is not an option as it is illegal and still potentially leaves the mercury to pollute the ocean.

@paulatudor691 Год назад

Can’t they recover the cylinders with a salvage sub??

@rommel7543 Год назад

Remember that part mentioning Mercury is a key ingredient in high explosives AND the sub is armed with live torpedoes? Mercury + torpedoes = 💥

@Kokopilau77 Год назад

@@rommel7543 so… don’t go outside for a smoke

@JM64 Год назад

@@rommel7543 Mercury in and of itself isn't explosive silly goose. You have to do some chemistry to make it into an explosive compound.

@rommel7543 Год назад

@@JM64 Mercury(II) fulminate, or Hg(CNO)2, is a primary explosive. It is highly sensitive to friction, heat and shock and is mainly used as a trigger for other explosives in percussion caps and detonators. Mercury fulminate (or fulminate of mercury, as Walt rightly calls it) Hg(ONC)2 is a very unstable and explosive compound.

@JM64 Год назад

@@rommel7543 Yes, so as I said mercury in and of itself isn't explosive. And what did he say in the video? *LIQUID* (pure elemental) Mercury. Not explosive.

@randomclipsmilitary9056 6 месяцев назад

The sonar pings in the distance are haunting

@JasperJokerII 2 месяца назад

2003-youtube hadn't even started yet

@shahrookhshroff3018 Год назад

We salute these heroes, who gave up their lives to serve their land. RIP! 😇😇😇🙌🙌🙌👌👌👌

@GhostScout42 Год назад

f nazis

@MJ-we9vu Год назад

They were Nazis. Let them rot.

@Zlonk7 11 месяцев назад

I wouldnt exactly say they were heroes but they did serve their land

@Necoarcgamingofficial 7 месяцев назад

I don’t even want to imagine what those men experienced in their final moments

@randomlyentertaining8287 6 месяцев назад

Another stunning fact is that U-864 is one of only two submarines ever sunk by another submarine while both were underwater.

@DavidRLentz Год назад

Can we cover the wreck in a large volume of sand? Would that secure the site? Or secure it till we can apply a more effective method?

@creator4413 Год назад

I was thinking maybe lower a giant steel shell on cables and put it over the whole thing. We could use the hull of another ship that’s being decommissioned

@logansylvester8093 Год назад

I mean Mercury is heavier than water and most likely will just seep down into the sand below the wreck. It definitely isn't environmentally friendly but it isn't as dangerous as the video makes the wreck seem

@Zlonk7 11 месяцев назад

They video didnt mention this but the Norwegian government did exactly that a few years ago

@64Ziesingracing Год назад

The most shocking part of this video for me was that 2003 was 20 years ago

@Jokerboss421 6 месяцев назад

The guy who shot the torpedo at the sub got 73 kill streak

@robgee7788 9 месяцев назад

That mercury would go straight down. The narrator would lead you to believe it would dissolve in the water. That mercury won't hurt a thing.

@jimkammerer5240 Год назад

OMG THIS IS SO SAD INDEED 😞

@HistoryX Год назад

Without a doubt. But thanks for watching, Jim.

@thicccheese4007 Год назад

Ah good to know the Nazi’s are still being a pain in the ass to this day. I’ll hand it to them, they’re very dedicated

@Helena-me6mp Год назад

I think the british are the ones who caused this disaster. Werent they the ones who shot a carrier of toxic chemicals?

@okage6219 Год назад

Shit could've happened on an industrial transport just as well

@thicccheese4007 Год назад

@@okage6219 what, like a train? Trains never have accidents, especially in Ohio

@spacer0247 4 месяца назад

RIP to those 73 souls🕊

@onolicious9147 5 месяцев назад

…And that’s…how we get a Godzilla! We’re done for!

@Chris.Davies 9 месяцев назад

Liquid metallic mercury really isn't much of a threat, because it doesn't interact with much stuff. You could bathe in the stuff and be fine - for example. It is the salts of mercury which are so deadly. And so while it's not great to have that mercury down there, it most certainly is NOT an environmental disaster waiting to happen. It really helps if you know a little chemistry.

@Bluebrothersag2 Год назад

It's just so eerie seeing a sunken ship. Like who made it sink or what???.....

@margretblair5389 5 месяцев назад

That's horrible. There is no way to extract any of the toxic materials. Those used to be some of the cleanest best waters

@toeknee4301 Год назад

At first I thought with the sonar in the background he was gonna say the ships sonar was permanently going off which would also be devastating

@joeottsoulbikes415 Год назад

They need to build a shell to pu F over that until they figure out how to retrieve that mercury

@GhostScout42 Год назад

u pay for it, ill let the heavier than water mecury sit on the ocean floor

@Zlonk7 11 месяцев назад

@@GhostScout42and let the fish eat it? The same fish people eat eveyday?

@Zlonk7 11 месяцев назад

They covered it in sand a few years ago

@MrAM4D3U5 Год назад

It should be the responsibility of England to clean this mess us since they’re the ones who sunk the ship

@Darthdoodoo 4 месяца назад

Our military successfully designed a giant oil rig looking ship to pull a giant soviet submarine from the bottom of the ocean to study it but they act like they are unable to clean this stuff up

@albertbryan7132 2 месяца назад

Solutions? If the CIA can retrieve a Soviet sub from 5000 meters they can do something about this at 150 meters.

@mckcpaul1 Год назад

Send the clean up bill to Germany!

@jaysleezy5464 Год назад

Germany did nothing wrong except lose.

@sn1per.-992 Год назад

Send it to the british!

@Helena-me6mp Год назад

Right, if you get shot, you pay the bill and not the one who shot you

@nicholasproductions237 Год назад

@@Helena-me6mpif you lose the war you pay the bill

@nicholasproductions237 Год назад

@@sn1per.-992the British paid it by stopping that sub from reinforcing the Japanese

@natebenetard5100 Год назад

Does anyone know if there are plans to deal with this issue?

@Nidvard Год назад

3 plans for how to deal with it, with the most feasible being to bury/seal it off. the best course of action is still undecided though, as the reason why it haven't been done yet