Holy shit man. Yeah you are 100% right. Even though I'm a pretty good swimmer and used to swim on my High school team. I am terrified of drowning. My youngest son used to swim for LSU and he told me that I was lying to him. Nope, I'd rather be shot than drown. Like pools that have the tarps over them to keep leave out. They scare me to death. I used to have nightmares of slipping and falling into the pool and being wrapped up in the tarp. Not really drowning but to suffocate. Now I don't know who messed up but it looks like the diver did. Anytime you are in the water diving, there is a flag that is supposed to be flying to warn people of a diver in the water. But for it to be that big of a ship. He was most probably in the shipping lanes and they can't just stop. He's lucky. He was tied off and lived to tell the tale of his near death experience. Nightmares or Night terrors for sure for me. Have a good day and stay safe.
I live on the river where this video takes place, the rivers current is already very powerful and there stories around here of kids and people swimming too close to these freighters and never coming back up because they get sucked under and tossed around for minutes at a time
@@2JZUL8R14 I used to live on the Detroit river and if the currents are anything similar I wouldn't swim in it...well maybe that might've been cause of the pollution really
1. I learned at maritime school that "all margin is good margin" - this ship is several meters/feet/fathoms/cubits/whatever above the sea floor. 2. Description says St. Clair River. Google maps indicates this river is the only navigable waterway between the Great Lakes east/west of Detroit. 3. The diver is tied down. Not a bad idea if you are waiting for any vessel to pass. 4. It's a shipping lane, so diving here is stupid unless you expect large vessels to pass. 5. This guy (the diver) seems to know what he's doing. It seems like an intense experience, and thanks to him, we can enjoy this footage in the safety of our screens.
@@hosnbros oh yeah. The amount of water those things move is insane. Look up cruise ships retain a tsunami effect... Or shios displacing water. These things will legit cause the water on the shore to recede quite a bit. That's why you don't get close to ships, they will suck you under, and there's a good chance you ain't comming back up. Jetskis and smaller boats have gotten pulled under large ships before. Once you get in the current, you ain't gonna get out very easy. That's why you keep plenty of separation from them.
Sound travels better in water, if that was a military vessel and he just *hypothetically* happened to pulse active sonar, those guys would get torn to pieces, i was swimming out in Hawaii and had a group of US Navy vessels exercise with sonar about 70 miles offshore and it sounded horrible. A F-16 taking off near you does 120-140dB in air… try 235dB in water and tell me how it goes, if you survive that is! Water is a spooky environment.. some sketchy sounds are recorded but they are usually natural processes… but active navy spec sonar.. crazy stuff!
That whiney noose at the end was the prop from a way smaller boat. There are powerboat races in that river and I've been swimming while they are going by and that's an even crazier sound. Lol
Well that’s why marine animals have reduced hearing or other mechanisms to protect their hearing from severely amplified sound waves from underwater sources
You can hear these big guys above water even when their a good 10+ miles off shore and sound travels substantially better in the water, can’t imagine how loud it was under that thing.
No wonder manatees, whales, orcas and a bunch of other marine life have had so many of their kind get killed... I know it’s silly, but until fairly recently I didn’t know propellers could be so dangerous. Thought the people talking about them were just overblowing the issue (no one really explained it well and I only found out after doing a bunch of research myself).
Draft refers to the amount of the ship that extends under the waters surface. So if you have forty feet from the surface to the bottom, and a boat that has a 38 ft draft, that means from the boats lowest point beneath the surface it has 2ft of clearance before rubbing the bottom. Draft also changes depending on the weight of a ships cargo and other factors, so the same ship can run at different drafts depending on variables that trip.
After 99 dives, some technical, I never peed in my wetsuit...OK, I lied. Feels like relief! You want to stay relaxed on a dive. You want to get hydrated before a dive, and just coffee at breakfast not good, drink plenty of water. Drink water on the dive boat on the way out.
I have no issue pissing myself in water, my problem is that the wetsuit would keep the piss in. I would just always make sure to piss before i got in a wetsuit.
I can make a reasonable guess that being tied there saved his life. There's massive hydraulic power involved with stuff that big. Not to mention giant spinning blades.
@@basicallyformal201 Funny enough, blades that size do not have much low pressure compared to a smaller motor boat. They do not spin fast enough, which is why there are no bubbles behind them. But the water displacement of the boat will shift you around. On really big container boats, the propellers make you go back and forward as they turn and displace the water, they may not spin fast, but at 20 feet under them, you rock back and forth 2-3 feet. Pretty crazy to experience
This video is a great example why you never want to attach yourself to your signaling bouy. Can you imagine what happens if a ship like that runs over your bouy and catches it, while the other end is connected to your bcd?
If that is a commercial boat channel, you are not allowed to have a diver down flag while you are in it, the coast guard will pick you up and you will get a severe fine, We have to deal with that every time we dive certain wrecks in the 1000 islands. It may make a cool video, but if he had an emergency where he had to pop up to the surface, that would be a certain death. Who knows, he may have had all the extra equipment to manage a SCUBA failure, but I could not see in his video if he did.
@@love100x No one actually explained to you so I will: Signalling buoy's are floating markers (often small, marked floating balls) that divers put up in areas they're diving in. They're used to let boaters in the area know a diver/divers are in the area so to watch out (think of it like the oceans "school zone area" signs.) Some divers tie themselves directly to these buoys, which is normally perfectly fine in areas with competent boaters. In a situation like this, however, the freighter wouldn't be able to do anything to avoid your buoy or the area as this was recorded in a shipping lane. If your buoy was caught in the turbine, it would twirl it up until you got pulled right into the turbine and chopped into bits. Commenter is making a point about how dangerous it can be to tie yourself off directly to the indicator buoy unless you know for certain boaters in the area are competent. In this sort of situation though a buoy wouldn't be used at all as its entirely useless anyways, so it's a moot point entirely and the original commentr was just trying to sound smart on the internet to less informed individuals.
This kind of stuff DOES NOT happen when diving. This would be a stupid place to dive, considering that it is in an area where that side of boat comes through. The diver seems experienced though, they probably knew what to expect.
The propellor isn’t really spinning that fast, this is more like a slow or even approaching port speed, if it was going full speed it would be spinning a lot faster and that diver would probably be sucked in.
if it was 40 ft. wide it would be out of the water, most lakes freighters are 20 - 30 ft. in the water, and it was obviously a steamer because steamers have that chugging sound and their propeller turns about that speed ( 75 rpm )
It's not actually 40 feet, I read somewhere that the lowest load line acceptable on the St. Clair is 27 feet, plus, it looked like a classic laker, and most classic lakers are in the 30 foot deep range. It was probably the cement steamer Alpena. because the engine sounded like a steam turbine.
Polar opposite of that phobia.. I love shipwrecks / views of ships under water!! Seriously, I’d love to lie flat on my back on the bottom and watch ships pass over me all day.
I did my open water by an inlet in Lake Erie and a few boats went by, they were normal boats and not very close but this is how it felt. I'd like to see more cool stuff around here.
Holy shit! That was close. I have a morbid fear of propellers after having to lower myself out of a ship into a rib down a rope dangling from the ship, above the props... Brought back the same heart stopping moment
I’d actually love to do this, my great uncle worked at a shipbuilders and I got to see them from almost the same view, would love to see them running from the same pov
they will "suck" you up right into the boat. See the vids about how ships passing can suck water out of small waterways and even on beaches on the great lakes. YOu'd be done for if you weren't anchored like our diver was.
How close was the bottom of the freighter actually to you. Closer than I would like, but did you feel any affects from the prop? What part of the river and how deep were you?
I would guess at least 10 meters away from the bottom of the hull. Cargo ships are massive and their beam is insane so you would have to be pretty far down in order to see the edges of the hull, even with a wide-angle GoPro.
Probably one of the busiest shipping corridors in the world, certainly for fresh water. Getting to that spot and back without another freighter coming by and not being tied off sounds a bit crazy. I can feel the currents of a freighter's displacement and hear it even a great distance away from that path where Lake Superior ends into the Sault Locks... to actually get to this spot is scary cool. I guess I wouldn't trust that something might not have been considered in planning that, and end up an empirical study/ accident. Not worth it, but great to watch.
We used to have that happen often to us while diving in the Thousand Islands. It's a real trip seeing that darkness looming overhead and then that deep rhythmic thumping of the diesel engine going by. It kind of overwhelms the senses.
I somehow knew, as soon as I saw the video, that's in front of the casino, is it not? I almost ran you down one day myself. The wind was coming in off the lake,, I just saw an odd small buoy, the flag on the buoy was blowing absolutely straight at me. Did not recognize it,,, until I was partially along side,, It was a dive flag ! Boy did I turn hard and fast. The sailboats,, limited in speed by smallish diesels,, vs the fast current,, always hug that eastern shore tightly,,, but I have learned,, that is a favourite spot to dive too.
last week I watched two kayakers attempt to go down the river, one capsized almost immediately from the wake of a freighter, right in front of my car (I go there to eat lunch) he managed after about 10 minutes of trying to get back in the kayak to make it to the rocks, climb out, right the kayak and away they went...looked kind of fun but the waves there can be huge!
I dont have submechanophobia like i dont fear a sunken ship or something like that. But THIS shit gives me anxiety. In the summer we sometimes go swimming in the canal. And i have so much respect for the cargo ships passing because i always fear to get sucked underwater and into their propellers.
Mick, where were you in the river? I've been there on the unloading boom when a freighter went by. I have no idea how far out he was, but I never saw anything. I still remember the "thrum, thrum, thrum" sound, though, and it's been a good 30 years.
this is frightening! wow. I saw it on another sight and I thought it was somewhere in the great lakes. Look at that huge accumulation of zebra mussels! ugh. When I was little we didn't have any in Lake Michigan
Encountering big mechanical things underwater have literally been one of my recurring nightmares as a kid... And I do NOT feel fine watching this. EDIT: According to other comments, it's called submechanophobia. Interesting, I didn't know this had a name.
Why didn't you have a dive flag up? (Not trying to be rude) If you did and they ignored it, that's bad. Have you submitted a report or inquired as to wtf?
just received the largest dose of thalassophobia probably ever experienced from a random 8 year old vid that popped up in my recommended, i am shitting myself
St Clair River, Great Lakes Freighters are flat bottom, so they can go into very shallow waters. This person was very luck. 1,000 footers frequent those areas.. but they are 2 props, not a single. could have been a 730 footer older laker
I would love to do these things but money ALWAYS fucks my day up. Everything is so freaking expensive these days and it only will continue to become more and more expensive in the near future. What a Brummer...
You could not pay me enough money to experience this shit in person. I'll keep my recreational diving away from operational mammoths of steel and iron.
What I saw reminds me of the Britannic sinking. The creaking sound is either the propeller shaft bearings or the hull scraping the river bottom sometime just after passing the diver. It sounds similar to the wheels of a locomotive & its cars scraping the sides of the track's rails.
I know it doesn't look like it, but the freighter is at least 15 feet above him. Water depth in the channel averages 40 feet, the freighters depending on size and load weight draw about 15-23 Feet
A freighter almost killed me and a buddy today on the St. Clair river. 30 more seconds in our dive and we would have been done.. We checked the freighter app prior to diving and it was clear! We got the anchor pulled and got the boat going with 100ft to spare before it ran us over.
Might have been a tug boat, I just saw a video of a Zdrive with a similar sound from the prop. Tho a smaller boat would have a steady wine to it. I've had three close calls while spear fishing, Dive flag on the boat and one I drug behind me. Still the fucking tourists here in the Keys rubberneck any time they see a diver on a huka.
