"Mayday!": Camera captures huge wave snapping cargo ship in 2 off coast of Turkey 

They sure got all the good out of it.

Which is why we have regulations to prevent these kinds of things

The ship was 46 years old and in very bad shape.

@@jpjpjp453 clearly lol interesting to know it was that old

@@Lilbebee07 Stretching the service life out of that vessel to the fullest, 35 years would have been the absolute latest that it should have been sent to the breakers IMO. And that's really pushing it.

Inspectors? Lmao.

ship couldve simply not been built for open ocean, some boats are built and designed just for channels and rivers

@@eriksimca9409 "In this video, we see how the lives of seafarers are played with by going through surveys even though the sheet metal of a 46-year-old ship has reached the breaking point. Just as it was certain that the MV Bilal Bal ship would sink four years ago, it was certain that the MV Arvin would sink," said the Turkish maritime union Platform of the Sea Workers. A port state control inspection in Georgia last year found extensive deficiencies on board the Arvin, including deck corrosion and ill-maintained weathertight hatches, according to her Equasis record."

@@jpjpjp453 thank you its so nice when people put legit info on yt 🙏

C'mon we're talking about Turkey... It's most likely inspector, not inspectors and he's probably never even been to the ocean. He just has a P.O. box you mail your licencing fee to :)

Calling the wave "huge" is an insult to huge waves.

It was not built to snap in half. The nature of waves that is crests and troughs create hogging and sagging moments on every ship. This ship must be quite old and dry docking and surveys were not carried out efficiently. Hence the result

@@abhi9167, allow us our fun, it appeared to deal well with the snapped section.

@@yourworstnightmareiscathoc7015 No, she sank with loss of life!

@@abhi9167 I think it is one of those segmented jitterbug hulls👍

He died

@@himhim3344 captain died?

@@himhim3344 so sad

@@himhim3344 Did he really?

Almost as good as an airline pilot saying "oops"

@Bønzëaux Błëuxgrēn you got to remember this is a bulk carrier soo when waves hit it front of the hull causing stress but there's a certain point when the bow of the ship snaps

​@Bønzëaux Błëuxgrēn Learn to read b4 you embarrass yourself further.

@Bønzëaux Błëuxgrēn you are not the sharpest tool in the toolbox are you?

@Bønzëaux Błëuxgrēn 🤦‍♂️

@That Guy Wait, you will see a sleepy tyrant (North Korean style) destroying our families, babies, flag and democracy. Dont drink the media Kool Aid. Think by yourself.

Francis Delaney results of using glue 🤭

A little FlexSeal and she'll be as good as new.

Recycled metal

This is nothing to the Iowa-Class

The owners probably hoping it would sink for insurance money

This is terrible, take my like and go!

God damnit lmao

Heheheheh haaaaa may day we are sinking about 2 fathoms a minute..

I'm sinking worst (best) joke of the day

Am I going to hell for laughing way to hard, for way too long, over this comment?

That's what I thought too. Looked it up she was 45 years old and probably never saw a dry dock - falling apart before her back broke

@@erichammond9308 common in that industry

I don't have any pirating knowledge by any means, but I thought the same

Made in China lol

@@olias2716 😄

Ha ha 😁😂so right!!

jajaj

civilian ships are not subject to the same sort of maintenance and inspection military ones are. This seems like a neglect issue on an old boat.

modern russian tech lol

It was obviously in disrepair. I would've liked to see more. Like did it sink? If so, how long did it take? This video leaves me wanting more for sure!!! Snarf snarf!

100% there exposed to flex like that but in that video shows the boat not moving so it can have a effect to on the vessel with tons of weight I’ve seen that happen

@@mikeoliveira6905 it was a joke...

The Edmond Fitzgerald wasn’t 😳

Are sure abt that my engineer? I think she is not feeling well 😅😅

Reading this with a russian accent. LOL

I guess it depends on what it's made of :)

@@BM22TechReview Cardboard is right out!

That's a feature....not a bug!

Can someone please call me a taxi?

@@Nick_Jones okay, "You're a taxi!"

This ship should not have been sailing. Built-in 1975. Tankers are built in sections . Many times when breaking the mid-ship can add a line to the aft part and drag it along!! This ship should have been scrapped. I sailed in the merchant marine a long time and was many sea accidents. The worst fear upon a ship is a fire onboard !!!

Please remember 6 died of a crew of 12, I doubt they wanted to be on the ship that old.

Looked like? It was a bucket of rust

Isn’t the name Rust Bucket apart of something? Like from spongebob?

Old ship forced to sail

Yeah teh wave wasn't that big

The ship's history dates back to 1975 and was in very bad shape. The design was adequate, the ship just should have long been scrapped or hulked.

Many vessels like this from Russian are on duty in open sea.🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳

Exact: belongs to a diverse class of river-sea cargo ships built for the Soviet Union in great numbers. They are not designed for unrestricted navigation and a few have sunk in heavy weather.

But in the cas e was not heavy weather

I get that reference

Hello there

@@kevinm.n.5158 General Kenobi

“Time to abandon ship”

@@stCOMMANDER_TE *cough cough*

That's horrendous that it was allowed to be in service, what were the officials thinking about I wonder? I think I know, it talks!!

I have been a welder, a ship repair welder, for almost 40 years. It is amazing how one section of the cargo hold can have no corrosion but on the other side of the same cargo hold, there are rust holes so bad that product is falling into the double bottom. If the bad spots of an aging ship are repaired when found, that ship can have a much longer life. Sure the ship starts to look bad to the untrained eye with soft patches and inserts all over the place, but those patches and inserts put strength back into the hull. My shipyard has replaced 5 tonnes of hull plate on a single overtime weekend. I show up, back gouge the hull plates from the ribs, run a gouge line down the welded seams, crane in a new hull plate section, get inside the weld the hull plate back to the main ribs and weld up the bull weld seams all by using .045 and .52 flux-cored welding wire. The hull only needs an 8 millimeter weld to pass inspection, so it's not a big process to do repairs that this ship needed. The only bad part of doing this fix is going into the double bottoms, but that is where we send the new guys, that need the experience and are to dumb to know they got the worse job onsite. I'm 63, I don't climb in double bottoms anymore, I paid my dues.

That's how you double your investment.

that ship is built in three sections to be able to bend like that. maybe lol

Nom d'une pipe! Je dirais même plus: "Old ship, 50 years after being sold for scrap, finally snaps in two."

@@nduwingoma well maybe the safety chains let loose on the front section

50 years doesn’t necessarily mean much. Those ships aren’t made for open, rough seas and more for rivers

No cardboard or cardboard derivatives, minimum crew of 1 😂😉

It was out past the environment

Not wave

To be fair it probably was built to strict maritime standards - those in force when it was built, 45 years ago. It's how it's been maintained and surveyed more recently that is the key issue here.

🤣 love that interview

Well if that's the case. Should have made it stronger. Large lakes and inland sea's have the bathtub affect. Which produces stronger heavier waves from different directions, and more rogue waves. No, this ship sank because of age. It was well past it's service life.

Not the Great Lakes. Great Lakes are WAY MEANNER THAN THE OCEAN

NOT the Great Lakes for chrissake, they have HUGE waves in the Great Lakes. Never forget the Edmond Fitzgerald and HUNDREDS of others. Hundreds is not hyperbole either.

@@guydaley Witches of November

When the Fitzgerald sank in 1975 she was facing 20 ft+ waves on Lake Superior…just saying.

I’m sorry about your car but damn that’s funny 😂

At least it didn't explode.

My old Ford Pinto sank in the lake and I didn't even hit a speed bump or a wave.

The title of the video says, "huge wave", which is one of the greatest exaggerations I've seen in the past decade or so. Typical sensationalist media. "Just being at sea", as you put it, is far more accurate.

that was the wave of chuck Norris jumping in the sea and it wasn't even touching the ship - it was merely looking at it

The odds of a wave hitting a ship at sea? Chance in a million!

waves look much smaller on camera

It was Godzilla

thats a fair assumption.

Я так понимаю это Украинское судно, класс река-море для него море губительно , корпус думаю был ослаблен коррозией.

@@user-tt5ym6ig5w ?

100 % agree

Ummmm yeah ❗️🙄

6 of the 13 survived !! I bet they survived !!

Looks like they would have had plenty of time to board the safety boats.

@@jdtown6585 Depends where you are. On the bridge, everything is sort of calm, and you can comfortably pick up your jacket, tie your shoes, and head for the life boat. But imagine you are a sailor under deck, close to where the ship snapped in half. You hear metal screeching, the lights go out when the cabling snaps, and then the water comes in. If you don't get knocked out right away, you find yourself in the dark, disoriented and under water, with no idea what just happened, and the ship you are in slowly on its way below the waves.

I hate it when the front of my boat falls off, usually it is at a very inconvenient time

Ahhh a man of culture I see

@TheLambo2 yes it is

Yeah right. "Welders weld that gaping hole shut right now & we be fine."

We lost something!

werts18 I hope you know that people died when that ship sunk. Think about that for a minute.

It'll buff out...

Thats how they collect insurance,and sink it as well. 2 jobs done...

I think it is

I won’t comment on “buffing something out” as I think souls were lost... as far as it being illegal, it very well might be but find me the cases were it actually gets a sentence and prosecution. Maritime law is very lax in many countries.

it is....

Probably should have. That wasn't that much of a wave....

@Nichen Fauster Shut up.

Dang! You beat me to it! Now I have to delete my comment. XD

This is where the fun begins!

Hello there

I'm more reminded of the Pakleds from StarTrek after hearing that Mayday. "We are Pakleds. Our ship is the Mondor. It is broken."

Just like Ukraine itself...cut in half. RIP three brave sailors.

Chief E did some not make it then? Just read three passed. Brave people who do these jobs on the high seas.

May their spirit journeys be swift and true.❤

No need, captain Vitaly Golenko, who you can hear over the radio, was one of the 6 dead

Any survivors?

There were two other ships in plain view, the sailors would have had plenty of time between the total sinking of their ship to be rescued.

@@GaisSacredCreations What if you're below deck? Rescue is not a easy as it seems. First get on deck, Second get in the water. Third get picked up ou tof cold seas from a boat with a side half as long as a football field. I've done sailboat racing rescues in WARM seas. Swimmer still had hypo. only in the water for ten minutes, IF THEY KNOW how to swim.

@@jessecantrell1820what you've said is correct but that's also why survival suits and life rafts are a mandatory on commercial vessels. Not much hope if below deck sadly. Jumping into the sea goes against 99% of any sea survival training. After putting out a successful mayday I'd imagine crew thats able would be putting on survival suits and deploying life rafts. Not a situation anyone wants to be in. That ship would of being going down scary fast .

Three died? They called *"mayday mayday mayday"* I in the video there were at least 2 other ships less than 2 miles, if it sank why was the video saved? Are you sure anyone died?

" shouldn't have...."

The magic of corruption

It was not a calm day. She had been at anchor for two days just outside Bartin in a storm. When the accident happened, no other vessel in the vicinity could come to her rescue, even the Turkish Coast Guard had a hard time operating.

@@martin3203 I see two other ships in the video so there were other ships in the vicinity. It's not normal for a ship to snap in half no matter what storm it seen.....that old ship belonged in a scrap yard.

@@exroyalcanadian according to the sources, the sea state were so severe that the other vessels anchored in the area could not come to _Arvin's_ rescue. Yes, the ship was old, built in 1975, and somebody else who have found better sources that I (Russian? Ukrainian?) said, that there were multiple code violations in recent years. And she was a river-sea cargo vessel, so she should probably not have been on that route at all.

They probably did...there are crew that work below decks that most likely regrettably got trapped Immediately...that damn ship snapped in half.

@@pwnerpinistic what the video DOESN'T show is the captain or deck officer grabbing the camera and then the crew on the bridge getting into survival suits. 6 crewmembers were trapped inside the vessel near the rupture and lost their lives. You can search on RU-vid for the full version of the video.

@@PaulCashman That is so very very sad. R.I.P. to those poor crewmembers.

Life raft?

Me 🙋🏾‍♂️

It was a Ukranian vessel sailing from Chornomorsk, (I think) built durring the Soviet times is Mykolaiv, There were about 14 crew aboard, and about half of them die, (I think).

Those waves are _not_ a relatively calm sea. Never judge the see state from a video, especially if you are not a marriner. According to the sources, it was storm condition and _Arvin_ had been at anchor outside of Bartın for two days. The conditions were such that none of the other vessels anchored in the vicinity were able to come to her rescue. Even the Turkish Coast Guard had a hard time operating. The ship had had regular inspections, but apparently also had multiple code violations in recent years, and it was quite old, ~46 yo, built in 1975. As a river-sea cargo vessel, it should maybe never had been out on a route like this from Georgia to Bulgaria, even if it was new and up to code.

@@martin3203 I am a mariner and from a long line of mariners. Those seas were not any thing but moderate.

@@peekaboo4390 I doubt that. Read the sources.

@@peekaboo4390 same here and I agree with you. Martin Borg is one of those that barely make it on the water ,I know some Canadian military divers that quit off my boat cause they though were crazy but its how we urchin dive in the east coast 😁

Seas, with no apostrophe

That ship was 46 years-old and at anchor at the time. There were 12 crewmembers on board, including two Russian nationals and 10 Ukrainian seafarers. The rescue was hampered by heavy weather, but six survivors were rescued. The bodies of three more were recovered from the wreck and three crewmembers remain missing. A port state control inspection in Georgia the year before found extensive deficiencies onboard the Arvin, including deck corrosion and ill-maintained weathertight hatches.

Its a lot about what the company can afford here. Its not about its damage.

Edward Straka: It must be classed as a criminal act to put a river-going ship to sea. Those who are responsible should be put behind bars.

Captain should have called mayday - we hear him doing that seconds after it broke.

@@justinchristoph3725 Why did they drown? What is the story? Could they not all stay together as a group with the survivors in lifejackets and life rafts?

I love Gordon lightfoot's music 👍

I was thinking of that song as well!🗿

It's still there.

Being from Michigan the Edmond fitzgerald came to mind instantly

That event still haunts me, the sinking of the Fitz.

Ignorant nonsense. The structural damage is caused by the sea state in which the vessel was anchored.

@@martin3203 that sea state was not that bad.

@@jrfreki674 are you a marriner?

@Danny Capps ah, yes, a man who includes "bro" in his reply got to be right.

@@iammcwaffles5514 not salty at all, and you are correct: the vessel, a river-sea cargo ship, should not have been utilized on this route, and by all accounts, it was not even sea-worthy for the conditions for which she was built.

Battlestar Galactica

That was the first thing I thought of. "She's broken her back. She'll never Jump again."

That's what happens when you slap random coordinates into a jump drive!!!!!

@@thegreatbamboozler4837 Nahh, the Galactica had been ill-used as a battering ram and had made a jump into and out of atmosphere by that point. She was tired out.

@@PaulCashman yeah, well, there was that too

Did people actually die?

@@smurphy2146, yes that is what they said. I imagine a great deal of water came inside very fast when it broke.

@@eugenecbell rip to them

@@smurphy2146 6 people of 12 died

Your magical god didn't save them. Think long and hard about that.

The ghosts of those intrepid mariners who successfully sailed through the storms and actual huge waves of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in _wooden_ ships under sail power in past centuries are hanging their heads in shame that this not-so-huge wave snapped this modern ship into pieces.

Yeah time did the majority of the damage, should’ve been decommissioned years ago, the helmsman did sound Russian tho so no surprises there lol

but how do you know it’s not sea worthy? did you inspected that ship? I am sure thousands ships are in the sea that are older... I suspect construction problem

@@fpsdovah2572 what could he done different? what’s about being russian?

@@martinkulik9466 Russia is a third world country in ways; have you seen some of the vehicles on their roads etc? Wouldnt surprise me at all if the company/owner is russian

It broke because it should have been scraped 20 years ago...we can get waves that big near the beginning of Long Island Sound..

@@johndonahue3162 🥱””

Sir, that ship had no business on a flat lake.... nevertheless a moderate swell, it might have snapped in half in the Panama Canal, what’s the Q, they loaded incorrectly... wrong

It was 4 years old if I remember this does happen to long vessels riding two waves nothing in middle she drops thrn cracks

@@kingjames7273 Sadly not, checking the ship registration, launched in 1975

no cardboard derivatives involved?

@@justdoi8909 sounds like just a minimum crew of 1 to me...

Is that a Michael Scott and Mr house cross over profile picture? 😆

@@BionicGhost24 No cardboard, no cardboard derivatives

@@AdamGreen1 Don't worry though. They towed it outside the environment.

This makes me wonder why they can't engineer a transportation ship with movable sections, Centipede of the Seas... Not that it should be done, but probably could.

@@justsayin3600 Hard to transport cargo if you're compressing and expanding it all the time though.

@@justsayin3600 I don't know, the articulation would be incredible strong, and rustless, and in any case it would be a limit and on that point it would snap .... I guess. Anyway there must be another way, my bet would be a half submerged ship to go below the waves ducking like a surfboard. Anyone else with crazy ideas who like to join us ?

@@justsayin3600 there are strong reasons for having rigid hulls.

@@davidBarrel A conventional hull in seaworty condition, perhaps?

Rogue waves are a bizarre and dangerous phenomenon. I only expericed 1 in the mediterranean. It was a pleasant summer afternoon and we we staging cargo on main deck. The sea was almost flat. Out of nowhere this thing was there starboard side midhip. It appeared at least 10-15 over our heads and on main deck it was 70' to the waterline so this had to be an 80'-90' wave. It slapped us midship so the wave went another 10 -15' more in the air. When all that water came back down myself and Crew about 5 people were driven to the deck like rag dolls. The force caused the ship to roll slightly to port side. So here we are laying on the deck like fish flopping around in a couple feet of water, disoriented and then the water all goes rushing to port side.i thought I was gonna get washed over the side. Once all the chaos calmed down everything was normal as it was right before it hit us. Absolutely bizarre

You mean Alang, right?

Lovely cruise ships. Those things are a plague on the seas.

You mean Alang. India 🇮🇳

Aliaga Turkey is the next major scrapping yard and a lot closer to where this ship is

yes. always drink half gallon vodka before weld

God one.. Hinged ship.. You are a great guy.

Not a bad idea actually.

My dear friend what do you think? What got into your mind i dont know to say such a thing. You dont know what kind of emergency it is...and even the sea is rough its even hard to launch the lifeboat also....you never know through what we seafarers go through . You should be thank full for us to bringing you your needs at your doorstep by risking our lives .

6 crew were rescued, 6 drowned. Among them, the ships captain Galenko Witaly, 37, a Russian citizen. Imagine being his son or daughter who comes online and reads comments like that.

@@martin3203 People die everyday for all kinds of reasons. Deal with it.

I'm sure those watching survived. The three who perished must have been down in the hold.

Yes That's what I was thinking

Exactly why I would take one look at a ship like this, to home, and reevaluate my life choices.

I've seen much worse.

It was not empty. It was loaded with 2902 tons of urea.

Taking the piss..............literally.

well, the ship owner was probably in it for the insurance.

😂😂 long time ago that was possible and Captains decision but in those times you go home. And for sure you dont use cargo if there is no any. There is ballast for that kind of things

Well, everything was fine here. Except the keel.

Not likely. The lost crewmen were inside the forward compartments.

Exactly !!

Were the ship's rivets Made in China?

Are you a sailor by any chance 🤔🤔

@@illestgod13 no but I use to fish commercially in Alaska.

I think it is because this ship is not meant to sail on these types of water it looks like ship meant for steady water like water cannals or so not open sea like where you saw so long and "low hight" ship of course this will happen

3 more are “missing”. And we all know what this means days after the vessel was lost near the shoreline.

Well, anyone down below at that moment...

my exact feelings love the song

Love Gordon Lightfoot. RIP to the sailors aboard Edmund Fitzgerald and all the others lost to the deep

He’d have made whitefish bay if he’d put 15 more miles behind her...

You gotther there captain 👍

There is no we’re holding are own there! Lol

At sea? A chance in a million!

God i love that show!!

Yes, yes...thanks for coming and have a seat.

like most ships, right?

Hunter Bidens all over this one

A ship not even sea worthy from kazarian, what a surprise.

Ship was designed for bath tubs.

@@StsFiveOneLima lmao

I agree Especially if you have ever been to sea

Are you sure? I don't see the black anchor ball hoisted and it seems the ship is making headway.

@@nunosantiago2273, Google M/V Arvin and search RU-vid. It looks to be making headway because the waves are on the bow.

@@aeronautee could be but the lack of the mooring ball says otherwise, although I wouldn't be surprised if they just didn't hoist it. The ship to starboard looks like it is under anchor and if this one was also, both should be aligned. Hard to tell.

@@nunosantiago2273, balls or no balls, multiple sources, including the Turkish Ministry of Transport, have reported the ship being anchored at the time it broke up.

Just the tip!

@@stansmith4054 🤣

Yes, "The front fell off" was priceless indeed.

Good thing it was outside the environment.

A wave hit it. At sea? Chance in a million. Probably shouldn't have used cello tape to reinforce it, or cardboard.