The Ferry That Sank In Raw Sewage 

Imagine surviving, but dying from sepsis b/c you had a cut.

kind of makes you really, really appreciate the people who invented sewage treatment.

Titanic Passengers: “There’s got to be nothing worse than sinking in freezing waters!” Princess Alice Passengers: “You don’t say?”

"The smell and taste of the water." TASTE? Man, I did not need that detail. Bout to hurl.

The ship "Princess Alice" is named after Queen Victoria's second daughter, who would, interestingly & tragically enough, die of diptheria, not long after the ship named after her sank.

My third great uncle, Christopher Dix, was the pilot of the Bywell Castle that day. The subsequent enquiry called witnesses that suggested he may have been somewhat drunk when the accident happened, although he was an incredibly experienced Thames pilot. As the video suggests, in the end no one person was found to blame. Most of the passengers were wearing heavy clothes and could not swim. It's remarkable that such a massively deadly disaster in relatively recent history has essentially been forgotten.

This video ruined my daily “sit down, eat, and watch RU-vid” ritual

Apparently, they used to put lime on the windows of the house of commons because the stench was that bad. Eventually, they moved parliament from that location, as it was no longer bearable. Imagine how it was for those poor people ingesting that sewage. 🤢

I'd be pretty damn pissed if I was living in east London. Like, "Hey, this horrible stench is causing a huge issue for the royal family and the richer well-heeled folks on the nicer side of town, so we're just going to literally send it all your way. Thanks!"

How can a fouled river be a sightseeing pleasure cruise? Seems like the stench would hurt appeal.

This feels like a good time to remind people that being able to swim is a very important life skill. If you can't swim, you should look into ways to learn. You just never know when you will wind up in a situation where you need to enter deep water.

I live in NYC. I always say let me die before i hit the sidewalk.

This is why my mother, who couldn't swim, made us learn to swim when very young. It was one of the best gifts she ever gave us.

The fact that both ships saw each other, and both thought: "Meh, they'll get out of the way" is so infuriating. So many of these tragedies are easily avoidable.

It's amazing that divers investigated the wreck and a salvage team refloated it, considering this was back in 1878

I cannot imagine. A lot of these stories I cannot imagine. Raft of The Madusa will be the most unimaginable for me from your channel.

It's wild to think about how this ferry captain screwed up so bad, we're still talking about it almost 200yrs later. I hope I never blow it that badly.

Here in Australia we still do this and most people have no idea every time we have heavy rainfall they release sewage into the creeks and rivers it gets diluted with the heavy down poor straight out into the ocean and the government claims to care about the environment

This makes me thankful for modern sewage treatment. In St. Louis the waste water discharge is just below drinking water standards when they're done.

The maddening thing is people don't even realize that in many of our largest cities we have a combined sewage/stormwater system that dumps raw sewage into the rivers every time there is a large rain. They still haven't fixed this problem.

Anytime anyone said 2020/2021 were the worst years ever due to covid, I laugh at how they have no idea how easy we have it. IT CAN ALWAYS BE WORSE

"Too revolting to describe" that described the smell, the taste and the feel perfectly to me...

I hear so many people say they wish we could go back to the "good old days". Remember, folks: stuff like this was part of the good old days.

The one channel that actually uses stock-footage in a good way; maps, photos etc to complement the narrative. Also always interesting stories that I mostly didn't know of before. This channel is a gem ❤

SORRY THEY SANK IN WHAT???

Feculence": unclean, the state of being unsanitary. I learned a word today

Imagine if *this* was the movie and not Titanic, Jack and Rose trying to stay afloat in toxic poopwater

This channel always manages to one-up itself. Everytime he's told us a horrible, horrible way to die, he comes back in a following video and tells us an even worse way to die. I absolutely love this channel, but I'll admit that I've acquired quite a few irrational fears from a a good portion of it's content over the years! I'm afraid of things now that are never even going to happen to me, but it serves as proof that I've been told some really great stories by an excellent storyteller. Despite unlocking a ridiculous amount of crazy fears, the content is the epitome of top-notch.

One thing about working from home - you never have to worry about a cargo ship cutting your home in half and drowning in literal poop. Thats why I made the switch.

Not only does this make me thankful for the sewage treatment we have now, but also our insistence that kids should learn to swim. So many of these people could have survived if they had known (and perhaps also to take a few layers off if they could)

I work in sewer daily. Have been neck deep in it numerous times when a job went very very wrong. Gotta say a bad way to go but not as bad as a lot of others.

Dear God this is awful. I never see a story about a sinking vessel without thinking about what happened to one of my dad’s friends. My dad goes sea fishing every Sunday and he was friends with a tugboat skipper in our local harbour. The tugboat skipper’s son was also a tugboat skipper in the harbour. One day a cargo ship was entering the harbour during a big storm (they don’t call us The Cape of Storms for nothing). I’m not sure why they went ahead with it, given the weather conditions, but they did. Long story short, my dad’s friend’s tugboat was slammed into the harbour wall and started sinking. Most of the crew were saved. But my dad’s friend and another crew member were trapped in the cabin. The NSRI divers tried to rescue them, but the boat was sinking incredibly fast so they called their divers back for their own safety (a rapidly sinking vessel causes very strong currents that can pull divers down incredibly fast and trap them). My dad’s friend’s son was right there on one of the rescue vessels while his father’s tugboat sank. His dad and the crew member were shouting and frantically hammering on the walls of the cabin while the boat sank. And the son heard it all. He was screaming and fighting to get to his dad, but obviously he was held back. He listened to his own dad screaming for help as he started drowning. It’s absolutely horrifying to even think about. I think about the son often. I hope he’s okay. My dad still goes sea fishing every Sunday and I’m still terrified. The sea truly has no mercy

Blows my mind how much knowledge was lost during the Dark Ages. The logistics of basic personal hygiene, proper sanitation etc., took hundreds of years for people to re~educate themselves. Really makes you feel better about the day and age we live in! Great video...I really do LOVE the history ones you do 😊👏 💙❤💜

One time I swam in raw sewage. It was on the lazy River at a Wet N Wild water park in Texas.

crazy that the sample scientists took of the water was so putrid that they couldn't even keep it near them but that wasn't even after a huge release like there was on this day 🤢

It's very rankling that a sewage plant built in the mid-1800s looks more beautiful than most government agency buildings built by the richest countries today.

You're by far the best storyteller of all my subscriptions. You can hear the integrity and honestly within how you tell the stories, you show respect for the dead despite times when the dead have nobody else left alive to care. Well done, glad I clicked on and watched every one of your shows to date.

The quality of your content has gotten so good man. Everything is in such good sync, from the intro music to the image animations, fonts and graphics. It really ties all of the historical treasure hunt, mystery and suspense vibes together well. Plus the voice narration isn't too low, too high, too fast or too slow. Truly a job well done!

man why the hell you gotta release these just before i go to sleep? cant wait for the horrible nightmares... keep it up! fantastic video!

Hey Scary Interesting, Just wanna say I really appreciate the work you do. Every time one of these videos drop I get that "hell yeah" feeling. You have a voice that was made for this kind of work, whenever I run out of your content I dread the other youtubers dreary voices lol.

for some reason it surprises me how many of these people couldnt swim

Ive always found large ship crashes interesting in that the collision is guaranteed by decisions made minutes to tens of minuets before contact

In the wake of this disaster a charity fund was raised and typically many people made fraudulent claims of being affected by the tragedy. One of these was Jack The Ripper's third victim, Swedish immigrant Elisabeth Stride, (nee Ericsson) who claimed to have lost her husband and children in the event. At the time she and her husband owned a coffee shop in the East End and were childless, Elisabeth being unable to conceive.

What a “Shitty” situation…….. 😂🤣I’ll walk myself out

Thank you Scary Interesting. I am so impressed by how good this channel is. This episode really marks the incredible rise in quality which has been already good from the beginning. One of my favorite episodes! Your ability to do great research, incredible narrative writing, sympathy for the human experience, attention and connoisseurship for the horror - all is impeccable! I am a big fan!

really tragic. family losing each others, kids losing their parents. dying in raw sewage sounds beyond terrible!!

This video was posted while I was watching the mine under the lake video and now I have more to watch. Thank you scary interesting!

Everybody is trying to get me to leave (driver), but I told them all. "18 minutes, scary interesting just dropped and I'm going nowhere til I watch it". 😂😂😂😂

I served on an aircraft carrier in the 90's and the poop tanks were called CHT tanks (no idea why) we would release the tanks as long as we were not within 50 miles of any coast.( Supposedly) All you would see is a big brown cloud all around the ship😂

I've been binging your videos for a few hours. Thank you for telling the story and the full story around the story to truly bring it full circle. Most videos are so linear that it leaves you with many questions.

Almost to a million! This channel deserves it!!!❤

These videos are awesome. The presentation and storytelling are flawless. Thanks for the content.

love the vids man, keep it up

I really appreciate the historical background and context you provide in these videos. In this case it gave us an understanding of how the Thames was used back then and the decisions that led to it being in that condition. It adds so much value to the video and depth to the story. Well done

That is one of the worst ways to go that I can possibly think of. Jeez!!

The Dave Matthews Band experience [they dumped their tour bus's poop tank on a boat while crossing a bridge in Chicago]

... You've done it. Congratulations... You've found something more terrifying that being on a sinking ship or stuck in cave: drowning in sewage >.

Love your stories bud. Your voice is just so calming.

I've been watching/listening to your videos for some time now multiple times a piece I see how much you've been putting into these videos and you're creating your own style and it's awesome

Thank god for the red arrow. I almost missed the ship in the thumbnail! 😭

I'm enjoying my meal as I watch this.

You seriously keep coming with banger after banger! Been subbed since way back hope you hit that million soon!!

Thank u Scary for sharing I’m from London and this is the first time I have heard this sad story thank u once again could listen to your voice all day 😊

I'm guessing they took that sharp left to potentially avoid the ship, not knowing the other ship was cutting hard right to hit the turn quicker.

I've always wanted to go swimming in a sea of snickers bars

Congrats in advance for hitting 1 million subs. Thanks for all the great content

That poop pumping station is so stunning 😂

Thank you Sean something to watch on my lunch break 😅

Thank you, I love your voice and way you do videos

Awesome video! The archival photos and graphics were great 👍 I'd definitely love to see more like this.

Another epic story! I love this channel Thank you for making it ❤

In a similar vein to this incident, you should cover the Dave Matthews Band sewage incident on a horrible fates video 😭

Shrimp eat the sewage. Then we catch the shrimp cook n eat them and feed them again. Wonder circle of life

I appreciate u uploading my guy ❤

Love these videos! Keep 'em coming!

Gives the phrase “we’re in deep shit” a whole other meaning

You should do a video of creepy things people have seen in the woods. Love you videos. Keep it up

God almighty, what an absolute horror! But, man, your graphics and narration are some of the best on RU-vid. Thank you for the time and attention you obviously put into your channel… MUCH appreciated!

Every new SI episode is the best one. This channel keeps on topping itself.

Final Destination didn't prepare us for drowning in literal shit, now in our "fear index box"...... 🫣

Noo not the AI thumbnail 💀

"Rules were changed so nothing like that could ever happen again, until it did", well shit

you have such a comforting and even voice for discussing such horrific topics, lol. another fascinating yet depressing video.

You give us some of the best stories 😊

Forecastle is pronounced "fokesul", not fore-castle

Truly they were up shit creek without a paddle.

I love it when a new video is out. Best RU-vid channel out there.

Just a quick message Scary Interesting to say thank you for your amazing job! I'vez been a youtuber a lifetime ago so I know the work put into this. So congratulation on the narration, the pictures, the subjects. Everything is awsome. My wife and I never miss a video. Kepp up the good work and thanks again! ^^

Duke of Teck is what my parents call me when I help them fix their computer by restarting it

Drowning in a river of sewage. That must be something like sitting through a whole episode of "The View"

Oh my gosh 1 million subs.. So fast. It felt like it was just yesterday that I found your tiny 10k channel and you were using that.. less good mic lol. I’m so proud of you man, but take care of your mental health with all this sad news! Congrats on the progress!

come on babe scary interesting dropped another video

Well that was a shitty situation

Your new video dropped at the exact same time I finished watching your previous one, lucky me!

Thames Water for you. Been at it for centuries. We're drowning in sewerage but their shareholders are happy!

You could say this one really stank

perfectly timed

My favorite channel on RU-vid thank u for the great content

Wow! That was intense! Great job!

No really! London in the Victorian era sounds lovely: our boy Jack (of Ripper fame), the beautiful river Thames, Dickens' description of so many social "wonders," & let's not forget the lady herself, the Queen of bunched panties....