The Most Horrifying Nautical Disaster You’ve Never Heard Of 

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Simon the Vulture. No One Needed To See This.

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You speak so fast, I had to slow down the replay. You are obviously reading off of a script, but worse of all, you run on your words like one continuous sentence. You are the worse speaker I have ever encountered.

Yay, you did a video about the fishing grounds off my hometown Geraldton 😂 The stories from fellow fishermen from items they've brought up, seeing the replica boat they used to get to safety, and having a museum full of Batavia relics I feel like you missed out on images and graphics used 😭 If you do another video, pm me and I'll get you some better footage to use

Those who drowned drunk being the luckiest, going down in a happy/oblivious state...

what's the name of that book?

@@mayoite160 My guess is: Batavia's Graveyard aka 'De ondergang van de Batavia' by Mike Dash.

@@mayoite160 island of angry ghosts , the same author also wrote wreck on the half moon reef which is a remarkable story of survival where after giving up hope of rescue, the survivors chopped up the wreck and built a smaller boat to sail to Batavia.

I promise you Nanjing and St Petersberg were worse in both scale and detail. Feel free to not belittle them by claiming that this was broader in scope of horror than either of those. Nothing happened here that didn't happen in some form in St.P or Nanjing.

Wal ARE bee

Me, a Dutchie, having the same reaction to the pronunciation of Cornelisz.

I would have missed it if it wasn't for the fact I read your comment before the video. 😂 Has Simon never watched Finding nemo? (P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney!)🤣

As a Rugby fan that's how I'm going to pronounce Wallabies from now on.

I, an American, had a similar reaction. I would never have thought "wallaby" rhymed with "wasabi" but there we are.

Well said

didnt expect to find legit insight in a youtube comment

Nobody retains stuff they HAVE to memorize for 1 day.

😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤

Sorry, we ran low on test sheets. If our records are correct, your test should arrive by Email.

That's exactly what I had to do. It sounded like he was talking at a normal speed.

I’ll drink to that!

Smart? Or lucky.

A little Mix of both.

@@headmondronary2127 It's not luck if they're drunk all the time. At a certain point being sober for it would have been bad luck.

preferably the latter

Or be able to handle the bullshit easier when they get back home.

It is a great museum, go there often. The tiny part of the Batavia that survived shows how massive it was.

@@Crossingt l always thought how small it looked,considering there was over 300 people on board plus provisions and cargo.

I remember seeing a museum display of the artefacts from the Batavia in Brisbane shortly after the wreck was found. Like something out of fiction.

Fascinating?!?

I read Maritime as Marmite and was wondering why in the world they would possess such items

I remember seeing the painting of that in the Louvre many years ago and being somewhat blown away by it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa

I actually tough this video was going to be about The Medusa

I read a book about this wreck. After x days at sea the survivors of boats or raft had to endure a sunblistering hot desert as well. For some it took longer than 13 days! It was a xtr interesting read, written with some seamen jargon to make it extra pungent. the author knew alot about what happened. the painting is only a mild reflection of what happened. i saw some footage of a 1950's or sthg movie, which was far from the reality pictured in the book "wreck of the medusa" It is also remarkable that such horrific but avoidable disasters were "forgotten in history", and still

Taking too fast

Wait - what do have against sharks? 😉

By the time the brain damage shows it's too late. Best you can do with meds then is make them non-contagious.

And also be prepared to explain away a murdering rapist's evil doing on the equatorial sun.... seriously, a comment under a thread suggests we do that

We could make walking the plank a real thing then.

Might as well save space and get some entertainment in the process!

Can I man one of the forts and take on the Chinese navy there? 😫

Almost 400 year's ago not 500.

@@RhysapGrug That's fair.

@@Chris-hx3om hope I didn't come across as a dick 👍

@@RhysapGrug Not at all.

What was the e outcome of the trial?

@@haleytruslow7200 she was acquitted and returned to the Netherlands in 1635

@@haleytruslow7200 It was the past, so she probably never saw the sun again.

@@haleytruslow7200 a suspended 6 month sentence in the Lacrosse Wisconsin county jail

@@deeznutsifier69420 I think she was the first European to not spend time at the Lacrosse Wisconsin county jail. 😄

Woll ahh beeeees

@@JoshWookiee I keep thinking of the Simpsons episode 😅

Well, I'll be...

He's putting the emphahsis on the wrong syllahble...

It made me think of Benedict Cumberbatch talking about peng-wings (penguins) on the BBC South pacific series 😂

Yes, the VOC was worth 78 _million_ guilders

That's Simon for you - can't even get it right whilst plagiarizing someone else script !!

Excellent read!

Peter "two syllables" Fitzsimmons. Have read a couple of his books and a writer he is absolute rubbish. Haven't read this one however so I won't comment upon it.

Peter Fitzsimons team.

@@billyshane3804 there are better books on this rather than by the woke pirate

You mean the book written by his researchers and then paraphrased after he dons his pirate look.

Maybe the word Batavia or jawa or dutch Indonesian

Oh man, I completely feel for you, as I too have had those days where you are just clicking on a seemingly innocent video only to go down a seriously messed up rabbit hole, finish watching and then click on another messed up rabbit hole of information. It is good to be finally enlightened about this though. I am from Western Australian and took my kids to the maritime museum and we read about the Batavia and the museum seriously cuts out everything, all it says is: the ship accidentally made landfall among the Abrolhos and women and children perished from starvation. Then years later I stumble on this clip and my jaw hit the floor! So much of history is kept hidden when it comes to disasters such as this!

@@platinumare Haha, yeah exactly. I think i was reading up on the VOC and our history in other continents, and when reading one wiki page, you'll come across names and events that have links, and before you know it, you have 10+ tabs to read, which on themselves also create new tabs. So i then choose to follow a specific one instead for that evening and just close them all when i either have to go to bed because it's the middle of the night, or need to eat something, an obsessive hunt for basically trivia knowledge. I mean, this has little relevance to us today, but i do agree that a lot of history is simply not being told. Here in Holland, the Batavia is a famous name though, so i assume i have learned something about it at elementary school, but i do not remember anything about mutiny and massacres. Maybe the museum was trying to keep it light, because i can imagine some parents complaining about reading a story of atricious acts when passing by a wooden ship. People could be asking why they're glorifying horrible people. I'm not saying that i agree with them, but i could understand if the museum chose for that route. Then again, you could complain to them for not telling enough, but you would probably be a smaller minority than the other complainers.

I've been on it . It's awesome,I recommend it ✌️

Do you know Nic Thomas?

70km is a far swim. Yikes

the way he pronounced Pieterszoon like Pee-eh-ters-zoon had me laughing

Souties in Suid Afrika klink net so kak as hulle probeer Afrikaans praat.

English is my mother tongue and I live in the Netherlands. These pronunciations were painful. Cor-NAY-le-zon (Cornelisz) becomes Corn-a-LEEZ? And don’t get me started on how he said Gijsbert Bastiaensz. Yikes. 😂

Syphilis had good representation.

Didn’t help that the instigator of the whole thing was very likely a raging psychopath.

a fine specimen of that in moscow right now

Like Simon's horrific pronunciation of "wallaby"

What has been seen cannot be unseen.

@@chadcuckproducer1037 szon tzo- fight your enemy with your friend

hey yeah! you"re RIGHT! A nice head of hair!😂

I mean Hitler allegedly had syphilis too, so there might be something to the disease driving people mad. Or at the very least contributing to their madness.

This amounts to excuses for a murderous rapist.. . It's right up there with explaining that a mass shooter was "having a bad day"

@@richardcooley6061 utter B.S.

@@TheVirtualObserver As a slightly different theory: Maybe they just thought they wouldn't have anything left to loose. Like a Walter White thingy

So Bonespur actually has syphilis?

"Simon’s lightning fast recitation before listening a second time!" You're quite right! In my opinion he ruins what otherwise would be very interesting videos with his dizzying speech cadence!

Hear hear

@@FrLawRE Too bad he didn't spend some time with a Dutch language recording. He butchered every single name rarely pronouncing them the same the second time.

Lord of the Flies was a pyschological horror. The Batavia mutiny is closer to Friday the 13th (or one of the sequels).

Oooh, you mentioned LordOfTheFlies - so now you get to hear my rant about Piggy's glasses - he was short sighted so his glasses would have diverging lenses and be no good for making fire. The plot hangs heavily both on him being unable to see distance without his glasses and them being stolen for making fire. I'm not being picky - it's like saying he was both very short and also the only person able to reach the top shelf. Pass this on to everyone you know (and enjoy the look of glazed boredom in their eyes).

​@@transientaardvark6231ngl, you're kinda right

hello from albany

No woll-ahr-bees then?

Wow

Makes you wonder if the "Lord of the Flies" was based on this. Or at least inspired by this.

I was just thinking it would make one hell of a movie!

Yeah me a dutch Person new it to instantly from the thumbnail and also about that were very brutal people back then

We now know our cousin the Chimp the same waging war and eating each other. Our other cousin though the Bobono have everyone has sex with everyone else all the time at all ages and are very peacefull making Make Love not War an effective way to control our primate instincts.

They missed Kalbarri by that much

@@TT-dx4ez And a hundred and fifty or so years too early, only the Murchison river mouth would have existed then .

@@johnnyrot1075 I know. ouch

Soon to be cancelled!

I'm in the Netherlands and I've been in the replica of the Batavia that was created in Lelystad. They obviously also have a bunch to say about the ship...

And in Geraldton.

Same 😂 thanks for clearing that up

Same omg 😂 I had to play that part over to makes sure I heard it right.

I was like- so this is a story of cannibalism then- oh no wait, Simon has somehow drastically botched the prounciation of a medium sized Australian marsupial and no tribes people were harmed in the making of this mutany.

The pronunciation was rough, but he definitely didn't stick an r in there, thankfully.

I heard that and said "a population of what??!" FFS Simon. I know your pronunciation of other languages is pretty bad, but this is a new low.

His pronunciations hurt me. I live in the Netherlands, married to a Dutchman, and I love this story. He butchered those poor people’s names. 😂😂

Never listened to a English men tell you anything about history. As an American,it herts me to hear them butcher the native pronunciation of names.

pls forgive, Dutch names are hard to prenounce, if you not from Dutch background. but overall correct historical

Did you find any treasure? I'd luv to dive that site. Cheers from 🇨🇦

@@hyphenpearce3224 It has been explored, but never found the 2 missing silver chest, as reported special english divers working for the VOC recovered most- of the treasure, The replica Batavia can been seen in Lelystad, its worth while to visit , excellent work

ME2 was a slow panic attack

I was wondering which then I remembered the most forgettable person's Loyalty Mission

Being around that many people, Dying.., Thats a hell of a way to go

And then they rebuilt the fleet, recrewed the ships and sent them out to destroy the Carthaginians...only to lose the entire fleet and personnel in another storm. Which led to the building of _another_ fleet. Thanks to _Oversimplified_ for doing 2 vids on the Punic War.

@@danielseelye6005 they lost a second fleet? Bahaha, I must have missed that. Gotta love Oversimplifed! And Simon Whistler ;)

@@SkepticalSandwich They lost _three_ fleets. 2 in storms and one in battle. They won with the fourth fleet.

@@danielseelye6005 Nautical version of the castle in a swamp Monty Python skit. Except on a Roman scale.

I read this. On a cruise! Great book.

There’s also “Lucretia’s Batavia Diary” by Howard Gray. A chilling read!

The best book in English is Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash. It’s nonfiction, so it’s dense, but it’s well worth reading. He doesn’t miss a detail.

fitzSimmons is an AWFUL writer. Read anything else.

A rival company. Not a fore runner. The British East India company actually predated the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie by 2 years. Never became quite as rich or powerful though.

@@Jack-Hands Maybe not as rich but running most of India is plenty powerful.

Peter Fitzsimmons is the archetypal "Rugby Wanker". An absolute joy to make a joke of.

Bless him. SuMAIrily

Ask a single Dutch speaker in this comment section. None of his pronunciations were even remotely good.

Apparently, he was more accurate though.

@@petegarnett7731 There is a map in Europe that shows the current coastline of Australia, it pre-dates Caption James Cooks map. I'd hardly call his a better map as a result Oh and the one in Europe is far more detailed!!

@@stephenhunter70 Do you know the name of the map, who drew it and where it is in Europe?

The Fitzsimmons one?

@@jenA9026 yes

@@jenA9026 you can also find excellent videos on the island it all happens on and the show graves and discoloured sand where all the bodies were buried.

Insert the meme of "why are you booing? I'm right!"

Very strange. The island is spelled "Wallabi" so maybe it is pronounced differently?

Yes, that was an error. Wikipedia cites it being 78 million. Which makes a lot more sense.

@@MeriaDuck Thank you I kept going wait a minute that means no human alive could actually have owned one Dutch guilder which makes absolutely no sense.

There's a collection of diaries of the first fleet called "buried alive" because the original settlers considered themselves as such thinking Britannia had abandoned them.

147 got on the raft 17 were found alive

A series more like it. And please not pointless race-swapping. Have you seen The Terror?

@@realtalk6195 No, but I've heard of it.

They already have. Many times.

Yes I agree; investing a bit of time into proper pronunciation of the names, especially where the stresses should be in a name, would've helped a lot. Cornelis is pronounced as cor-NAY-liss, for example. You could say corNEEless in English, like you would with, say, Cornelia.

@@MeriaDuck For us, Dutch people those names are easy. English names are easy because we get taught English from a young age. For others Dutch is jibberish!