This is why tanker ships like these have the quick release, gravity dropped life raft at the rear (you can see the slot for it). If a tanker is going down… you’re probably not going to have enough time to lower a conventional life boat.
In WWII submarine movies, men on the attacking sub can hear the steel of sinking ship groaning an snapping. This video made me realize those sound effects were pretty accurate.
I know a guy who'd been a sonarman on submarines & one of the few references that he could make to his old job was that he'd heard a ship sinking & it bothered him for years what he heard.
@@VVtos174 Are you sure about that?Just because you can't hear noises on your bass boat fish finder,doesn't mean that sonar operators in a submarine can't.
Oh yes! Especially when you consider how slowly it was going before. It takes a while for the ship to be swamped like that. Then suddenly, within 30 seconds, it's gone. Crazy.
this might sound weird but it was oddly emotional watching it go down. I felt like watching a loved one leave even though I have never heard of this ship before
The sounds it makes while going down i allways asked myself from watching "das Boot" if you really heard these metal creaking sounds under water. But you can even hear it above water so it must be really loud on a hydrophone. Also the way it just speeds down into the ocean at around 1:25 is crazy imagine you are still on the ship and you think "yeah at this rate we got another 2 minutes before it sinks" but then suddenly it speeds up and almost looks like the ship just entered a hyperspace portal and disappears in seconds.
Whenever I play "Aces of the Deep" I love to get the notification: "I hear the death rattle of a sinking ship!" For 1990's PC game, the metal creaking sound effect is really good - just as you said, you can hear it while your U-Boat is underwater near a cargo ship wreck.
@@neptunenavalmods4420 I played Tom Clancy's SSN with my dad in the 90s when I was a youngster. That game also had those sounds when hitting the ground or when being extremely deep under water. There is gameplay footage of it on RU-vid. Worth looking up.
My father is a ship captain. He had a work friend of decades. He worked on 1 ship for almost all his life. At the end, ship got so old and it was sinking. Everyone else was rescued. He rejected and went down with his ship. My father always remembers him.
And the funnel is broken by the sinking, in a similar way to the ones in Titanic. In fact in this one it seems the main force breaking the funnel is the speed at which is rushed into the water but the effect is the same.
Hello there i am engine cadet and hopefully a furure merchant marine mechanic.As far as i know the bulck carriers(the type of ship that transfers like iron,coal,dirt,sand...) are very dangerous ships.They go down like the other ones until one of their cargo holds starts filling with water(yes they are kind of waterproof the hatch covers but not fully) and as they fill with water the sinking event is sped up.Each one that fills with water it increases the speed of sinking, its like the snowball efect on the stock market strats from almost unnoticeable and eventually it takes a matter of seconds as shown to the video.
Yep you are absolutely right. I’m doing mechanical engineering so we’re in similar fields. This is precisely what happened with the Titanic and how most ships with hull compartments go down. Compartments flood into each other one by one until the weight of the water is too much and eventually drags the rest of the hull down with it. Pretty cool but terrifying to see physics in action like this
Another good example of this phenomenon was MV Derbyshire, a British bulk carrier able to carry both ore and oil built in the mid-1970's. She encountered Typhoon Orchid on the coast of Japan on September 9, 1980 which blew one of the foredeck hatches, letting seawater to flood the bow which sank lower into the large waves spraying overhead. This led to a cascade event in which the lowered bow allowed more seawater to pour above the deck, causing more hatches to burst and fill with seawater. She eventually sank and found at the seafloor in 1994. About 44 people lost their lives in the sinking, accounting for all the crew present on board during that fateful day
1:31 Good thing you included that note, otherwise the comment section would be overflowing with Einsteins worrying about the poor guy who was still aboard.
A shoutout to the engineers in the engineroom, that still keep working to keep the lights on so other ships can see her sinking! True heroes. but tbh, someone should've told them that all had already left the ship. tragic...
Did the Stellar Banner blow her horn right before she went down? or was it the tug towards her bow? i'm referring to the first, duller horn, not the second one that is clearly from the vessel that was filming her sinking.
@@edwarddebone402 Weight (or rather mass) is a measure of size. We as humans just have a phycological tendency towards the concept of visual size bias, better known as physical dimensions.
Amazing power unleashed by water to shear that smoke stack right off... Imagine if you waited until the end on the stern to jump off - you might not make it with all that debris and churning water.
I am just amazed dumping a ship like this in the depths of the ocean is a deemed a good idea. We complain about plastic and then dump 1000s of tonnes of steel where it’s out of sight.
They remove harmful products before. It's actually considered very good for marine life since it acts as sort of corals where marine life can hide from predators and thrive
That's just really scary. The video can't give a good impression of how large the ship would feel in real life if I witnessed everything in person. My brain has difficulties to comprehend how fast this large ship sank. It also reminds me of the Titanic breaking in two under the pressure. I would have never guessed that ships today can sink so fast while the Titanic took several hours to go down to the bottom of the ocean.
According to the company '“Prior to scuttling, floating objects, such as mooring line and pollutants, also a minimal quantity of gas oil which had remained onboard have been removed. Part of the iron ore, navigation equipment and basic machinery remained on the vessel, which are deemed to pose no risk to marine life,”
An acquaintance who worked in a shipyard told me about how to tell if a ship can be salvaged from imminent sinking. He told me that it was very important to see which way the ship was sinking, since that would tell if the water was flooding into the passageways and compartments uncontrollably, or if it was meeting "resistance" inside the hull.
This ship was 1,100 feet long! and was the largest ship scuttled to that date... Stellar Banner was scuttled with about 145,000 to 150,000 tonnes (143,000 to 148,000 long tons; 160,000 to 165,000 short tons) of iron ore still aboard on 12 June 2020 in more than 2,700 meters (8,900 ft) of water in the South Atlantic Ocean about 80 nautical miles (150 km; 92 mi) off Maranhão, Brazil, at a point 55 to 60 nautical miles (102 to 111 km; 63 to 69 mi) northeast of the entrance to the Baía de São Marcos approach channel.[1][4] She took 20 minutes to sink.[citation needed] Huge fountains of red iron ore sprayed into the air as she sank,[2] and her funnel detached from her superstructure,[
Big ships can sink that fast, but they usually don’t. The amount of precision engineering to scuttle a megastructure is unreal, they’re blowing up really specific spots to flood the ship quickly so it’ll sink quickly. For instance it took the Titanic 2 hours to sink, but only 55 minutes for the Brittanic sink because it was annihilated by a mine. Empress of Ireland sank in 14 minutes, its whole starboard side had been ripped open by a colliding ship. Titanic just a rip and buckle below the water line. A ship sinking fast depends on the damage done to it
It is dust being ejected as air whooshes out and water rushes in. The brown stuff is iron ore. The force of air being pushed out carries some particles or iron ore with it.
Damn once it started going it was GONE!! Surprised the speed it picked up at the end!!! Wow! Is this practice very common or only ever as a last resort???
Yes..there are videos on here with go pro cameras that divers are retrieving from shallow water (scuba) reef wrecks. I just watched a barge go down with half a dozen cameras on it
Actually sea level is going down when a ship sinks. In order to stay afloat, ship keel must displace a quantity of sea water higher than the mass of the ship. When ship sits on the bottom of the sea, she no longer needs to displace as much water, so sea level gets (infinitesimally) lower.
@@boataxe4605 sure, but there is a certain amount of bulk from the steel or whatever that makes up the ship. Really insignificant when compared to the vastness of the seas
My schoolfriends brother, who lifed across the road from me, was lost on the mv Derbyshire in a typhoon in the south China Sea. She went down like this.
