Exploring Battleship NJ: Where Does This Door Go? 

HVAC guy here... Since Ryan was quite surprised by the existence of this obscure room, I wonder how long it's been since that air filter was changed? 😆

Even after years on the job, Ryan still gets the thrill of 'oooh..this is new".

It's amazing to me how many spaces can still exist that you haven't been in. I say more videos like this please!!

I love how this worked. "what door?" "where does this lead?" "ok, where does _this_ lead?" Just simple, pure enthusiasm for exploring the unknown.

Awesome watching Ryan exploring "new" doors and spaces where he has never been.

This was fascinating. I wish I had my own Iowa class battleship to run around in and explore! I was like a little kid when he hit that alarm button and it actually worked, I was so excited haha.

In the 60s, I was assigned to the USS Enterprise. There were a LOT of ventilation spaces aboard to hide in and take a nap! Ask me how I know!😉

reminds me of when I worked in a mill that had to have been built by an eldrich god. every now and then you'd find a door in a room you've always been in, that leads to somewhere you've never seen before which leads out to another room you've always walked through

That little crawl space is kind of like a real world equivalent of a Star Trek Jeffries Tube, but a lot smaller and oriented vertically instead of horizontally.

The sheer scale of the refits done in the 1980s never ceases to amaze me. I cant imagine seeing how much work was done, like if you could tour the same ship in 2 different versions pre refit and post. Even if some of the stuff is small, I mean every room in the ship has changes!

I love seeing new discoveries and seldom visited spaces. Thanks for taking us along from the barbershop to the hiddie hole used likely by a yardbird. I would be willing to bet that the space likely was used by crew to get away and hide too!

Excellent video. Really love these "off the beaten path" explorations and discoveries.

It would have been cool if that door lead to a time portal to New Jersey's WW2 service days. It would make an interesting "Twilight Zone" episode! 😉

Great exploration video. I was glued to the screen.

Absolutely loved exploring unexplored parts of the ship with you! Keep ‘‘em coming!!!

I so happy that Ryan is truly passionate about this ship. I like how he thinks his way through the puzzle.

Please consider doing more of these exploratory videos. They are frickin' awesome!

It is amazing that there are that many areas on this ship...never realized how many out of the way spots there are.

Great fun. Thanks, Ryan and Libby.

Very cool to see that you can still find stuff that hasn't been touched in years.

Santa brought me an Iowa class battleship for Christmas. I’m so thankful for the video owners manual.

Still trying to figure out “where does this door go?” Love the effort and commitment put forth by Ryan and his crew.

Perfect exploration video. One interesting location leads to another and another and another and another.

I love that you keep things like that alarm, in good working order! 👍

I see a jail type toilet right behind Ryan in the corner of the barbershop to his right. No privacy. Nice area and use of space. Send a drone up the ladder. Thanks Ryan for this look into a rare area.

I love this a lot, I never tire of exploring niches in large spaces, so this kind of stuff is right up my alley

If you really want to get lost, try finding spaces on the U.S.S. Midway CV 41. I was installing radiation monitoring equipment and it took me 4hours to find 1 particular space. It took my foreman over 2 days to find the space and equipment that I installed. No new numbering system on midway, just the old A B C Numbers. Dc evolutions on Midway were like watching Laurel and Hardy.

This is, to me, your best video and I envy you! Ships and buildings - "where does that door go?". Was blest to know a man in the constructiuon trade, walked on the iconic roof of Madison Square Garden and saw all of the machinery that made magic. I never did it, but he "knew a guy" and they climbed the ladder up the dirigible mast on the Empire State Building and popped the hatch (Original King Kong, the hatch Denham climbed through to save Fay Wraye); it exists and he climbed through it to a two-plank wide walkway 1,000 feet over Manhattan. Absolutely LOVE crawling through doors, seeing what is on the other side, and saying "Oh! THAT'S how they did it!".

More unexplored spaces please. This may be my favorite video so far.

Such a cool ship! Every time I see something new about it, and that's basically every video, I'm reminded and flabbergasted at what level of detail and effort went in to building those magnificent ships!

I love when he says judging by the age of the chair. Those are the same chairs my barber has just different upholstery.

I see all that metal and space up on the exterior spaces and realize it’s Hell on Earth for the Deck Apes to maintain scraping and painting. Interior spaces were usually maintained by their respective ratings - just to keep the deck apes out if nothing else.

I thank you. I had requested some time ago a video of the Helicopter Control Station and lo and behold we got to see inside the station tonight. Great to see that the emergency alarm still works !

All the stuff I’ve watched here…THIS is my favorite video. I feel like a kid watching Ryan find stuff! Sleepy shipyard bubbas!!

Ryan - *Triggers Alarm* Half the museum staff - *Comes running* Ooops.

Ryan is freaking awesome With all that work he’s got to do plus make videos for us this guy is a real MVP plus he has a Battleship

Let's see the anchor chain locker!! That big glorious pile of steel.

Boiler tech jobs on the New Jersey would be great to see. Thanks Ryan for the great videos.

Lol, that face you made after testing the flight crash alarm.

Thank You for exploring the ship so completly . after all there could be a leak a short , a fire in ANY space ANY time . Thank You for you're passion

I'm so happy to hear you! I hope the microphone and audio issues are a thing of the past.

Thanks for taking us exploring. It's a lot of fun to see these oddball spaces.

As soon as you got into the "mystery spot", my first thought was that it would make a great hiding and chilling out area. Seems I wasn't the only one.

Cool. More of this please 🙂

Actually, design of ships like this are amazing. No computers, done by hand by draftsmen!

The inner room is just big enough for one curator!

I like how Ryan bends & contorts while making grunts, ughs, and ahh noises. Libby (I am assuming Libby has the camera) seems to make no noises as she follows & films him into the same spaces.

I liked the alarm part, I'm sure somebody was surprised.

I actually know the guy who used to take naps in that space! His name is Jeffery, and that void was always referred to as "Jeffery's Tube".

Mystery solved, we’ll done. Making plans to visit soon.

I love these little spaces. I would like to see the catacombs again from different entry point maybe, just more catacombs would be great and the wiring trunks of the 16 inch guns.

I love the exploration videos! Even though the "tour route" videos are fantastic I always want to know what's behind the door I can't go through! Great job as always.

I love it. The alarm still works. It would be a blast if I could retire today & move & start volunteering tomorrow. But I fear I would want to spend all my time exploring instead of working.

Great video from the battleship.

I served as an ENS/LTJG aboard the USS Springfield, CLG-7. We had COMSIXTHFLEET aboard while I was there. She had an Officers' Barbershop in about that same relative place, scaled down. Although we only had one chair; don't ever remember having a problem getting an appointment. Even with 14 four-stripers and the rest of the Admiral's staff onboard I never got bumped.

my Dad knew a few fellows on his ship that were supposed to paint the floor of a compartment with red anti-fouling paint. their officer in charge saw them walking away way too early to have finished the job. he went there and looked. It was properly and completely painted. He later found out they used mops. they had to chip it up and do it again.

It must be so much fun being able to explore the ship as you please

My favorite type of videos!! Keep it up!

Thank you for making this !

Yeah new spaces and a Libby sighting. I think that was you in the mirror. Great work. You are like Ginger Rodgers doing everything Ryan does in heels, er, with a camera. Thanks to both of you for bringing us this content.

At 10:43 interesting that they painted "Sealed Do Not Open" on the inside of the hatch that you had to go outside and through that hatch in order to get into that area. I assume this is because they were dehumidifying the space, but why doesn't it say so on the outside?

Stuff like this is what I love this channel great video!

That was really neat to watch!

I love weird little spaces like these, I'd have so much fun exploring a ship like this lol

loved this video, hell all your videos, even when helping other museum ships and programs trying to hold on to our heritage.

Very interesting tour this time. I really like your style. Keep up the fascinating tours.

Keep up these kind of videos. This was awesome

This channel is so interesting. Ryan does an excellent job explaining the content.

Back in the early 80's when this ship was towed into long beach shipyard, the USS Tarawa was in for refitting,,I stood roving watch on the New Jersey before she had a crew I was a Hull Tech from the Eagle of the sea

That was great, thanks!!

This is definitely one of those videos where it's fun to go through the sequence "pause, check the PDF of the plans, play, new space, repeat."

This content is why I subscribe. Great video!

This was a really fun video to watch.

This was really cool, I hope you do more videos like this.

I enjoy your other videos but this was really neat to discover it with you in this one

I love the exploration! I followed Admiral Olson all the way down into the double bottom of the USS Ranger during her 93 Survey. He was explaining everything he saw to young the sailors who were following us. Good times.

Love to see the whole ship documented. This video was super interesting.

Loved this explore - it’s like the ultimate urbex!

Have you ever been totally surprised by a discovery in any of the spaces on the ship?

Videos like this is why Ryan and Libby are the best! 👍

Ryan you have the greatest job in the world to have full access to a battleship to explore every single inch every crawlspace will be totally awesome

Now we know what to get Ryan for his Birthday: a door he hasn't seen before!

LOL. You could have a whole video sub-series called "BB-62 Backroads". I'm surprised there weren't any old Betty Grable pinups on some of those bulkheads!

I really enjoyed this one and was also oddly amused by the sound of airflow I'm those spaces.

This was exciting.

So cool that some of the air conditioning and heating works! Also must be so exciting to explore.

Me, a former sailor: That's not why it was called a glory hole. . . Joking aside, I love seeing things on old ships that look like they came out of my ship, which was finished in 2010 (The USS Gravely DDG 107). Especially my equipment, the interior communications stuff like the 1MC, the crash alarm, sound powered phones, and other things that haven't changed much since . . . probably before WW2. Also love seeing these forgotten spaces. I got to explore a lot of those on my ship since I owned all the sensors and detectors, so I was intimately familiar with the best nap spots.

Hi Ryan and Libby, Could you do another tour of the fire control rooms and then to the engine room out to the propeller shafts. Basically a tour of where the oil starts and gets heated then water turned to steam that turns the turbines and then the propeller shafts. I know you have done separate videos on each of these. But one video showing the complete system. It would not have to be a long video, a couple of minutes in each space. Thanks for the Great videos. Cheers.

Yes, more like this!

Great vid!

This was my favorite video in a while. I would love to see videos about the various "pits of death" you mention

Ryan is my favourite Urban Explorer

Didn't understand it all but, like always. A great clip. Thanks JohnB

A distinction should be made between "Air conditioning" and "ventilation". If a space is designed for human entry on even an occasional basis, it will have ventilation supply and exhaust. Whether that supply is from the weather decks, another compartment, or runs through heating and/or cooling coils depends on the actual use of the space. Fan Rooms such as these are actually quite common. They provide access to heating coils, cooling coils, fan motors/belts, dampers, etc. If you have items which you just cannot afford to be caught with in your personal locker, you will locate spaces such as these with easy access away from prying eyes. They are also popular with sailors who wish to engage in activities frowned upon by the US Navy. Other than the obvious "couples" activities, these activities could include a little cocktail party and/or a card game where there is money on the table. FWIW, you can find similar spaces in large buildings as part of the HVAC system. Caught a couple once engaging in what appeared to be a lab project for their Human Biology class while looking for a duct smoke detector in a college library HVAC system...

i was feeling claustrophobic anxiety just watching! very interesting, though. thanks

I love stuff like this. I had enough fun snooping around crew hallways of cruise liners (or the back rooms of a big store) when I wasn't mean to, and this has got to be even more fun. I could probably spend days just wandering around stuff like this and seeing where it takes me. I wonder if we will have stuff like this when we start building ships in space.

7:50 everyone in the Camden area simultaneously thought "what the hell was that?" Or, "Szimanski is at it again" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love the partially painted room. It's like someone was assigned to paint in there, got started on it, then realized, _No one is ever going to come in here again for any reason, what am I doing with my life?_ :)

Awesome. Excellent. Stupendous.

Just because Ryan did not know of these areas does not mean maintenance does not know of them. The filters would be on the maintenance check list.