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Imagine suffering through one of the most painful things a human can exprience, witnessing 3 of your crewmen die, having to swim 5 miles afterwards and running across multiple towns for 18 months to avoid capture until you were saved, just to be called a liar and an idiot for the rest of your life
FiveGreenBottles not gonna lie but if this story wasn't uploaded to youtube and there was a talk about him saying he did it, you might just also call him a liar.
What I thought this video would be about: - A man who survived 18 months underwater - A man who survived 18 months in the ocean - A man who piloted a submarine alone - A man who lived alone on a deserted island for 18 months None of those were true...
That's an amazing story. As you pointed out, there's not usually survivors in sub accidents. I can't imagine the terror of it all, and keeping it together enough to save yourself is probably no easy task. Belated props to this guy
@@MapShiba WWII era ones for cramped for sure. The modern day nuclear ones have more open spaces are they are designed for long times submerged. Das Boot is a great movie depicting the cramped nature of German U-Boats.
The video's title literally made me think that a person survived INSIDE the Submarine for 18 months after it sank. Edit 1: thanks everyone for the likes. My first time having more than 2000 likes. Edit 2 : since the title has been changed, instead of commenting, "look at the title" and stuff like that, I would request you all to read the pinned comment.
@@CrazyCatLadyEurope It could have also calmed his nerves so he didn't panic too much on the way up, it also could have clouded his judgement on making a slow controlled accent in which he would have most likely drowned.
Plot Twist. The "innocent passenger" John Capes was actually a highly trained, covert operative on a mission that went awry. He was (for some reason) discredited and hung out to dry by the higher ups when he did not play ball after his PTSD inducing, 18 month long disenfranchising ordeal.
I was wondering why anyone would be a "passenger" on a submarine in wartime in an active warzone. And he slept in a torpedo tube? Like WTF, what civilian would choose to travel that way?
@@marcussantiago folding beds are in the oddest spots in a submarine, aka wherever there is room. Technically speaking it's safe to sleep on top of the torpedo tubes, it won't blow up or anything.
"They bolted the escape hatch from the outside" then wtf is the point of installing an escape hatch. Edit: 2.7k likes, damn I figured my comment would get lost and not in the top few comments these months later. Thanks everyone
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
That just made me think of my college prep English teacher, we read that book in high school. He always liked to paraphrase that as: “he who has why, can survive almost any how.”
My father was a WWII submariner, he told me about the training to use the DEA in the tank at HMS Dolphin. It did not sound like pleasant operation to undertake so big credit to a man who actually survive the escape. Fortunately my father never had to rely on his training but being a submariner was one of the more risky arms to serve in, regardless as to which nation you were fighting for.
Misleading title, he didn't "survive on an island", he literally just lived normally with the locals and watched to not get caught by the authorities, that's hardly what the title implies as him being a Robinsons Crusoe or something.
the greatest feat was escaping the doomed submarine into the surface and swam onto the shore where his other comrades were likely to drown during the process of reaching the surface water
Especially if he were to tell the stories to his children with the exact same voice, verbal delivery, music and promotions for Express VPN, Curiosity Stream and Skillshare in his videos, lol.
For those complaining about the title *"The Man who survived for 18 months after his submarine sank"* the title never stated that he survived UNDERWATER otherwise it would be *"The Man who survived for 18 months UNDERWATER after his submarine sank"*
Well, he "survived" a lot longer than 18 months - right up til 1985. Putting 18 months in the title implies he survived some perilous circumstance for 18 months, and the most obvious assumption is that the "perilous circumstance" was being underwater in a dead sub. Nothing in the title suggests those 18 perilous months were hiding from an enemy army. Total clickbait.
Hard not to think of Simpson Tide: Homer: “What would the captain do?” Submarine captain (trapped in the torpedo tube): “Don’t fire the torpedoes!” Homer: “FIRE THE TORPEDOES!”
I am a Scuba Instructor, and as others have pointed out , you are mistaken about the risk of Decompression Sickness ( The Bends).They were at risk of a Barotrauma , but not "the bends" / deco sickness. Do your research mate
From what I understand, subs aren't overpressurized (meaning, there's 1ATM onboard regardless of depth). You don't get bent by suddenly appearing in 50m depth and surfacting rapidly. What he probably experienced is damaged lungs from overexpansion of air as he was rapidly ascending.
Can't even imagine what this guy went through AFTER his ordeal. Nobody believed him. Even though he told only the truth, as he knew it. He was branded a liar, and probably spat-upon everywhere he went, because "how dare you lie about being a WWII hero?!!" Newspapers probably took every opportunity to question why he got a medal from the Queen. Did he deserve it? There was no way to prove the veracity of his story, because underwater salvaging would not become a "thing" for several decades. He died with everyone probably thinking he was a terrible fibber, and a disgrace to the British Isles. Even his own family. He was only vindicated, completely, a decade after he passed away! It's great to know that his story was true all along, but... how effing shitty is it that this guy lived his entire life after WWII with everybody, at the very least, thinking he was a "crazy drunk," who fibbed his way into false heroism! That would literally drive me insane!! I'd probably wind up in prison, after I inevitably snapped from all that stress! There'd be days I'd wish I had died in that submarine. Not even lying about that... Can only imagine he felt a little the same way, at times... This guy died a hero JUST for enduring the derision he no-doubt received for decades after he got back to England.
Actually, you have to breathe compressed air for a while to get the bends. Free divers go as deep as 400 feet, but since they are holding their breath, not using scuba tanks, there is no risk of the bends.
I also read somewhere that the escape gear was not meant to have the escapees breath during their escape but to make sure they kept exhaling throughout their meteoric rise to the surface. That way there's no chance at 'divers sickness.' But if you're way too deep, you'll never reach the surface unless a miracle occurs.
@@AudieHolland the reason you exhale is so your lungs don't explode when the gas inside expands. You'll still get the bends on the way up though, it's caused by the gas dissolved in the water in your tissues
@@Darduel I'm late to the party here, but breathing compressed air for a few minutes during an emergency ascent from 170 feet is not enough to cause decompression sickness.
The submarine at depth is at atmospheric pressure inside so the submariners could not have got decompression sickness (the bends) on a surface ascent from 52 meters as they would not have had absorbed enough nitrogen into their blood. The biggest issue they would have had is the possibility of lung expansion injury going from 6bar pressure to 1bar (atmospheric), so like free divers they would need to slowly exhale as they ascended to avoid this.
Man, posthumous vindication is so sad. I'm sure the guy was just happy to be alive more than anything, but the dude definitely deserved to be believed.
@@andrewputnam2717 he changed the title, a day ago the title was : " *The Man Who Survived for 18 Months After His Submarine Sank* " There is no "on an Island"
Memes4Sale I commented this 50 minutes after the vid was uploaded, and every top comment was that, THATS unoriginal. i reckon you think its unoriginal bc i used that little trick to make the sentence look retarded. Even though i dont have to do this cause its already retarded, here ya go ‘VeRy ORigInAL CoMmENt DuDe YOu gOt ThAt FroM sOmEoNe ElSe Who DiD iT?’
I can’t even imagine him going what he went through, nearly drowning in a sunken sub, losing multiple crew members, and surviving for more than a year in a foreign land and/or the middle of the ocean, all just for everyone to think that his story is a complete lie and totally made up. So disappointing that he was never alive to receive the credit he deserved
It wasn’t called 6:06 the name of the city wasn’t called “Smyrna” back than it was called “Izmir”. However the Greeks still called “Izmir” “Smyrna” as they did like calling “Istanbul” “Constantinople”.
It turns out the odds of surviving a singling sub are way lower than 5%. The odds of anyone surviving the sinking at all are around that, but there's no guarantee that you'd be one of the people to get out as this story shows.
