Operation Rheinübung - First and Last Voyage of the Bismarck 

Would a Nelson class with engines of the hood be a more formidable ship to face.

I notice you used clips from "Sink the Bismarck!" Have you thought about doing a movie review of either that film or some other WW2 Naval film looking at their accuracy?

Which ship in your Opinion deserves the most longest range hit in naval history Warspite for Guilio Cesare or Scharnhorst For HMS glorious

You said in at least 2 videos (the recent one on Storozhevoy and in another about some US Ship, I cant remember) that long barrels make heavy AA guns less efficent in the AA role. The examples were about Storozhevoys main guns and the US 5 inch 38 cal. Why is that? For me, a longer barrel equals a higher muzzle velocity which should make it easier to hit aircraft at long range.

What is a Naval Doctrine and how do you pick the right naval doctrine for your navy?

RU-vid doesn't monetize videos with swastikas regardless of the context such as instructional history topics. I agree it's ridiculous 😡 it's just a ww2 totally technical and historically important subject here.

I actuality got an ad

Eli Wiederhold me too

Espinoza

There is plenty of free ad blockers out there, i personally use this one: AdBlock Best ad blocker, it says it wants you to pay, but just close the tab and you have a very nice ad blocker. Edit: i do not work for them

I'm not a nazi or smth else, but i find this annoying, sometimes hilarious

@@Madmiata79 why?

@@Madmiata79 Because he doesn't understand its significance in the overall history of WWII. Either that or some Polish kid thumped him at school.

That and " This is Ching Lee "

The Polish version of U.S.S. Johnston.

The history channel is damn near criminal in my mind. Negligent, knowingly misleading people because it sells. Fantasy for adults. Bringing up the magical Templars again...

@@AJNpa80 It's just so BAD, a true embarrassment. Haven't watched it in years. Channels like this are truly the best.

I remember good content on history channel when I was a kiddo, idk what they have the stupid shot they do now, although I did learn about the pilgrims attacking the stuffing mines on another planet ruled by turkeys and the pilgrims prevailed giving the world stuffing on thanksgiving for all eternity, thanks history channel

The history channel used to be amazing. It used to have back to back world war 2 documentaries most of the day. You must be a younger history fan if you don't remember the good days of history channel before it went to shit!

Nope, in the 90s we called it the Hitler channel, you may be forgetting that they also ran junk pseudoscience, amateur archaeology, mystical maybe shows back then, mixed in with some more history shows, which sometimes also tried to grab the viewers attention with the same "some believe" crap they went on to use in buckets. They just realized there was no need to keep up the ruse. There are a few HC retrospective reports, what went wrong, where they changed, debunks of the myth of the good old days of a purely educational channel, you'll find they just turned up the volume, lost their shame, and tipped the ratio, when the history part was all WW2 they had already started the slide, as that's the low hanging fruit, ratings, viewers love some snazi gold.

I've heard that the ship going down pouring out huge bubbles as it goes. The men fall through these bubbles and after falling through the bubble didn't make it back up. The disorientation in such a circumstance would have to add to the problem of serving. Brave men. rip

surviving not serving.

Years ago in Ohio, we had a Polish Priest who had a similar story. He served in the Polish military and was a prisoner of war in Poland! The order was given by the Nazi officers to take the group of captured Poles into the forest and shoot them all! The prisoners waited and far outnumbered the Nazis guards . They all ran away catching the small unit of Nazis off guard and the firing began. He told my Polish mother speaking the language so my brothers and I couldn’t understand what he was saying! He made a promise to God that he would serve him if he was spared. God answered his prayers and he was wounded but not mortally. He hid and was nursed by local villagers and eventually was captured by the Russian military and set free after the war! He eventually made his way to America and kept his promise! He was a frequent visitor after Sunday mass. This was back in the mid to late 1960’s.

@@anthonyburnam3415 not men ...boys...

​@@mottthehoople693 didn't stay boys for long. War will do that.

Nine lives indeed

I didn’t know Bismarck had a mascot. Great piece of trivia there.

@@asteropax6469 It may have been apocraphyl.

This has been debunked as just a sailor's tale. Given how many of the crew of the Bismarck were left to die by the Royal Navy under "no stop" orders, and the dire conditions of those that were rescued, it is next to impossible for a small feline to have survived. There is also conflicting evidence, as the cat aboard the Bismarck, and cat of British ships in photos are different.

Oh so that's why the Meowficer in Azur Lane that looks like Bismarck is named Oskar lmao

Army: Crawl through the mud and get shot at. Navy: Keep your uniform mostly tidy, but if the ship goes down, you're screwed. Marines: If the ship goes down, you're screwed, and if it doesn't, you get to crawl through the mud and get shot at. Air Force: When's happy hour?

The Lusitania went down in only 18-minutes after being torpedoed by a German U-Boat, in 1915, during WWI. Luckily 734 survived (1,924-1,119). Was close to the British Coast! Still, pretty amazing survival percentage (38%).

I think one of the Hood's survivors was waived through a doorway, "No after you." Followed by understandable tears. True horror.

Hear here...

@@christosvoskresye CIA-- happy hour's whenever we say it is lol...

GOD BLESS THEIR SOULS

They have no grave but the cruel sea, No flowers lay at their head, A rusting hulk is their tombstone, Afast on the ocean bed. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them. Lest we forget.

Bismarck and gnisenau sailors are much more brave and memorable than the hoods by choosing to go down with ship instead of dying instantly

@@noahlinden9641 that's crazy but I am on the Germans side so it's ok

@@richardmartin8998 gotta say that bit at 42:30... DANG.... Hood certainly went down fighting that's for sure.

Such an appropriately English metaphor, too.

@@hatchcrazy Or UK/British Isles metaphor, at least. The Irish and the Scots will fight the English and each other over who has better barfights!

I would say that it is generally factually correct statement if You look at modern history of naval warfare, except to that rule would be Imperial Japanese Navy during the war. In a best case scenario tha japanese crew would machinegun hapless survivors as a afterthought, in a worst case, they would beat the survivors, torture them and finally behead them by sword.

I think Monsarrat said it pretty well in his introduction to The Cruel Sea. "But the men are the stars of this story. The only heroines are the ships; and the only villain the cruel sea itself."

@@lizardb8694 There were examples of IJN submarine crews giving food water etc to survivours, just as there were examples of US Navy Crews machine gunning survivours in the water.

THERE'S A GERMAN SONG THAT SAYS THAT: 'NO FLOWERS BLOOM ON SAILOR'S GRAVES'-!

That's certainly poetic, but I think it's more accurate to say that a man without his ship can't fight at sea whereas on land a man with a rifle and one bullet left can still fight. Therefore, it only makes sense to consider seamen on a wrecked/sunk ship as non combatants but not a lone rifleman.

The biggest Reverse card in WW2

@@andybushi6418 I mean, the Brits were here because they took the existence of Bismarck personally tho. :D

Proceeded to turn Bismarck into the most famous German ship while at it.

funny how the bismark and the ship it sunk are exceptionally famous but not the ship that sunk the bismark

In a way they were constructed for that purpose and it ended rather quick for both of them great ships.

Main Engineering: Don’t you do it. Captain: Imma do it!

Rodney waited a long time for her fame, interrupted her refit to slug it out with Bismark and hardly anyone knows her name.

@@billiardsandsnookervideosn8319 indeed... I had never known the name of this ship before I found this channel. I knew of hood and prince of Wales, how could I not... But the other British ships involved I never heard mentioned by name. Truly a shame...

@@adenkyramud5005 Rodney emptied her 16inch shell magazine into Bismark, definitely deserved an attaboy for that. Rodney was one of the three Nelson Class battleships and they were the biggest battleships the UK ever built, Rodney was one of Nelsons Admirals so got his name on one of the Nelson ships. This Chanel made a quite good video on her and the other Nelson ships, well worth watching them. N

"Sir... would you mind explaining why you had NovaCat written on the bow?"

This is only a problem if you actually have empathy. A person only focused on himself but with a highly logical mindset will do what is needed to survive. 'I have to cooperate with these things because its in my interest' ' I have to manipulate x by laughing at his jokes because its in my interest of survival' etc. Psychopaths can be highly effective at cooperation if they view it as useful but they'll also kill you with no hesitation if its considered the logical way to survive. Ted Bundy was thought of as a nice guy even worked at the suicide hotline. He didn't care about anyone but himself. Again letting your comrades die is only an issue if you view them as people. If you view them as useful tools for your own personal advancement its not an issue. Psychopaths are the best leaders at the end of the day since emotions are a fundamental human weakness and they have none.

@@florinivan6907 These are normal men who got drafted. You are literally projecting.

@@jobdylan5782 Whenever someone states something controversial the standard reply is 'you're projecting'. Well what makes you think you're not projecting your own nature onto others. Also just because you have biases doesn't mean you're wrong. Here's my advice come up with newer standard replys 'projecting' has been overused grandpa. Did your dad dig up this reply from working in a mine and said 'here sonny here's a standard worn out reply to use'.

@@florinivan6907 it's not controversial, especially not your last "point". You're just a bumbling idiot who's either projecting because you a weirdo or making things up to slander a bunch of long-dead men. Either way you should be ashamed.

@@jobdylan5782 Technically its closer to libel slander is spoken and this is written. But more importantly they're all dead. The only people who can still feel some issue are the descendants because the men are dead. They're not here to feel awkward anymore they don't care and even their kids are mostly old or very old. They're gone. And again really weak insults idiot weirdo. Were did you learn those? I have no respect for washed out guys who will be dead soon enough who can't even be bothered to give a good insult. Gramps the cemetery is waiting you should move. And if you have a lot of years left try learning to insult people its an art form.

My understanding is that there were others that climbed down the nets too

Operation Reschedule-burg

@@BHuang92 operation neuplannung.

I'm working a double today. My breaks are filled. Well, they traditionally are around 10 minute videos.

Drach has that effect on navally obsessive people lol...

Me, I download a copy to my computer then keep my schedule...

The abrupt noise of that typewriter is my only criticism.

Could not agree more. I was using headphones and the volume of that machine clacking is the only problem. So I'm good.

Bismarck was going down either way so it doesn't really matter

The die was cast when Bismarck lost control of it's rudder, Lindemann knew the ship was doomed he could have put his hubris to one side ordered abandon ship and scuttled it, it would have saved thousands of lives.

@@robertdraper5782 I honestly feel like the commander of the Scharnhoest later in the war should have surrendered after he lost his engines given the conditions he knew his men would be facing once the ship was sunk.

@@TheSchultinator They could have followed Cpt Langsdorff's example, he scuttled the Graf Spee when he knew there was only one outcome and put the lives of his crew first.

@@robertdraper5782 Agreed

Midshipman Joe Brooks was reprimanded by Captain Benjamin of HMS Dorsetshire for his actions. He eventaully served on Royal Navy X-craft "midget subs", and won the distinguised service cross for his part in a submerged attack on a floating dock in Trondheim, Norway in 1944.

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 !!

That must have been bloody awesome 😎

Great stuff here.

1:10:40 I am a poll. Proseds to thow stuff that has no chans of hitting bismark just to troll her

Clearly the system confused the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffle

@@Wafflepudding LOL. Perhaps.

It's light red armor!

How about Craigslist Marines

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Thank for that information

The entire affair occurred a year and a half before the United States entered the war. The accounts of the battle released by the British after the Bismarck was sunk did not mention any American participation because that would have indicated an American violation of the country's "neutrality" at that point. That account became the legend, and, as they say, when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

She was engaging French forces for several hours during Operation Catapult.

@@Ozraptor4 Yeah, but it was _only_ the French. They don’t count.

@@Ostentatiousnessness harsh

Sir we’re taking on water No f’ing way. Hitler is gonna be PISSED

@@Ostentatiousnessness they kicked ass in the First World War and were pretty much the shit when Napoleon was around.

(USCG): "And would you mind not torpedoing me; I'm clearly not a battleship or german you (long string of expletives)."

Actually it was part of the IIP that patrols the North Atlantic to monitor icebergs and thus avoid a second Titanic incident. More info on it here www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=IIPHome

Probably takes adderall,, I know I do lol...

I wonder what his day-job is?

@@sergarlantyrell7847 ..I dunno,, from the subject matter you'd think Drach would be a foreman down on the docks in East London, it'll probably turn out he owns a coffee shop and you know what? That's cool with me...

@@sergarlantyrell7847 has said a couple times that he is an engineer, dont know exactly what field.

@Jimmy De'Souza FELIX DE SOUSAS BROTHER,, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--WwJw5lH7pI.html

Have you been to Yeovilton RNAS? My grandfather was a TAG on swordfish and walruses and served on Norfolk and Rodney. After PQ 17, he was brought home from Russia on KG V. On a catapult launch, the TAG and observer faced each other and would try to trick each other to get the best grip position for launch.

Understatement, 9 gun 16”, all together, at point blank range, 9 hits…..no other ship in history has unleashed that, AP coming out the other side of the B, unreal.

Even if it was way more that 5 min.

@@GnonplussedGnome "more or less"

5 minute guide 🧐

Cheers

I have no respect for any German who fought for Hilter.

The law of the sea, render help to ALL that need it to save their lives.The law stays the same in peacetime also. I know because I live by the sea. I grew up knowing and respecting this law.

Hi Scott, I’ve been a Merchant Seaman for many years and Im not aware of any rule that says we should honour our enemy. Certainly ones fighting to support an evil regime. We should certainly seek to save life and aid others in distress, but not honour those same people if they are supporting an evil system.

@Russ Gallagher Well put.

Oh errr about 11 sir

1:11:00 for context.

The Poles sought revenge for nazi war crimes against them and they were a huge asset, this and the 303 squadron. Ignorant latter generations of brits label these heroes "eastern europe immigrants" and expel them on the nazi style pure breed fantasy that is brexit. I for one will never forget our Polish friends and to me you are always welcome.

Phonetic spelling: 'The wittle wascal has spiwit, bwavado, a touch of derwing-do'

Maitrik Patel Didn't a Polish ship keep firing at night to keep the German sailors at their posts- depriving them of rest and sleep. Or was that a different battle.?

I’ve literally considered cashing out a rather sizable portion of my bitcoin just to fund this guy for a bit

@Ron Lewenberg the political geo-strategic target of the US was to weaken Europe with internal wars. In our days the Europeans understood to fight Germany weakens themselves. Now the US are only able to provoke quarrels in the European periphery as Ukraine, Georgia and the Kosovo. US propaganda is the biggest on the planet to destablize overseas countries. We should not believe the historical and the current media bullshit.

@Jurassic Aviator This is not only actually the case. This is your history at all. I had this debate with Veterans Today on their forum some years ago. They, as the most US citizens, never took their own history seriously. The entire move to the West was war, against British canada, against Mexico, the Barbary wars, Japan, against Spain, you name it. War of aggression is the main US business model, being never attacked by anybody. 1944 Bretton Woods gave additionally the world leading currency weapon, better than any fleet. When Woodrow Wilson came into office, the strategy to weaken Europe was defined and published. At least the stupid Brits lost the pound sterling as the leading currency and sold their empire for 53 old destroyers to the US, because Dönitz had won the war at this stage.

@Jurassic Aviator the difference to the past is, that now, US corps and admins buy simply the best brains on the planet for development and progress. There is no real technical and eminent advantage on the planet anywhere, so no war, genociding the inhabitants, makes sense. WWII was the biggest bucaneering raid ever in history. The Soviets and the US were involved in a speed-race to robb German technology. Rockets, jet-engines, nuclear progress, agriculture you name it. They did not cared about the killing of 7 Mio. German people during the war and several mio. after the war. After Yeltsin opened Soviet archives, Putin classified all soviet warfiles soon again. The Brits blacked their own since the war. Your current president Trump analysed or realized the major problem of US forces in general very well. The US are still able to lay an entire country into ashes, but they are not able to win a war anymore.

@@danielsummey4144 Then do it.

syaondri Apparently they were well-positioned but ran out of torpedoes. It’s a “for want of a nail” scenario

U556 left the scene on midday on the 10th relived by U 74.

those torpedobeats though

@@aaronstorey9712 Cosigned by Kamchatka

@@naverilllang no thats torpedoboats

Wouldn't have changed a thing when the only Problems Bismarck had were a Destroyed Rudder and a broken Radar. That Pole was annoying but nothing else than an annoyance.

@@TheRealJohnux also made sure the crew at at station all night long

John Hargreaves recent years endearoplanne

It must have felt like the end of the world for them

Bismark was the monster, and the Rodney and King George were the knights. They made the sea safe for the allies again

They were all just sailors doing their duty at the end of the day regardless of beliefs or ideology. Tragic loss of life on both sides.

@@Chino56751, That is a view of perspective. Colored by politics. Death, And Death at Sea can be horrific. We need not trivialize/propagandize the deaths of the Sailors.

@@Chino56751 If that's what you want to call beating a dead horse in a conflict you could have prevented.

"I fart in your general direction!"

What with the Poles and the Bismark and the Norwegians and the Scharnhorst, it's like having nautical terrors snapping at Germany's heals.

@@LucaHMafra I had exactly that in mind ^^

@@jonaspfister682 had to be done. シ

They were pissed.... Hatred of Germany to the death...

I imagine it was speech time on the rodney. 'Right lads, the Hood has just gone down, orders have come through, the bismarck is to be sunk. We have are to join the hunt, All hands to stations, I know our old girl is up for a fight, but we may have to thrash her to get there. Good hunting.' Or words to that effect

No, from the start when Bismarck and Prinz Eugen broke into the Atlantic, they needed to be hunted down. The historical record is pretty clear that the Brits were dead set on that. The risks to shipping in the Atlantic was just too high to accept.

@@wierdalien1 Man LARPers like you are so weird lol

So did sister ship, ORP Błyskawice in her shipyard of origin.

Its horrible how these unbiased and well researched videos make you root For each side. It all feels So pointless in the end

@@anttitheinternetguy3213 it was. That war should have never happened

I doubt real Bavarian would say about being 'part of Germany'. For frak's sake, in Aviation Museum in Munich there's Eurofighter Typhoon with blue-white chessboard shield and "Bavarian Air Force" on vertical stabilizer.

Could also apply eurobeat music as well.

Great story a lot of brave sailors. Too bad the human race must always be killing each other. Seem to be part of being human.I wonder if it will ever change🤷‍♀️

It sounds good, but I suspect there is at least 1 more…..I hope not….

I like your sentiment but the Bismarck was not the most modern Battleship in the world. Both North Carolina and Washington had been commissioned before the Bismarck sailed.

20 year olds today are busy worried about trigger warnings and checking their racial privilege. 🧐

@@InsideJobUSSS Poor comparison. Brits have a tendency to make gross understatements, and combat pilots, especially naval combat pilots, are naturally more adventurous than average.

@@johnshepherd8687 the swordfish were still to slow for Bismarcks AA-fire. And the cloth-wings did not animated the AA-shells to explode. Here you see the failure in PE's detachement. A AA-crossfire might had been more successful.

I agree. Young chaps today should have to dodge live fire when taking theirs driver's test. Teach those young punks some character.

I agree. Already knowing Hood was sunk, I found myself hoping that it was all a mistake and that she'd poked Bismarck in the eye. I also learned new facts, like the visual tracking of rounds as they hit Bismarck and the damage witnessed being wrought. Bismarck was going to sink. Once the RN caught her, she was always doomed. My final observation to those who insist that the RN didn't sink her would be this. Had Rodney and KGV not pulverised her at point blank range with more than 400 hits, she would not deliberately have been scuttled by her crew by choice. To suggest that she was sunk by her own crew is like saying that after a massive fire destroys your entire house you driving a bulldozer to flatten the remnants through it was your choice.

@@ScienceChap Bismarck's fate was not caused by the RN. It was caused by the bad German leadership of her admiral and the miserable german admiralty, who placed the cowards into a commader-in-chief-position.

I would watch the sh*t out of that!

How about 'Human stupidity on display'?

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6uuCh7Fv9g8.html Here you go, 5hrs 22 minutes of Drac.

For Rodney it was a simple clay pigeons shooting. A midshipman could have commanded Rodney in the final battle of Bismarck without any danger of a failure. With a Bismarck at 28 knots, Rodney's and KGV's T would had been always crossed.

@@hajoos.8360 Drachinifel stated that Bismark's fire was accurate and that misses were due to minor course alterations by the captain. Even partially immobilized Bismarck needed to be approached with a good captain.

@@jimmiller6704 Fine, that Drachifinel was on the ship during the final battle of Bismarck. The rudder was jammed in one propeller, 7 knots and unsteerable. That Bismarck not survived is only the failure of the coward Lütjens. If you want, it was a construction failure. Already during the trials in the Baltics it was clear, that Bismarck was not steerable without both rudders.

The Royal Navy may have been stretched but I would argue that a lot of its troubles were of its own making. Despite incorporating aircraft carriers into the fleet and the relative success of the Swordfish against the Bismarck, the vulnerability of RN's own capital ships to air attack was a lesson that was never learned. The mentality was still to engage in Jutland-type battles, which is why it sent the Prince of Wales and Repulse without any carrier-based support to their inevitable demise even after the time-frame you mention.

@@roryobrien4401 I don't believe that's entirely fair to them. While I will admit that the RN air-arm was well behind that of the other major navies, much of that can be attributed to the timing of the war. With the war starting in 1939, the Brits didn't have much of a chance to modernize their air-arm, especially considering that the bulk of their aeronautical engineering had to go towards long-range bombers and short-range defense aircraft, all of which would have been quite the challenge to re-build as carrier-based aircraft. Spits and Hurricanes were not blessed with the range you'd expect from a carrier aircraft, and taking on the extra weight of strengthened landing gear and a folding wing was not going to help matters. What you would have wound up with was an interceptor which, given the relatively poor range of the Me 109 and Fw 190, would have been spending most of its time harassing slow, unescorted bombers over the Mediterranean, something an old Skau wouldn't have had too much trouble with. Would such an air arm be useful in Malta? Probably, though I doubt anyone responsible for allocating airframes would have been pleased with the prospect of diverting valuable, top-of-the-line airframes and manufacturing equipment to produce something that was likely over-qualified for its job when those same aircraft were so badly needed in Britain. Particularly as these aircraft would constantly be surrounded by the Mediterranean coast, which could keep sending planes until something gave out, at which point all you'd have done is wasted a couple dozen advanced airframes. Combine this with the fact that carrier-based planes are not well-known for their strategic bombing characteristics, and you wound up with an aircraft design industry that simply was not afforded the time or opportunity to develop a proper carrier plane. ... And in case you bring up Japan and the US, their modern aircraft, the Zero, F4F, and SBD, only began service in 1940, suggesting that the Brits had only just missed their chance at modernization.

After the Hood, I don’t see the British fighting very honorably when the tide was turned.

Lindemann demanded the pursue of PoW, which would have been the right decision. And later on the detachment of PE was against all squadron-rules in naval history, an additional failure of Lütjens.

@Just Hans ask Drachinifel how many seconds Bismarck's shell needed to reach the target. I think the shells needed more than 20 seconds. So there is no self-destruction-mode in battleship's shells. And Brits never hesitated to shoot against a sinking ship, have a look to the Dresden and Emden case already in WW1.

@@danielsummey4144 Hood was sunk by the same recklessness that sank so many British ships at Jutland: failure to observe safe handling practices with ammunition. She was doomed the moment the ready racks started burning, because of the British Navy practice at the time of over-stocking ready storage and handling passageways, as well as leaving open or flat out removing flash-doors between the powder storage and the ready stores, in favour of increased rate of fire (as documented in another Drachinifel video)

@@ShuRugal citation please

This is not the point. The US are the greatest rogue-state ever in history. Of course, the US admin always waited for the internal slaughter of Europe to conquer the rest of it.

@@hajoos.8360 Oh just shut up you conspiracy nut job

@@hajoos.8360 YOU LOUSY MEMBERS OF THE "BLAME AMERICA FIRST CROWD" CAN ALL GO TO HELL FOR ALL I CARE!!!

@Jonathan Stiles ...YOU SUMMED IT UP PERFECTLY!!!

@@daleburrell6273 what do you talking about? Check your own history, there is not so much to study, only 240 years. 220 years of wars of aggression. Fine business model, isn't it?

This would have made no difference, if the German squadron would have altered course to pursue PoW.

If the water is cold, then there are no sharks. But you will freeze. If the waters are warm, then say goodbye to your legs

At least the cold water is quick(ish). Even in the Irish Sea in middle of winter on average you've got minutes without a survival suit and that's if you don't go into instant shock and come back up to the surface. Ex RNLI and 10yrs working at sea. Ending up in the drink and fire were always a terrorfying prospect for sure.

The channel is too high quality for the current generation of instant gratification fingerpainters that dominate youtube.

History does not matter the youth. Only elder people who inherited the traumata of war, are interested in.

Too technical