The bridge view was terrifying considering how many people have actually experienced that while fighting to maintain control of doomed ships up until the last moment.
It is wonderous how many people think people aboard a combat vessel are in the flying bridge during any sort of combat sortie. They are either in the bowels of the ship in a combat center, or for older vessels (which I believe this to be one, from the top of the bridge look I believe I saw the conning tower, which is a heavily armored structure near/atop the bridge that the crew goes into during combat.)
Most naval ships wouldn’t sink that fast. This is a controlled sink, with every hatch and window removed and an even blasting so the ship sinks upright
I was one of the last people aboard this ship. We moved it from where it was moored to Halkett Bay. In preparation to be a dive site there were massive holes cut in the side and through the decks so that divers have safe access. This helped the ship sink very quickly and evenly. If it didn’t have all those holes and still had its bulkheads and doors intact it wouldn’t have gone down so quickly…they don’t sink this fast in battle normally!!
That's awesome. When I got to the "burma aft" (11:32) I thought to myself it's strange how people would've once walked that hallway, and now it's filling with water to rest down there forever. How does it feel watching this video? Does it give you like weird vibes since you were physically on the ship at one point or is it just kinda cool to you
@@talon1084 Divers are going to have some fun in there. Her keel is only about 30 meters down, the whole ship is a recreational diving target (unlike say, USS Oriskany which is deep enough that you can only get down to the upper levels of the island as a recreational diver, or USS America which is deep enough that she can only be visited by submarine or submersible).
Definitely would be a hard enemy to fight not much you can do once you're hit. I mean you physically could be fine let means nothing in the scheme of things when you're going to sink and die. Yes very scary. Teamwork must have meant everything in that scenario.
As interesting as this was, this terrified me. I'm not even a sailor; I'm about as far from the ocean as you can get in NA. I always imagined a sinking ship having water slowly creep up the hallway, not violently rush in and fill a room in seconds! 😬😵💫😵
Emotional to watch. My father was engineering officer on the Annapolis. I can remember vividly the fancy wardroom dinners we attended. I remember the annoying junior officers playing Caribbean records full loud just prior to dinner. I can remember the swish of cockroaches when one opened a lower cupboard in the galley late at night. I remember dad's small room and office. He often read technical manuals late into the night. I remember family day outside Halifax Harbour. The three inch fifties booming forward, the anti submarine mortars firing live ammo about two miles distant, huge plumes of water as they exploded at depth. This ship was very often at Roosevelt Roads in Puetro Rico during our cold Canadian winters. The engine room Edit: inspection pulled at me. I remember watching dad navigating about tiny inspection crawlspaces nearest the gearbox. Was a good ship & crew.
@@geometricart7851 Why would he provide us with private pictures ? Even if he invented it, let him be, what does it changes for you ? Geez people are arrogant these days !
Absolutely remarkable how quickly it was able to be sunk and how little it listed - that's got to be quite satisfying for all the people who worked to prepare it.
They detonated eight even placed shape charges along both sides of the ship, allowing maximum water in at an even pace. This is what happens when you don't sleep through math class. Lol
There were also 8 foot wide holes cut in the hull just above the water line, so once the bottom was open and the water came in the ship went down much quicker than it would have otherwise!
I nearly drowned 3 times in my life, twice being pulled unconscious from the water, and the sound of the water filling the boat and covering the camera reminded me why I would have never been brave enough to serve on a ship. I did attempt to join the air force in my youth, but my terrible eyesight kept me out, but I never miss the opportunity to thank those who did serve and who are serving today! May God bless and protect you guys and gals!
I wonder if you look like me.🤔 I have had the exact experiences down to the eyesight part and the number of near drownings. I wanted to be a pilot, I had the grades and the score on the evaluation test to do it but eye surgery as a child kept me out, out of any kind of military service for that matter🤷🏻♂️ I almost drowned in the deep end of a pool, a lake, and at sea. But I guess the chances of two people experiencing the same few things is not that rare. I still think it’s crazy I saw your comment
When I started working on commercial fishing boats I asked someone one day, if the boat sinks which way do I swim,? The captain said, down, it's easier.
One young RN sailor comimg aboard his first ship, an old one, nervously asked a junior officer "How often does a ship like this sink?" The officer puffed on his pipe and replied, "Usually just once."
@@amywright2243 And science knows a good deal more, and a good deal more precisely, about the surface of the moon than it does about the abyssal seafloor. Or the weird things that live down there, some of them like something H.P. Lovecraft would have imagined.
i used to think you could swim out the ship, but now i realise how turbulent the water is and how it would be so hard to swim or keep track of where you are
If you're topside, or high enough in the ship to dive overboard before the flooding catches you, I imagine you could do that -- maybe. I'll defer to expert divers if I'm wrong, of course, but I understand that there's a certain depth, I think it's near 50m, below which compression resulting from water pressure will strip you of buoyancy, and you'll sink. If you *don't* get dragged down to that depth, then you can bob back up to the surface. But if you're inside the ship, there is almost certainly no way you can possibly fight the downflood and get out. Looking at that downflood coming in, though, I take comfort in the prospect that that rushing water is likely to throw you against steel and batter you unconscious before you actually drown. There are situations in which 'at least it's quicker that way' really is a comfort.
The water is also highly aerated which would cause you to lose buoyancy. I have always been a strong swimmer but watching this my thoughts were no chance you could get out. What a horrible way to go.
Seeing how many people die floating at sea and never recovered it might be a merciful death to drown with the ship than of exhaustion and dehydration floating out in the ocean.
To be an aircraft crewman in the USN they sent us to the Marine training pool in Hawaii where they strap you into a helicopter shaped tub, submerge it and as it's sinking it rolls over onto it's top. So then you have to unstrap and swim out. Its called Advanced Helo Underwater Egress Training. And even just a helo sinking is enough to pull you under with it. How much undertow would a ship this size create? Only God knows the answer, but the first thing they teach you is to swim AWAY before swimming up. You must get out of the undertow before surfacing, or you never will. And when on and aircraft carrier I was stationed on they always say if you go overboard to swim away as hard as you can, because if you're near the screws when the ship passes you, the pull will get you. We had two man over-boards when on my first Med cruise, both were blown overboard by jet blast of taxiing aircraft. One survived, one did not. The one who survived said he could feel the pull as he was swimming away. He got blown off the bow and had enough time to make it. The other one was blown off mid-ships and was not seen again
Being in the Navy, we are advised to swim at least 150 to 200 meters away from the ship. Being right near it is a death sentence once it sinks as it'll suck you under with it.
It's worth pointing out that no ship will sink like this when it's in service. The goal here was to have a clean and quick sinking, all the bulkheads were left wide open, meaning all watertight compartments were no longer watertight, all the hatches on deck were wide open, and of course the charges blew some nice holes through the hull. Even in a catastrophic situation, a ship like this would take a lot to sink, and even if it did, it would not go down anywhere near this fast (I mean it took hours for the Titanic to sink and that was with ship building tech from over a century ago).
Yeah.... except HMS Hood went down even faster and only 3 crew members managed to get off her. So most of the time ships might not sink this fast but if it's catastrophic enough they certainly can. And the thing is a ship that is all buttoned up has it's own set of dangers, doors that can't be opened, capsizing with no way out, dying slowly in a pocket of air. None of it sounds particularly pleasant to endure.
@@Squirrelnutter Still took hours, and they ripped open a lot of watertight compartments including the entirety of the engine room meaning they had no power to run the pumps. Also Annapolis is a Navy vessel, in service she would be more resilient to sinking due to a greater damage control compliment.
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 HMS Hood took a magazine hit from a 15-inch projectile. It's been speculated on what killed her, but the most likely answer is that one of Bismarck's shorts penetrated her torpedo bulge and detonated in X-Ray turret's powder magazine. The fire killed everyone in the aft magazines instantly, burned a jet of hot gas through the bulkhead to the engine room in seconds, killing everyone in there and destroying the engines. The hot gas then tried to vent out the engine room vents, creating the jets of flame that HMS Prince of Wales saw just before the big blast. Meanwhile, the powder fire raged out of control in the magazine, finally bursting the hull wide open like an overinflated balloon and killing everybody aft of amidships; of those forward, all but three would die at their stations as the suddenly fatally compromised bow plunged to the bottom of the ocean. From reports, the Germans were simultaneously elated at having dispatched their pursuer and horrified at having killed 1,500 of their fellow sailors at a stroke. They scored a similar hit on HMS Prince of Wales in the same engagement, but the shell was a dud and failed to detonate. If it had, the Royal Navy would have lost both its flagship and its newest and finest battleship in the same afternoon.
@@ashleighelizabeth5916HMS hood sunk fast because of its ENTIRE ammunition load exploded. That’s like the equivalent of a mini nuke exploding in the ship. It broke the ship into two pieces.
I spent almost a year on the USCGC Spencer, a 327' weather cutter out of Staten Island NY, 1962 - 63. My first three, 40 to 45-day, weather patrols were in the North Atlantic, that winter. We survived storms out there that normal ships avoided, let alone staying in one place like we did for so many days. I often wondered what it was like to have been aboard her during WWII when she was protecting convoys in those very same waters. This video is what nightmares are made of...
For all the geniuses complaining about the smoke: "smokeless powder" is a propellant, and isn't used for cutting charges. To cut steel you need high explosives.
@@TheGoodChap Nitroglycerin is also literally one of the most dangerous explosives, to the point that simply dropping a test tube of it on the floor can be lethal. It’s so unstable that it’s almost impossible NOT to set off, which is actually part of why it’s used in heart medication: it forces the blood vessels to widen if memory serves since the products take up far more volume than the reagents (hence why it explodes). The entire reason Nobel invented TNT was because his brother accidentally killed himself when working with nitroglycerin: dropped a container of it and effectively set off a makeshift fragmentation grenade (because glass) at point-blank.
notice how when the capstan fill with water the air bubbles are radically moving each way, then side to side, its the current, there is a point at which you see the bubbles sit still, this is what's know as the evacuation point, so if you are in the vessel you want to hold on to something very solid, make a mental note of that opening from where you are in every single way possible cuz its going to get very dark and cold, then as so as you feel the water "slack" it will stop pushing you around that when you break for that opening, then its smooth sailing and a lot of air bubbles rushing you top side.. many try to escape either too early, or too late, its the same for a car it you are plunged into water, you either escape before the car sinks, OR, wait until it fills and it slcks off, then bust a window and go, OR, pre break a window before she sinks, its a situational call really, do you have others unconscious and buckled up you have to free and help escape? then do not punch windows open close them all, start getting everyone ready for the escape, then ocne pressure is equal open a door, pushing out the unconscious last then bring them up with you, if there are several then try to hang onto them as you push each out out then bring em all up with you, hopefully the calls don't get any tougher than that as in who should I save, of course at that point the rule is, women and children first, then the healthiest of the first, to daisy chain people together you can tie shoe sting together, clothing whatever or have them hold hands with the unconscious int eh middle of the hand to hand daisy chain.. your best chance is to NOT panic and never consider panicking never sit still as in this is it, and let the adrenaline do its job, you will feel teh clarity and strength of the adrenaline and be able to work and perform as never before, make use of it and systematically make your way top side.. first thing to asses is rate of water you are taking on, newer cars are water tight they can float for years, if not serious damage is done to the vehicle, so just float until help arrives, if its a fast sink then you have to move fast get em out fast, if you start going down inside then wait for equalization open a door and escape.. good to carry those window breaker you push against the glass and they break the glass, even under water, its a power punch, they work well, you can break your glass and quickly had it off around teh vehicle so everyone can break open their escape as the car fills, take that last LONG breath and break for the surface... I hope no one ever has to experience anything like this but if so stay calm and let the adrenaline work then get to work systematically..
They train helicopter crews to do exactly that. Get a good breath of air, note the exit you will use, and WAIT until the bird stops filling with water. Then carefully make your way out.
@@ottodidakt3069 I have that skill. I grew up small with everyone out to get me and I mean everyone, at 17 and being a loner I enlisted in the infantry. Nothing and nothing fazes me now.
@@Mr-Damage Saying NOTHING at all in life fazes you now is just a straight up lie and you're seeking attention. Prob sat at a barracks mopping the floors.
It’s because all of the bulkheads were open and they also cut giant holes along both sides of the ship just above the water line. If this had still been an intact ship it wouldn’t have sunk so quickly
I sailed on the dirty 230, on one deployment the Annapolis was part of the battle fleet for a Nato exercise , I had many friends who served on the Annapolis, good memories from back then!! Thanks for the vid!!
Sinking of the HMCS Annapolis as an artificial reef. The HMCS Annapolis is being sunk in Halkett Bay on Gambier Island by the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia. It will serve as a recreational dive site, and provide a habitat for fish and other marine life.
For those worried about how fast your ships can sink, keep in mind 2 things 1 these charges where at the exact critical points and all of them for sinking quick, ur enemies will rarely get that shot and more over get enough of em to sink this quick 2. The real danger of boats big and small is the waves, all it takes is one wave bigger then the set at the wrong moment and the ship is under with no chance of coming back up. Rip Edmond Fitzgerald. Sail safe, and mind the weather. It comes quick and hard and it doesn't care for your life. Rip to all sailers foreign and domestic, the sea may be your home and grave. But we won't forget yall to this day For those wondering how the fiztgerald sank, altho speculated she broke in half on the surface. It was actually found that the break was cause from how hard/fast she hit bottom. She was literally eaten by a head on wave in mear seconds. I can only imagine the fear in her crews hearts. This is also why almost all of the crew was still found aboard. And below decks, never even had a chance to know she was going down till she was already fully under. Nothing could be done. Respect those lakes, they can get worse then the worlds oceans Side note *edit) due to the specific environment of the great lakes. The cold and water keep the crew from ever being "broken down" in ither words, they are preserved indefinitely
From a commercial fisherman, the most dangerous thing is open hatches! You can put a boat right through a wave if you are water tight... if not you get this!...r.i.p. FV Cape fear
Most torpedo's hit ships underneath splitting it in two, meaning they sink very fast. example ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3381sgh5sUE.html
It staggers me at how fast the water rushes in, its overwhelming. Just to think of those sailors on ships that sunk for real, the fear, the panic. leaves me speechless
@TheJaskier666 oh they did, but they had bulkheads to prevent the rapid spread of water. In this scenario everything was chopped up and holes made everywhere to drop it quick, as well as make it more accessible for future divers.
Watching the air escape on the bow camera was really interesting to watch. Also, I love that this is being done as a dive site. The more we promote exploration in the ocean, the more we promote it’s conservation.
This is incredible and terrifying at the same time. I couldn't imagine being in a ship/submarine as its sinking. The sheer terror you'd feel. I feel so terrible for those who've experienced it and didnt make it out alive. The thoughts of pure helplessness in those last moments must've been the absolute worst.
I watched this on the toilet and it was wild. The rush of anxiety I got when the ship went under with the bow camera view was insane. Felt like I was about to get flushed down my own toilet. 10/10 would poop and watch again.
Everytime I went on a float, I tried to stay topside as much as I could. If the ship was going down, the sailors sure to heck weren't going to wonder if us Jarheads could get out. When you heard the tales from WWI and WWII, that the vessel went down in a minute, this shows you that the survivors weren't exaggerating.
@@geometricart7851 whenever I went on a boat over to Europe (bearing in mind the Zeebrugge ferry disaster) I would always pick a sleeper chair over a cabin. Also on departure from port I was always on deck until it was well under way.
My late father was a ship's Engineer on Merchant Ship up 1942, he had 7 ships sunk under him and decided that the RCN was safer than the Merchant Navy and spent the rest of war on HMCS Prince Rupert, a River class Frigate in the Bay of Biscay. At least he was safer in the RCN.
Wow, my uncle had three shot out from under him in World War II oh, and I thought that was bad. Thank God your father survived all seven. It's a terrible thing to have to get used to!
@@zombiesspace6238 Don't know what his nickname was, he died when a was 8-years old, and most of the stories I heard about came from his sailing buddies.
Loved the bow cam. After underwater it showed how rapidly the ship headed to the bottom. Almost sounded like a locomotive chugging. Awesome footage all the way around.
Didn't realise how close to the shore she'd been scuttled. The interior shots, especially the Hanger Deck, make you appreciate how fast the Herald of Free Enterprise car ferry filled up and sank when they left the bow doors open - horrifying.
Fascinating video. I'm glad you took the time and effort to place the gopros. Smoke is given with explosives and I'm sure you guys were more disappointed than any of us. Better to have tried than to have not. It was interesting to see the water displace the air in the ship and push the smoke out of any opening on the deck. My favorite shots were the Hanger, the Flight Deck, and the Capstan. I like how the Capstan fills and partially empties when ship shifts. Good work on the scuttling, everyone should be very proud. Hats off to the guy that got really enthusiastic and yelled when the stern started going under. Now I'm going to go look up the Annapolis because she has an interesting flight deck and I want to know how that worked.
Well she did plenty more than her share according to history, and now besides providing something helpful to nature, I'm sure that would be a really fun and interesting recreational dive to make. Good job to all involved. But as a former USN sailor, I hate good ships don't last forever and hate seeing her go down, but it makes me feel good she is given an honorable eternal assignment. Great work on the video and again God bless all involved.
It might be an "honorable" assignment but what an undignified, thankless end. She was a fighter. They removed her teeth, claws and eyes, tied her to a post and bashed her head in with a hammer. I can't stand politicians.
@@therocinante3443 I was just trying to think of the Canadian sailors and troops I had the privilege to be around in and not in danger. And if it was up to me or any one of my old shipmates, we would agree to keep her outfitted and crewed to the 9s. So yes I agree, God bless all involved, except the pen pushing son of a bitch in government who signed her to this. You Canadians are a Hard, good hearted, tough breed. And I am proud to have gotten to operate in conflict with some of her finest sons and daughters.
@@westtnskirmishlog6820 Perhaps the replacement had something to do with the fact it still used boilers for propulsion, and that it's not feasible to spend an unlimited amount of money indefinitely on either refit or preservation of every military ship? Your take on this seems illogical, and you treat the blessings of your deity with rather callous and casual off-the-cuff emotions.
@@IstasPumaNevada my deity? I was just responding that I hated an old fighting ship had to be de comissioned ever though I fully understood then. And wishing well to another human being is okay, just Alot of times, especially with sailors of all makes, it involves God. I fail to be impressed by whatever you were going for.
I can't even imagine what it would be like going down as quick as some ships do. Especially the ones that work in ice cold water. I've never seen anything like this before so thank you very much for posting it. It leaves little for me to ponder on when I hear of how a ship just vanished with 6, 7, 8 souls on board while I'm watching programs like Deadliest Catch. They often vanish without any warning and with no trace of anything. A lot of them don't even have enough time to set off the EPIRB. One would have just enough time to die. Very frightening but very educational as well. Thanks again!!
My grandfather was a Merchant Mariner during the war. His transport ship took a torpedo from a u-boat crossing the Atlantic. He told me once that the scariest part of it was how the ship “groaned like it was alive as it sunk beneath the water”.
True that, as an ex RAN submariner the scariest sound I've ever heard was the sound of a mk48 torpedo hunt acquire and sink a ship and the sound as she sank was like a thousand souls screaming, definitely an attention getter.
I watched the video of the scuttling from the outside (v=cuZ1XyQGF6k), and it is remarkable how calm and undramatic it looks from that angle. Meanwhile most of the interior shots are violent and terrible. Watching the capstan footage in particular makes me think of what that would be like, being deep in the bowels of a ship at wartime. Suddenly you hear a loud boom, and you freeze (and soil your underoos), but apparently nothing serious happened. You think to yourself "Phew, musta been just a glancing blow, good thing we're so well armored", and you slowly return to your duties. Suddenly you hear the rush of water approaching at a merciless speed, and before you can even think of how to escape you're being pummeled by an immensely powerful torrent of freezing cold ocean water that pulls you to your certain doom.
As a commercial offshore fishermen in New Bedford Massachusetts I know about 12 fisherman that have had a boat go down under them. I don't think any of them were inside at the time of the sinking, but either way it's still a traumatic experience when your only stable platform leave you swimming
All my life I have thought of all those poor guys who went down with their ship in war time and I wondered what it would be like. This video brings almost the full horror of it to me.
@@aidanhammer6968 Yes I suppose. That water rushing in from the large holes made by the explosives was so fast. I dived on the HMAS Adelaide off Central Coast NSW Australia only several weeks after they scuttled it. I saw this one on the news. I am not aware of any cameras installed, they should have. I should go back. It is full of fish and growth now. I sat in the chair on the bridge in my scuba gear for an underwater photo. It still had the black vinyl on it.
Seems like a pretty small waterway to sink a giant ship. Unless the water is extra extra deep or something why would they choose this spot to sink the ship??
Two points: 1. It is amazing the amount of smoke a GoPro can record! 2. Once a ship realizes it cannot float anymore, it becomes a piece of fast sinking steel.
@@mikebeard8505 A two year old video, an 8 month old post, and all you come up is question someone's age? You need to question your own sanity. That's all I suggest to you. Have a nice day.
Yeah. Even the GoPros that were destroyed that would be like being killed or incapacitated. And while the smoke is annoying. It really illustrates how hard it would be in a real situation.
Pretty amazing how violent and fast the water takes over. The spewing blurs the visual,. not a complaint just a statement of how incredible the forces at work are here.
A reality check for me that if a ship is sinking, you aren't going to be able to remotely swim against the current of water rushing into those compartments! Terrifying and fascinating, thanks for the video :-)
Seeing this makes me wonder if it's the aeration that's the real danger for people in a ship sinking rather than a suction force. When there is so much air mixed into water you simply cannot swim, no one can. You sink like a stone in super aerated water.
I think that's really kind of an academic consideration. Looking at the force of all that rushing water flooding in, it seems more probable to me that anyone caught in it would most likely be battered dead or unconscious against ship structure, or by swept-along debris, before anything else really entered into it. After all, the same thing is true in any river flood or tsunami -- waterborne debris and immobile obstacles are typically *far* more murderous than the water itself.
This would be cool, if the explosives they used didn't leave a ton of smoke, alot of these angles (including the ones that are of interest to me; interior) you can't see anything.
it's not smoke, it's water vapor. water is forcing itself into the ship at such high pressures it's misting the air. this is what people don't understand about a sinking ship. a 8ton ship will have displaced 8tons of water, poke a hole in that ship and the water will want to replace that 8tons of displacement as fast as it can, and it comes in with high force, the moment you see the water unless you're high up and near a hatch, you're pretty much dead, as that water will push you around with great force, making moving it in very hard. going out a flooding door/window is impossible until the ship is completely submerged and the pressure normalized. and the speed those things sink at is so fast it takes moments to fall hundreds of feet through the water. it's why when warships go down most of the people on the warship usually went down with it.
My dad was in the navy he would of enjoyed watching this as he was in WW2.. today he would be 95 years old he passed at 87.. he told me some but never wanted to talk about what he seen or what went on.. he alqays would changed the subject i just turned 40 and always wondered what the hell he went thru and what he ever saw.. he will tell me one day..i know he will.. 🇺🇲💙😇💙🇺🇸
Me: Wow, it'll be super interesting to have a clear view of what the inside of a sinking ship looks like! Smoke in almost every shot: I don't think so.
This ship is sinking at an extreme speed because the explosives are placed at optimum locations to be as efficient as possible and sink immediately, in war taking a below water hit can cause a ship to sink fairly quickly but not quite this fast thankfully
And running ships and boats have bilge pumps that constantly pump water out of the hull so some small holes wont even sink her, small enough holes can be plugged with wooden spikes and a hammer to slow the leak even further
It depends on where the ship is hit. HMS Hood sunk quickly because a magazine cooked off. Edit: But yes, the charges were placed specifically to get the ship to settle upright.
Fun Facts: If you were on the ship, and were on the bow, thinking that you can swim after it sinks, wrong, when the ships starts sinking, the water will go crazy, and you will be pulled to the bottom with the ship and drown. 18:43
from being startled awake to choking on smoke to absolute darkness as you and your brothers sail to the bottom of the ocean for the rest of time. terrifying doesn't quite capture it
In the engine room you could hear the water immediately! So interesting. I couldn't imagine being on a ship as it is sinking. Give us an idea of the Titanic or Edmond Fits Gerald and what the crew went through. 👍
thank you. i think its a beautiful thing, wreck diving is one of my favorite hobby's. the sealife loves ships like this, its often a beautiful oasis of life at the bottom of whats mostly empty rocks with some plants. other creatures have made it their new home and oasis now, and even if they dont know it theyre thankful for the ship and crew's service too.
I've always thought being stuck under water and drowning has got to be one of the most traumatic experiences someone could have and never be able to share what it feels like. You can only hold your breath for so long, and in that moment you're completely terrified and your heart races depleting your oxygen levels even faster until your autonomous nervous system does what it does and you gasp for air and flood your lungs with water. At this point what happens. Does your body force a cough reflex or does it go into shock... or lose consciousness, or just look with eyes open as your brain dies and everything goes black. What an awful way to die. This was in a way a creepy insight into what one would see in their last moments.
As a destroyerman it always breaks my heart to see a proud ship that so many served on go down. I was truly surprised to see how quickly it fills up when the water starts coming in. Movies make it seem like you have minutes...this was literally seconds!
