Sinking of the Kraken by Texas Parks & Wildlife 

Found this as the next video. Not too obstructed. Artificial Reefs, the Kraken - Texas Parks & Wildlife [Official]

Yea, like the boat should just stay in one place. It didn't need to be moving about.

I'm yelling the whole time: "Move that goddamn tugboat already"!!

@@patrickmollohan3082 It had to know it was in line of sight since no vessels were on Kraken's starboard side.

@@Del-Canada That's why I was so pissed off..it had to know! Dumb sumbitches they were...lol. Theres a link in these comments that takes you to a better filming. Onboard cameras, different views and such. It went straight down bc they show some underwater views as well.

Rob Tro yeah when there’s bacteria to eat it away it’s sooo safe I’m not being sarcastic

Robin Chandler Bacteria doesn't eat metal, there's already an uncountable amount of bacteria in the ocean found naturally. Billions are in your body, on your hands, in your stomach, in your eyelids, etc. Not all bacteria is harmful, most are helpful. Do some research before starting an argument, looking like an idiot. Edit from two year earlier. I was foolish when making this comment. Now I know certain types of bacteria do, indeed, eat metal. Also, please disregard my insult. I could've thought of a better one.

Oceans don't need saving. Oceans are extremely large. Artificial reefs just provide scuba sites and fisheries for coastal waters. Snowflakes you who don't understand science, large numbers or in fact anything not spoon fed by leftist extremists are the problem.

JEBEDIAH KERMAN, there are certain bacteria that do eat metal, and they are generally found in the deepest parts of the ocean. Metal eating bacteria are a large part of the reason the Titanic wreck is deteriorating so rapidly and, on the flipside, the lack of these bacteria is why the Britannic is still so well preserved even though it has also been submerged over one hundred years.

The contradiction here is that man can send their garbage into the sea with artificial reef claims yet we catch and eat the scavengers crabs and other shell fish that act as water filters to clean our oceans. Hopefully these artificial reefs will provide a hiding place for shell fish the breed and do their jobs cleaning the oceans. I'll need to stop eating crabs for a few years to help out!! Lol

I don't know about that. If the weather was warm, my thoughts are that you probably would've been off the ship and plenty far enough away to avoid being injured.

You would actually want to jump off almost immediately because if you don’t you’ll be dragged underwater with the boat and drown. It why hypothermia is such a killer when ships sink.

Yikes....that hatch cover would've left a mark! If I had to dive in, I would go out onto the flying bridge and jump from there, as far away from the hull as possible.

@@tack6531 ships cause very little suction unless there's something open where water is rushing in to an unflooded area like an open porthole or a vent

Jesus Christ it's actually someone smart

It actually it good for the environment.

Aside from any chemicals/oils which I’m sure they cleaned pretty well, it makes an artificial reef for LOTS of ocean life to live in and aroumd

When they sink these ships they are stripped, cleaned of any oil or harmful materials, with the years life takes over it, like the HMHS Britannic.

@@gabrielalvarado7849 So, basically, aquatic wild life get to go on a carnival cruise?

@@samsngdevice5103 Well yes.

As I understood it from the TPWL staff on the boat, the contract granted to the company that prepped the Kraken for sinking and sank it had performance incentives tied to the final resting position. Thus they got the most financial reward from having it sink perfectly upright. As such, as the prepped it for sinking, they weighted the ship to take into account the weight distribution of the cranes and other ship structures.

huh, that's pretty interesting.

Didn't take into account the height of the cranes did they? Definite ship hazard

Gee it's taking along time to go down, speaking about going down, that's how Kamala Harris got into politics

They sunk back down. One is lying angled off the side, the other is lying across the cargo hold if I recall correctly.

Everyone got off just fine

Zombzee Meyer the kraken is a myth

@@tammie2474 he was most likely making a joke

John who? John Kennedy? No he didn't make it.

@@robertswift8708 no jhon Bennett. Some little rich kidd.

bro your name tho

Yes and no. There are 3 yellow things at the end of the video; a buoy (which is supposed to float), and two cranes which had been secured but were broken by the failure of two of the cargo hatch covers (that float off in the video). The cranes did settle back down overnight (measurement dive was done next morning), and the cargo hatch covers were recovered.

Hatchcovers were not recovered, there were holes cut in it and they let them sink (from 2:25). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eSR4UEy1fUk.html

@@seasdiver thanks. I had the same question when I saw it. Would have been a hazard to navigation rather than just a a Notice to Mariners.

Ricardo Juricic all parts of the ship are below 60 feet. The cranes were not supposed to pop up like that and did settle down. The position was reported to charting companies and a buoy was placed.

Crew boat.

There are 3 yellow things at the end of the video; a buoy (which is supposed to float), and two cranes which had been welded but were broken by the failure of two of the cargo hatch covers (that float off in the video). The cranes did settle back down overnight (measurement dive was done next morning), and the cargo hatch covers were recovered. All parts of the ship were confirmed to be at 60 feet or deeper the next day as was the original plan. The ship was sunk in 142 feet of water.

All parts are 60 feet or greater in depth despite the initial mishap with the cranes

The ship is deep enough per federal regulations. It was sunk in 141 feet of water, and no parts of it are above 60 feet.

The average depth of the Pacific, as an example, is around 3.5 kilometers. You could stand the boat upright in those kinds of depths with no danger to active shipping.

They had a couple of GoPro's mounted to the boat. Check with Texas Parks and Wildlife if they every released that footage.

Yes, the cranes settled into the water below the cutoff line.

Wat

Captain caca pants

Yes. They think about this. For planned artificial reef sinkings, a thorough cleaning/removal of contaminants is performed prior to the sinking. In the 90's one of my professors also did a study with cement reef balls that had contaminants mixed in. Over years of study, no leaching was ever detected.

Nope. Out of all the researchers, engineers, environmentalists, marine biologists, government officials, and everyone else who studies these things, you're the first person to remember, "Hmmmm, what about the paint?" We're lucky you happened along.

There is more Lead based crap in your house thanks to Made in China than going down in the Ocean.

@@SewerRatID 😅😅😅

@@curtekstrom6600 Yep it's always China. Every Chinese product you buy in the west was manufactured to the specifications requested by the western distributor/retailer who ordered and imported the product as cheaply as possible to maximise their profits. But yeah its the Chinese.

kent kirkpatrick They did have 2-4 Go Pros in the ship. I was a crew member on one of the support boats they hired, so I do not have access to their footage.

there are plenty of vids on sinking boats. you tube "creating artifial reefs" Or "lady Philonena"

@@seasdiver do you know why there was no sound

弓のハッチが壊れた理由や、脳がどのようにまっすぐに浮かんでいるのかは本当にわかりません

心配しないで、船のクレーンは水に戻った。

It was a deliberate sinking to create an artificial reef. The ship was first cleaned and prepped for sinking, then towed out to the site. Once prep work at the site was completed, they opened two valves to allow the water to start flooding the ship. From the time the valves opened to the start of this video was about an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes. I started/stopped my camera quite a few times before the ship finally took on enough water to start entering via the large holes cut into the sides.

So you made holes and ran out of there? Lol I don't follow. I'm not being a jerk. I'm curious.

The Texas Parks & Wildlife divers did the measurements at various points. I did not write/down copy their measurements so take the following with a grain of salt until they publish the official numbers. Ocean floor in that area is in the 140 or so range (140-145 feet). The top of the ships wheelhouse is somewhere around the 60-70 foot range if I recall. The official video including underwater footage is at: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ES2yA6ECk-g.html

Geoffrey Lee they were secured and were supposed to stay on boat, but the water pressure broke the welds. They were recovered and sunk

141 foot to the seafloor. Top of the wheelhouse is 61-63 feet. The hatches were recovered and sunk elsewhere.

Because, the audio is basically nothing more than 2 dozen people sitting there saying "Is it sinking yet???" They had opened the flood valves over an hour earlier, and we were all sitting there wondering how long it would take as for the first 45-60 minutes you could barely tell that it was slowly sinking. As you can see, it went fast once the water finally hit the holes in the side. It was several hours behind the original schedule at that point. The upper 4 holes (2 per side) had wooden plugs in them when the boat was towed out, whereas the 2 lower ones on each side had been welded back into place following cleaning. Cutting them back out took longer than expected and also resulted in a man overboard situation when a person trying to push the wall out fell out with the wall.

To Cretan an artificial reef for fish. (Btw they are cleaned thoroughly before the sinking)

Well because the front fell off...

www.gulfcoastmariner.com/galveston-kraken-reef/

Thanks

There were 3 onboard. My understanding is that one may have failed but the other 2 worked. Try TPWL's website for the footage from that.

They were welded down, but broken free by the cargo hatch covers. I have no clue if the cargo hatch covers hadn't broken loose if the crane jibs would have stayed in place or the forces from the water would have broken the welds anyway. Based on what we saw, I suspect the cranes would have stayed in place as planned. But I was just a crewman on the support boat, I had nothing to do with the welding/sinking preparation, so you are not criticizing me.

06:32

That’s when it went underwater

Tejas Dhaliwal ship was decommissioned and they sunk it to create an artificial reef. As other people do with old decommissioned ships.

Big holes in the bottom.

Bottom is 141 feet. Top of the ship (after sinking) is around 60 feet.

Joey Wilburn Don’t think so

The ship was renamed the Kraken prior to sinking

Look at the name of the ship

There were 3 cameras mounted inside the ship for the sinking. I think you can find some of that footage via the Texas Parks & Wildlife website.

Roses are red, Violets are blue, The fucking title says "Sinking of the Kraken" So It's not sunk by The Kraken... Kraken has millions of other meanings...

Bendon Wu thats it’s name

@@nerdomatic2489 It's a joke

silly !

welshpete12 ITS TRUE BASTARD

FrozenFoodSection who said it’s fake?

The cranes were welded in place but the welds broke when the hatches broke. The cranes did settle down afterwards and everything is below the 60 foot mark required for proper clearance.

Because... oh I dunno, IT WAS DONE ON PUROSE!? Hey Brilliant, ever heard of an artificial reef? You know, those things that are made from rocks, and concrete, and rebar, and ships, and other stuff so fish can live in it? God people are fucking stupid!!

Yes.

There were professional videographers on board as well. I am a crewman on the support ship. Sorry my personal video is not up to your standards.

There were 3 boats; the boat that unfortunately blocks the view held the people that actually were onboard the Kraken to do all of the welding and sinking. The M/V Fling (boat from which I filmed) held the science and dive teams. And there was a pleasure boat that is not seen in the trimmed video. As "long" as this video is, the valves to sink the Kraken had been opened over an hour earlier, so it was just a matter of unfortunate timing.

So you’re the other one that’s standing by the microwave oven screaming hurry up. Me too.

Ok look here you undereducated toddler, these, ARE reefs, just look up what it means for a reef dickweed

Your hostility and name-calling don't really help support your approval of this practice. If you were emotionally mature, you could withstand alternative opinions. Stay in the shallow end of the pool if you can't swim in the deep with the adults. LOL! BTW, learning to write well wouldn't hurt your cause either.

@@chadfolkers628 oh my god just learn the fucking truth you dumbass, and a simple accidental writing error isn't me NoT lEaRnInG hOw To WrItE. Shut up and grow some brain cells

@@chadfolkers628 oh and my "opinion" Is the fucking truth. Google it.

This isn't trash like plastic. Anything toxic was removed and the ship contains many nooks and crannies for fish to hide in, and marine plants will be able to anchor well to the ship

Pure bad luck on timing, the work boat which had the engineering crew had been circling the ship as it sank. From the time at which they opened the valves to when it finally sank was more than an hour.

No different than the Dead Whale Bones on the Ocean floor

What? You're not on the seafloor! Grow the fuck up. Get some brain cells

It's not. It's a ship that contains flat surfaces for plants to anchor to and nooks and crannies for fish to hide in.

@@defeatedink0544 yes. Thank you.

It's an artificial reef, dipshit.

chucky 09 this is not the titanic stupid go play your stupid clash royale