The Terrifying Wreck of the SS ATLANTIC (Halifax, 1873 - 150th ANNIVERSARY) 

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Excellent content, really interesting and informative! And also, it is really nice to listen to a documentary with subtle music playing in the background. I I find documentaries, almost unlistenable and unwatchable when they have music that is so loud that it distracts from the actual narration……yours is the perfect volume.

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I will do so, thanks again guys.

Cuz everything is owned by Blackrock cuz their buddies bought a license to print their own money in 1913. Welcome to the Suck!

Thank you very much!

'large companies' are too concerned about input from focus groups, I agree Cody, this is an exceptional piece of work...

I totally agree w you. I don't even watch any tv anymore just stream😊

Titanic rip😢😢

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EDDIE!MULLENS!

In the roughest tides on Earth during a huge storm 🤯

Absolute madlads, hats off to them all

That kid was more man than most so called men alive today.

Yeah because they had Fathers and were molded into men at a early age. No nagging wife yet, so rowing into rough seas would be preferable.

And the looting is testament to the worst of human nature

Well said.

Made me get teared up. So brave.

I dont mean to take away from their heroism, but this is often the case for people who live near the sea. It is done, because they know how much the sea can take, and if all seamen did it, they themselves would be extended the same heroism. It is putting your hope in one another.

And most seamen do this. They are forced to by law, but usually they do it because they know the same will be done for their sons and nephews and fathers. I have grown up near the North sea, and every village has at least one monument remembering the dead. Often there would be so many sunk boats, they would have no choice but to make one big monument. But you would see a pattern jn it. For some crewmen their death date was the same, and the crewmen of each boat their family name was also often the same. As a kid this left a big impression on me. I would look at my dad and would fsll silent knowing that that was also the same thing a lot of sons did when their lives were lost. Maybe the last thing.

AND the captain, who was happy to use lots of coal to go full steam ahead!!

@@amethyst1826 that would of been a problem, but then lying to the captain instead of just outright telling him he wasn’t being truthful about the amount left. The captain might of been using to much coal but the tragedy was entirely the effect of the other guys actions

Not to mention Metcalf's hubris in dismissing the caution about coming in too fast and too close to the dangerous parts of Halifax. I wonder what went through the men's minds during the destruction; one who realized he should have listened, and the other knowing they never needed to be there in the first place.

Even worse he ignored captain's orders. IF he woke him up, even just 12 minutes earlier, the disaster could have still be avoided.

Should've seen hte Arctic

Capt had a lead foot too dude

A terrible crew is usually the result of terrible leadership.

Not always.

@@matthewchampion5483 Not "always". But near enough always, and it always plays a role.

@@joeyjojo5986 He did say 'wake me up at 3'

I thought women had blubber like seals, allowing them to live longer in cold water than men. Or is this just modern women who get fat on processes foods? In this case the women were in a disadvantageous location on the ship, but I think the survival results would have been different if women had superior cold water capabilities as do seals. Though I remember modern stories of sinkings and boat capsizes where only the women survived. And I know my sisters and nieces enjoy far colder water than I can.

​@@alan6832with all sincerity dude what the actual fuck

@@alan6832what r u even talking about lmao

​@@alan6832r/nothowgirlswork

@@alan6832 that sounds like a way out theory, like about as far as Mars

not knowing this story, i was desperately hoping the woman tied to the mast was gonna make it so at least 1 woman survived it. so sad.

Extremely sad.

And thinking how attached a mother is when the baby was so recently a physical part of them, all the hopes and dreams and fears for that fragile new life...ugh. I can’t imagine how awful it was for the new mothers too.

Fresh babies know how to hold their breath under water (so they don't drown in the womb) so the babies would have lasted longer than any 2yo or non swimming adult. That breaks my heart poor little things

@@charliekezza During a water birth baby will continue to receive all of its oxygen via the umbilical cord.

It was a slow genocide over a number of years. Perpetuated by the Crown and the Merchant/Mercantile class. Essentially parasites in my opinion. Also following Malthusian dogma too. Look it up.

I like that, "dignified and unsensational". Well said! The videos here really are classy! 👍🏼

Dear old Donegal. You MUST visit if you haven't yet.

I had a great grandfather come from Sicily to NY and Ireland to NJ and I think the same thing. Omg. The fact we were born was a design, not chance.

So the guy that caused and allowed the accident was the one who survived and got to island again?

I know, I was thinking, I think she nearly lost the will to fight after that baby was swept away. I can’t even imagine the pain she must have felt while up in that mast.

See: Problem of Evil; God.

I,ll second that. RIP Rosa.

@@skylarsjoberg9618 Its so sad. Life can be cruel. RIP Rosa.

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Well surely you've heard of the Halifax explosion?

@@macysondheim It's not his responsibility. I live near Belfast and I don't expect everyone in Northern Ireland to know every single detail about Titanic, a tragedy that happened after this one in the video. Not to mention the fact he's watching this video contradicts your whole statement.

@@amaritineenthusiast whatever

@@macysondheim The second you get an actual response you just say "Whatever"

@@macysondheim Yes, but it should have been taught at school with field visits about local culture

He crushes it without fiction. The truth is often more compelling, as his videos clearly show.

​@StevieSeagalWhich part was fiction... I'll wait.

It must have been so safe looking in the water that some might have jumped off in to the water

Terence bay still is a fishing village, it was a bunch of community members who went out in their boats to save those souls

I don’t even know what I just said😅

Knowing that they never had to go to Nova Scotia but because one man's lies they went to their deaths makes this a horrific preventable tragedy.

@@jbug13158one man’s lies and another’s pride.

Totally agree, they're better than many mainstream documentary channels

Ayyee! Another awesome RU-vidr! Love Bright Sun Films and Part Time Explorer! ❤ truly hidden gems

your videos are really good too. I’ve binged a few.

Vividly told , so cold and sad .

Nice seeing you here mr. Williams

and it’s always the poor simple ones.

​@@mdouteymedia tends to show us a very distilled cross section of humanity. I think this is a testament to the fact that despite how the world might look when you read or watch the news, your average fellow human would help you out if they could.

It's pretty typical of maritime towns. These sorts of incidents are very common and they have to perform rescues pretty regularly. Less common now, and more professionalized, but it still happens.

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Just happened to come across this last night and I'm watching again. So sad but so interesting... I'd love to see a doc about the descendents of survivors, if any, stayed in the area..

You must be new here in America 🇺🇸🥴

⁠@@Kera-i1twhat does that even mean?.. we get our baby’s snatched from our arms in America?

I'm sure that's something that was with her in her final hours, strapped to the rigging. Death may have felt like a release. I can't even imagine the agony. And her poor husband, watching helplessly from the shore... what a nightmare.

What does that comment mean. Please explain as I dont get it at all​@@Kera-i1t

I thought those were two different women?

Jesus very clearly said "marriage ends at death." Why are so many people calling Jesus a liar? No reuniting in the afterlife. That is fiction & was repeated multiple times. Read Matthew. It is amazing how supposedly religious people simply change the Bible's words.

maybe its the comfort people get from believing they will be reunited with loved ones @@Henry-fk7cq

​@@Henry-fk7cqnot everyone prays to your God

​@@Henry-fk7cqjust because a marriage is over doesn't mean that can't be reunited. What an ugly comment you made.

@@Henry-fk7cq You poor fool.🙄

Not like they had much choice. Those survivors would have just pillaged and stolen from their houses if they didn't open their doors. They did not even get compensated for having all their food storage drained by those men.

@@cocogoat1111That doesn’t change the fact that they *did* willingly open their doors to those people, and that it came from a place of human compassion. They also didn’t *have* to risk their own lives to save the survivors still aboard the ship and on the rock. Not everything needs to be so doom and gloom, especially when related to a tragedy like this. Take the good where you can find it. Why you insist on seeing it from a negative angle, I will never understand.

​@@cocogoat1111you're underestimating the good of Canadians. Eastern Canadians like Nova Scotians are some of the most humble and kind people that are about community. I'm proud I am born and raised in Canada and I grew up nowhere near the coast! Good people do what's right if they can. We still have those qualities even if you don't often see it..

It's no choice. They said that the man and his sons were fisherman or some other ocean profession. If someone needs help at sea and you can help, you help. It could be you or your kid one day.

​@@imahumanperson361I think it is the good of Christians. All of these people were deeply religious and even if some were Catholic and some Protestant, they were united by their belief in God Almighty. Not only the charity of the locals is amazing, but the international charity that came flowing in from all over. Private charity can do so much in a high trust society of God fearing people. You would not have such open giving in today's world, sadly.

Such a sad ending for the newlywedded gentleman and of course his Bride. They was almost here 😞

and to think that the descendants of these robbers are still alive somewhere really upsets me. Truly disgusting lineage

I didn't know what you meant at first because I read the comments before watching the whole documentary. Now that I watched it all, what that man must have gone through afterward, gnaws on me. It's so tragically sad beyond words. The whole tragedy is the worst I have ever heard. We got to know this husbands story, but there must be so many other men who lost their wives, sisters, daughters and so on, not even one woman lived. So many that lived, I even though they physically survived, their lives ended that day. 😢

@@caezero2072 Every single human is a descendant of saints and sinners. Progeny never get a choice in the actions of 100's of generations before them.

Strange that we criticize heavily the young inner city looters who take advantage of a bad situation like a black man bring shot by police. But back in 1873 they were even worse examples.

Profit was the aim..... Purely greed.

Never forget, when your life relies on equipment, that it was produced under budget by the lowest bidder.

@@christynorman7288Ismay again. We seem to continue to learn nothing even in 2023

@@christynorman7288 greed? WSL was revolutionary in its treatment of its passengers and safety

Man just needs to be reminded from time to time that the sea is superior in every way.

They were cutting it really close, I could see many people making that same call. Remember even if it hadn't all gone to shit they would still have taken a hit to their reputation for having to divert so it's not like that decision was completely in his favor. I thought him not waking the captain was a worse call cause he would have known the danger of not seeing the lighthouse when they were supposed to.

@@christopherboxford9556 That's what I thought as well. If we are to blame one person here, it's Metcalf.

it seems a common denominator in many of these tragedies nearly always ends up being someone who does not take accountability and lies about SOMETHING. metcalf should have awoken his captain as well.

@@christopherboxford9556 In fairness steaming for NA would not have resulted in them slamming into rocks. If they hadn't made it all the way they still at least could have been towed back.

But yes it's true. This was a cumulation of mistakes not just one person is wholly responsible imo. Like in so many distasters there's a lot of contributing factors.

That’s why I volunteered for Submarines. We just go under all shit!

I too experienced the furry of the ocean while in the North Atlantic while in the the navy. Terrifying doesn’t give it a satisfactory adjective.

I crossed the atlantic as a kid on a mershantship that my father was the captain of. Antwerpen to New York. We hit the outskirts of a storm midway, and your absolutely right. It was terrifying.. (also same time of the year.. marsh-april )

I experienced a bad storm at sea. 30+ foot swells. I have not gone out to sea since. Nor will I ever go again. The ocean is truely terrifying when its angry.

5:51: That would suck if you had the bunk right next to the shitter on a trans Atlantic voyage.

And do not sabotage his backup alarm, too .. all those precautions let me think the captain may already have had his reservations about Metcalfe.

It's like the mountain climbing videos. Just when I swear things couldnt be any more miserable- I remember that it's all happening in the freezing cold.

Imagine the childhood trauma that kid had to live with.

Men are just as important as women.

@@jgs1703 people of your sort were tried and hanged once they swam to shore in more civilized times

@@jgs1703 But women and children needed special treatment during disasters for the very reason in this video. Children are of course weaker than adults, and women of the time were often encumbered with their heavier clothing.

@@average.6079 Plus women and children at the time were less likely to know how to swim, so men had a better chance of survival if they had to go into the water.

In French ...diner ..lunch ...souper ...supper

Yes this used to be the case in Australia too. My grandparents would call lunch "dinner" and what we now call dinner, they called "tea". Older people still say tea but I don't know any younger people who do. "supper" being a snack before bed which we still use. We still call the lunctime feast at Christmas "Christmas dinner". Lunch should be a bigger meal than dinner I think, you don't need all that energy so late in the day but my family and most people I know eat dinner as the biggest meal. Late too, at 7 or 8. I often don't eat dinner at all coz by then I'm too tired to care about food

@@ceasarwright7567 Is that Canadian French? I learned a bit of French as a kid and I remember it being petit-dejuner (breakfast), dejuner (lunch), diner (dinner), and souper (supper, before bed)

@@Kateyangyuqing Umm good question ! Im from Quebec so Yes thats Quebecois french :-)

@@ceasarwright7567 Awesome that's kinda like how in Australia people used to say breakfast (or brekky)/dinner/tea whereas I think Americans have long said breakfast/lunch/dinner (Australian English has gradually become more and more like American English because we have more American influence than English influence nowadays). Nowadays we say breakfast (or brekky in speech)/lunch/dinner. I went to school with someone from Quebec, he couldn't speak much English when he first arrived but then after a couple of years he sounded almost 100% Australian. Is Quebecoise French as different from Parisian French as American English is from, say, Australian English? I don't speak French but I can kind of hear the difference in accents between Canada and France, Canadian French sounds more relaxed or something. But I can hear the differences in the many Mandarin accents people have from different areas of China very clearly, for example, people native to Beijing sound completely different from people near Shanghai esepcially if they are older (I am referring to Mandarin and not local "dialects" of China - which are actually completely different languages). I really want to go to Canada one day, it seems like a wonderful country. The Canadians I've met have been really easy to get along with, for some reason Canadians and Australians seem to have alot in common even though there aren't many Canadians here.

All because of one man's decision too: Metcalf.

@@jebbroham1776 exactly, that motherfucker

@@jebbroham1776he died as he lived.

That's how every seaside community responded to wrecks, there's something beautiful about the solidarity among people in maritime communities. From the outer banks life saving stations "we are ordered to row out, whether we return or not"

Ew

​@StevieSeagalthe Engineer couldn't have foreseen this, and was at the very least doing what he felt was best for the ship. Metcalf, on the other hand, was deliberately insubordinate and dismissive of the dangers. If any one person is to blame, it's him.

Not to mention, ignored multiple orders from his captain to wake him in time.

​@@Soundwave3591Why does there only have to be 1?...

No one ever talks about the Wilhelm Gustloff torpedoed in WW2 with a loss of life close to 10,000 people . Think about that number .....that's just unimaginable

@@slinky_malinki5330 Allegedly. It was convenient for the captain that Metcalfe died in the disaster and couldn’t give his own testimony. After all, the captain’s career would have been ruined had he for example told Metcalfe not to wake him until they saw the lighthouse. That small detail about Metcalfe not waking him at 2:40 or 3 AM suddenly redirects all the blame on Metcalfe and all that is remembered is the hero captain organizing the survivors.

I TOTALLY AGREE!!!!!

@ Time To Wake Up. I am with you on that. Been bed bound for the last four months. Constantly watching RU-vid, films and series. Good to have it all the same. 👍

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​@@jerryoconnor-ps8bb i have also been pretty much bedridden (mono, the original covid) for about 2 months now, and looking at least another month of it...... wishing you the best, and i hope you feel better soon. i would say sending "good energy" or whatever but i have no energy to send, hope you understand (haha).. it really sucks being housebound or bedbound, but good long form content like this is truly a life saver.

@@musicobsessive123 Thank you! I hope that you recover soon and get back to normality.

My 2nd great grandfather was also a survivor-he was the ship’s painter :)

I'm glad you enjoyed this and always happy to hear that our work is appreciated. Thanks for the kind words and the super thanks!

@@PartTimeExplorer Don't women usually outlast men in cold water due to seal like fat layer? or did that emerge with processed food?

Agreed

Right. We only hear about the Titanic. But there are a lot others. And many of them have sunk. Which is ironic to me cause why everytime there is a large ship made, that supposed to be some awe and beauty to behold and encounter, just sinks taking 1000s of people with it? Why? It's like the Twin Towers. Such a beauty to behold, all while the government knew they were going to come down one day!

It reminds me of the event in the second world war where only days after the Dunkirk disaster, there was another disaster which hit the British. It was at the French port of Nazaire , where German dive bombers hit an ocean liner the Lancastrian sinking it and causing the deaths of over 6'000 evacuees mostly soldiers but also families. That is more than twice the losses on the Titanic.

I know, why don't these get their own films like Titanic

@@mandia469 To be fair, Olympic (Titanic’s sister of the exact same size) did have a full career. She was scrapped in 1935.

and someone was going to get fired

@@JerryOlsen exactly. The risk was absolutely not worth it.

Does anyone know how the full story of the extra coal reserves were finally revealed?

The worst part of the entire thing is the misreport of coal killed all those people

@@vectravi2008 I'll tell you how - The captain pulled that story out of his ass to cover for his senseless use of coal throughout the journey, despite the engineer's warnings.

Its also a healthy reminder, that if your captain gives you an order. . . You follow it. Because otherwise, people die.

It wouldn’t have even happened at all if it wasn’t for the chief engineer guy.

​@@Strider91Yes, and to listen to advice given by a person (Quartermaster)/people familiar with that area, particularly given that area was notoriously dangerous.

Very much like the titanic, so many small but bad decisions/happenings. I think is shows that as much as we want ONE thing to go wrong, so that we can avoid things like this in the future, most disasters are caused by a series of dominoes. Who knows if taking out that one factor may have changed everything.

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He ran a game company trying to make a titanic game but screwed it all up and left.

@@bullbutter2931 … na. they just need to get on the ball and start hiring new talent. people will eventually get sick of paying multiple streaming services. now is a good time to find new, relatively inexpensive talent and maybe show people cable can do more then re-run old game shows and expired sitcoms.

@@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 did you not see the documentary posted above these comments?! who cares about the game? that’s an entirely different thing.

@@claireconover But why pay for cable when RU-vid exists?

Many a people lost their lives throughout history over men's grandiose egos!

Ah yes the human ego. Until we figure out ttthe taming of it we are all doomed to repeat folly continuously.

Thank you very much!

He just got 1 more 😂👍but yes I agree. Unfortunatly wery few ppl want quality informasion and facts about the world, science or history. They want gossip, football, superstition and cheap laughs... (in my humble opinion..)

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