Man vs. Propeller! 

the prop would blow him away

@@Deezorz It would not. At least the port side one is running in reverse.

@@Alexander470815 No it's not spinning in reverse. But I cant tell if the blades can rotate to change thrust direction.

yes they can

@@nikolatesla1296 Starboard is the right side.

Rustic poptart2174 same ship propellers scare me

Same

Same

submechanophobia

SAME!!! I’m afraid to be in the water near the ship just because

Dogsbol Ox This you Mike? I was wondering how long it would take for you to see this online.

Phil Jaynes My video copy of this broke some time ago.....I've told the story a few times so now I have psuedo celebrity to back my claim......it's still a little hard to watch.....hope life finds you well Phil.......and kids, once again.....don't do what we did!

Dogsbol Ox Hey Mike, life finds me well with a wife and two boys. It still makes me nervous to watch. Hope life has been good to you.

Phil Jaynes awwwww you guys just now clicking back up ?

+Dogsboll Ox Yes, you were. At least you admit it and learned your lesson in one piece.

Erik Weseman i think its no cruise ship.

Not true... Jetboat?

Nicholaus Ewing-Pistelak he said ships not boat!

Nicholaus Ewing-Pistelak a jet boat isn't a ship is it huh?

There are ships powered by water jets (HSS Discovery).

dieselyeti Do you think the bridge would have given us permission? Not......we were young and stupid.....but I'm still alive 24 years later.....

Sure. And lucky it was the portside prop that started turning and not the starboard side..

dieselyeti I have always wondered if the guy in the engine room had a choice........

I'm curious why the engines were running while docked? They weren't leaving, were they? Morten, I fly twins - since when is #2 started first? We'd alternate when in the King Air. If a particular plane only has one hydraulic pump, that's the engine that's started first.

dieselyeti I can only assume they were pushing the aft end of the ship up to the dock. If you watch closely you can see the rudder turning to starboard.

submechanophobia

McLarenMercedes Mk.. Thanks

The condition you probably have is Thalassophobia. An intense fear of the ocean and large submerged objects. Submechanophobia is a portmanteau that some people use. It is really just a variant of Thalassophobia, but is used to define a more specific fear of submerged objects that are "man-made". However, to my knowledge, this is not an officially recognized medical condition, and symptoms associated with Submechanophobia are considered to be part of Thalassaphobia. If you were to look for this word on the Oxford Phobia Archive, you would never find it.

Thanks for the correct denomination. It's rare that people take time to share their knowledge on YT. Normally I would have looked up (what turned out to be) this portmanteau before posting my reply, but since the subject is pretty esoteric I boldly assumed "submechanophobia" was correct. I'd also say that there's little to no impetus in trying to classify this specific "phobia" as it arguably is valid as a rational fear and isn't socially inhibiting in any serious way, say unlike agora- or claustrophobia. I've talked to some amateur divers and while they have no problems diving down to a shipwreck in shallow waters the idea of a huge ship of 40,000 tons floating right above them makes them feel uneasy.

xxFalconArasxx I have it

ohh i agree thats sooo fuckin scary.......

My biggest phobia too! Holy shit. Thought I was the only one

TwoSevenElevenEighty Holy crap. I thought I was the only one to

I absolutely love Marine Propellers but at the same time I am shit scared of them! This is my worst nightmare on video!

Yeah.The ship propellers scare me so much D:Being next to them would be my greatest nigthmare.

skotiskiller lol

But they won’t let you dive if you ask first.

@@nocalsteve they have a good reason for not allowing it tho

There in lies the problem. Fool!

It’s their job idiot

Start wouldn't be the problem I guess since the diver would be blown away to safety. But turning backwards would ended up in diver sashimi.

and another 50% chance to be lucky and be sucked in to left proppeler

He was at the side of the ship's propellers so if they started the right propeller it wouldn't end well for him

mosipd You can also see the rudders turning.

What he means is before that you can hear the diesel power plant start up.

Only asking cause I don't know anything about ships at all but could an intake port suck a diver in or something?

No a diver couldn't literally get sucked in as the intake ports are covered with grating, however the suction is powerful enough to easily injure or kill a diver. The intake ports or "sea chests" as they're known are connected to large centrifugal pumps that provide the ships various needs with sea water. They are a known hazard when diving an active ship and is one of the many reasons why that equipment needs to be locked and tagged so as not to operate accidentally whenever divers are down.

Oh ok, wow that is some seriously frightening stuff! Thank you for the response. As much as I am horrified by this I find it extremely fascinating to learn about.

Me too, it's so horrible

+TOXIC GAMES nope, scary as it is, there's worse...!

Then don’t swim near large ships!

Submechanophobia I have it major

they did think. they thought that nothing would happen or go wrong

@@TwiGuy4 😂they didn't thinking that the propeller can turn on at anytime they will never thought😂😂

Michael Björk probably none they are fast enough to get away and they are smart enough not to go near the giant spinning blades

@@JessJess347 r/wooosh

StarWarsMarvel There’s no joke, so your whoosh is invalid.

@@johnwesleyhuss2327 There is no joke here you idiot. Seems like a genuine question to me, at the least a rhetorical one.

+John Tortorella *Britannic

britannic

Seriously? Not the ideal way to go. ugh Speed 2. haha.

Derek Ortiz That movie scared the shit outta me when I was a kid because of that. That's why I have a kayak.

The crazy horse in "The Ring" XD

Phil, I was wondering: Did any of you feel any sort of suction at any point? And if so, how severe was it?

@@michaelcaplin8969 7 years ago bro this may not even be his account anymore

​@@-_deploy_-doesn't hurt to ask hehehe, have a good day

then never google goatse, lemon party, or blue waffle.

you must be new to the internet.

Lea Klingen damm u aint seen shit

25EllisDee25 O...M...G... lmao

If I was the one in charge of such maintenance and qualified to dive, I would first lock out the controls, then do my work and unlock said controls when done.

Only people with brains do this

I'd guess they didn't make the ship's crew aware and/or just came in at random. If they were contracted divers, then yes, the crew would be aware.

I couldn't even swim near the front of a ship without crapping my pants. I love ships, but having to get up beside one scares the crap out of me.

Me too & i over came it one very strange night.......

ill bet that propeller had to have been at least 12-14ft in diameter

the largest propeller ever build is around 30 feet in diameter

@@montiro8999 The biggest propeller ever made had a diameter of about 12 meters. Although still very, very big, a propeller with a diameter of 9 meters like you mention is not that uncommon in the biggest cruise ships.

asdf Pushing.

+Phil Jaynes Thank god lol.....what are the chances of making it out if it was in reverse? Just curious of the force it makes.

The blast from the propeller would have pushed you away from the ship.

Oh yeah, how about when the props turn the other way? The bridge crew can run the props for any number of reasons while tied alongside - maybe they want to shorten-up the stern ropes and need a 'kick'. Those blades have an edge sharper than most peoples kitchen knives so one swipe will leave you sliced and diced.

Berkcam Actually those propellers are really blunt and not sharp at all, you see the spinning motion would wear them blunt really fast even if somebody attempted to design them so foolishly so what you're saying is nonsense. However like anything huge that spins at a fast speed they don't need to be sharp to be deadly. The huge force tears you apart.

@Juan Contreras Thanks, I thought so. I guess the divers didn't pick that up, because at the first sign of engine noises I would've been out of there.

I mean yeah, but at the same time, what the hell could he really do? He was several meters away.

Was there something in your opinion that the first diver could have done? It's not like he can yell to he's friend and trying to signal with body movements seems kinda fucking retarted anyway since your friend propably can see by your panic filled type of swimming.

Brent Kolar M/S Seaward, Norwegian Cruise Lines in Cozumel Mex. 1991. For the longest time only a select few ship friends knew of the dive and the video. By the time I left NCL in 1994 it had become an urban legend that the crews talked about but they didn't know the people involved.

The buddy is indeed ok.. the ship is M/S Seaward.. a Cruise ship

No, lock out tag out was in force but these fools had no business being there.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xzmB8NCo0ZU.html

how do you not realise you are missing a whole damn propeller. isn't the thrust literally halved

Not at all, just look at some other videos of propeller inspection, but they are powerful enough to roughly slice you into two or more chunks.